Posts Tagged ‘Boutique 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.
Summer is officially here and when it’s hot out, the last thing you want is long hair sticking to you and making you even hotter!!! Put that pony up in style, decorate your hair with roses, daisies and crazy dreads (from the KL Boutiques hair adorning superstar Alison)… make your hairstyles fun and interesting!!!
Notice Katharina and Hanna in the above collage? A little sneak peek of the Circus Smirkus costumes that are currently in production 
Check out this cool hair tutorial to get a quick pin-up style (you can also put hair up in a ponytail for this look) with all the flower adornments you love 
Enjoy!
xox
Madeleine Turgeon is an award winning artistic expressionist. Taking inspiration from the natural world all around her and injecting her oil paintings with beautiful and expressive colors, it is no wonder her eye for beauty is the perfect compliment to the Katrin Leblond boutique and collections. Displayed on the walls of our St. Laurent store (and nationally in both private and public collections), Turgeon’s paintings will reach out and grab your attention while sifting through our racks upon racks of fashion goodies … all pieces are for sale, so if one catches your heart and doesn’t let go you can bring it home with you!
Boutique Newsflash:
- Jaclyn Murray Ebb and Flow purses on sale 50% off. KL leggings on discount reg $ 85 now $65. Polk a dot Cardigan on sale reg.$74 now $49.
- Lili Bordelic will be playing at Dix Onze Sunday May 30th (tomorrow) 2010 on Saint Denis 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Come by the boutique Sunday between 2:00pm and 6:00pm and wish Katrin a Happy Birthday Month!
xox
Alright everyone… it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the Athena dresses are OFFICIALLY in-store! This runway highlight (and equally talked-about statement piece amongst Montreal Fashion Week attendees), will absolutely be flying off the racks with the beautiful weather we have been having as of late! Priced at $325 in an abundance of fresh and classic colors (turquoise, black, fuschia and grey) and in sizes XS to XL…wait too long and they will be gone – you have been warned!!!
Gorgeous draped jersey cotton embellished with hand appliqued frills makes for an all around amazing summer look. Wear it casually poolside, dress it up for a special event or rock it on an urban level with a funky/flirtatious handbag and wedges! This dress will take you high and low and become your new best friend .
I just know this will be the next signature KL dress… this one is history in the making (and you can hold me to it)!
xox
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We love Robyn Chalmers AKA Fashionista514
Isn’t she fabulous? Just look at this lady…stylish, multitalented and totally self-made star. I met Robyn in 2008 when she worked as an intern in my studio. She did sewing, cutting and helped to grow the business in it’s early years. She invested a lot of heart in all that she did. Within a year she was also the most beloved big sister/baby sitter/best friend to my manager’s daughter Aya, taking her horseback riding and swimming. Where do you find an intern like that, I ask you?
This is Robyn today. I think she looks stunning. I might add that she has always looked this good. She used to be the only one in the studio with full make-up and heels. The rest of us were barefoot and wearing our cozies. I was still living in my studio at the time and often showed up for work in the most unglamorous outfit of all: my pijamas. Robyn once told me that she brought her headshots to modeling agencies and they all turned her away, telling her to loose 15 pounds first. Well, that was not an option for Robyn. If you read her blog, you will come to learn that she loves food about as much as she loves fashion. So, Robyn marched away from the modeling agencies horrified that the industry is still that narrow minded and started taking pictures of herself. Thus her blog was born: Fashionista514.com
Robyn is also the reason our blog was born. She started it, bought the domain name, set up WordPress and wrote the first 100 posts. Thank you Robyn. It wouldn’t have happened without you. You are an amazing manifester! You are a star!
Above are pictures taken by Barrie Macleod at out photo booth party last year in the store. Robyn did the make-up for over 60 women who were all undressing and getting dolled up for the camera. These team shots were taken at the end of a long night.
I love this picture. It was taken the day before my fashion show last year. I was dropping by fashion week to deliver my press packs and I saw Robyn in the lounge. Italian Vague (am I remembering this correctly Robyn?) had a photographer there who took a picture of her (without me) just because she looked that good. This week she is celebrating her 1 year anniversary as the founder and star and writer of Fashionista514. Congratulations! We love you!