Our photographing homies The Why We Love have a pop up shop on 100 Layer Cake this week, and the deals aren’t joking around. We’re talking discount prices! Big, huge savings! Document your next event on the cheap… Have Kevin shoot actual 100% 16mm film of your people… finally take those intimate heart-shaped locket portraits [...]
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Posted in Prêt-à-Porter, Sights on Jul 15th, 2011
There’s a new sock about town, its website, beautiful, and copy, quite witty. Chuck Butler Supplies introduces its first season of dynamite foot socks. Brooklyn based designer, flag maker, and Teddy Roosevelt scholar: Jeff Butler warns the wearer of his socks are in danger of grave envy, and extreme comfort – boasting to have plumbed [...]
There once lived a French gazillionaire named Albert Kahn who collected over 72,000 autochrome plates from around the world. He sent photographers to the ends of the Earth at a time when empires were collapsing and World War I fell upon Western Europe. The poor chap lost his fortune in the crash of 1929, but [...]
Patrick Cariou spends a decade migrating backwards through the thousand year journey of the gypsy people. Starting in Western Europe, through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and finally to India, Cariou visually documents the varied images of these renegade, survivalist clans. A very authentic, life’s work; a beautiful and an important study of a misunderstood [...]
Certain songs only sound right on tape. Your association of them to a time and place leaves them lacking when heard any other way. In A Big Country & Love Cats should sound muddy, with an appropriate amount of hiss underneath. Perhaps now an aesthetic more than a medium, cassettes made music portable, and we gave [...]
Pretty dope. These are the latest photos of “Hitched” Launderette taken by Erin Hearts Court photography of Pasadena, CA. So glad someone shot my mustache before the wax wore out. You could look this good too in one of our bow ties.
Photographer Edyta Szyszlo, just posted her iPhone Photo Recap of the Hitched Event in Palm Springs. There was one of us… doing rad things.
Photographer, Brandon Kidd took these photos of our display at Hitched, and we especially love the close-up he got of our new Launderette Bow Tying Diagram. A step-by-step bow tie knot guide, we’ve also silk-screened these on the backs of the Tiecards you see displayed on the wooden shelf. Free with every Bow Tie purchase… [...]
Had our picture made @HitchedEvent by Smilebooth. Pinky out, and a fist. This actually embodies well the Launderette way – refined and mannered, but you don’t wanna step ta this.
Wedding website, 100 Layer Cake has posted some new photos of the Launderette ties at Hitched. You can get a better idea of how bitchin’ the Grooms Lounge was too. Thank you Layer Cake! Your nuptial news is delicious!