designer's library

Library love...

Identity design for Library, Archives of Fashion by Stitch (via Graphic-Exchange)

Pops of seafoam green

From top to bottom: DoubleButter, Free People, and Design*Sponge

Chester Wallace Bags

First spotted here at W+K Studio.

Can be purchased at Stand Up Comedy

Anthropologie needs to make a travel book...

 



All the above from Anthropologie catalogs.

Inventory Magazine

  

Inventory Magazine

Milk Made (in Venice, CA)

Yuketen

Duluth Bags (via Inventory)

Alexander Olch (via Inventory)

Dagmar

Nice logo and nice clothes by Dagmar. And they're Swedish...of course.

Pattern Magic Vol. 2

Alright. Since Lisa's told me that she's "tired of looking at the computer wires" on the previous post (and really, so am I)--I've finally put together a new post. Things have been super busy lately and because of all the work I've been producing over the past month and half, it's given me some carpal tunnel issues. Great. So I've had to limit my computer work, like blog posting.

But anyway, I got this book called Pattern Magic Vol. 2 a few months ago. While I don't plan on making any of these pieces (I don't know how to sew and the wearability of some of the pieces are totally questionable--like the bottom image), I was intrigued by the sculptural and architectural forms of the clothes. Really beautiful pieces.

Stylized Sculpture

Dress by Junya Watanabe. Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Dress by Issey Miyake. Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

I'm really hoping I can visit the Asian Art Museum before this exhibit goes away! Hmmm...maybe this weekend.

Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
October 12, 2007 – January 6, 2008

Anthro Boots

Aren't these boots from Anthropologie super cute? I love the description:
"Steely leather lace-ups are at once old-fashioned and avant-garde." Word.

Ohio Knitting Mills

I want to visit this shop: Ohio Knitting Mills in Brooklyn, New York. The sweaters above are my favorites. Apparently, this company produced knit goods from 1947-1974 in Cleveland and had the foresight to keep several thousand production samples and the hindsight to open a shop in a hip neighborhood. I love the fact that they're brand new vintage duds without the stank thrift store scent, but I wonder how much they are...