Weekend Reading: Amazing embroidery, an anniversary, + more!

This week, we celebrated our amazing designer Kris’ 3 year anniversary with Colette! Kris has been here through some huge, huge changes, going from being the sole employee to working with a fabulous team of creative people. We’re so lucky to have you, Kris!

I’m off to San Francisco for a weekend getaway (and an interview for Seamwork Radio). Enjoy some delightful links we rounded up this week!

Weekend Reading:

• Love the photo above by legendary African American photographer Gordon Parks

• The Bunka Method: Japan’s Bunka Fashion College and it’s approach to producing avant-garde designers, from Business of Fashion.

• “When Do You “Know” Your Personal Style? Is it a quiet evolution of taste, or is there a grand aha moment”

• Say you want a revolution? Get into crafts.

• These pictures have a Lorax vibe, no? “The Shapes And Colors of America’s Textile Mills.”

• Love Zoë’s fabric choice for this Negroni!

• Slow Fashion Guide to Undies

• This paint-splattered clothing is actually incredible embroidery.

• Here’s why high end dress shirts are worth $465: Traditional English shirtmaking techniques

• The Unsung Heroes of Fashion – from Man Repeller

• Listen Up! Podcasts about Fashion Tech + Wearables

• Mary Oliver on what attention really means + her elegy for her soul mate

• Seoul-based illustrator Yeon Ji Kang’s beautifully thick-limbed ballerinas

• Some online fashion retailers are creating clothing for people who want garments that last

• “The flapper dresses of the 1920s coexisted in couture and ready-to-wear” from @metmuseum

• The 10 Biggest Fashion Feuds in History

• 1960s Fashion: Meet 25 Women who shaped the swinging decade

• Exquisite Appliqué Embroideries Celebrate the Strength and Sexuality of Women

• Elaborate Baroque-Era Wigs Constructed Entirely Out of Paper!

• A Wren Dress + a Bonus Sleeve

• Some more embroidery inspiration from artist Hagar Vardimon

For more links every week, you can follow us on Twitter, where we’re always posting interesting tidbits and discussions.