First of all: extricate yourself from that Not-For-Profit! They are named that way for a reason…as neither your bank account nor your soul will prosper. Both will be trim and slim! Though the great Kate Moss once said, “Nothing tastes as good as being skinny feels,” I always say your soul should be plump as a dump! (And if your bank is just as zaftig, va bene. It’s nice to not feel destitute, n’est pas?)
Untitled, 2008
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2011-04-16
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2011-04-13
Correction (in the form of an email exchange with my mom):
Claire,
I loved the photos of you in Evelyne shirt. Not that Daddy is ready to advertise his age, but for the record he turned 66. Since 65 sounds better, I wouldn’t correct it!
Love
mom———-
he was the one who told me he was turning 65. glad you liked them and sorry i missed you yesterday. off for my run now.
i love you,
claire—————
I figured as much-he does not always remember his age correctly!
momI can’t stop wearing our Thomas Sires Evelyne shirt. Three times in one week isn’t just laziness, it’s love. I snapped some pretty crappy pictures so I could show you.
L to R: a party to celebrate my baller Great Aunt Ruth turning 97 and my dad turning 65; drinks at Mekong with Erica and some of our amazing interns; business meetings in the rain today.
PS. Grandma Shirley bought this shirt, too. Pictures forthcoming. (Obviously.)
PPS. Since you asked: I’m wearing a S/M
—claire
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2011-03-19
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2011-03-16
Erica and I made a joke about how I’m going to wear this thing every damn day completely independently of each other. Girl, you know it’s true. I have such issues when I find clothing I like that’s comfy. I delude myself into thinking nobody will notice I’ve been wearing the same thing for a week straight. Over the winter it was thick leggings, and for spring and summer it’s going to be this thing.
When Claire put on the deep green tunic that Toujours Toi Family Affairs made for Of a Kind, we were pretty sure we could book her a gig at the Hollywood Bowl on the spot. The breezy little thing looks as good belted with tights as it does worn loose with a wedge. In a couple of months, I suspect I’ll have to start dropping not-so-subtle hints that she should wear something else for a change. —erica
BUY / 13 of a kind
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2011-02-16
Chicken nuggets for my spring look.
If this looks like leopard to you, you’re mistaken. This is the chicken nugget print from Leah Goren, who also does an equally subtle hot-dog one. —erica
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2011-02-02
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2011-01-25
I’ll always take cold weather over hot and east coast over west, but this picture got me so excited for the Of a Kind trip to LA in March.
4:30 pm, Los Angeles.
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Erica’s spitting truth today over on Of a Kind. I’ve been thinking about the Mullet bag since we visited Meredith Wendell’s showroom back in SEPTEMBER. I’m generally a bit capricious and impulsive when it comes to my fashion-oriented fascinations, so I think the fact that I’ve stuck with this as an object of desire for so long now means I really deserve it.
Claire’s birthday isn’t until March, but if you want to pick up her present now—you know, just to check that off the list—she is desparate for this Meredith Wendell bag. It’s called the Mullet tote because it’s business (warm tan leather) in the front, party (wild green leather) in the back. —erica
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2011-01-19
My dear, dear friend, Kippy Winston, stars in this commercial. This is a very proud moment.
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2011-01-11
When I got my first big order, I was in way over my head. I just went to sleep for almost 24 hours. I woke up a day later and was like ‘Oh, fuck.’
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Team Erica
This is one of my favorite stories that we’ve done so far. It’s exactly the kind of stuff I want to know about when I’m learning about a new designer.
The women behind the woman.
Erica Weiner has grown her business in many ways in the five years since she launched her ever-more-popular jewelry line—moving her operations from her kitchen table to a Lower East Side studio, for example, and eventually opening her first store. One of her biggest sources of pride is the group of lovely (and photogenic) women who work with her. “Every year, we’ve hired one more full-timer. So now we have five full-time people,” Erica says. Here’s your chance to meet them, pictured in hiring order.
Lindsay Salmon, co-owner
Erica: “When I got my first big order, I was in way over my head. I just went to sleep for almost 24 hours. I woke up a day later and was like ‘Oh, fuck.’ I called my friend Lindsay, who’s my business partner now. She had just lost her job at a bar. I said, ‘You gotta help me.’”
Lindsay: “At the time, I was changing careers. I was taking a lot of art classes. So I said, ‘I’ll make jewelry for you for free so I can learn how to do it.’ Then everything just got really big really fast.”
Sophie Fader, wholesale manager
Erica: “I taught a class at Sophie’s camp.”
Sophie: “I was a counselor-in-training, and Erica mentioned to my head counselor that they were looking for an intern. I was 17—a senior in high school. First, I worked at the end of Erica’s desk at her apartment. Then she and Lindsay remodeled the closet and put in a desk for me.”
Chelsea Williams, sales manager
Erica: “Chelsea’s roommate was an old high-school friend of mine. I think we’d just gone to our high-school reunion a week or two before, and we reconnected. And he was like, ‘My friend would be really good for your business.’”
Chelsea: “I was just going to help out short-term, but I stayed!”
Andrea Lipsky-Karasz, extraordinary maker of things
Erica: “Andrea is the only person we got without going through a friend. She answered a Craigslist ad that we put out for help, but she was just, like, born to do this. She also dresses in full 1920s sequins to work.”
Andrea: “I got my whole life on Craigslist—my roommate, my furniture, my job. Not my boyfriend.”Check back tomorrow to buy the limited-edition piece Erica designed for Of a Kind.
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2011-01-10
YAY. Meredith is a University of Chicago student who I found on tumblr a couple of years go. Fulllll circle, worlds colliding, etc.
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“Of A Kind: Manimal Belt” Artessen January 6, 2011.
This came today, you guys! I hate to break your heart but I got the first one. Will be spending the rest of the evening planning my outfit around it (and also trying to figure out what might fit in the “pouch”—a Jolly Rancher? a condom? Illicit chemistry notes?)
(via qed-deactivated20110916)
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2011-01-08
moth:
The Year That Never Was: Illustrator Tomer Hanuka has published some of his rejected New Yorker cover ideas for 2010, some of which went as far as a final without publishing.
(via molls)
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2011-01-03
Kristen’s Crazy-Creative Kin
Nothing I love more than crazy old people.
“My grandparents are very Italian. My grandma has her kitchen, and my grandfather has his kitchen. They aren’t allowed in each other’s kitchens. I have my grandfather’s bread recipe—I took bread-making lessons with him for a year after college, every Wednesday. It was really intense, and it took me about six months to work up to putting olives in it. He took it so seriously. He has all of these decoy recipe books and he said to me ‘Don’t show your uncles these.’ He’ll pass down the fake ones, but I’ll know where the real ones are.”Come back Wednesday to score the piece Kristen designed just for Of a Kind!
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2011-01-02
<3
Warm wishes from VYou! Happy New Year!
WE ARE SO WACKY. (And tired. And needing showers.)
