Designer Stories | Nanna from How To Do Fashion

[SPONSORED] This is a very special edition of the Designer Stories Series, as I had the pleasure of interviewing Nanna Martinussen from How To Do Fashion, a Danish Indie sewing pattern company, in person. She is based in Copenhagen and we got to chat in the patio of her lovely studio in the Vanlose district (more on that later). It was so fun to be able to have a conversation face to face and I loved to hear Nanna’s views on vintage, sustainability and developing the anti-Scandi Minimalist response to fashion. I had such a lovely time that we already…

Designer Stories | Kim Collins from Ann Normandy Design

[SPONSORED] Readers, hold on to your patterns, a new series is coming up on the blog! I don’t know about you, but I am always super curious to know who is behind a brand, above and beyond the marketing and social media posts! I want to learn more about the person who founded a pattern company I love and how they came to be. So I concocted a series of interviews with indie sewing pattern designers, that will dive deeper into their personalities, what drives them and of course, what do they think about sustainability in the sewing community. I…

GEOMETRIC PRINT SHIFT DRESS | BURDA 04-2016 #115

Well, you can’t say I didn’t give this whole print thing an honest go! I used to think that it’s because I just hadn’t found the right print but when I did, I’ll fall in love. So what better way to find that perfect print than a print on demand service, right? You might already be familiar with Spoonflower, as many people in the sewing community use them. I never tried them, but recently I was contacted by a company called Cotton Bee to give their print on demand service a go. This little number was the result of this…