Our new Merci Registry website launches today! For all occasions that require a personalized gift wish list. Check it out here.

For the next month at Le Bon Marché a new collection of my flag necklaces and pins will be for sale as part of L’Esprit Factory, a space filled with temporary freight container boutiques by 0fr, ACNE, Surface to Air, Kitsune + more! So exciting! If you are in Paris and want to check it out there will be an opening there on the 1st. There is even a film of vignettes made by David + Alex, where you can see some of the things I’ve been working on in my studio, along with other artists and designers whose creations are featured in the 0fr Esprit Factory shop.

0fr Boutique at Le Bon Marché, opening!
Thursday, April 1, 2010 20:00

Discovery of the day, online magazine Work For Free which features new/small artists and designers including Wonder Wonder who led me to this discovery.
work featured above by Jacqueline Kari Bos, Wonder Wonder, Paul Wagenblast, Lahaina Alcantara and Work For Free.

I just came across this site called Studio Too Good, and was completely transfixed! I should have realized sooner by the style as well as the name that Faye Toogood is behind it. Blowing my mind! I love it all. via Hello Sandwich.

My very dear friend Lili, just launched her new site tigres to lilies. She has such an amazing eye for things I cannot even begin to describe. She did all the flowers for my wedding party as well as for the ecology center’s incredible green feast and she is working towards designing nature on a grander scale in the future doing landscape design. Check out her new site here and follow along on all her floral adventures and more.

Something I forgot to share from our party, the invites David and I designed together.

Beautiful uniqueness in photographs from none other than Maryam Nassir Zadeh, of course.
Glass sculptures by Phillip Low, other objects for sale at MNZ NYC.

Some photos I’ve been gathering together of the party, taken by our incredible photographer friends Lili and James. It was such a beautiful night!
My month of preparations is over from making all these tiny paper cranes, driftwood birds, painted flags and tablecloths, silkscreened napkins, making my dress, designing invitations and custom wine labels (with a little borrowed background illustration from here that I loved too much not to use), and hanging lanterns, lights, ribbons and streamers..
More photos from James here and here.

these are what ramsey created for us. today’s the day!
(meant to post this yesterday but was a bit preoccupied)

Merci is the new charity shop that just opened in Paris, started by Marie-France and Bernard Cohen who started Bonpoint. I had the pleasure of meeting Marie-France while I was there. It is such a beautiful shop and a huge and amazing space with 2 cafes, a flower shop, an incredible used book store, housewares, beautiful clothes both vintage and new, artwork + more.. Whitle I’m not exactly sure how it functions as a charity shop, it’s definitely worth seeing if you are there. Thank you to be-pôles, (who designed all the graphics for Merci) for introducing us to this place.
see more pics here.

This was so much fun, a whole 12 hours of fun actually I can’t believe I was able to even move the next day. A big thanks to Todd and all of his awesome friends and all the new friends who came out that night too. It was so crowded it was INSEINE haha. I even spotted Christian Louboutin and Pierre Hermé, and Olivier Zahm while I was there. Wish I had not had so many vodkas at the time of spotting Monsieur Louboutin so that I could have taken a photo to share.
The party afterwards at Le Baron was crazy! There was a special performance by Duotard and Todd and Mark are a pretty hillarious dj duo. I guess Bill Cunningham was right about the french loving mickey mouse, how amazing is that guys sweater! and I love the Charles Anastase dress that I spotted on the Heimstone girl, she had on the perfect outfit that night. which was also not shot so well due to the same reasons Monsieur Louboutin is not seen here.
For even more photos check out Paris Breakfasts, the Selby and the Cobrasnake’s photos.
images above from the Selby, Cobrasnake and me.

I was doing an image search for endpapers and came across some images of my friend Chris Svensson’s work. As a way of honoring an event from his school’s history, he sewed in a fake appendix to this book belonging to the Central Saint Martins library. Not part of the piece, but I love the yellow stripes! Check out more images and the full story behind this piece here.

A Concert by Efterklang performed with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra back in September. The amazing sets and costumes for the show were designed by Hvass & Hannibal, a design and art studio based in Copenhagen. See more of their work here.

The best art/design bookshop and place to get fashion magazines in Paris, AND a great gallery space with exciting upcoming shows (including Mark Borthwick!) is OFR. Alex of ofr also put out an amazing little map of the Marais, along with other great Paris guides, and previously used to publish the incredible AGENDA magazine. I love it so much I am plotting my return already!

A bit last minute but here are some small gift ideas that I thought I’d share. Not quite as extravagant as my very selfish wishlist but I am mostly making gifts this year and like to look for little things to go along with those gifts. These little wood elephant bottle openers are amazing, my favorite Postalco notebooks available from South Willard, Tortoise and Auto, Juniper Ridge California Bay Laurel soap smells like trees! I love it and it’s actually made of trees and all natural ingredients, I have also seen it for sale at Mothers Markets so you might find it there and avoid shipping, this little box is just interesting and would make a great little lunch box, a lovely little print from Fifi Lapin, colorful rock soap, a Honey in the Rough knotted headband, and the easiest gift to give is Papabubble, it’s really amazing how they get the letters so small in this amazing candy, I miss stopping in there to say hello to those guys. I also received a very cute letterpressed calendar from SeeSaw letterpress, and I love the colors and linear layout of it, it’s a very sweet gift.