In honor of this weekend’s exclusive Kendi Short Shorts pop-up at 154 Orchard Street and their appearance at Happy Place in Williamsburg, we’d like to play you a short of shorts. Enjoy!
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Author Archives: Caris Reid
Kendi Shorts
June 19, 2009 – 8:45 am
The Lake & Stars make us Smile
June 9, 2009 – 8:42 am
Your one-stop shopping experience at The Smile, the store/tattoo parlor/cafe opened in March by Carlos Quirarte and Matt Kliegman, now includes swimwear. Lingerie designer extraordinaires The Lake & Stars created two glamorous exclusives for the store’s kick-off to summer. One, the low-plunging gold number below, was captured in a Kava Gorna photograph of [...]
Madame Matovu’s Divas in a Suitcase
May 7, 2009 – 12:07 pm
A naïve painting of a little boy with a yellow bird perched on his finger mingles with The Classic Woman, a book published by Playboy in the 1960s that features models in Louvre-like, rather than centerfold poses. The backroom is stacked with hatboxes and lace gowns, which dangle beside a mirror. The faces of iconic [...]
Lorick Fall 2009
March 19, 2009 – 8:54 am
High drama and high waists. Lace gloves for tea and white gloves for murder.
Lorick’s Fall 2009 print campaign is a trip to Hitchcock Lady Land, where Abigail Lorick (the line’s designer and the ghost designer for Eleanor Waldorf on “Gossip Girl”) combined the prim elegance and horror of “Vertigo” with French New Wave filtered Americana. [...]
Hanna Sandin’s SAMMA
March 17, 2009 – 8:12 am
The serendipitous start of the jewelry line SAMMA is as unusual and memorable as the line itself—it began with a robbery. When artist Hanna Sandin’s apartment was burgled and all her valuables and jewelry were stolen, she began stringing materials from her studio around her neck as a method of temporary adornment. The casual [...]
