L's Consignment

BY MAGAZINE COLUMNIST EMMANUELLE LAMBERT

I love reading. One could say I am an avid reader. As we say in French, I eat books.

I know: what’s it got to do with music? Well, bear with me. I have just “eaten” what I truly believe is the ultimate book on time management, or rather the book that kills tears the concept of time management into pieces: Time Warrior, by Steve Chandler (yes, highly recommended).

In one short chapter, Steve Chandler writes one of the most profound things I have ever read about music, and I am not being ironic here. I’ll let you judge for yourselves:

“I like to sing between coaching sessions or writing stints to harmonize myself with the vibratory nature of the universe and to return myself to joyful sanity. Laughing, Singing and Dancing are always three reliable paths home to our true nature. …” READ THE ENTIRE POST at themagazineofyoga.com/blog

Learn about Yoga Teacher, Writer, Artist Emmanuelle Lambert at her blog plansonacomet.com

On November 20, 2011, from 1-5pm, L’s On Augusta is excited to be participating in Holiday Open House as organized by the Augusta Road Business Association. As ARBA describes it, “Holiday Open House is Sunday before Thanksgiving and has become a tradition for shoppers all over the upstate of SC. Shoppers enjoy kicking off the Christmas season on Augusta Road. Participating businesses host special events and sales to celebrate the upcoming holidays. The City Trolley is available to take shoppers from one destination to another. Shoppers can get in the holiday spirit with a visit from Santa Read the rest of this entry »

Introducing L’s After 6!
Join us after hours on Friday November 11, 2011, when we stay open late ’til 8pm.
Enjoy the Autumn air and stop by for refreshments, a little wine & cheese, some shopping therapy, and catch up on what’s coming this season. Everyone has really enjoyed our past events so we’ve decided to make it a monthly thing. Lots of storewide specials like great Fall clothing markdowns, 20-50% off. It’s time for jackets, knits, jeans and boots! We’ve got your style, good company and fun!

On another note, remember that October is breast cancer awareness month, donations received here at L’s during the month of October will be given to benefit the SC Mountains to Midlands Affiliate of Susan G. Komen breast cancer research. We’d love for you to make a small donation and honor a friend or a loved one who has fought this battle.

I’ve seen Katharine Whalen’s hats (in photos) and they bring back memories of my over ten years of dealing vintage clothing. Whalen wrote via Twitter, “I hope to get them up online soon. I sell them at shows & at a few stores & they go almost as quick as I can make them.” Follow her at @katharinewhalen.

Katharine Whalen (yes, she of the Squirrel Nut Zippers) is a chronic passionate creator, and the common thread winding its way through her creations – be it music, building dollhouses, Tambourine (her headwear line that turns vintage textiles into wearable art,) or her column on picnics in her North Carolina hometown paper – is a general contagious exuberance. With “Madly Love”, she offers up a raucous (yet, at times bittersweet) collage of news-clipping from the pages of her life; swinging and swaying, our heroic belter throws open the barn doors, and we can’t help but join the party! READ MORE at Horizon Records’ blog Katharine Whalen’s new CD Madly Love is out NOW and available at Horizon Records here in Greenville! Here’s a video, hope you can make it to the show, the performance is offered free of charge:

Greenville is getting Anthropologie! Above, rendering of planned plaza. 4240 Architecture, with locations in Chicago and Denver, is the design firm.

“Rooted in research, this mixed-use urban infill project finds inspiration and innovation in the rich textile history and high tech textile future of this southern city. A dense mixed use program weaves 40,000-50,000 sf of ground level retail with 135,000 sf office space.” READ MORE and download drawings of the planned development in PDF format at 4240 Architecture, a design firm with locations in Chicago and Denver.

What will Greenville’s Anthropologie storefront look like?

Anthropologie: Purposeful storytelling,
by Samar Birwadker, Senior Insights Manager, San Francisco
“We know all too well the sensorial saturation that comes from spending an afternoon in the shopping district of a big city such as San Francisco. It happened to me this past weekend — toward the end of my sojourn through SF’s Union Square, it had to be something special to stop me in my tracks. Enter Anthropologie.

I had admired Anthropologie’s imaginative displays previously but this one was indeed special. Take a look at a couple of pictures of the display …”READ MORE at Thoughts on brands and branding from people at Landor

From hautemacabre.com, a little walk on the wild side. Stella Tennant channels Ethel Granger (Guiness Book world record holder for the smallest waist) for this shoot by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia.

From Eric Wilson,The New York Times
Fashion magazines are suddenly getting into the retailing business.

While the glossies have long had a reputation for accommodating the designers they cover, sometimes guaranteeing coverage to those who advertise in their pages, a wave of new ventures and partnerships suggests they are willing to go even further by selling the designers’ clothes.

It is a move that is raising some eyebrows in the industry, as magazines like Vogue, GQ and Esquire, struggling to survive in an online world, could potentially become competitors to stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Barneys New York.

“There are no boundaries anymore,” said Howard Socol, the former chief executive of Barneys and now a consultant. Traditional brick-and-mortar stores that once looked at magazines as a way to sell to affluent customers could now look at them as threats. READ Fashion magazines are suddenly getting into the retailing business