BOHEMIANS: PATTI LEE

THE GIFT WE WILL BE GIVING: THE INIMITABLE, INCREDIBLE PATTI SMITH 

 IN HER OWN WORDS, THAT BEAUTIFUL BOOK: JUST KIDS.

I'D LEND YOU MY COPY, BUT IT HAS ALMOST WORN THIN. BUY YOUR OWN HERE.

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ON THE COUCH WITH CONSTANCE

SHE LIVES JUST ACROSS THE MEWS FROM US WITH HER MUFFIN (PRINCE PHILIP), AND BY DAY SHE'S A FANCY RADIO AND TELEVISION PRODUCER. WE SAT DOWN WITH DARLING CONSTANCE (ON HER DIVINE PERUVIAN SOFA) AFTER A RATHER LARGE TURKEY DINNER AND INTERVIEWED HER SELBY-STYLE. BELOW, SHE TALKS MOROCCAN GETAWAYS, HAITIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND THE ESSENTIAL CHANEL BALLET FLAT.

FROM TOP, CONSTANCE WEARS THE THEODORA SMOKING JACKET IN ROYAL VELVET WITH CORAL TRIM. 

THIRD IMAGE, DETAIL OF COTTON COCO DRESS IN NAVY ETOILE.

FINAL IMAGE, CONSTANCE'S CUSTOM CHIFFON PAN DRESS IN IBIZA PRINT, WITH CUSTOM TIE BELT.

PAN, THEODORA AND COCO ARE ALL CUSTOM ALIX OF BOHEMIA PIECES MADE FOR CONSTANCE. WANT YOUR OWN? SAY HELLO HERE.

THEY WERE ALL YELLOW

JAUNE FEVER IS SETTING IN MY DEARS, MY DEARS.

WE'RE JUST MAD ABOUT SAFFRON, AND AMBER, GOLDENROD, CITRON, CANARY, LEMON, STRAW, HONEY AND OCHRE... 

PERHAPS ITS THE CHANGING LIGHT IN THESE PARTS? OR MAYBE ITS 

THE ALIX OF BOHEMIA RITCHIE SHORTS IN SAFFRON VELVET THAT HAVE GRACED  OUR WARDROBE RECENTLY.

WORN WITH OUR FAVOURITE OF MAMAN'S NECKLACES, THE WOODEN MALA BEADS IN MANGO.

ALIX OF BOHEMIA RITCHIE SHORTS IN SAFFRON VELVET. FLAT FRONT SIDE (OR BACK ZIP DEPENDING) SHORTS. EXTREMELY LIMITED QUANTITY. EACH PAIR HAS A DIFFERENT CONTRASTING INTERIOR WAISTBAND AND A LIME GREEN HIDDEN ZIPPER.

SIZES 2-8 

 $ 165.00 USD

PLACE AN ORDER, ASK A QUESTION HERE.

THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW:

ABOVE IMAGES COLLECTED VIA GOOGLE.

FOR CHAR: GO WITH THE FLOW.

WE PICK A LITTLE, TAKE A LITTLE FROM THAT LOVELY TEXT OF E. B. WHITE'S OF 1952, MS. CHARLOTTE AND HER WEB. FOR WE LOVE A FLEXIBLE WOMAN, SOMEONE UNAFRAID OF A LITTLE CHANGE. 


OUR DARLING CHARLOTTE (OF THE HUMAN VARIETY) SAW THE CUSTOM JOBBY WE DID FOR MAMAN (HERE), AND ASKED US TO ADAPT A CLASSIC CAMELIA BLOUSE IN  'PROVENCE NIGHT' INCORPORATING THAT CHARMING LITTLE MILKMAID SLEEVE, TOPPED WITH CORAL GINGHAM TRIM.
MAN ALIVE, WE LOVE THE RESULT SO, WE COULDN'T RESIST SLAPPING ON A VINTAGE SILVER BELT AND SNAPPING A FEW IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO CHAR OVER IN NEW YORK.

 

ALIX OF BOHEMIA CUSTOM CAMELIA BLOUSE WITH CAP SLEEVE IN PROVENCE NIGHT WITH CORAL GINGHAM TRIM, TO ORDER.

100% COTTON, WITH HANDFINISHED SEAMS THROUGHOUT. 

MACHINE WASHABLE.

$188.00 USD

SOMETHING OLD

OUR BELLA COUSIN GOOSEY IS GETTING MARRIED (HOORAY!)SHE HAS OPTED TO HAVE AN ALIX OF BOHEMIA WEDDING DRESS FOR HER UPCOMING SUMMER NUPTIALS (WE ARE HONORED).

HOURS AND HOURS SPENT DISCUSSING SOMETHING SIMPLE AND FLOWING AND REMINISCENT OF JULIETTE'S NIGHTGOWN. 

FOR INSPIRATION, WE TURN TO OUR SHARED GRANDPARENTS ON THEIR WEDDING DAY MANY YEARS AGO IN PARIS.

                LE 20 OCTOBER, 1945 IN NEUILLY, PARIS.

IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE FABRIC COULD BE NOTHING SHORT OF SPECTACULAR.

AND SO, WE UNEARTHED FROM A VINTAGE ARCHIVE THIS SWATH OF SILK CHIFFON, MADE IN FRANCE NO LESS, IN THE SAME DECADE AS THE MARRIAGE ABOVE, (IT WILL BE GOOSEY'S 'SOMETHING OLD').

REGARD, THE FRENCHIE SILK CHIFFON GOLDEN BEAUTY WE  HAVE SETTLED ON FOR HER DRESS:

WE LOVE THE LATTICE PATTERN OF THIS; FOR SOON GOOSEY AND HER MAN WILL BE INTRICATELY INTERTWINED FOREVER.

MARKETING

SHALL WE GO THIS? SAID CONSTANCE. 

THERE'S A SMALL CHANCE, SHE CONTINUED, 

THAT 'VINTAGE' DOESN'T MEAN 'POLYESTER'

AND GO WE DID. CONSTANCE  AND I STARTING WITH SOME ACID CHIFFON AND A SUPER COOL NEON PUCCI MINI, AND QUICKLY MOVING ON TO FALL IN LOVE WITH A CZECHOSLOVAKIAN JEWELED HEADDRESS, HEADGEAR OF JOY:

A TANGERINE CHIFFON BEADED DRESS FROM THE TWENTIES MATERIALIZED. 

IT WAS HEAVIER THAN CONSTANCE HERSELF, BUT THE FABRIC WAS AS DELICATE AS TISSUE. 

NATURALLY WE GRAVITATED TOWARD THE ETHNIC CORNER; 

EVERY TIME SOMETHING CROCHET, EMBROIDERED OR EMBELLISHED WOULD MATERIALIZE, WE WOULD GASP AND SHOW IT TO CONSTANCE FOR APPROVAL, WHO WOULD JUST LAUGH. APPARENTLY WE ARE VERY PREDICTABLE, AND SHE IS AVERY PATIENT WOMAN.

BUT THERE WAS NO REASONING TO BE DONE WHEN WE STUMBLED UPON A SECTION OF EMBROIDERED GOODS FROM HUNGARY AND UZBEKISTAN. 

HAPPY AS A PIG IN MUD.

FOR HEADS UP ON FUTURE FAIRS, GO HERE.

BB THE REBEL

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MEMORIES OF PAN IN L.A.

 WHERE I FROLICKED LIKE SARICA JESSICA IN  THE FILM

' L.A. STORY' (SEE BELOW)

DOWN A LOS ANGELES SIDE STREET, EN ROUTE TO MEET THE PARTY PEOPLE AT PAUL AND ANDRE.

A FRESH HAIRCUT COURTESY OF BYRON AND TRACEY, DINNER AT MR. C AND

THE ALIX OF BOHEMIA POLKA DOT CHIFFON PAN DRESS MAKE UP THE FASHION FORMULA OF THAT MIDSUMMER'S EVE.

WHEN IN LONDON

TIE ONE ON

WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN INSPIRED BY THE ACCOUTREMENTS OF TRADITIONAL ETHIC DRESS; THE PERUVIAN EXAMPLE (TOP, BY WAY OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) HAS SET THE STANDARD AND GOT OUR JUICES FLOWING.

ABOVE, ALIX OF BOHEMIA BUNNY BELTS; EACH ONE IS UNQIUE AND HAND FINISHED, FLANKED WITH PIPINGS, RIC-RACS AND WOVEN RIBBONS. WE KIND OF DIG WEARING A COUPLE, FIT TO BE TIED ATOP OUR CAMELIA BLOUSES OR AROUND THE WAISTS OF OUR FLEETWOOD FROCKS.

FLEETWOOD IN FRANCE

HERE WE STAND AMONGST THE LAST BLOSSOMS OF THE SEASON IN SAINT PAUL,

POSING FOR PICTURES AFTER A FRENCHIE FEAST OF FOIE GRAS, IN THE JADE CHIFFON ALIX OF BOHEMIA FLEETWOOD DRESS. EARTHY SPIRIT THAT SHE IS, SHE CAME ALONG TO FRANCE AND FROLICKED IN THE ANCIENT HILLS, WILLING THE SUN TO STAY WITH US AND LINGER FOR LONGER.

WE THREW ON OUR FAVOURITE GOLD BAUBLES, OUR MOTHER'S VINTAGE BELT AND SOME LEOPARD STUBBS AND WOOTTON TO COMPLIMENT HER LOVELY GREEN FORM.

WANT TO OWN YOUR OWN FLEETWOOD? SAY BONJOUR HERE.

THE SEASON

WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME TOO? DROP A LINE, VALENTINE, 

AND ASK US FOR THE DETAILS HERE.

LE SUD

AS ALL GOOD WEEKENDS DO, IT BEGAN AND ENDED WITH MUCH DANCING AND MANY UNPASTEURISED CHEESES.
WE GATHERED IN SAINT PAUL DE VENCE, THAT ANCIENT TOWN IN THE SOUTHERN HILLS OF FRANCE. ITS BEEN HOME TO MANY A BOHEMIAN AND MASTER; EVIDENCE OF GIACOMETTI, MIRO, PABLO, LEGER AND CHAGALL THROUGHOUT, MOST OBVIOUSLY AT THE FOUNDATION MAEGHT. I BEGGED ALL WEEKEND TO MAKE THE PILGRIMAGE TO MY FAVOURITE MUSEUM, AND LUCKILY MY LOVELY ENTOURAGE OBLIGED.

THE SPECIAL LIGHT THAT IS THERE; WE BATHED IN IT, DINING OUTSIDE, THE LAST AL FRESCO WE WILL HAVE FOR A WHILE.