This Saturday, I went to one of my favorite places – the Brooklyn Flea market.  This is the first time I’ve been since it moved indoors for the winter.  Although I miss perusing the vendors outdoors, the atrium of the old Williamsburg Savings bank is beautiful, and indoor heating is a definite plus this time of year.

I love old cameras.  I only know how to use a digital, but I have fantasies about being able to use one of these and taking photos that look like the beginning of the Wonder Years.  I also think I had that phone growing up during the pre ‘boxey cordless phone with answering machine’ days.

This is one of my more interesting finds.  I’m not sure if they were for exercise or short men.

In spite of all of the amazing treasures like these, my favorite part of the Brooklyn Flea is the food.  Unfortunately, I was too busy stuffing myself with spinach papusas to remember to take a photo, but you can click here if you want a little something to whet your appetite.

Mimi Jung, stylist, boutique owner and fashion blogger, attended our launch party last week and just posted this more than favorable review of our line on her Brook&Lyn blog. We feel so honored to have made such a positive impression on her – we are huge fans.  Thanks, Mimi!

One of our favorite fashion bloggers, Greta Eagan of GretaGuide, came to our launch and created this video about our line:

Hare+Hart: Ethical Leather Line from Greta Eagan on Vimeo.

Thanks, Greta!

Our friends’ band, Dinosaur Feathers, was featured in a Valentine’s Day playlist in the NYTimes today!!!!

We hope they don’t forget all of us who loved them (even in their college a cappella days) before they were bigger than Vampire Weekend…
Yay, Greg and Derek!

Check out some pics from our Fall 2010 lookbook on our facebook page:

So we woke up with big plans of buying envelopes, sending lookbooks and going to the gym, but then we looked out the window.

Here is a comparison of what the view from my apt looks like on a normal day (left) and today (right):

We have yet to leave the apartment.  Or change out of pajamas.  It’s 9:08 pm.

Despite the impending snow storms, Emily made it in from Buenos Aires just in time for our launch open house, which we held yesterday. Margaret and Rick (the amazingly creative owners of Studio XL, the agency I worked with on ad campaigns when I was at Stuart Weitzman) were so nice and let us use their fabulous townhouse in the East Village to host the event.

The beautiful townhouse and decorating definitely enhanced our jackets:

We used leather scraps to hang up our pieces:

And our glove display:

We were really excited about the positive response that we received from the industry – it was a nice addition to the positive responses that we’ve already been receiving from our clearly unbiased friends and families.

But our big hit of the day, may have been our take-home gifts:

(at least they were a big hit with me around dinner time…)

Anyway, we just want to say thank you for everyone who came and who have supported us while we have been launching our company – you’re the best!

So we finally got our samples (who knew customs cared so much about leather jackets?!) and were able to  shoot them for our lookbook.  We were more than a little concerned that we wouldn’t get them in time to print a lookbook for our launch open-house on Tuesday, but luckily, it all worked out.  (Well the photo-shoot, at least, fingers crossed on the rest.)

Here’s our amazingly talented photographer friend in the plaid, Aaron, taking initial photos to check the lighting, which ended up looking really great.  Also, since we got our samples so late and had to move the shoot back, Aaron stayed up all night (Aaron, you’re the best!!) retouching so that we would have the images ready to print.  Our other insanely talented friend, Marley, did her magic on the hair and make-up and in helping me out with the styling.  I am completely in love with the big, short, messy hair – maybe i’ll have the guts to go that short some day…

This is one of my favorite comps from the shoot.  I love how the suede scarf looks with the nappa jacket.  I thought the leather on leather might be too much, but the contrast turned out really cool.