12.29.2012
12.20.2012
Paris, ma ville musée.
SFO/ CDG flight AF 00083.
Dear Paris, how I've missed you. Naturally I missed you because when I think of my family, I kind of think of you and this year I missed my family so much. I missed you too Paris, simply for the city you are.
You and your cafés-terrasses, charming bistros and brasseries everywhere, your impressive Haussmannian balconies blooming vibrant red geraniums in December... You are amazing.
Paris.
At every corners I want to stop and read all the stories your "live" urban museums have to tell me. Your architecture is fantastic.
I can walk around again with almost no fears but the exciting one of getting lost in a city I can call home.
Beautiful even under the rain ! Inspiring, even when you're that cold ! I'm enjoying every bit of you.
Feeling happy because I'm home. At my other home, my European one.
I saw the Eiffel tower the very first day I came back. Tomorrow, I'm going to the Louvres. More coming during my stay, I hope to pay a visit to Versailles to see the castle.
-Need a suitcase full of souvenirs to bring back (home) to my Closet in San Francisco.
xoxo Aline.
Dear Paris, how I've missed you. Naturally I missed you because when I think of my family, I kind of think of you and this year I missed my family so much. I missed you too Paris, simply for the city you are.
You and your cafés-terrasses, charming bistros and brasseries everywhere, your impressive Haussmannian balconies blooming vibrant red geraniums in December... You are amazing.
Paris.
At every corners I want to stop and read all the stories your "live" urban museums have to tell me. Your architecture is fantastic.
I can walk around again with almost no fears but the exciting one of getting lost in a city I can call home.
Beautiful even under the rain ! Inspiring, even when you're that cold ! I'm enjoying every bit of you.
Feeling happy because I'm home. At my other home, my European one.
I saw the Eiffel tower the very first day I came back. Tomorrow, I'm going to the Louvres. More coming during my stay, I hope to pay a visit to Versailles to see the castle.
-Need a suitcase full of souvenirs to bring back (home) to my Closet in San Francisco.
xoxo Aline.
12.11.2012
12.03.2012
12.01.2012
11.27.2012
Do exactly what you feel inside.
Left Paris in August 2007 in hunt of new "thrills"...direction...Montreal !
2 courageous winters after, I decided to trade the cold nights of Montreal for some sunny days. The reality was that I was obsessed by my ideal of cocooning in paradise, it was hunting me more than ever and I was desperate to feel it- again.
My heart was telling me to go. Afraid to disappoint myself if I stayed, I packed my bag.
"Resource. Let the dream be. Wake up in Sao Paulo, enjoy the excitement of the life to live! "
I can't regret those 3 months backpacking along the Brazilian coast. They are true symbol of exploration: the foundation of any dream.
Whatever my heart would say I did. This time it was calling, San Francisco.
Love, brought me here. Windy sunshine or rainy fog, this city can't decide. I, personally did not hesitate...and I Iike to think I'm finding here a mix of all the cities I came from...
I choose to believe in my dreams and all the promises of achieving and sharing my own happiness, empowered by Love.
All You want to do is still ahead, waiting for you to love and live this "it will be alright", in the moment.
I followed my dream. It took me to San Francisco.
I listened to my heart. It told me to give it a try and see what the city had to offer.
This is real : We all have A dream and no one can teach you how to dream. Your dream is yours. Just Do exactly what you "fill" inside. When you can.
If becoming a fashion designer and having my own store is my dream I can only keep it real, more real and fulfilling everyday, by doing the best I can to share it with others.
Aline.
2 courageous winters after, I decided to trade the cold nights of Montreal for some sunny days. The reality was that I was obsessed by my ideal of cocooning in paradise, it was hunting me more than ever and I was desperate to feel it- again.
My heart was telling me to go. Afraid to disappoint myself if I stayed, I packed my bag.
"Resource. Let the dream be. Wake up in Sao Paulo, enjoy the excitement of the life to live! "
I can't regret those 3 months backpacking along the Brazilian coast. They are true symbol of exploration: the foundation of any dream.
Whatever my heart would say I did. This time it was calling, San Francisco.
Love, brought me here. Windy sunshine or rainy fog, this city can't decide. I, personally did not hesitate...and I Iike to think I'm finding here a mix of all the cities I came from...
I choose to believe in my dreams and all the promises of achieving and sharing my own happiness, empowered by Love.
All You want to do is still ahead, waiting for you to love and live this "it will be alright", in the moment.
I followed my dream. It took me to San Francisco.
I listened to my heart. It told me to give it a try and see what the city had to offer.
This is real : We all have A dream and no one can teach you how to dream. Your dream is yours. Just Do exactly what you "fill" inside. When you can.
If becoming a fashion designer and having my own store is my dream I can only keep it real, more real and fulfilling everyday, by doing the best I can to share it with others.
Aline.
11.24.2012
11.22.2012
11.17.2012
11.09.2012
Made in Black.
Make It in black. Ohh please, can you? - I can do Black ! I want everything black in my Closet ! I'm curious to see how every pieces will turn in black !
I'm known to be so much into bright colors, not even talking about prints ! Then, what's happening to me? :)
Well, I always considered black as a color...and inside me I always had a voice telling me "Sure it goes with everything. Ok try it. Come-on do it : it's easy, chic and it fits everyone! "
Viviane, my seamstress is really surprised I changed my palette ! Well she blamed it on the holiday...I kind of think I'm not just into a " holiday phase"..I'm truly falling in love with the color black. I know I've always had an unconditional special crush for black lace in my life and I know this "making every design in black" situation will last for a litlle while... My sister told me I'm growing up and I just want different things ! Maybe.
-I don't really need no reason. I'm just so happy November is here, and the holiday season's just started. I'm getting ready to reveal my holiday collection. A capsule collection of 20 dresses I've been working on with Viviane since April...Out of 20, there is 15 dresses...All. Black. Mmmm
But it feels and looks good ! ( hey, seriously, I know we will all look so gorgeous in black! )
As I'm sourcing for more fabrics, I'm discovering that black by itself allows me to still use my design signature touch: mixing and matching ! There is absolutely no rule to me as far as how one should wear different blacks together !
They're is for sure so many blacks' options ! And every single shades is an excuse to play...with colors ! but most importantly with : textures ! Fabrics communicate by themselves, and I'm serious when I say that silk and jersey cotton are talking louder in black ! They are! And velvet and leather gets into the conversation to add this "sexy, classy' , mysteriously timeless, feminine. Touch ! Maybe you'll understand better what I'm talking about when you'll actually see the collection and try the pieces on. In person !
-Hey ! Black is timeless and beautiful !! Shine and look amazing in black this holiday !! Wait ! Now imagine how fun it will be to play in black with colorful-stunning accessories ?!
I'm known to be so much into bright colors, not even talking about prints ! Then, what's happening to me? :)
Well, I always considered black as a color...and inside me I always had a voice telling me "Sure it goes with everything. Ok try it. Come-on do it : it's easy, chic and it fits everyone! "
Viviane, my seamstress is really surprised I changed my palette ! Well she blamed it on the holiday...I kind of think I'm not just into a " holiday phase"..I'm truly falling in love with the color black. I know I've always had an unconditional special crush for black lace in my life and I know this "making every design in black" situation will last for a litlle while... My sister told me I'm growing up and I just want different things ! Maybe.
-I don't really need no reason. I'm just so happy November is here, and the holiday season's just started. I'm getting ready to reveal my holiday collection. A capsule collection of 20 dresses I've been working on with Viviane since April...Out of 20, there is 15 dresses...All. Black. Mmmm
But it feels and looks good ! ( hey, seriously, I know we will all look so gorgeous in black! )
As I'm sourcing for more fabrics, I'm discovering that black by itself allows me to still use my design signature touch: mixing and matching ! There is absolutely no rule to me as far as how one should wear different blacks together !
They're is for sure so many blacks' options ! And every single shades is an excuse to play...with colors ! but most importantly with : textures ! Fabrics communicate by themselves, and I'm serious when I say that silk and jersey cotton are talking louder in black ! They are! And velvet and leather gets into the conversation to add this "sexy, classy' , mysteriously timeless, feminine. Touch ! Maybe you'll understand better what I'm talking about when you'll actually see the collection and try the pieces on. In person !
-Hey ! Black is timeless and beautiful !! Shine and look amazing in black this holiday !! Wait ! Now imagine how fun it will be to play in black with colorful-stunning accessories ?!
10.31.2012
10.29.2012
10.26.2012
Lower Haight Urban Air Market.
In the form of a illustrated Thank you note with pictures.
~ Thanks to Mr.Sun and Madame Soleil who did showed up and brought wonderful smiles my way !
~ Thanks to the whole team at Urban Air Market for their help and support. I felt like the event just added another star to the Lower Haight !
~ Thanks to the Lower Haight merchants "crew" witch I'm so proud to be part of.
~ Thanks to Dolores aka P.D bird who talked to many other birds about me on her bird page.
~ Thanks to Lea who saw my booth as something nice and featured me on her blog called Isawsomethingnice.
~ Thanks to the passerbys who gave me warm words of encouragement I will always remember.
~ Thanks to my lovely neighbor(s) who helped me load and unload my booth when it was so early and then so late they would rather "stay in & chill"...
~ Thanks to my dolls who kept me company before "the bus" came ! :)
~Thanks to everyone else I met for the first time who stopped by for curiosity and wanted to know more. I'm practicing recognizing each of you again at the shop!
~ Thanks to the great city I live in, because more than anywhere else I've lived before, San Francisco, you're inspiring me the spirit of community.
Thank you.
You all made my day that day.
Aline
~ Thanks to Mr.Sun and Madame Soleil who did showed up and brought wonderful smiles my way !
~ Thanks to the whole team at Urban Air Market for their help and support. I felt like the event just added another star to the Lower Haight !
~ Thanks to the Lower Haight merchants "crew" witch I'm so proud to be part of.
~ Thanks to Dolores aka P.D bird who talked to many other birds about me on her bird page.
~ Thanks to Lea who saw my booth as something nice and featured me on her blog called Isawsomethingnice.
~ Thanks to the passerbys who gave me warm words of encouragement I will always remember.
~ Thanks to my lovely neighbor(s) who helped me load and unload my booth when it was so early and then so late they would rather "stay in & chill"...
~ Thanks to my dolls who kept me company before "the bus" came ! :)
~Thanks to everyone else I met for the first time who stopped by for curiosity and wanted to know more. I'm practicing recognizing each of you again at the shop!
~ Thanks to the great city I live in, because more than anywhere else I've lived before, San Francisco, you're inspiring me the spirit of community.
Thank you.
You all made my day that day.
Aline
10.22.2012
10.19.2012
Aline's Closet at the Lower Haight Urban Air Market !
This Saturday October 20th from 11am to 7pm I will participate in one of the largest outdoor design show in the country ! The Urban Air Market is a curated outdoor market place where artists and designers are selected for their quality, originality, cleverness, and method of sustainability in design. I love it that it promotes a new ( I should say the old) way to shop: right from the maker's hands, so you can see the artists and designers behind each pieces.
It's going to be a great fun event, a bit like in the form of a fashion festival/ block party ! Haight Street from Webster to Pierce will be closed to auto-traffic... Instead ? Foot traffic and street lined with booths featuring 200+ independent designers selling clothing, accessories, jewelry, and home decor !
I'm sooo excited to be one them! First as a fashion and jewelry designer and most importantly as a merchant of the Lower Haight ! I'll be wearing my three hats! :)
Also to start, I'll be sketching faces + silhouettes and making jewelry live right at my booth...with more than a 1000 people expected to attend this event, keeping myself focus on "creating something" is probably the only way I've found to keep my stage fright away in public ! Then, after few sketches and a couple of necklaces designed, creation will only attract fun !
...It's happening tomorrow at the Première of Lower Haight Urban Air Market ! See you there !
It's going to be a great fun event, a bit like in the form of a fashion festival/ block party ! Haight Street from Webster to Pierce will be closed to auto-traffic... Instead ? Foot traffic and street lined with booths featuring 200+ independent designers selling clothing, accessories, jewelry, and home decor !
I'm sooo excited to be one them! First as a fashion and jewelry designer and most importantly as a merchant of the Lower Haight ! I'll be wearing my three hats! :)
Also to start, I'll be sketching faces + silhouettes and making jewelry live right at my booth...with more than a 1000 people expected to attend this event, keeping myself focus on "creating something" is probably the only way I've found to keep my stage fright away in public ! Then, after few sketches and a couple of necklaces designed, creation will only attract fun !
...It's happening tomorrow at the Première of Lower Haight Urban Air Market ! See you there !
10.18.2012
10.17.2012
10.14.2012
10.10.2012
10.04.2012
10.02.2012
9.27.2012
Ciao Milano, Bonjour Paris !
Fashion week left Milan and started today (should I say in local time, yesterday) in Paris !
Thanks to the internet, I'm not missing a piece of it and if my schedule permits I'll even be lucky to catch a live streaming or two of the shows. I know how my dear capital of fashion gets crazy during its special week, so dear friends in Paris, do not party too hard ! Talking about partying hard, I have a feeling someone in San Francisco is going to have an epic party in a closet to celebrate the launching of her new collection tomorrow evening! Apparently, it's going to be beautiful and fun ! In perfect fashion timing : See you tomorrow 5 to 8pm.
Thanks to the internet, I'm not missing a piece of it and if my schedule permits I'll even be lucky to catch a live streaming or two of the shows. I know how my dear capital of fashion gets crazy during its special week, so dear friends in Paris, do not party too hard ! Talking about partying hard, I have a feeling someone in San Francisco is going to have an epic party in a closet to celebrate the launching of her new collection tomorrow evening! Apparently, it's going to be beautiful and fun ! In perfect fashion timing : See you tomorrow 5 to 8pm.
9.25.2012
A rack-story
It's a rackstory by Aline and Framo Polier. It's about Art.
Friday 09/28/12
5pm to 8pm
101 Pierce Street, 94117
San Francisco
Music, Bubbles and Truffles.
See you at the store, right inside, just by the rack !
Friday 09/28/12
5pm to 8pm
101 Pierce Street, 94117
San Francisco
Music, Bubbles and Truffles.
See you at the store, right inside, just by the rack !
9.16.2012
9.14.2012
London Fashion week: Day 1!
New York has made my head turned this week and I'm dazed from all the colors, volumes and silhouettes I've spied last week. Even personal styles spotted in the streets were amazing, so inspiring! Fashion week continues, and just landed today in London! I'm Really excited we are in Europe ( soon-ish Paris and Milan! Mmmm...)
I can't tell you enough how Fashion week is important and fun to the industry: it's a celebration ! A bit like the industry's "birthday", without really the aging factor. We see it much more like a 6 months re-birth kind of thing.
- Now...dear London, I wanted to let you know all eyes are on you. Again. You just handled the Olympics. Fashion Week? You. Will. Be. Fine !
I can't tell you enough how Fashion week is important and fun to the industry: it's a celebration ! A bit like the industry's "birthday", without really the aging factor. We see it much more like a 6 months re-birth kind of thing.
- Now...dear London, I wanted to let you know all eyes are on you. Again. You just handled the Olympics. Fashion Week? You. Will. Be. Fine !
9.12.2012
Save the threads.
Everyday, I'm surrounded by pins, needles and threads. I'm getting to know them quite well and here is 3 simple thoughts that came up to me or why I love threads.
From a sewing perspective to a life metaphor.
1) Pins are useful to pin and secure whatever they maintain together temporally and get a preview of what it could look like if it was stabilized/sewn.
Be careful, if not used properly they can hurt.
2) Needles. Haaa! Well needles absolutely "need" threads to fulfill their function, otherwise, they are just like pins and if they are too thick, they won't even do the job quite as right- you can try! But, a needle is not a pin...Here, also, if not use properly: they can hurt !
3) Threads. Sure in sewing they'll make wonders paired with a needle...But more "independent" than the needles they have other ways to fulfill being threads. They can link anything together on the long run and give sense to a whole. Plus, so far, I never met a thread that hurts...
-In between pins and needles, I try not to loose my threads... I save and hold on to them all, cause at one point, they'll be tight together and will make one long thread.
The knots they will make are ok. They'll give the final tread more character. They are great reminders you are the builder of the thread of your own story !
Do not worry too much about the "pins and needles" if they work for the moment : fine! If not, they can't hurt too long :) instead-focus on saving the things that make senses in your life and doesn't hurt.
-Save the threads. May you have a lot of knots! Aline xox.
From a sewing perspective to a life metaphor.
1) Pins are useful to pin and secure whatever they maintain together temporally and get a preview of what it could look like if it was stabilized/sewn.
Be careful, if not used properly they can hurt.
2) Needles. Haaa! Well needles absolutely "need" threads to fulfill their function, otherwise, they are just like pins and if they are too thick, they won't even do the job quite as right- you can try! But, a needle is not a pin...Here, also, if not use properly: they can hurt !
3) Threads. Sure in sewing they'll make wonders paired with a needle...But more "independent" than the needles they have other ways to fulfill being threads. They can link anything together on the long run and give sense to a whole. Plus, so far, I never met a thread that hurts...
-In between pins and needles, I try not to loose my threads... I save and hold on to them all, cause at one point, they'll be tight together and will make one long thread.
The knots they will make are ok. They'll give the final tread more character. They are great reminders you are the builder of the thread of your own story !
Do not worry too much about the "pins and needles" if they work for the moment : fine! If not, they can't hurt too long :) instead-focus on saving the things that make senses in your life and doesn't hurt.
-Save the threads. May you have a lot of knots! Aline xox.
9.08.2012
Peace and Love, from San Fran.
I met Joy and La Fleur during our sidewalk sale today. Took a picture of them cause they are so San Francisco! Aren't they sooo-coool ? ;)
9.06.2012
New York Fashion Week: Day 1!
It's Fashion Week...Really. Déjà !??
Yes! On planet Fashion it's an exciting week ahead! The whole planet is swinging cause Fashion week started today with New York opening the ball ! The city that never sleeps, will not get any sleep for real this week ! Myself, I'll be very busy absorbing Spring/Summer 2013! Can't wait to feel what my eyes will see! Personally, I promised myself : I will sleep. -I'm in Love with my Industry. It's hard not to. Fashion works in cycles that never turn quite the same twice ! Trends do come and go but surprisingly their come backs are spiced up with evolution and framed in a new timeline that give them this New exciting "taste" ! And it even gets tastier seasons after seasons....In the industry I work in, there's Always something going on...and noway to ever get bored for a second ! So.Thanks to everyone involved in running the shows! ...It's wonderful to think of those in the ateliers finishing up the last embroideries's details of a dress, those in the streets of New York capturing fashionistas' best fashion week outfits, or models on catwalks scared to fall on sky rocking heels they have probably tried on for the first time just few hours before the show! I love the energy everyone have while getting ready, panicking or praying backstage ! On a runway, 20 minutes usually aimed to sum up months and months of work !
Vive la Mode! Youpi Spring/Summer 2013 is revealed! It's Fashion Week...Finally !
Yes! On planet Fashion it's an exciting week ahead! The whole planet is swinging cause Fashion week started today with New York opening the ball ! The city that never sleeps, will not get any sleep for real this week ! Myself, I'll be very busy absorbing Spring/Summer 2013! Can't wait to feel what my eyes will see! Personally, I promised myself : I will sleep. -I'm in Love with my Industry. It's hard not to. Fashion works in cycles that never turn quite the same twice ! Trends do come and go but surprisingly their come backs are spiced up with evolution and framed in a new timeline that give them this New exciting "taste" ! And it even gets tastier seasons after seasons....In the industry I work in, there's Always something going on...and noway to ever get bored for a second ! So.Thanks to everyone involved in running the shows! ...It's wonderful to think of those in the ateliers finishing up the last embroideries's details of a dress, those in the streets of New York capturing fashionistas' best fashion week outfits, or models on catwalks scared to fall on sky rocking heels they have probably tried on for the first time just few hours before the show! I love the energy everyone have while getting ready, panicking or praying backstage ! On a runway, 20 minutes usually aimed to sum up months and months of work !
Vive la Mode! Youpi Spring/Summer 2013 is revealed! It's Fashion Week...Finally !
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