Looking to Spring 2010

Is it spring already? Well, that's questionable around our studio, we just got snowed in with 4 feet of heavy spring snow! Even having to venture to work in our snowpants, we're feeling like spring, and thinking of the beach.

An upcoming trip to Aruba has us inspired in a "castaway" theme and what better beachwear than washed linen in Dutch and sun faded colors. We're using inspired finds from the beach, including natural shell buttons and freshwater pearls.

A past trip to Isla Mujeres has us longing for the other end of the color spectrum, with citrus brights and fab color combinations. We're working in stretch cotton sateens for fun, cool and comfort.

Of course, we're continuing with our highly successful bamboo knits, in an Eco-Couture collection, with our signature embroidery accents, in bright colors for spring.

Fall 2009 Collection Reactions - Stellar!

I'm just back from Dallas, where we showed the debut Fall 2009 line of LamanBlu to specialty boutiques in Dallas and Fort Worth. We opened to rave reviews! We were delighted to be received as well in Dallas as we were in our local hometown of Denver/Boulder. The specialty store boutique buyers are always such a delight to work with. They're very excited about our designer quality fabrics - both the 11 oz. bamboo/lycra knit and the custom mica printed bamboo fleece. Our designer details garnered lots of attention as well. The custom embroidery was a big hit, as well as the hand embroidery and beading on our heirloom lace pieces. We had fun working with the buyers to customize their floor presentations and they had fun getting to have a hand in the process as well, choosing trim and sparkle organza color combinations to suit their customer's personal taste. We also enjoyed talking about spring 2010, which is soon to come (more on that later). It was a great trip, and we made many new friends (as well as visited old ones). But it's good to be back to the studio, enjoy the spring snowfall, and get to work for spring 2010!