I’m always on the lookout for socks that speak to who I truly am. Socks that sing my heart song. Maybe it’s because Ryan and I live in a warm climate and we don’t get to wear them as much as we did back East...
Real men wear florals might have been the first thing we thought when our friend Julian Mackler directed us to this irresistible collection of guys’ tees and accessories covered in yawning poppies and designed by Brooklyn-based label 10.Deep. [caption id="attachment_9070" align="alignnone" width="650"] 10.Deep's ultra floral 'Bacchanal'...
It’s that time of year again! You know, that end-of-summer stretch marked by groaning mailbags, raised eyebrows at the newsstand, and 900+ plus pages of fashion euphoria? That’s right, Vogue magazine’s September issue is out. The famously fat edition is a design-world event not just because of...
To be a botany buff on Instagram is to have instant access to an endless supply of “serenity now” moments. Radish hauls à la Valencia. Cactus flowers à la Walden. And don’t even get us started on all the peony porn. It was on Instagram that we stumbled...
When we’re in putter mode in our garden, our shoe choices are purely functional. It’s kinda freeing for us design obsessives — Ryan in his Crocs Croc knockoffs and me in old Chucks, loosening rootballs, just wearing any old thing. But things changed slightly when we crossed paths with the boots of Le...
Here's one thing we’ve learned since launching this little gardening gazette: There are only so many synonyms for flowers. Blooms, blossoms, the species name, yes. Inflorescence is another wonderful term we like to throw around, especially when we’re referring to some petalled shocker sent out...
Makeup named after flowers is nothing new. That’s why it’s notable that New York-based cosmetics company Nars is going the extra mile (thousands of them) by naming each shade in its new Satin Lip Pencil collection after an international park or garden – from the...
Amid the stark sobriety of the Fall 2013 collections shown at New York Fashion Week — which concluded last Thursday — there were some blooming bright spots. (Not that straight lines and disciplined palettes can’t have vitality or tenderness: see Proenza Schouler, "quiet giant" Narciso Rodriguez,...
Hue arbiter Pantone has decreed its color of 2013, and it’s emerald. Lush, energetic, gemmy emerald, Pantone Color #17-5641. Even though I'm a gardener, I gotta say: I was torn at first. We don’t really go out of our way to acquire emerald pieces for our...
The 1948 movie The Red Shoes, restored by Scorsese and offered by Criterion Collection, is a marvel in more ways than we can name. Directed by the Archers, it’s a feat of Technicolor, a loose retelling of a Hans Christian Andersen story in which a dancer comes...