Sewing ~ The Inside Source

Shopping With... Liesl Gibson of Oliver + S
- By Felicity Loughrey
- May 19, 2010
In an earlier life, pattern-maker Liesl Gibson covered real estate investment trusts on Wall Street for Salomon Smith Barney. To relieve stress, she would make dresses for her young niece. Seven years later, when her own daughter was born, Gibson found that the patterns available were the same as before, so she began designing her own sewing templates, under the now popular label Oliver + S. Read More
Tags: fashion, craft, childrens clothing, sewing , pinafore, liesl gibson, diy
A.P.C.’s Jean Touitou and Jessica Ogden on Quilts, Needle Books, and Reviving the Archives
- By The Inside Source, Jane Sung
- March 8, 2011
"When you've invested part of your life creating these fabrics, they have a soul and there are stories to tell," says Jean Touitou, founder of A.P.C., who launched a quilt collection using fabric left behind in clothing production. Read More
Tags: APC, fashion, french, Jessica Ogden, Jean Touitou, quilts, sewing , green, eco-friendly, denim, india

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