Stories

On a warm, late summer day, Marcia took a stroll through Boerum Hill to Gowanus to meet up with artist Sue Allbert. Touring Sue's studio and the Gowanus Canal, Marcia and Sue chatted about Sue's New York Textile Month's exhibit, materials, process, and inspiration.   M.PATMOS: Can you share the inspiration behind this year’s New York Textile Month Textile Installation? What themes or ideas do you explore in your work?   Sue: I have been thinking a lot about time. This strange concept that we organise our lives around and that can feel so confining sometimes -like the opposite of creativity. My process...

On her way upstate for a little post holidays in the shop getaway, Marcia took a detour to do a studio visit with artist, Gemma Gambee. Around a sunny dining room table, Marcia and Gemma chatted about meditation, mindful practices, color and inspiration while carefully selecting paintings to bring down to Brooklyn for the upcoming exhibit at M.PATMOS.   M.PATMOS:  How do these pieces relate to your own meditation practice?   Gemma: These paintings are a mindfulness practice.  Mindfulness practices are practices we use to integrate the personal exploration and findings we discover in our closed eye meditation practice.  For me, I...

On a recent quiet and sunny day, we visited our founder, Marcia Patmos, at her Boerum Hill home to catch up on all that is new with the M.PATMOS brand and revisit her journey as a designer. Seated amidst the work that follows any small business owner home — pots and mordants used for indigo dyeing, idle softbox stands for website photography, racks of clothes — we were able to squeeze in a conversation before an afternoon model fitting.   It's like a workshop in here! It really feels like a designer's space. Do you remember what first drew you...

Feeling newly vaccinated with hope in our step, we ventured out for a visit with our Boerum Hill neighbor and local bag designer, Susannah Thompson, to explore the masklessness of it all around others. Fueled by coffee and green juice, we streamed Bieber and danced around the garden’s lavender pots, dressed in our new styles.   As soon as cat Jack and pup Penny made room for us on the couch, we chatted with Susannah about working in fashion, bonding with Jackie O. at Doubleday, and why we need to ditch plastic bags already. Her daughter Nona joined in to...