Alchemy / Feathers Boutique Trunk Show

Hello LWR readers, lovers, patrons and general badasses. In an effort to connect with you more, we've partnered with Katy Ballard who will be writing blog posts based on various events around town that LWR deems awesome. Katy will keep you posted on behind-the-scenes product shoots and studio sewing sessions. She will occasionally write mini profiles on Austin style eccentrics, business owners and so forth that inspire and intrigue the LWR crew. We'll also be starting a new series, Get Laced, which photographs real girls in three outfits from the store coupled with a mini Q&A. And expect Giveaways! -- quite possibly one of the more exciting pieces of news for our readers. Stay tuned, be engaged, and visit us!

Here's a run-down from the Alchemy Trunk Show at Feathers Boutique Katy attended with the LWR ladies, Stephanie and Bekah:



Friday night kicked off a busy weekend for us. Feathers Boutique hosted a trunk show for their latest collaboration with Alchemy Design, an Austin-based print graphic duo with a touch of mystic. It was an intimate affair as people -- mostly other Austin vintage-heads and style aficionados -- gathered in Feather's cozy quarters to browse the designs of Ed Davis and Christina Simon aka the minds of Alchemy. The Feathers-Alchemy line of shirts and tanks is without name, but the designs speak for themselves. Geometric patterns and ancient Egyptian symbols set on hand-dyed shirts evoke a sense of mystery and power, as though wearing an Alchemy design will embed you with advanced universal understanding. The inspired designs consist of the Eye of Horus, a symbol for protection and good health; the Hamsa, which is a universal sign of protection; the Horus Falcon, one of Ancient Egypt's oldest dieties; and the Ajna, the sixth Chakra associated with the Third Eye. It's no wonder half the show's attendees were wearing Alchemy's shirts or stocking up. We'll let you in a little secert too -- LWR is scheming on a collaboration with Alchemy. Check out their digs @ (www.thealchemystical.com) + the resent editorial styled by Emily Hoover of Feathers Boutique and shot by Alexandra Valenti @ (www.feathersboutiquevintage.blogspot.com)


Ed & Christian / Alchemy Designs



Horus Falcon


Eye of Horus


Indigo Echo




Alchemy Geometric Tank / Dust & Drag Crochet Robe

I must admit, I did love seeing the D&D + AD combination!!!

Also, stayed tuned for a behind-the-scenes product shoot with LWR model, Sara Cummings and photographer, Matt McCoy.

Stephanie & Bekah

A portrait of Stephanie Fellabaum and Bekah DuBose, the creative minds and skilled hands behind Dust & Drag

PHOTOGRAPHY Bobby Scheidemann

PHOTOGRAPHY Bobby Scheidemann
WORDS ©EmilyAlyse.com

Gaetano Navarro

S/S 2011

A Question Of Lust

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Skin Graft Designs

http://www.skindraftdesigns.com
my soul will suffer endless longing
until these boots find a home on my feet!

Balmain

Fall 2010 RTW

ACNE RESORT 2011

PARIS, June 26, 2010

By Tim Blanks

With its Swedish roots, Acne has no weighty fashion heritage to live up to. "We can do what we want," says company founder Jonny Johansson. For Resort, that meant a collection that was, somewhat incongruously, inspired by Black White + Gray, the recent documentary about the relationship between Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe. "Their mix of uptown and downtown, against a backdrop of 1970's New York," was how Johansson described it. Hence the leather pants and waistcoats with butch biker caps. A leather shift dress was saddle-stitched in a technique the Swedes call laskad. And, this being Acne, all skins were bio-leather from an old artisanal company.

Balancing the butchness were fluid, drapey pieces in washed jersey, like a suit with a definite shoulder, sort of seventies going on forties, but sinuous enough to strip away the formality. A jersey halter dress had a whiff of Halston about it. And there was some of that designer's easy glamour in a cardigan jacket in black paillettes. Johansson referenced the jewelry Mapplethorpe designed with skull and crystal pendants. "I like a bit of spirituality," he said. That, however, was decidedly lacking in the shoe style called Pixel, with its literally killer heel of one long single nail.

via style.com

T by Alexander Wang

So in loveeeeeeee!

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Maison Martin Margiela Haute Couture Fall 2010

Speechless!