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Summer clearance sale     Dressing for summer should never be complicated. When it is hot outside (sometimes) you have a lot more important and fun things to do then worry about what you are going to wear. This is a time for relaxing, travel or simply just hanging out. But that does not mean that you don’t want to look nice you just simply don’t want to forfeit ease and comfort to achieve it. We therefore have lots of tops and shirts in lightweight linen and cottons many cut lose and away from the body, remember things don’t always...

Fashion fascism   My least favourite fashion line has to be “Must Have”.   As we stroll down this path called life there are a lot things that one would like to put in the “must have” category; health, compassion, knowledge, family and friends, etc. Nowhere on that list should be a dress, bag or jacket.   I was reminded of that sentiment when I read about this one woman that was sent home and suspended from work for not wearing high heels to her work place, based on company rules that require females to wearing footwear with heels of...

Creating sustainably   Sustainable clothing has become such an on-trend term for brands to throw around that it has become very difficult to differentiate between good intentions and marketing opportunism.   For us, it has always been part of the company’s DNA. It is just who we are and how we think. Our company car is a bicycle (Stanley does not even know how to drive).   Fundamentally, we have always tried to create work that is timeless, out of materials that are as kind to the environment as possible in low volume manufacturing manners.  The reasons behind are actually...

Pop Up Shops   This weekend we had another fun and successful pop up shop this time in the basement of El Cortez, a Mexican restaurant with an incredible décor.   We first started doing pop up shops a little over 10 years ago. I had heard about the concept when I read how Comme de Garcon staged a guerrilla retail space in Berlin in about 2003 (there had been people doing the concept well before that), and the idea really appealed to me.   The idea of doing retail without long term commitment, or even ignoring all retail conventions...