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New Arrivals | A Peace Treaty

Posted by on April 11th, 2011

Each sea­son, A PEACE TREATY travels to a par­tic­u­lar region and seeks out local vil­lage artis­ans to re-define an access­ory, cre­at­ing lim­ited edi­tion pieces in style unique colorways.

For the S/S 2011 sea­son A PEACE TREATY presents ADIRE, an ode to the almost extinct res­ist dye pro­cesses of Yorube Adire tex­tile mak­ing. Tra­di­tion­ally craf­ted by women artis­ans and entre­pren­eurs, Yor­uba Adire tex­tiles were indigo dyed cloths pop­u­lar in Nigeria and parts of West­ern Africa. Chal­lenged by the dis­ap­pear­ance of these mas­ter­pieces, A PEACE TREATY traveled to one of the few exist­ing places with a thriv­ing indigo res­ist dye and hand block-printing industry — Rajasthan, India — to recre­ate these treas­ures of the past.

The mak­ing of ADIRE involved com­mis­sion­ing artis­ans to carve spe­cial wood blocks used for print­ing the neg­at­ive form intrinsic to res­ist dye tech­niques. The res­ult is a col­lec­tion of lus­cious silks and silky cot­tons dyed on with nat­ural and eco-friendly inks and dyes exhib­it­ing vary­ing pro­cesses like dabu and indigo dye­ing, wood block-printing, and hand-weaving cul­min­at­ing in vibrant West African inspired designs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November Hunter Boot Contest

Posted by on November 5th, 2010

Come in and pur­chase a pair of Hunters this month and receive a LYNNsteven umbrella*. Then post a pic on our Face­book page of you wear­ing your Hunters and sport­ing your LYNNsteven umbrella* and you will be entered to win a $100 GC to the store.

Remem­ber to tag your­self in your pic­ture! We need to know who you are of course!

Con­test closes Decem­ber 15th 2010.

*While sup­plies last

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New from A Peace Treaty

Posted by on November 3rd, 2010

What we are lov­ing right now in the store…our latest deliv­ery from A Peace Treaty. We can‘t keep from try­ing on these yummy, soft scarves.

If you are not famil­iar with A Peace Treaty here is a little blurb about their latest collection:

The PITANIA Col­lec­tion is a col­lec­tion of pure alpaca wraps, ponchos and hats, using the finest fibres from the Andes Moun­tains’ alti­plano region of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and draw­ing inspir­a­tion from the simple geo­met­ric pat­terns and unlikely col­our pair­ings found within the Bauhaus women’s weav­ing work­shop in Wei­mar and Des­sau. The PITANIA hand-knitted alpaca col­lec­tion bol­sters irre­place­able tra­di­tions and ancient tex­tile tech­niques while employ­ing Indi­gen­ous Aymara and Quechua artisans.




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Granted FW10

Posted by on September 23rd, 2010

With fall in the air there is noth­ing bet­ter than put­ting on a cozy sweater. Good thing we have received our Gran­ted Cloth­ing delivery.

If you are not famil­iar with this amaz­ing Van­couver brand, here is the scoop…

Gran­ted is a fam­ily busi­ness inde­pend­ently run and oper­ated right here in Vancouver. They use tra­di­tional knit­ting meth­ods and have been labeled a new and unique genre of neo-vintage clothing. Their clas­sic inspired sweat­ers and accessor­ies are made from 100% pure new wool.

Although the Gran­ted label deb­uted in 2007, their hand-knitting busi­ness was estab­lished in 1978. The design­ers of Gran­ted, a brother sis­ter duo, remem­ber grow­ing up with knit­ting needles and bags of yarn every­where. The founders of the busi­ness, their par­ents, ran a suc­cess­ful cot­tage industry for many years and so as time passed it was only nat­ural for the chil­dren to come on board with a new chapter to the company.

Gran­ted uses only the highest selec­ted qual­ity of pure new wool.  Each of their items are metic­u­lously knit by hand and go through strict qual­ity con­trol before they reach stores. You may find that some of their gar­ments have wood zip­per pulls. These sig­na­ture pieces are hand-crafted on Van­couver Island using only salvaged yew wood. Each piece is unique and rep­res­ents the hand-made nature of their brand.







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JUMA FW10

Posted by on September 17th, 2010

Intro­du­cing another great Cana­dian line to LYNNsteven! The line of scarves are made of silk twill and fea­ture amaz­ing prints.

JUMA is pro­gress­ive ready-to-wear and accessor­ies line inspired by art cul­ture and travel for the cre­at­ive professional.

Foun­ded in Toronto, Canada in 2003, the eponym­ous label JUMA developed by brother and sis­ter team, Alia Juma (Design Dir­ector) and Jamil Juma (Cre­at­ive Dir­ector), can be found in vari­ous loc­als around the world includ­ing Canada, United States, Israel and Japan.

They have been fea­tured in such inter­na­tional pub­lic­a­tions as WWD, New York Magazine, Another Magazine, Businessoffashion.com, Fant­astic Magazine, Elle Canada, Fash­ion Magazine, Sportswear Inter­na­tional, National Post as well as Fash­ion Tele­vi­sion, Etalk and Life Network.




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