Does it send anyone else into a mild panic attack when the stores start showing cold weather fashions in the middle of vacation season?  Why am I staring at a turtleneck on a mannequin as I gulp down iced-t to stay hydrated for window shopping in 90 degree weather?  I love Fall, but I don’t [...]

New York’s Fall 2011 Fashion Week has wiped off the mascara and shut off the high bass techno music for the season. While I definitely enjoy the glitz and showmanship of it all, it’s hard not to chuckle when comparing the highfalutin designs to the more wearable, relevant fashions already in motion in the handmade [...]

The craft world is a living, breathing, constantly changing and evolving organism, and there are definitely major trends that course through it’s veins. But my they are tricky. They’ll surface for months only to be stuffed to a storage closet’s backward depths after they’ve reached an arbitrary and unexpected expiration date. What dictates these enigmatic, [...]

This earlier post on 2011 spring trends discussed the looks deemed stylish by the fashion community, and the idea of possibly using them to impact your holiday sales. But how, exactly, could they trickle down to the handmade? And does “high fashion” really predict anything relevant to us?
I wanted to offer some concrete examples of [...]

Everyone already seems a tizzy about the upcoming holiday season, and perhaps rightfully so. Inventory doesn’t just magically generate itself, you know. So with world-wide fashion weeks finally over, I thought that now might be a good time to sit back with a cup of tea, take a breath of that fall air, and assess [...]

Ok, ok, so maybe you think the cuckoo clock trend is so 2006. I’m sure the one at Urban Outfitters has been out of stock forever.  I’m also going to pretend that they were never available at Walmart but that’s not what we’re here for. No, I’m not done with all things from The Black [...]