2010- design pieces for the Winter and Spring

Getting back into the swing of things since returning from being on tour since September. Here are some design pieces that Quechua Couture is working on.

Here is the inspiration for Spring of 2010.

The beginning of the neck piece is being made from leather sample pieces.

Found at Materials for the Arts, these sheets of rock were originally design samples for restrooms. I prefer to make them into boots for next Winter.

More soon from San Fransisco, Berlin, Poland, Czech Republic, France, D.C., Baltimore and the Merce Cunningham memorial and my hibernation period.

It's so nice to be in the city for a month and a half.

Plus plus plus

The next few weeks, moved into another place and gettin ready for Europe. Had a pop-up shop in my basement to get rid of some stuff. Super successful...

It's a big basement. Afterwards we all went to Chelsea for an opening...this was a cape i made for the evening:

There was someone in the building next to us working on a pattern...

Back to Williamsburg to my favorite restaurant PT.

Creme Brulee birthday!

Off to Bembe afterwards....

Miss Favela in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the colors got me excited for the summer......

Aftewards we went to BEAST for our new employee, Ethan's new DJ night. BEAST is one of my favorite places to go in the city.

Here's Michael wearing his new Damir Doma scarf. It's so easy to wear. 

All the guys at the bar were so well dressed. These guys below were just a few....

good shoes.....

Early Morning dinner at Yaffa....

At the edge of Greenpoint....

Bleached out faces of childern.....super spooky...

The sky looked crazy that morning heading home...

At the New Museum opening for the Younger than Jesus show. Really good, you should go...

Outside Project #8 my favorite store in Chinatown. I'm really feeling Chinatown lately. I've been going there a lot.

Donna's awesome shaped coat.

An experiment in posts is coming up soon.

I'm making a pair of pants tonight. They will be awesome.

My favorite new designer

Damir Doma, our new obsession at Houndstooth:

Just purchased a scarf similar to this one at Woodley and Bunny across the street from us today that can be worn in so many ways. THe shape is similar to a live organism and the fabric is soft and exquisite. Michael bought a pair of boots of his. Will take some photos of them in a few days. They are seriously some of the best boots that Michael has ever gotten. Hotness....

We've been trying to think about a new set up for our store. We've been going back and forth with some ideas, video installations instead of clothes, now we see this from Tokyo based designer Tomoaki Okaniwa who presented his lastest collection for his label The Viridi-Anne titled "The Chrysalis", in Paris during fashion week last week: 

Our store is a bit too bright for this idea, but I do love the ethereal feel it gives the clothes and the attention that it will give to each piece. That has been my biggest problem with my store as of late. I feel like so many pieces get ignored that are so beautiful because there is so much to look at and I feel that racks are so 20th century. There must be another way to show the pieces without being to cute or to arty for the consumer. Some guys get scared if that space is to bare. I don't want to alienate anyone. I can't seem to find a happy medium but at least I feel like I'm on my way.

On another note, I'm going to the Margiela store this week to inquire about renting this piece:

I just realized I don't have a single full body photo of myself, but this was the best one I could find. I hope to wear for the final performance in Vienna. It's stunning...