Blooming Leopold SS13


Lauren’s new spring Blooming Leopold lookbook is out, and Drew and I were excited to be able to help out with it.  We went to Nashville last weekend and headed over to Lauren’s house super early on Sunday.  Our brother-in-law Neil made us blueberry bread and expresso, and we met our model Maya, whose hair is so naturally perfect that we didn’t have to do a single thing to it. Amazing.

Drew shot these photos at Cumberland Park, a new park on the riverfront that is probably really busy on hot summer days, but that at 8 AM on a cool Sunday was practically empty. It was sunny and cheerful, and it looked like spring out even if it didn’t exactly feel like it.

I always love Lauren’s clothes, but this one has to be my favorite collection of hers so far.  She used old shibori techniques as well as natural dyes like indigo and onion skins for some subtle, unique pieces. And the necklaces are handmade too. You can find it all in Lauren’s Etsy shop this evening.






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Etsy/Southerly Road Trip Picks


Drew and I got the chance to do a Southerly road trip-themed guest post over on the Etsy blog. Well, Drew made the collages and I got to pick out all the stuff I’d buy on Etsy if I had the funds and the chance to go on an epic Southern road trip.  You can check it all out here.

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1980s Nashville


Photographer Ferdinando Scianna took these photos of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1986, at least a few years before I ever went there. I can’t remember the first time, really. My grandparents moved to Tennessee when I was a kid, and I have some vague memories of small town country stores and state parks, but not really the city. I do remember going to Nashville with my grandma sometime in the ’90s, though. She took us on a tour, taking us by the funny Parthenon replica, to the Ryman Theatre, and to the Opryland Hotel. On our way back we drove along winding roads, past country star mansions with white gates and flashy facades. The city back then was over the top and much more hokey than hip, and I loved it.





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Carly Hunter: Piha Beach


It’s been gloomy around here.  We just got back from a weekend trip to Signal Mountain, Tennessee, and it rained so much and it was so cold that we stayed inside the entire time. I didn’t really mind though. I’m getting used to the gloom.

For one thing it can make for pretty photos, like these. Australian designer Carly Hunter took her 35 mm camera with her to New Zealand to shoot some images of her AW13 collection, and got some suitably dramatic campaign photos in the process . . .





Photos found via Carly Hunter and Anyone Girl.

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