When you grow up in West Virginia, a quilting and crafting hotspot, you quickly realize that clothing is a wearable canvas. Caroline Kaufman‘s tactile treasures are based on found beauty and the quirkiness of small treasures, her garments are known for their experimental textiles, hand painted prints, use of color, and all around playfulness. So much personality!
Adrienne Pitts // Abercrombie & Fitch // Cocoon Home //
via Arro Home // Cait Rose // Danielle Basser
Eat Your Beets // via Isabella Thorsden // Our Food Stories //
Gray Malin // Lack of Color // Paper & Stitch
Paper & Stitch // Paper & Stitch // Sophie Aprile //
Sarah Laird // Valentin Chenaille // The House That Lars Built
Brazilian artist Camila Pinheiro does a bang up job at translating her South American roots and high fashion background into clean lined illustrations. The saturated fields of tropical colors make me want to hop a plane to some distant beach oasis and not look back until October!
Even though it’s not officially summer until tomorrow, it feels like it’s already landed in full force. Elisabeth McBrien‘s oil paintings feel like perfectly encapsulated portraits of the season.
McBrien’s oil paintings reflect her interest in depicting the personal relationships that we share with nature, and the places that have had a part in shaping our identities. Preserving a simplicity in composition allows her to focus on the captivating interplay of light and color in her work, evoking a sense of presence and familiarity in the viewer.
1/High Rise Cuffed Denim Shorts 2/Asymmetrical Neckline Tee
3/Mad Love Adia Bow Footbed Sandals 4/Weekend Bag
5/Knots Linen Shirt 6/Eclipse Earrings
7/Pineapple Printed Sunglasses Case 8/V-Cut Swimsuit
9/Strappy Button Down Pocket Flare Dress 10/Victory Chambray Joggers
11/Cabo Espadrilles 12/Flint Sunglasses
Linden Eller combines found fragments and personal elements to create floating abstract shapes sewn together with thread on paper. Themes of memory, its process, and layers of recollection are a central theme in her work, conveyed through the use of pale colors and tracing paper to create a hazy environment. Linden also communicates the melancholy in unresolved matters, like her brother’s autism, or natural losses.
These De JONG & Co. salt and pepper mills are 8-inch tall works of art. Each piece is hand turned and crafted for its feel, usability, and table presence. The stainless steel, adjustable grain size grinder can also be used to mill coffee beans and other spices, giving the piece a nice versatility.
Emma-Leone Palmer paints faces, but what she strives to capture are the deep wells of feeling and emotion that run beneath the surface of their expressions. Her latest work, the Paint Play series, uses paint, lube, glitter, and water, the mediums smeared, dripped, flicked, and splashed onto the subject’s face to trigger reactions and emotions. It’s not premeditated, rather hundreds of photos are taken and the paintings made as a result.
Lizzie Fortunato‘s Spring/Summer ’18 collection is inspired by a summer of love and full of the prettiest golden tones and statement pieces (naturally). It’s a smorgasbord of organic shapes, a 1960s vibe, and fringe – you can also get a peek of FW18 and pre-order!
