Photography CARLA GRAS CAROLINE MULOCK Illustration SALINA LADHA Art Direction LARA KALUZA Clothing CITIZEN VINTAGE Models JOLEN MCLEAN SAHARA BALDWIN
Meet our SPRING Artist... Salina Ladha!
How would you define yourself as an artist? How would you define your work?
I am an interdisciplinary artist whose work is soft, surreal, minimal and sometimes functional.
What inspires you to create ?
It’s always changing, and it’s never just one thing. I am inspired by things I see in everyday life, and how I’m feeling plays a big part in when and what I make.
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INTRODUCING HIGH NOON HANDMADE CERAMIC PIPES BY DESIGNER & MAKER LEAH click to learn more :-)
CITIZEN VINTAGE HANDMADE
....a look into what makes our handmade line so special
Our Handmade line started as‌ ...a project to deal with scrap fabric. Each Spring we cut dozens of jeans into shorts and are left with boxes of jean legs. We hate throwing things away so we wanted to find a project for them. We worked with our studio-mate, Dylan Gallagher a tailor by trade, to create a backpack design, which got a great response. We also come across a lot of vintage fabric while thrifting for the shop and when we find pieces we like it’s hard to leave them behind, so by 2014 we had accumulated quite the collection and needed to develop another project to put it all to use. Working with Dylan was going well so we developed a skirt and tank top pattern with him that was launched in Summer 2014 and things have grown from there.
Each piece is handmade in an atelier only mere 2 kilometres away from our shops & studio‌ We started producing in our own studio in 2014, however, as our collections grew it was more than Dylan could handle alone. In 2017 we stared working with Amelie Bryson who is a pattern maker and seamstress. She now produced 90% of our collection at her studio on Parc Avenue.
Meet our 2nd Spring Artist... Simon !
Cuteness is powerful, and is such an underestimated form of power/beauty.
How would you define yourself as an artist? How would you define your work?
To be very honest, I would define my art and myself with the exact same words (not even being lazy), because my art is just another way to represent and express who I am and the way I think. So, I’d say very cute, bubbly, sometime dark, sexy, sarcastic and funny (at least I think I am)…
What inspires you to create ?
It is usually just a mix of what I’ve been seeing and appreciating with moments and emotions I been through It’s also very inspiring to travel , see new stuff and create new memories - these things are essential to inspiration and the creation of something fresh and new.
I’m usually more inspired when my life is unstable but I need the stability to be productive; so for my creativity, my rollercoaster life has been very helpful.
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