lauren’s blog, color collective, is the easiest and most rewarding internet addiction i’ve had in the past year. how could you not like a daily stream of pretty pictures with the color palette already picked out for you?!?! i reference it all the time when putting together outfits for work, thinking about flyers for events,...
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working with anonymous domestic materials- venetian blinds, drying racks, lightbulbs, & cans- korean artist, haegue yang, strips the cultural function and meaning from these simple household objects and presents them in a new context. her drying rack sculptures are carefully wrapped in fabric or yarn, draped with objects and lights, infusing personality and a...
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WOOD WOOD fashion week just wrapped up in berlin, proving again the pervasiveness of minimalism in german design. there were very few prints, but the fabrics and cuts….yowza. lots of airy silks, stiff cottons, vivid solids, and simple garments for the european lifestyle. MONGRELS IN COMMON MICHAEL SONTAG HIEN LE A.F. VANDERVORST images via les...
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BIG THINGS is coming to PORTLAND for a special lemonade stand/garage sale/pop-up shop/open studio! i’m excited to be visiting the city of roses, where i lived many moons ago. please join us for a whole sunday of fun! featuring friends… rectangular objects… boet jewelry… nutfang… the good mod danish, industrial & mid-century modern furniture… AND LEMONADE,...
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this past weekend a friend asked me to model some clothes for her sister-in-law who was in town shooting her winter lookbook. pretty exciting to find out it was for a popular japanese women’s and kid’s line, archi! we wandered the mission looking for a good place to shoot (haus coffee shop, my favorite...
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hello, huge art party! tonight is the opening celebration for the yerba buena center for the arts’ 6th BAY AREA NOW show, featuring the best of up-and-coming and innovative bay area artists. excited to support our friends kirby & sam of rio babe international and to see what everyone’s wearing…i mean working on. artists include…....
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miroslav sasek‘s books and illustrations have been blogged about like mad in the past few years, but who can blame us? his lively use of color and line and quaint observations of the places he illustrates make his work so loveable and timeless. several of his books of the “this is” series have been...
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For those of you in town this 4th of July… Come to the People’s Gallery for the opening of the exhibition US and a 4th of July BBQ. We will have meats and non-meats, drinks, and snacks. US is an exhibition using the 4th of July as context to examine and reflect upon American...
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thursday was one of those random nights that, quite unpredictably, turned into a total blast. tatiana and i were hair models for the infamous nick arrojo and his crew, who you may recognize as the hair guru from tlc’s what not to wear (love it!). after a crowd of stylists oohed and ahhed and...
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simple, colorful, and happy, i had to have lenneke’s line of bright, tassel jewelry, made by lennebelle, for the BIG THINGS SHOP! lenneke is a sweetheart with an equally lovely sense of style who is always excited and supportive of BIG THINGS. after she saw the images we shot of her jewelry for the BIG...
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