for your viewing pleasure

matt has built us a beautiful web site....
you're the man, mr.! (we've posted the
address to the right)

thanks for checking out our blog, for
all the generous feedback, and for stopping
into the studio with gifts and loads of love and
encouragement.

A few words about Mr.

Mr. Larkin by Casey Larkin is a socially responsible and environmentally focused collection inspired by the magic, mechanics and architecture of the vintage circus. The entire collection uses organic, sustainable or renewable textiles and practices, everything from organic cotton voiles and jersey; peace silk crepes dyed with blackberries, olives, fig leaves, acorn and sour grass; bamboo muslin dyed with madder plants; and tulle made from 100% Ingeo. All dyes are made from plants and vegetables in collaboration with natural artisan dyer, Sasha Duerr. The trims and hardware on the designs are from recycled vintage findings from all decades such as metal paillettes from the 1930s, rhinestones from the 1940’s, sterling silver ribbons from the 1920s and porcelain buttons from Paris (pre WW2). One percent of Mr. Larkin's profits are donated to "Seeds to Sew", a project of the Permacouture Institute, which builds alliances with seed saving programs to tag alternative fiber and dye producing plants, increasing biodiversity for both culture and nature.

Boast

not meaning to be gauche with talk of selves...
but it's just so exciting!!! our work is going to
fashion week nyc and will be on the runway on
the 16 with the lovely Mr. Larkin line.

so, we are bustling about the hot little studio
and not eating enough ice or anything else for
that matter. the matts are angels we couldn't do
without for all the love and support. and sam
keeps asking for a walk...so off i go.
feet on the ground.

thanks to all for the overwhelming love, support and
faith in us and our work. we are walking
in sparkly light.

... from the age of wonder

marjorie and jane discuss aesthetics and love....

a few words about our new line.....

our newest pieces really evolved very organically...we take turns working on each piece. we cull our
materials from family and friends, we cycle beautiful pieces into new relationships with different eras,
colors, textures, and stories
when we are unsure how to finish or elaborate further, sometimes we
read out loud to each other as we work.... pablo neruda, smog lyrics, oscar wilde, m.f.k. fisher, or excerpts from the scrabble dictionary... eclectic and structural, vibrant and irreverent, passionate and poised....
it's amazing how the power of words accentuates the experience of creating. we see each piece as a story
in essence...as if all of the vintage lace ( my great-grandmother's ) and chains, cameos, beads,
ribbon, leather scraps, broaches; of a more recent, previous ownership; become at once new and
honored for their own past.
it is our endeavor to design not only aesthetically, but also conceptually.
i see our newest pieces as a visual relationship...like that "perfect dinner party" to which you could invite dostoyevski and emily post, tom waits, and mozart, johnny rotten and bridget bardot....
and there you have it.....