French Friday (one day early): Olympia Le-Tan
I was going to wait and post this tomorrow so that it would actually be a French Friday post, but I'm too excited about it. And when I'm really excited about something, I get super impatient and feel compelled to bust the thing out as soon as possible for all to see/know/equally freak out over.
So, here's the deal: I received a link a few hours ago from Twitter follower @madrizen, who was kind enough to clue me into the fabulous embroidered book bag designs of Parisian artist, Olympia Le-Tan. And when I say "book bag," I literally mean that it's a book used as a bag. It's not just some random, crappy canvas tote bag or something. Au contraire, mon frère. No no, see, Le-Tan's unique book bag vision involves silk embroidered reproductions of first-edition book covers. Did you catch that? I said FIRST EDITION. Nothing bad can come from the words "first edition." It's a natural law. Kind of like Proust and his madeleines. Something brilliant's going to happen. And Le-Tan's bags serve as clearly beautiful evidence for why that law exists. The press wholeheartedly agrees. Those over at Vogue.com UK, for example, have drooled over Le-Tan's artistic literary masterpieces while rightfully freaking out that the bad-@ss bag-maker doubles as a journalist and triples as a freakin' DJ. (How cool is that?!)
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I pretty much want each and every one. Especially L'Horloger.
And now I kind of want to change my name to Olympia.
Happy French Friday one day early!
May 27, 2010
Reader Comments (2)
i saw these in elle and thought they were just the coolest ever! the price tag got me at over $1,000...: (
i saw your website from the good mail day list-i too LOVE reece's pieces! if you would like check my address...marnie
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DEFINITELY, MARNIE!!! Thanks for stopping by. Correspond with you soon... :)