Posts from ‘KL Boutique Brands’
Scarves that make your neck say mmmmm
Ivko scarf $159 each. Made from the softest lambswool.
I love IVKO.
You love IVKO.
We all go crazy for IVKO.
Why? Because it gets cold here and these sweater coats and tunics will keep you cozy and warm.
In store soon. I promise to send an e-mail when they have arrived.
Leaf pins $7 each
made of 100% silk
all stitching done in the Katrin Leblond studio
This is a little peek into Gabrielle Adam’s summer vacation travelling Europe. How cute does she look in her Katrin Leblond designs?
I have just a few of this dress left: The flirt dress in stripes $115 (I think, from memory) and I am pretty sure I have M and XL in stock.
The best sweater ever by Maillagogo. Made right here in Montreal. This is a two tone blue cotton knit $140.
Now YOU send me your travel pictures or post them on Facebook on the Katrin Leblond Design page!
Corteza earrings celebrate the beauty, simplicity and complexity of nature. $24 a pair. Buy a second pair for only $16.
This cardigan is full of fine detail. Right down to the scalloped edge around the collar, it’s incredible detailed intartia and it’s exceptio0nally high quality 100% cotton yarn.
Petals Pop Cards are made by Montreal mom, Jackie Bassette. She plants, grows, presses and places each petal at her Montreal home near Jean Talon market.
Each card is blank inside leaving you free to pour your heart out in your own words to your friends.
Towers and pyramids of books pressing petals are all over Jackie’s home where she creates these fun and pretty cards. Send a creation from Jackie’s garden to one of your friends.
Woven from 95% post consumer material, used grain sacks are collected, cleaned, ground and melted into rolls of recycled plastic, printed with Blue Q’s super fantastic graphics, cut and sewn into bags of all shapes and sizes available at boutique Katrin Leblond. 1% of the sales of the bag shown above supports the conservation work of The Nature Conservancy. Blue Q guarantees a minimum contribution of $100,000! This company is an example of one of our very few exceptions in which we felt the product and philosophy allowed us to accept importing the product and adding it to our mostly locally created collection.
You can carry your lunch in style for $12.
Designed here in Montreal, these elegant, feminine and excellently cut camis are now available at the boutique. Come check out the variety of styles available. Great for layering these comfortable pieces skim your curves and offer just the right hint of lace.
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.
Vanessa recently returned from a life-changing trip to India. In her seven weeks there, she experienced sensory awareness on a whole new level. “I felt more alive than I ever had,” she said. Her feeling of being “home” was uncanny.
photo by Vanessa Finnie, available at Boutique Katrin Leblond
She’s been back since November, and is still processing what she learned on that trip. As part of that process, she has started making cards with the photographs she took in India. These stunning cards are now available for sale at the Boutique.
photo by Vanessa Finnie, available at Boutique Katrin Leblond
Her photographs are moving and joyous. They are full of colour and movement, humour and peace. The intensity of her emotions on that trip comes across strongly in her pictures. They are definitely worth a trip to the boutique to see first-hand. And are available for only $6.50 each. Give one to yourself or to someone you are thinking of.
Express your beauty as you are. Dance in your kitchen and sing to the stars.
Sarah Pearson
More bibis!
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
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
Are you tired of Ernst Haeckel yet? I’m not. I think his are some of the best illustrations from Nature I have ever seen. I love the attention to layout on the page…how he created shading and shapes that stand on their own as a work of art.
The first image is of moths. They are soft and fluffy and every hair is delicately rendered. Imagine the time it took to illustrate all of these.
And now for some Mothy jewelry. We just got these in the store. We have moth necklaces and octopus pins…oh and there is a Jellyfish necklace that is oh-so Ernst Haeckel.
The second image of the shells made me think of the experimental fashion by Swedish fashion designer Julia Krantz. These shell garments are made of translucent fabrics draped over metal frames. This was done as aschool project at HDK School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden.
We’ve all seen trilobite fossils as kids. They must have been numerous back in the day (millions of years ago) for there to be such an abundance of fossils around being found. and sold for a few dollars. Below Haeckel’s trilobite drawings, I have attached the image of a dress that to me looks like it was inspired by arthropods. The layers are like the sections of a hard shelled creature. The beauty of it lies in the perfect cusp between soft and hard. The dress holds it’s form, but doesn’t look too stiff. I think it is really gorgeous.
Trilobite Dress by: Wesley Nault+Daniel Feld
Hope you enjoyed another viewing of art, crafts and nature. Where does one begin and the other end? Is it all the same? Sometimes I believe that what we (humans) craft is not separate from, but a part, of the big organism we call Earth. We often assign value to what we craft: good or bad, expensive or cheap, destructive or ecological. What really matters though, is do you feel joyful? Is there a happy moment in every day that you live? If you need to find a happy moment outside of yourself, you can always come to the store for a little drop in, a hug or a cup of tea.
4647 blvd. St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, H2T1R2, 514-678-9616
Katrin Leblond
Because ideas don’t emerge from a vacuum. We create in a community.
The artist expresses a distilled idea culled from the pulsing, flowing, churning well of our collective experience and reflections.
Our shared experiences lead the artists of our communities to reflect on common themes in a kaleidoscope of variations providing interesting parallels.
I find it so much more interesting to dress in many artists than to simply build my whole out fit from one designer. That is why I choose to offer over 75 different designers in the store. Sure its more work, but its worth it.
I try and find artist who communicate an interesting dialogue with their own work and that of Katrin’s. I love finding great outfits among the offerings of so many different artists. I love how each outfit created can belong entirely to the person who is wearing it in part because the combination they have selected is theirs alone.
When you buy from within your community you are already part of the art at its inception. The art belongs in part to you and you are part of art, the artist, and the community. The reach of the communal net begins at home and extends out around the wold.
At boutique Katrin Leblond that means beginning with Kat’s creations and then looking at what is creatively being generated in her immediate neighborhood: The Plateau, and then looking at the context of that in the greater Montreal area, and then further out in Quebec, and then in Ontario, and the Maritimes, and then the rest of Canada, and then further still, till you are culling a bit from the USA, and a bit from Serbia, or Mexico, or Thailand,or… . It’s like a fashion rock being thrown into a pond of design ideas. The biggest splash is at the center and the ripples get lighter and lighter as they move away from the center but they still travel out quieter and quieter as they go across the whole lake.
It’s about dressing yourself while answering the question “What are you part of?”
Don’t forget…..
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
The store is committed to local. What does that mean for the store. How Boutique Katrin Leblond expresses local.
It’s cool to know that there is an artist half way around the world sharing an interest in similar visual themes to a collection that Kat is working on here in Montreal. There is all these great Montreal artists of course we are going to sell their stuff.
Say goodbye to cold cheeks. Say goodbye to cold noses and cold chins. Say goodbye to messy hair and bad hat head. Say goodbye to winter whining. Snuggle up in a KAZAK hood.
Let the wind blow.
I have to warn you once you have worn one of Genevieve Paquette’s hoods you may not wear your hat again. Fashionably warm yourself in recycled hipness. Genevieve Paquette brings us her winter collection for 2010-2011. As always she is consistent about offering winter warming wear that bridges Fairytale Romanticism from urban to country. The hippie goddess in you will be as warm as the urban hipster and both of your playful sides can comfortably face the Montreal elements with a mischievous smile.
Be bold. Be mysterious. Be rebellious. Be sweet. Stay toasty warm while being cooler than cool. Cast a love spell. Carry a poem in your pocket and transform every jacket and coat in your wardrobe by topping it with these gracious hoods.
Genevieve’s hoods are available with recycled fur for $88 or in a non fur version for $58. Come pick up the warmest head gear Montreal has to offer you this winter.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
You have already decided which one or ones you love the most months ago. This is it! We are finally welcoming back the beautifully intricate IVKO sweaters! If you have not experienced these sweaters face to face you are truly missing out. Detailed knitwear in exotic colors bring a colorful dash of culture and ethnic abstracts to the table… making gorgeous statement pieces to add to your wardrobe. Based out of Serbia, I love the feel of far away lands and folklore this brand consistently gives off!
Did I mention that the Katrin Leblond Boutique will be the only store in Canada to carry this exclusive line? See you soon in the store!
Boutique Katrin Leblond
4647 Boul. St. Laurent
Montreal, QC
H2T 1R2
For an amazing personalized dress-up consultation (got an event, wedding, performance?), book an appointment today!
514 678 9616
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique
erin
These beautiful hats have just arrived in store. Local Montreal artists and Mile end mama of many, Allison Astridge from For whom the cap fits and Fiber Alley, created these by hand working the felt fibers into these feminine and practical winter head warmers. Natural fibers breath well keep you warm and love you lots. Include some wool in your wardrobe. Lots of sheep were loved to make these hats.
These hats are available in a variety of cuddly colours for $88 each at the boutique.
Your life is your most powerful art. See you at the boutique.
erin
In my opinion these are the most amazing prints ever. They are 100% cotton, designed and printed in the US and I have always loved them. I coveted them so much, that I decided to design and make my bedding collection just because I needed a reason to purchase these fabrics.
They have recently become such a hit (since they were featured in M magazine of la Presse) that we have increased our production of the decorative pillows we make from these glorious prints. They are washable, won’t fade, wont shrink…they are perfection.
julie andrews in the sound of music
I love the sound of music. I love Julie Andrews in the movie. I love that the movie hammers home the idea that kids need to be respected and that they will love you forever if you love them, listen to them, have fun with them and sing and dance. And that discipline can be achieved with playfulness and love easier than with strictness and punishment. I wish I could always parent like Julie’s character Maria.
this is a you tube “sound of music” video in a train station in Antrwirp Belgium. The surprised look on people’s faces is real. They didn’t know what was comeing. This is one of my all time favorite videos out there on the web. This video made a good number of the women on the Katrin Leblond team cry when they fist saw it. I won’t say who.
The sound of music reminds us to sing and dance every day and anywhere.
Julie Andrew’s sets style cues with her character in the movie. She was practical and yet still playful, feminine and fun. The Sound of Music was set in the 1930′s but filmed in 1965. Here are some 1950′s dresses we love that depart from but still somehow suggest a bit of frauline Maria’s style.
It was all about showing off a cinched waist and full skirt. This style in particular has a bubble hem which adds even more fullness. It is so blue and fabulous.
This simplicity pattern has a stand up collar, v-neck and tie at the waist wrap skirt with a perfect A-Line that ends just below the knee.
Ahhh... cuffed sleeves! Oh so really red vintage dress!
And NOW the update: here are some brand new contemporary dresses that we have in the store. Express your hip, sleek, professional and oh-so-fashion forward 1950′s flair. Perfect for the feminine urban working woman.
The Genia dress is made in Toronto.
Exclusively available in Montreal at Boutique Katrin Leblond. Available in denim and red . $168 sizes 6,8,10,12. Warning these sizes are smaller than their label suggests.
See you at the boutique.
Erin
Hand made in Montreal, Laura Fafard Bags.
Made from vintage recycled ties in eco friendly high fashion style.
Store your most precious valuables and tote them around town wherever you go. These bags are so hip in their deconstructed shaping. Crafty high art! I love the vintage button details.
I love the sentimentality of vintage prints. This bag is so sweet. I like it’s femininity. It would fit so nicely into a warm toned late summer, early fall, wardrobe. Carry it with you for a walk up the mountain or a trip out of town to pick some apples.
This one is bright and cheery and needs to go with you to a breakfast brunch “resto rendez vous” on the weekend.
Bags are my favorite accessories these days. You get lots of bang for your accessory money when you buy a bag. It takes up lots more space than some of the other finishing touches we reach for when completing our looks. Bags really impact your overall look and fashion expression when you are walking down the street.
Plus you can carry stuff in it. Bonus!
Sylvie Trembley, owner and guider of the yoga center on Saint Denis worked with me (Erin) on a beautiful Styling project to decorate her yoga studio with photographs.
The challenge was to express the way yoga becomes part of the self, part of your life, and to express that in a way that honored the beauty of the people at the center through photography. I think we succeeded. Thank you Noan for expressing love through your camera, thank you Sylvie for bringing us together and challenging us all to be ourselves, Thank you to the whole yoga Sangha team, thank you to all the designers that created the clothes.
Thankyou for your beautiful,generous spirit Sylvie. I am honored to know you.
Visit the lager than life versions of these photos at the studio at 3437 rue St Denis, Montreal.
Hand knit shawl (shown above in white) available in a rainbow of colours at Boutique Katrin Leblond for $44 each. Long Cloud skirt by Melissa Bolduc sold out but still available through special order at boutique Katrin Leblond. Cream cami with open back created with love especially for this photo shoot by Jamie Brock available by special order at boutique Katrin Leblond.
Photography by Noan Major from Elevation agency.com 514 284 2234 or 514 284 7330
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