Monthly Archives: October 2008

We just got back from a super fun girlie girl shopping trip where we were happy to find some amazing little gems that are incredibly pocket book friendly. Please swing by and check them out.

Friday the 23rd
6-9 pm
3187 16th street

We love fancy things, frilly dresses, pencil skirts and high heels…but we also like to wear frilly things with really nice denim…so for fall we have added some amazing denim lines-

Kova and T

Kova and T’s Philosophy

Style is usually intangible often inimitable. Picture the most stylish girl you know. You don’t admire her for her blatantly designer items or for her head-to-toe perfection, but rather for something you can’t quite place your finger on. She might have dirty hair but carry a Chanel purse, or rock a couture dress with beat-up Nikes. Every piece she wears is a part of her sensibility, and no item calls so much attention to itself as to take away from the whole picture. That symphony of contrasts is a marker of true style.
 
With this notion in mind, Kova & T was established as a rebuttal to the over-stylized jean brands prevalent in today’s market. Foregoing the bells and whistles of excessive stitching, whiskering, and fading, these jeans serve as staple items, complementing any wardrobe and style of dress. There is no visible branding, only the faintest subtle embroidery on the side seams that blend naturally.  The jeans are offered in the highest quality Japanese denim and retain their shape even after multiple washes. Kova & T is meant to do two things that other jean lines have long forgotten in their pursuit of grommets and appliqués: high-quality and flattering fit. Nothing detracts from a women’s look more than ill-fitting clothing, so the pair set out to design denim (and clothing) that they themselves would wear. Says co-founder Dasha Zhukova, “I never had any intention to be involved in fashion. Then I couldn’t find a pair of jeans the way I wanted it, and then I couldn’t find a plain white tee exactly the way I wanted it, and so on.”

Work custom denim

Women still reminisce about Rebecca Danenberg’s epynomous label from the ’90s, which ended in bankruptcy in 2000. She went on to Seven for all Mankind, and then we lost sight of her. Then she showed up at the Design Suites of Los Angeles Fashion Week in 2005, launching a label Three Girls Running. We lost her again. WWD reports that “another company owned the rights to the Three Girls name. That, combined with operational difficulties, forced the project to fold after two seasons.”

But Danenberg is back again with a premium denim label Work Custom Shop, backed by a silent partner. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because it has LA roots:

“The line’s inspiration came from an existing store in Los Angeles’ Echo Park founded by two artists and musicians who offered custom jeans. The store’s name, naturally, was Work Custom Shop. Danenberg and her backers purchased the store and decided to create a brand around the concept. Although she is focusing on establishing the bottoms business, Danenberg will look to extend the custom concept to new product categories.”

The designer describes the collection as “very slick, clean, modern and edgy”—an early philosophy at Seven which she feels the brand “went off in another direction”—and “uses Japanese and Italian denim” in styles, such as “skinny, straight and flared-leg styles, as well as fashion pieces like a sailor pant and a twisted leg seam.”

Pretty lovely little pillows for your pad. Spruce up your room with out dropping a bundle. It will make you smile!!

And apparently living in the trees, not so bad. There are so many inspiring tree houses that we think we may do BellJar 2, the BirdHouse. Here is inspiration for our quite, peaceful and hopefully extra happy life in the trees. It’s totally for the birds.

While searching through blogs I stumbled across this amazing work. Its so BellJar. We so feel like Wendy is our long lost BFF. It’s mysterious, dark, sexy and girlie all the things we covet at BellJar.

Here is a link to her site.

Also check out this blog I found Wendy’s work on. She has some interesting posts.

The lovely and amazing Grace Sun from NY- Below are pics of a few of the new styles…Sasha Darling had to buy the Emerald Dress for herself!!!!

We love pretty things, but we also love spooky things here at BellJar so of course we gotta get started early celebrating Halloween.