Letter from Deborah

I write this having just put the finishing touches on our Spring 2010 line. My studio is a mess, strewn with things I've gathered together over the past six months: Old postcards tacked to my walls with messages not scribbled, but written in penmanship so elegant I use it in my patterns. A collection of antique flower and bird prints whose colors almost seem to glow with intensity. Collected shells picked up during a shore vacation, a scrap of fabric from a Sunday flea market—objects filled with a sense of history, belonging, and possibility.

And then there’s my window. It looks out into the garden, and since March I’ve watched as the flowers emerged from the soil and blossomed, magical in their form, fragrance, and color —an endless source of wonder.

I’m not much for philosophizing —I think of myself as a worker bee— but I'm struck with the beauty of the stuff I trip over every day. I keep reminding myself to stop, see, touch, breathe... It’s an inspiring world.

Warm wishes,

Deborah Michel
Creative Director / Owner