Sunday, November 16, 2008

Winter Line Product Shoot

This Sunday, we did a photoshoot of a few of my new accessories for this winter.

The black belt bag you see here was a custom order for a good friend of mine, Lisa Orth. It features a black alligator skin overlap (custom weathering), double-needle topstitching, antique brass hardware and custom antiqued brass grommets and buckle.


The Gloria handbag is shown here in a glazed midweight leather with antique brass vintage hardware (in this instance, the naval military) with an adjustable, detachable 2" strap. There is an external zipper pocket and the main closure is a "fireman's closure" traditionally seen on fireman's heavy outercoats. On the lining, for convenience, there is also a magnetic snap.


The belt clutch shown features asymetrical division and top-stitching detail with an exposed zipper (weathered and antiqued by hand). The leather used is a distressed, embossed lightweight calfskin with a paper-like hand. Both the belt clutch and handbag come in a variety of unique leathers for you to choose from. The belt clutch is also available in a reflectived digitized camo in muted colors, backed with a heavyweight canvas for durability. It works great if you bike, walk or run at night and want some extra protection.

Sacha Maxim took all of these incredible photos in her studio and all of the accessories are so beautifully modeled by Jen May. If you would like to see additional photos of merchandise you can see them online here.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Fall Launch at Sword+Fern!

This Friday night I will be debuting my fall collection of accessories at Portland's Sword+Fern store run by Emily Baker at 811 E. Burnside. The collection is centered around belt bags and handbags. I'm working in mostly black glazed leathers with some specialty embossed calfskins, distressed and washed leather and for the vegans out there reflective nylons flatlined with canvas for durability and substance. Within the coming months, I hope to bring more handbags to Seattle and expect to see a small line of limited edition winter capelets and doublebreasted knit hoodies. Hope to see you in PDX this weekend!