What's With the Fall Break?

Hi Lovelies, Due to a veritable smorgasburg of personal matters and because I do all our cutting right now, starting September 15th there is a three month pause on our custom cut & sewn product...

Digging Through the Crates, Summer Studio Notes

I am in the midst of archiving of all our prints. I literally pulled out a print yesterday that I forgot I made.

Art Direction, behind the scenes

Behind the scenes from our Charlot House shoot in Honolulu. We made a whole deck. We described it at length. And then somehow, it actually looked exactly like what we imagined. Straight magic.

All the Wrong Reasons

New plans for this year. We are bad at quitting. Is it stupidity or genius, you decide.

Alewa: History in a Print and a Pleat

the strangely anachronistic watteau pleat persists on the modern holokū form. Its stubborn resilience intrigued me. I knew it must have some strong semiotic meaning to survive unaltered for 200 yea...

Sunrise

SUNRISE 2024 NOTESDeveloped for digital pigment. In two colorways: Sunrise and Moonrise. Printed in Italy on cotton lawn and cotton voile. Printed in Bali on tencel. Printed in India on wool gauze...

Disco

DISCO 2025 NOTESDeveloped for digital pigment. Printed in Italy on cotton lawn, cotton voile, and tencel. Monumental scale. Photo based print. Source photo: Jennifer M. Ramos, licensed via Getty I...

Mango

MANGO 2025 NOTESDeveloped for digital pigment. Printed in Italy on cotton lawn and cotton voile. Monumental scale. Photo Credits:Josiah Patterson, Doug Lloyd

Rainbows: the Original Hawaiian Supergraphic

I have a tendency to overthink things. I decided I needed to make a simple print. I was hoping for a “banger” print. So I decided to work with rainbows.

Pareo, A Print Odyssey: PS

Please see Pareo Part I and Part II for context. At long last I have found an original fragment of one of the pareu prints that I couldn’t find in any collection - only in photographs being worn...

Pareo, A Print Odyssey: Part II

This is taken from the essay “Pareo Print Narrative” — part of the RISD Museum’s collection along with samples of this print. Please read Part I first. A Slight Detour During my research I stumbl...

Pareo, A Print Odyssey: Part I

This is taken from the essay “Pareo Print Narrative” — part of the RISD Museum’s collection along with samples of this print.I am indebted to Dale Hope who brought a wealth of knowledge in his gene...