Fashion Week may have jetted off to London last Friday en masse, but there were still style and fashion shows to be seen around the city. Take this past weekend’s Capsule Show down at Basketball City. Love handmade, handcrafted, environmentally-sourced and beautiful things? Check, check, check and CHECK! It was all to be found down off South Street. This season marks the last for Capsule at its Lower East Side location, where it has been based since 2007. Next time, find Capsule on West 22nd Street — Center 548, the former home of the DIA Center — a venue that may be a bit easier to get to during trade show time.
Meanwhile, I’m glad I trekked down this past Saturday in the rain! Take a look at some of the lovely stand-out pieces from the Spring/Summer 2015 clothing collections of Loup Charmant, Milena Silvano, Nancy Stella Soto, Voz and Delphine, as well as sandals and bags from Waltzing Matilda and Proud Mary, jewelry from Kria and Deborah Rice, among others:
New details and accessories that includes a collaboration with Artemas Quibble graced Loup Charmant’s ever-growing loveliness
Cut outs, organza and layers were enticing elements at Nancy Stella Soto
Handmade, textile-driven, often hand-dyed – all terms crucial to Milena Silvano
The softest cotton’s at Voz, where Jasmine Aarons creates “with love in Chile and New York”
Duo, the East Village boutique founded by sisters Wendy and LaRae Kangas, showed at Capsule for the first time in the Cash & Carry section, meaning you could walk out wearing (and owning!) these beauts
Navy is the new hit for handmade slip-ons at Waltzing Matilda, the Philly-based leather collection of recycled bags, clutches, shoes
Waltzing Matilda
Charleston-based Harper Poe, designer of Proud Mary, with Peruvian-sourced fabric clutches, above, and leather backpack, below, that was crafted in Paraguay
Proud Mary
The comfy-est looking indigo linen romper from Ilana Kohn
Organic and natural-based fish mouth bracelet by Kria designer/founder Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir
Love the ring/bracelet from Jené Despain
Surrealist stylings by Youser
Dream catchers from Torchlight
So cute and comfy! Mara and Mine
The tiniest baby seed beads create an offering of coloring and perfection at jewelry designer Deborah Rice, whose gorgeousness is handmade in Brooklyn