February 2012
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Fave Look: Kimberly Ovitz
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.
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Fave Look: Native Son
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.
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Play Your (V-Day) Cards Right, Take 5
Holidays offer the opportunity to offer subtle suggestions in the form of present—in this case, “You’re too old for a velco wallet,” or, “That bi-fold you got for college graduation is a mess.” Here’s how to gift some guidance with love. —erica
The gift: The indigo blue puppy Maxx & Unicorn made for Of a Kind is constructed from one piece of leather—cool,...
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Fave Look: WHIT
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.
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Fave Look: Kaelen
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.
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Fave Look: Veda
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.
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Ilana Kohn Dives into Textile Design
Her very first print: her Of a Kind edition.
When Ilana Kohn started her line in 2010, she had to teach herself how to make clothes, starting more or less at the beginning. “My mom got me a starter sewing machine when I was in middle school—but it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I got a real machine. And then it just became an obsession,” the Brooklyn-based designer says. Now, five...
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Fave Look: Gretchen Jones
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.
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Fave Look: Lauren Moffatt
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway (Calivintage!) for the full collection.
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Play Your (V-Day) Cards Right, Take 4
You know when you’ve been dating someone for that weird amount of time when you feel like you have to celebrate Valentine’s Day but have no idea how the F to commemorate the occasion without feeling straight-up lame? Well, this little pairing is your answer. —erica
The gift: The lighter covers that Matt Singer made for us make such a cute couple! JUST LIKE YOU GUYS.
The card:...
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Fave Look: 10 Crosby Derek Lam
Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.
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Meet Ilana Kohn
This season, things are getting serious.
Ilana Kohn isn’t new to the creative world. Before she launched her line in 2010—filled with the sort of refined pieces that attract attention with their controlled prints and strikingly understated cuts—the Pratt-trained artist worked as an editorial illustrator for seven years, drawing celebrities and senators alike. But, unsatisfied with the hectic,...
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Ilana Kohn Gets Her Skate On
And shares how growing up in JNCOs influenced her line.
Taking in the relaxed yet put-together pieces in Ilana Kohn’s eponymous line, you might not guess that the New Yorker by way of D.C. defines her own style as “tomboyish and pseudo-grunge”—an aesthetic fueled by her adolescent passion for skating. Here, she shows off her bad-ass side and opens up about what all that has...
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Play Your (V-Day) Cards Right, Take 3
Here you go: a present-and-card pairing to make your Valentine’s Day easy peasy and not at all sleazy. —erica
The gift: Diamond studs—how classic is that? But with their size and caramel-y hue, Blanca Monrós Gómez’s are a big (ok, teeny!) surprise.
The card: You know what matches these stones? Whiskey. And while the reference is grown-up, the message of this Westmama Designs card...
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Filtered: That's a Wrap
It’s barely been scarf weather in NYC (well, until today), but yesterday I busted out our Symmetry Goods edition—and shocked myself with how much I liked it with a faux fur jacket from Thomas Sires. I mean, who knew. The rest of the get-up: J.Crew baseball tee, Vince pants, Thomas IV bag (for Of a Kind), and Gap boots that are as comfy as sneakers. —erica
For more Instagrammed nonsense,...
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Play Your (V-Day) Cards Right, Take 2
For the pink-and-red holiday, we’re serving up not only gifts but also approp card pairings. Yep, we’re doing you a solid. —erica
The gift: These screen-printed denim Maze and Cutouts Pillows from Dusen Dusen aren’t as saccharin-sweet as a big, fat bouquet, and they make a house look just as nice.
The card: Add this fortune-cookie-fueled Art School Girl card to the mix, and...
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How a Landmarks and Lions Wallet is Made
Canyon Crosby gives us tickets to his one-man leather-crafting show.
“The best part of my job is doing what I love, seven days a week,” says Landmarks and Lions founder Canyon Crosby. “The worst part of my job is the fact that it’s all you—and there’s no end in sight!” From tracking down the best leathers to giving the edges of his pieces a burnished, painted vibe, Canyon has his hands in...
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Play Your (V-Day) Cards Right, Take 1
We’re going to make this heart-filled, sugar-dipped holiday so easy on you: Instead of just highlighting our fave (Of a Kind) gifts, we’re going to serve them up with card pairings. Yes, how thoughtful of us. You owe us a boatload of conversation hearts. —erica
The gift: A canvas Petra Hand-Painted Tie—with just enough red to be festive!—from Anthony Sperduti and Andy Spade’s...
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Canyon Crosby Packs His Bags
Whenever he sets off on an adventure, these five things come along.
The more stamps on your passport, the better. That’s the ethos behind the Minneapolis leather-goods company Landmarks and Lions, at least. And the brand’s globetrotting founder knows a thing or two about the things worth slipping into your carry-on—hell, he even makes some of them. Here, Canyon Crosby shares his...
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Meet Landmarks and Lions
Accidents happen. And that’s a good thing.
Canyon Crosby believes that the best-laid plans are overrated. His approach might be risky—and definitely runs contrary to any advice you’d get at business school—but the success he’s had with his leather-goods company Landmarks and Lions is proof that, for him, a little spontaneity has gone a long way. “I wanted to create a few things to sell...
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Birchbox: Of A Kind Jewelry Designer Elizabeth... →
Elizabeth Knight’s three fave perfumes…and the one she can’t stop sniffing right now.
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The Of a Kind founders have unquestionably impeccable taste—a huge reason we love having their designer picks on our blog. Today’s featured designer, Elizabeth Thompson, creates ladylike jewelry for her line, Elizabeth Knight, named after her two grandmothers. We’re already...
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The T-Shirt That Fuels William Anzevino’s Line
We heart Laugh Cry Repeat.
“I’ve always designed for a girl who changes her mind a lot,” says William Anzevino of the whimsically bold line Laugh Cry Repeat. This flip-flopping is perhaps most apparent in his now-classic heart tee, a design that’s been part of LCR since the start. “The idea of Laugh Cry Repeat and the cycles of happy and sad—that was the root of it,” he explains. Here’s a look...
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The Insider: Jason Polan
If you’re looking for Jason Polan on a Wednesday night, you’re pretty much guaranteed to find him at the Taco Bell on 14th Street, where he and his buddies (and fellow illustrators) Evan Forsch and Victor Kerlow host the Taco Bell Drawing Club and Jason sketches many a subjects for his “Every Person in New York” project. Yes, it is just what it sounds like: He’s trying to draw everyone in...
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Weather Vain: Boston, Massachusetts - 41 and...
If you’re spending your day in Beantown, wandering Fort Point or hanging in Cambridge, here’s what you should wear. You know, in my humble opinion. —erica
Clockwise from top left:
+ A Hope wool coat that will keep you just warm enough for walking Charles Street.
+ Suede pants can do East Coast prep—especially these Current/Elliott ones with their jean-esque cut and rusty maroon...
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Inside the Laugh Cry Repeat Studio
It’s as good for partying as designing.
When William Anzevino discovered the space where his cool, coquettish line Laugh Cry Repeat now lives, he wasn’t hunting for studio space—he was looking for a party. “I went to an L.A. fashion week event—I didn’t know my partners Mitch and Michael were going to be there,” he recalls. “By the time we left, Michael asked, ‘Would you want to have a space...
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Meet Laugh Cry Repeat
You’re off to a good start if Andy Warhol wants you in his corner.
Growing up in a small town, William Anzevino, the brains behind the slouchy-chic line Laugh Cry Repeat, learned to express himself through clothing. “The halls of my high school became my runway show,” he says. With no formal training in design—William had a background in fine arts—he began his foray into fashion making...
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January 2012
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Next Level: Western-ish Boots
I once bought bright white cowboy boots, inspired by a pair that the über-cool the drummer in Ben Lee’s band was wearing. Though they’re hardly a purchase I regret, they aren’t exactly as versatile as these guys, which just allude to Western wear—think more Shania than Reba. —erica
LEVEL I: The pull-tabs and the angled heels of this Madison Harding style are the only...
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