Trunkshow - Thanks for coming!
Thank you all for coming out on Saturday night! Our trunkshow was way too much fun (especially for the night before a holiday...) We tried to be respectable adults, but you know that goes. By the end of the night a few select guests got plugged into the 1950's Massage-A-Belt. Good times were had by all.
Concealed Weapons preview: Double printed ties - a subtle clue on the front to a print not so subtle on the back. L to R:
Let Them Eat Cake: Marie Antoinette's coat of arms + (rev. Guillotine);
40 Whacks: Lizzie Borden + (rev. Axe);
Walking Timebomb: Pocketwatch + (rev. dynamite and battery).
See some photos from the night.
Paying homage to the audibly dapper imprint:
Check out this month's issue of
BPM Magazine, issue 81 - (the one with Iggy Pop on the cover in hot pink pants) - can't be missed! Our
Ghostly International ties are features as well as our
Whiplash: Exhaust System ties pictured (available online and at
All Purpose in Los Angeles.)
Again, thank you everyone for making our first official trunkshow a smashing success - special thanks to Stevo for playing excellent music and Mike for the musics and last minute
oh shit people will be here in 15 minutes whirlwind preparations.
Labels: tie lab, Whiplash
Trunkshow
We're having a
trunkshow (with real vintage trunks too!)
See a
flickr gallery of all the
Whiplash pieces in process - also be the first to see our new
Concealed Weapons preview pieces for Summer/Fall 2007.
Whiplash will only be available at the trunk show,
Spy (Detroit),
All Purpose (LA) and at
Cyberoptix.com.
We'll have slipmats, t-shirts and scarves for the non-tie-wearing set - we'll also have a full range of skinny ties, they look quite nifty on the ladies as well. One-of-a-kind super special awesome treats too.
Gallery Music by
DethLab and friends.
Labels: cyberoptix, Dethlab, Detroit, party, tie lab, trunkshow
If you are on the Left Coast, head on over to
All Purpose in Los Angeles, just this past week they received the first batch of
Whiplash scarves/ascots from the TieLab!
For those of you in our local, less-green and sunny pastures, just this morning we dropped off a batch of
Victorian Skinny,
Poppy,
Raven, and
Fern ties to
Naka, a fabulous indie boutique in Fabulous Ferndale. Speaking of Naka, they're having a trunk show this Thursday night from 6-9, more details when I find the card saying who the featured artists are. I'm totally in love with this little shop, I just splurged and bought myself the best little
skull ring in the whole world from
Smallthings Designs in Portland. The picture dooesn't do it justice, it is all hand cut silver and black stained glass, with a level of detail that frightens me. If anyone wants to get me the accompanying
necklace, please go right ahead!
Labels: All Purpose, ascot, Ferndale, Naka, tie, tie lab, Whiplash
shown L to R: silver, sky, blue aster, electric blue, sageTentacular love now in colors of the sea.
Labels: blue, cyberoptix, Spring 2007, squid, tie, tie lab
Since there is absolutely nothing of use going on in this city anymore, the last few days have been nothing but work and restructuring of the home and studio. Trips to Target and Ikea have been frequent. Pardon me while I don my woollen fleece and start making domesticated sheep noises.
Anyway. I've begun to reshoot much of my catalog with the new 30d, because I'm realizing my old photos are pretty terrible.
New
Poppy Tie colorways.
I hope to get a very substantial web update fishinshed this week highlighing my recent partnership with
Filius at
All Purpose in Los Angeles. The TieLab will feature 100% silk ascots and 100% silk skinny ties is black, white, olive and charcoal grey. This collection is called -
Whiplash and will debut soon for Spring/Summer 2007. (click Whiplash link to see
tons more from the shoot - Jennifer is one hell of an incredible photographer!)
Photography: Jennifer Becker
Model: EduardoThe silk ties will be available mid-March and the acsots a bit sooner, all with images of fragmented and repeated vintage automotive schematics and diagrams.
I've had to keep this under wraps for a little while and it's been very difficult, I haven't ever been so excited for new colors and designs, not to mention putting something fully into production and silk manufactured to the Pantone color choice of my bidding. (drool.) I'm still printing everything by hand and hand-dying the ascots...that's the fun part.
I'm also finally working on a proper line sheet, so if anyone has a boutique in their area you think should carry some TieLab, holla.
Again, it'll probably be all shop talk around here for a good long while til we hit Paris in May, then I may have something to talk about that doesn't bore the pants off everyone.
Labels: All Purpose, ascot, Filius, Los Angeles, Poppy, tie, tie lab, Whiplash
