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New Tights, Leggings, and Stay Ups
High quality, high end leg wear from Poland, Germany, and Slovenia in natural, cream, black, navy, and lavander have just been delivered to the store.
Pair the newly arrived Ivko cotton knit rose skirt with these stay ups.
These cream coloured stay ups are perfect for the Hanna Heart skirt that we have in the store now and some of you already have in your wardrobe….Sylvie, I told you I would find you the perfect tights for your skirt…Well here they are!
We have been excitedly anticipating new Ivko pieces. They are finally here! Coming to us all the way from Serbia. These Incredible knit wear designs are covered in beautiful pattern, exquisitely made using top quality yarns. The spring collection offers beautiful styles in linens and cottons.
This great skirt is in store now. For $135.
Come see the whole Spring collection in the store. It is fun and playful and cheerful.
Finish of your look with a pair of our elf heels available in store soon.
Mushroom earrings are available for $22 a pair at the boutique.
Mushrooms are a real life fantasy. The link between the fairy world and ours. a magical surprise that pops out of the grass and amazes us with its unexpected shape and it’s sometimes wild colours. Celebrate some mischievousness, celebrate spring, call to the fairies and elves. Wear a mushroom skirt.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
Celtic knot inspired jewelry by Elizabeth Johnston available at Boutique Katrin Leblond.
Beautiful sandals from Israel are now at Boutique Katrin Leblond. The wonderful thing about these new sandals is how comfortable they feel on your feet. They are available in sizes 37 to 40 in black or bronze.
Beautiful amazing Anna. You will be a momma soon. You will be in love. You will be afraid. You will be powerful. You will be you. You are amazing Anna and you will be a great mom.
This is for you in anticipation of all the fun you will have rediscovering everyday things through the eyes of your child.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
More bibis!
Corrina is the Montreal wild girl making beautifully juxtaposed naturally molted feather jewelry that does not harm our fine feathered friends. She has some really special one of a kind necklaces and earrings at the boutique.
Happy Birthday Corrina.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
This is an excerpt from a movie that I love called Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I love this scene. It is the only fight scene I have ever seen that I wanted to watch again and again. I do believe we can find a way in our humanness to understand in all of our being that we are connected to all things and part of everything and that that understanding is the key to knowing gravity in a different way. I believe children can be taught to be more connected to all things than adults cemented in their convictions that separation is more powerful than connection can ever be. This little clip is fantasy of a reality that I actually think is possible. I also think you can teach yourself to step beyond expected parameters and still be a person who is conflicted. This is a complicated scene that talks to me about striving to understand the power of the self and the infinite. I do think we can fly!
Fly away with a feather print dress from Katrin Leblond.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
Our creative process has evolved a lot as our team has evolved. This is what our collection boards look like. We move the mini mock ups of the pieces we are designing around on the board and find our matching out fits and plan delivery to store dates so that when the items finally come to you they are ready to pop into your wardrobe as single items or even better as complete outfits.
These are mock ups of our March first delivery group. Lots of black and white accented with roses. Pops of garden green and lime with fuschia and hot pink and peachy rose. Playful pieces to prep you for a great summer ahead.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
love love love love
Lots of new rose covered clothing has just been delivered in the store. Add some flowers to your day.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
Photos by Madelaine Turgeon
Thank you Colette for another beautiful event. Thank you Montango dancers for your grace and poetry. Thank you everyone who came to this special event.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
available in red, black , blue and brown
Studio SALE feb 22 and 23.
Starting from $8 and ranging all the way up to $390 (item not pictured here) Katrin Leblond Boutique’s bags and totes are colorful fun for your wardrobe. Come by and find the one that is right for you. We also have eco bags for $3.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
made with love in the US
This cute skirt is in store now. Available for $124. Sized XS, S, M, L this little number is high waist-ed fun. Made with love in the USA. The little bird is on a pin that can be placed on the spring tree print of your choosing.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
Come by for one of the most original fashion events ever.
How cool is it to have a day dedicated to love. Isn’t everyday? Shouldn’t it be that there is only one day a year to celebrate our conflicts because every moment we live is a chance to celebrate that we love.
Every year I try to think up some very simple way to say I love you to as many people as I can on Valentines day.
Today is a good day to leave anonymous love notes in all your neighbors mail boxes. It is a good day to stand on the street corner a give away 100 roses to random strangers. It is a good day to say thank you lots.
Here is a video I have offered you before but here it is again because it is great to watch on Valentine’s day.
When you give the gift of love you give a gift to your self.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
Sea creature necklace selling for $29 at boutique Katrin Leblond.
Kat is currently working on a costume for Ann Bernard Montreal premium boleadoras artist.
Just arrived in store. Selling for $124. I love…LOVE the skirt. It is made of smooth quality stretch cotton and hand screen printed made with love in the USA.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
Valentine’s day is on it’s way. It’s a great time to find yourself your little red dress. Quickly becoming more of a wardrobe basic than it’s inferior rival the little black dress, Katrin Leblond boutique offers you several choice stunners to help unleash the diva, drama queen, seductress in you.
For more impact you can press play on these videos all at the same time and have them going off on your screen simultaneously.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
http://www.stationbleue.com/artistes.e/dubeauetlapieta_an.php
Elisabeth Giorux is a powerhouse of creativity. A force to be reckoned with. She is a passionate hobby photographer of nature, a eccentric and powerful designer of jewelry and an accomplished musician. Come discover the artist behind the creative abundance tonight at the boutique!
We will be celebrating this amazing artists with wine and refreshments. Everyone is welcome. There is no charge at the door and Elisabeth will share with us the incredible new collection of jewelry she is working on as well as offering us the treat of a moment of her cello playing.
My friend Vimala is a true eccentric and her amazingness only grows with age.
South African by birth, today she lives the life of a hermit near the holy mountain Arunachala in the south of India.
Ten years ago when we first met, Vimala picked up a brush for the first time.
Her entire life she’d been convinced that she “couldn’t paint” but her mystical and whimsical paintings had a different opinion and were impatiently waiting to materialize.
[pic – painted self portrait “3rd Eye Kung Fu”]
Needless to say, Vimala hasn’t put the brush down since.
In 2008 we went to Mexico and there, inspired by the vibrant art and handicraft scene of Oaxaca, Vimala told me her paintings “refused to be hidden under [her] bed any longer”. She began a quest that would finally turn into the most amazing and original pillow art I’ve ever seen.
[pic – “Kiss to Frida Kahlo”]
She found a family in war-torn Kashmir, that were brave enough to join her. applying their traditional hookwork skills to make pillow art, translating designs so unlike any they were used to.
[pic – “My Heart has Wings”]
The entire extended family is involved in the production. They dye the wool themselves, the women do the hookwork and the men then stitch the actual covers together. This tradition has been handed down many generations and even though they work extremely fast, due to their many years of experience, it still takes two full days to complete one cushion cover.
[pic – “Orchid”]
They start off with the colours as per Vimala’s original design and then change the colours completely. Each different colour combination changes the vibration and look of the cushion completely. Only a few of each colour combination gets made, so they always look a little different and it is a constantly evolving work. They never mass produce any combination.
[pic “flying rikshas painting” and pic “flying rikshas cushion cover”]
The fruits of this beautiful collaboration is now, for the first time, available in Canada at Boutique Katrin Leblond.
Hurry to get yours.
[pic – “strawberry fields”]
Share your gifts and make the world a more beautiful place!
Katharina B
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Ensoleillez Votre Mois De NovembreBring Sunshine To Your November
Find your southern getaway destination fashion essentials. Spring and fall collections are on sale for one day only this November at the studio. Trouvez vos essentiels mode pour vos vacances tropicals. Les collections printemps et automne sont en solde pour un jour seulement ce mois- ci au studio. Shop morning or afternoon. Let yourself be pampered. Complimentary mimosas and brunch seved at 10 am. Brunch et mimosa seront servis à partir de 10h et à 16h café, vin et chocolats vous seront offerts. Wed 24 November 5333 Casgrain suite/local 902 |
Célébrer En Bonne Compagnie
Celebrate Good CompanyCelebrate yourself. Celebrate your friends. Celebrate winter sunshine. Come pamper yourself. Célébrez vous. Célébrez vos amis. Célébrez le soleil hivernal. Venez vous gâter! 
Venez vous faire dorloter Cafe, vin et mentes chocolate seront servis a 16h. Les portes du studio vous seront ouvertes de 10h a 19h. Mercredi le 24 novembre. 5333 Casgrain suite/local 902 |
Fairy tails, legend, magical and mystical creatures; all these wonders offer us some truths along with their fantasy. Stories of our values, our humanness, our wishes and our fears.
To me, the stories of dragons and unicorns are documents of extinction. They tell us the story of how humans have chased, killed, controlled, feared or encroached on creatures environments so much that they became rarer and rarer until they disappeared. They tell us the story of how we chased away the bigness that scared us till we could tell our selves that we were bigger than it all.
This is my mother standing in the buzz of New York wearing her unicorn scarf by Katrin Leblond.
The city that’s magic is now it’s neon lights.
Where did all the stars go?
You cannot see them at all for all the city lights.
What does that mean?
One day, we will tell our children fairy tails about how in another time and another world the sky at night was a dark velvet cloak and it was covered in bright twinkling sparks of light that whispered to children that could see them that the universe was vast and never ending and they were part of it all.
Your life is your most powerful art.
See you at the boutique.
erin
- This Frida inspired art is made by Lulu an artist from Frelighsburg, Southern Quebec, Canada.
- I found these sweet paintings while trolling the E world for things to share with you.
- Lulu writes in her blog:
- I love my life… I love my son Ulysse and my husband Francois and my entire family. I love painting and collaging and drawing and illustrating. I love animals of all kinds, which explains why we have 5 cats, 3 dogs, 6 hens, 2 roosters, an hermit-crab and a turtle. I love colors, I love gardening, I love Mexico. I am French, I live in Southern Quebec about 5 minutes from the Vermont border. I love to laugh and I am pretty much always in a good mood. I talk a lot, this comes from my dad but I hate the telephone. I love nature, bird nests, rocks, old rusty things. I am curious and will try anything new I have not tried yet. I love staying in my studio late at night to paint mermaids, fairies, angels, cats, Frida, flowers and so many other things. I speak French, English and enough Spanish to get around. I can not live without the ocean and the beach, gotta go taste the salty water at least once a year. I love pink, I love skulls and skeletons, I love frogs and toads. I love black licorice and white chocolate. I love to hike the mountains around and I love to drive my old Volvo. I love my life…
- With Lulu’s art you can capture a reminder of a great person in an cute decoration for hanging in your kitchen or hallway or bathroom.
Sometimes Kat wonders why Frida is such a powerful Icon to so many people… so many women. “In many ways she was strong, courageous, political and creative, but in many ways she was also injured, heartbroken and self-deprecating ” Says Kat.
Kat admires her because of how she faced life with a fierce passion.
I admire her because she tried to tell the story she knew. The story of her self. There are few things more honest than that. She didn’t try to pretty her life she tried to tell it the way she felt it.
When I was younger I wanted my art to be truthful and because I felt I could never assume I knew everything about anyone the most truthful art I could make would have to be what I felt about myself. I ended up doing a lot of self portrait. In fact one of Kat’s and my first creative collaborative efforts involved her photographing me for a self portrait I was creating about the pain I was feeling in breaking up with my first love. I eventually titled the self portrait Offering. I think it is still the best most truthful painting I have ever made.
Frida’s very personal work ended up making powerful political statements about women, about art itself, about her community, her country, about nature and the environment, about spirit, about sexuality, and our relationship with ourselves.
I admire Frida for her deep concern for the world around her. I admire her for her belief that art is in everything you do. She used to ask her students to set the table and prepare the food and arrange the table with the same consciousness they would paint a painting. Both were of equal artistic value to her. That is amazing.
Discovering Frida affirmed for me many of my own ideas about my own art.
She was unapologetic.
She was politically fierce. Despite what Hollywood would have you believe… She died because she went to a protest against the American occupation while she was already sick. She was willing to die for her convictions.
The earth, it’s people…justice, peace mattered to Frieda.
Kat’s mother wants her to name a daughter Frida (Kat doesn’t have any children yet and isn’t pregnant but Barbara will be ready!).
some more paintings by Lulu:
The flaming heart really gets me. I love it!
It is cute, folkloric and yet retains the traditional iconography of Mexico.
This brings to mind the Day of the Dead. November is a Time of remembering our ancestors. Kat suggests you go take a walk on the mountain in the cemetery to enjoy the falling leaves.
Happy Autumn!
Thank you Frida for reminding us to be honest with our selves, to live life, to never deny the body, to love passionately, to never give up, to live what you believe in.
for more from lulu check her out at:
http://mypinkturtle.blogspot.com/
I think Frida would have agreed….
Your life is your most powerful art.
See you at the boutique.
erin
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