it’s all over!!! after a long day of cleaning up and taking everything down, we just wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone celebrated the grand opening of BIG THINGS with us last night!!! we worked so hard in the past few weeks organizing the space, decorating, setting up the shop, painting walls, and...
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brandi strickland‘s colorful, age-of-aquarius collages have been catching my eye on various art blogs for a while now. her site & shop, paperwhistle, is a clever way of making her work available to the masses, documenting her process and offering affordable prints and original works. when i read that she had just moved to richmond, virginia,...
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tsumori chisato celebrated the 20th year of her eponymous line this fall with a bright spring 2011 collection based on her favorite things. after working as head of the issey miyaki sport collection in the 80s, she developed her own edgy, whimsical and quintessentially japanese clothing line. color, print, and a child-like sensibility defined...
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we’d like to invite you all to the BIG THINGS BIG GRAND OPENING PARTY to celebrate the launch of the website + shop!!! the past few weeks have been crazy planning but we are so excited to be working with lots of talented folks and are definitely ready to celebrate! join us on friday...
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the BIG THINGS SHOP is all ready to go!!! check out the current selection of awesome stuff to wear, use in your home, to give as gifts, or just to admire! with a focus on one-of-a-kind, handmade, and vintage objects, you will be sure to find something that you or a friend will love....
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just wanted to thank everyone for coming out to our BIG THINGS shop preview and trunk show on thursday night!!! we all had a great time seeing our friends and making new friends and fans at the silverman gallery. jen of serial cultura, sarah of stars + ravens, and karen & marie of micaela...
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i’d like to cordially invite all of you to the BIG THINGS shop preview and trunk show this coming thursday, october 7th at the silverman gallery in san francisco. the ladies of serial cultura, stars & ravens and micaela greg will be showing their most recent collections and i will be previewing some select...
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sommer and i worked together at metier when i first moved to the city two years ago and i was immediately won over by her wit, wacky jokes, and awesome come-backs. since those fateful days she’s been in and out of the fashion world, the fancy bakery world, and the san francisco world, but...
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why don’t we have kiosks in america? the best part about convenient shopping in europe is the kiosk–a small stand on every corner or even in the middle of nowhere with a broad range of small items for sale. stamps, cigarettes, sunglasses, candy bars, condoms, whatever! when i was in new york, nick pointed...
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new york is always such a TRIP—-full of inspiration and new ideas and faces and equal doses of reality and unreal-ness. I’m so grateful to have had the chance to spend time in this great American city. Here’s what’s been up for the past week, it’s so hard to cram it in…: Staying with...
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