Alumni News: Veda Wants You to #HashItOut Already
Listen, we’ve made our case about Pinterest loud and clear—and if 117 designers weren’t reason enough to try out the platform *just yet*, let this Veda challenge be it. See those tags up there? Well, Lyndsey Butler, the leather genius behind the line, wants to see YOUR interpretation of ‘em pinned to that online moodboard of yours for a chance to win, oh, one of the line’s signature leather jackets. NBD. Rules are on the Veda blog, and you’ve got until July 27th to make a good impression. #CatchYouOnTheFlipSide. —jiayi
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117 Designers You Need to Follow on Pinterest
These days, talk to anyone about social media, and Pinterest is guaranteed to pop up. (We don’t blame them, having logged some serious hours on the platform ourselves—come say hi!) So we went ahead and scoured the platform for some pin-savvy designers—emerging and established alike—that you should be following to make that dashboard extra inspo-worthy. Behold, the (alphabetized!) list, with our two cents thrown in. Bonus: We’re also replicating this list as a pinboard that we’ll keep updating when new peeps join, so follow away. —jiayi
- 3.1 Phillip Lim
- A Peace Treaty
- Academy Jewelry
- Alexis Bittar
- alice + olivia
- Alice Ritter
- Andy Lifschutz
- Anna Sui
- Apolis
- Badgley Mischka
- Baggu’s creative director Ellen Van Der Laan
- ban.do
- Bande des Quatres
- BCBG Max Azria
- Behnaz Sarafpour
- Belle by Sigerson Morrison
- Betsey Johnson
- Billy Reid
- Bing Bang and the line’s amazing designer Anna Sheffield
- Brian Atwood
- Brook&Lyn
Best Storytelling: If you’ve ever wondered why the hell someone pinned that, you probably weren’t looking at Anna Sui’s boards—which come with detailed descriptions of the roots of the fun-loving designer’s fascinations. A collection of pictures of the Ormsby-Gore siblings? Oh, they’re a group of trendsetters from sixties London—a time and place that, we discovered, the designer is especially drawn to.
- Burberry
- Cardigan NY
- Christian Louboutin
- Clare Vivier
- Coach
- Creatures of Comfort’s rad founder Jade Lai
- Current/Elliott
- Cursive Design
- Cynthia Rowley
- Daniel Vosovic
- Dannijo
- Derek Lam
- Dior
- Dirty Librarian Chains
- DKNY
- Doo.Ri
- Dream Collective
- Dusen Dusen
- DVF
- Eayrslee
- Eighty Twenty
Best Personal Touch: Something about a handwritten note still speaks to us, and DVF covers each of the pretty-to-the-extreme boards with a little scrawled-out missive from the designer (and CFDA prez) herself. Talk about classy.
- Elie Tahari
- Elizabeth Knight
- Erica Weiner
- Erin Considine
- Erin Fetherston
- Ernest Alexander
- Eugenia Kim
- Feliks + Adrik
- Fleabags
- Foley + Corinna
- Forage
- Gemma Redux
- Giuseppe Zanotti
- Goodnight, Day
- Gretchen Jones
- Helmut Lang
- Isaac Mizrahi
- isaora
- Jenni Kayne
Best Teamwork: Erica Weiner’s account boasts boards from every single lovely member of her team—showing off stellar finds both vintage and modern that give you a taste of the varying aesthetics that shape the jewelry.
- John Varvatos
- Juicy Couture
- Kaelen
- Kara Ross
- kate spade
- Kelly Wearstler
- Kimberly Ovitz
- Landmarks + Lions
- Laugh Cry Repeat
- Laura Lombardi
- Lauren Moffatt
- lemlem
- Lindsey Thornburg
- Loeffler Randall
- Marc Jacobs
- Melissa
- Michael Kors
- Morgan Parish
Best Trip Down Memory Lane: Not gonna lie: We love, love, love us some childhood pictures. And, looking at Nanette Lepore’s board “Growing up Lepore”—which shows the designer as a young’un finding her way in Youngstown, Ohio—it looks like she does, too.
- Nanette Lepore
- Nettie Kent
- Nicole Miller
- Norma Kamali
- Oscar de la Renta
- Palomarie
- Pamela Love
- Peter Som
- popomomo
- Proenza Schouler
- Rachel Comey
- Rachel Roy
- Rachel Zoe
- rag & bone
- Rebecca Minkoff
- Reece Hudson
- Reed Krakoff
- Sam Edelman
- Sang A
- Sigerson Morrison
- Sophie Monet
Best Where’d-They-Find-That? Eye Candy: We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: The Thomas Sires girls always know just what we want. They’ve nailed it with a clothing line, a Nolita store, and now a Pinterest account.
