material concern

what could be better?!

Excited for the Blood is the New Black party this Saturday to launch their food truck extravanganza of teeshirts and coolhaus ice cream!

isaac and I love Blood is the New Black.

Without meaning to: we are both wearing their shirts today. Isaac’s wearing the Triangle shirt by Micheal W Moore

and I’m wearing Brian Lichtenburg’s gank of Margiela’s jacket.

very funny and well illustrated post over at Refinery29 about how-to get your apt in the ‘pages’ of the Selby is in your place.

I’m super excited!

I’ve been putting together this awesome Holiday sale with mitra from Blood is the New Black.

There will be over 25 local, awesome designers and booths at the sale: we’ve got:

women’s clothing, including rojas, maxine dillon, popomomo, ecoSkin and dear creatures

men’s clothing and shoes, including generic man, acid haus, rojas

baby clothing and puppy goodies, including from all mighty

accesories: including dean leather bags & belts, cocaine mule canvas bags, & my rebe handmade bags

jewelry from spragwerks, as well as from lines carried by green with glamour and poketo

home and paper goods, from soolip, green with glamour and poketo

fancy gifts for the toilette and boudoir, from Hush beauty

zines and records, from LA record

awesome tees, including from blood is the new black, no star, and beautiful decay

and tons of awesome gift ideas from many more vendors.

Everyone will be selling at big discounts from their usual retail price.  There will be a DJ and an open bar, and the Green Truck will come to sell food if shoppers get hungry.

The sale is December 6th at the POOL space in Silverlake: 2900 rowena blvd, from 12-8.

See the above flyer for details, and please check the Recessionista Blog with all the info and profiles and links of the designers. Spread the word: its going to be awesome!

I re-read Francis Hodgsen Burnett’s Secret Garden the other night because i had found it at the thrift store…

when I went searching for it online, i found out it’s cover is part of a redesign of penguin classics by new illustrators…you can see all the books and more info here.

illustrations by cedric rivrain….

via…. 

check out the new issue of sadie magazine, featuring an in-depth interview with Juliana Hatfield and also an illustration by your truly accompanying an article about mad women portrayals in pop culture by Edward Doty.

when we were in philly we went to the megawords kick off for their jam-packed month long storefront experience.

find out more about megawords and check out their awesome month extravanganza here…

Agata Raczyńska – great work. Seems to be working for a TV show, doing some book covers, etc. Love it…