Handmade With Love
Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day, everyone! Along with heart-shaped baking, this month, we’re running away with Daughter, want to make you and The Kooks happy, think you’re like “A Red, Red Rose,” fell a little bit in love with Lykke Li, joined PJ Harvey in remembering the first kiss and day dreamed with The Beach Boys. Dance around to the entire mixtape here, and have a wonderful, love-filled day! xo.
{Art by Emma Block}
Back in June, we fell in love with Emma Block and her adorable illustrations, with her Style Icon collection striking a chord. The London-based artist has added more vintage-tinged art paying homage to the fashionable ladies of decades past, including Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and the bewitching Stevie Nicks. Swoon over the wonderful prints below, and head on over to Ms. Block’s shop for more.
We first fell in love with Emma Block’s work after discovering her Style Icon illustrations, and since then have become obsessed with her vintage-tinged art. Under the influence of old photos, 1950s illustrations, jazz and vintage fashion, her work carries a warm, retro feel with pieces that depict teatime, everyday life and fashion drawings, while others are drenched in nostalgia like her illustrated ode to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s childhood staple, The Secret Garden. The London-based illustrator also dabbles in stationary with a lovely range of greeting cards and to-do list templates. She collects her tools in teacups and jam jars, has sketchbooks piled on window sills and looks to an inspiration wall covered in postcards and photographs. Peek inside her adorable book filled studio after the jump, and visit Emma over on her website and Etsy.
If you’re anything like us, then you adore the 1960s. From shift dresses to Peter Pan collared minis; natural lips to heavily mascaraed eyelashes; pixie cuts to bouffants and braids, everything about that decade — fashion and makeup wise, anyway — was spot on. Illustrator Emma Block shares our affinity for that era in a series called Style Icon. The English artist put ink to paper with a collection of illustrated odes to ’60s legends like Edie Sedgwick, Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, and Jean Seberg. The series focuses in on their sense of style and trademark look — we’re especially fond of her Edie drawing, that Factory girl holds a special place in our heart. Girl crushes aside, Ms. Block’s drawings are wonderful and inspiring if you want to revamp your look with some vintage flair. Check ‘em out after the jump.
