Monday, November 30, 2009

Other stuff......

I like making clothes just fine, but sometimes I get to do fun "other" stuff. Recently my studio mate Carolyn and I made large curtains to help divide up our landlords giant home studio. I think they look pretty cool, and personally enjoy making really ginormous things. Here they are:


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Trunk Show Saturday 11/28 at Pin Me Apparel

It's Thanksgiving week. Hopefully that means you are stuffing your face with yummy treats, and getting out those sharp elbows for shopping deals.

On Saturday I'm having a trunk show from 3-7 at Pin Me Apparel. I will have yummy treats and good deals. I will have my Fall/Winter line for sale, along with a special selection of limited edition No Muffin Top skirts.

Read all about it here:
http://pdxneatsheet.com/neat-sale/clairvintage-pin-me/

Hope to see you there!

Remember shop local!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

This moves me.

My friend Chelsea left the November issue of Glamour in my studio a few weeks ago. I am terrible about reading magazines, and I will let them pile up for months. I remembered seeing this photo online, and when it was orginally published in Glamour.
So, this evening while I was reading the November issue of the magazine, there was this follow up to the original photo in the letter from the editor.
The Woman on Page 194

This moves me. To see this in a magazine. This is a lady how she is. No photoshop. More of us look like this than not.

As a follow up the magazine ran this photo:


Along with this story - These bodies are beautiful.

I really hope that this publications, as well as others, will use a wider variety of models. Putting clothing on a size 0-4 model is easy. Fitting the rest of the world, and making it look good, is the hard part. It's one of my challenges, and it's also something I take pride in doing. I'd love to outfit those 7.