sustainable fashion & decor
Sustainable fashion & lifestyle expert Becky Witte-Marsh
"People will stare. Make it worth their while." – Harry Winston Happy Spring! It's always interesting this time of year—looking backward, looking forward. How do I evolve? Grow? Learn? Share? What are my next steps? Almost two years ago, I had the honor and privilege of meeting Kat Day Gomez—our illustrious CEO, editor in chief and artist extraordinaire! We bonded almost instantaneously, sharing story ideas and artistic inspirations. That creative connection and love of all things sustainable has continued to grow and evolve. One of our hopes is that you all (or y'all as we say in Texas), continue this evolution with us by embracing sustainable options in your everyday life and expanding your thinking about interacting with sustainable goods through reworking, imagining and playing! A few issues back, we brought you our sustainable take on "Surrealism" - “a style in art and literature in which ideas, images and objects are combined in a strange way, like in a dream.” [Collins Dictionary] Future story telling will include this inspiration of dreams, called "The Land of Nod". But today, we present "Send in the Clowns" as our inspiration. I'll let Kat tell you about that! “It was super important to me that I go back to my roots on this one,” Kat explains. “The Imaginarium Wonder Emporium is my umbrella brand for all of my design work and much of my curated, reworked vintage as well as the accessories and props I create. The Imaginarium has always been in theory, a traveling circus, of sorts. So I appropriately named my first line of hand sewn clown ruffs and tutus my Cirque Couture collection. For this endeavor, I was fortunate to have the guidance of seamstress Laura Arellano who constructed the first iterations of these pieces, while providing valuable insights and tutoring for me to be able to construct the rest of the collection, indefinitely. What’s exceptional about this collection is that I use dead stock and remnant materials, including antique findings and ribbons
From The Imaginarium Wonder Emporium archives.
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