Stories

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...

In time for the Valentine’s holiday, we caught up with one of our favorite jewelry artists and super moms, Jane D’Arensbourg, on a recent morning between the scuffle of remote school and a trip to the dentist. We spoke of her new life outside the city, pandemic gardening in a bookcase, how anyone found anything before Instagram, and the way that glass can hold memory and be stronger than you’d think.

Even with travel in its restricted state, we touched base with our French friend, collaborator and natural dye artist, Isabelle Ormiéres. Founder of I DYE FOR U, we enjoyed our rendezvous with her on a rooftop this summer where she taught us to dip dye cotton masks in marigold and madder before her move back abroad. We spoke on post-election vibes, dreams of dye houses and indigo farms and bringing Brooklyn with you when you leave it. And for a moment, by a phone screen’s eyeview, through a window of classic style set in Isabelle’s new apartment, we saw Paris....

In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we spoke to our friend and collaborator, Deborah Forman, an abstract painter, artist and breast cancer survivor. From her home in Rhode Island, she shared with us her experience of diagnosis and treatment as a young mom, how fashion empowered her, and lessons from the ocean. While our voices only met over the phone, we imagined ourselves somewhere by the sea, wrapped in organic alpaca, marveling at the world’s unpredictability together.  M.PATMOS: Nice to speak to you Deborah! How is life as an artist these days? Deborah: You know, it’s funny because there’s kind...