Posts Tagged ‘style’
Trunkin it in Oregon with Amy Purdy
This past week we’ve been trecking around Oregon, visiting some of our fave shops and local ladies with Element Eden Advocate and inspirational speaker – Amy Purdy!
Amy inspired all by telling her life changing story and where her path has led her to today, from ranking top in World Adaptive snowboarding, to collabing with us on the Live Learn Grow (LLG) Collection.
Both trunk shows at Vanilla Urban Threads in Bend and Urban Laundry in Corvallis were a blast for us and our new friends. We were stoked to be out of the office, hanging, crafting, and styling the upcoming Spring 2013 line with the local girls. Here’s some shots of the crew in action.
Amy Purdy getting crafty with us! – super cute DIY gift soap with recycled packaging.
Oregon girls strut their stuff in a styling competition – sporting the Summer 2013 line for prizes!
And our favorite Holloway beanie from the LLG Collection, filled with goodies for all!!!!
View the entire LLG Collection HERE
More on Amy Purdy and her inspiring story HERE
DIY: Shoulder Cut-Out Sweatshirt by Guest Blogger Johnie of Dirtbag Darling!
There’s nothing better than the wind on your skin (we always sleep with the windows open and drive with the car windows cracked), which is why we love early fall camp-outs when we can still show a little skin. Snip out the shoulders of this Element sweatshirt and you’ll feel the breeze but still fend off the chill.
Materials:
-Sweatshirt
-Scissors
-Pen
Step 1
This has to the be the easiest DIY ever! Make a mark on your sweatshirt sleeve where the edge of your shoulder is (feel for the end of your collarbone), and another mark about halfway down your upper arm.
Step 2
Cut a straight line from the first dot to the second. Cut a half-oval on either side of your line and you’re done! Save the scraps for future projects.
Try your hand at it with the Joss fleece: AVAILABLE HERE
DIY: Neon Polka Dot Denim by Calypso Letters Guest Bloggers
We love denim. It’s our go-to fabric for just about everything because it’s comfortable, iconic and can handle a little dirt. It’s pretty historic, too—did you know Levi Strauss got his start designing sturdy pants for the gold rush miners back in the 1870s? Yep…denim pants have been coming in handy for years.
Still, every original needs an update now and again, which is why we got messy with a pair of Element Eden skinny jeans and some neon paint. Here’s how to create our fading polka dot pants:
Materials
-White and neon green fabric pant
-Pencil with an eraser
-Painter’s palette
-Pair of jeans
-Newspaper
Step 1
Mix two parts green paint with one part white paint in your palette. Dip the eraser end of your pencil into the paint, dabbing excess paint off on newspaper. Start stamping the hem of your jeans in an even, tightly spaced line.
Step 2
Add about five more lines of tightly spaced polka dots, heading up towards the waist. Gradually start spacing out your dots so they are fewer and farther apart. By the time you get to the waist there should only be about two dots!
That’s it! If you don’t like the messy look of ours (what can we say—we’re creative types), just follow the same uniform dot pattern you started with.
Try it with Element’s skinny stretch Ballet denim- AVAILABLE HERE
Featured on Dirtbag Darling
Features Element Eden as a top choice lifestyle women’s brand!
August 2012
Featured on Teen Vogue’s Reader of the Day!
Teen Vogue’s Reader of the Week, Ardena Gonzalez, styles herself out in Element Eden!!
May 2012
OC Fashion Showcase with LEAF
We joined Leaders of Environmental Action Films (LEAF) at the OC Fashion show case this year to help spread the word on the importance of sustainable and eco friendlier fashion!
LEAF’s mission is to empower youth to be environmental leaders through film, music, eco fashion, and technology through an ongoing series of eco-commercial contests run with high school students! Check it out at www.leaf-rocks.com
April 2012
We did this little thing called Coachella…
For nearly a decade, Coachella Music Fest has been attracting folks for three days of multiple stage banging bands in the middle of Indo’s desert land! Now calling in around 80,000 folks to make the trek (for a pretty penny), you can bet we had to hit the road and find out what all the buzz was about… ok, ok, we admit, it wasn’t too hard what-so-ever to convince us… honestly we begged to go!
We had the wonderful honor of guest-editing and intagramming for our dear friends at Foam Magazine along the journey and above are just a few of our favorite shots throughout the lace & boot clad dusty three days!
Read our FULL recap on the weekend at Foam Magazine’s site HERE!
Thieving…
Foam Magazine gives us the urg to tie a handkerchief over our mouths, throw on some hikers, top it off with a felted wide-brim and play out our inner bandit with their Gypsies and Thieves editorial piece from the Dec/Jan issue…
Try it out with the Chesapeake coat and Tamblin hat featured in this month’s issue of Foam!
Primrose party pack…
Teen Vogue brings anoraks to the party this holiday season!
Layer a fur hooded, full length puffy with your sequin frock this season and grab your silver platforms (or military lace ups if you’re feeling funky… Time to turn on the twinkle lights, sprinkle some nutmeg on the egg nog and dance the night away!
Try it with the Primrose coat featured in Teen Vogue’s December/January 2012!