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It's all the way summer and all I want to wear is cotton gauze and all I want to do is eat cucumber salads, read books, look at art and the sky.

We have replenished Prairie Underground's excellent cotton gauze separates.. don't miss them, they flew out of the store last time. The generous pockets on the pants are fab, and the shapes easy, flattering, cool.. in both meanings of the word.

Tess Michalik's paintings are gracing our walls, and living amongst them is a treat. A customer who happened upon us last weekend was moved to tears by them. What a gift to allow yourself to be moved by art! Don't deprive yourself. Stop in.

I wandered past the Diane Von Furstenberg store on West 14th Street recently and was thrilled to see Ashley Longshore's show celebrating iconic and inspiring women in the exuberant, campy way that only she can. I solidly recommend it.

And finally, make a beeline for the Tiny Pricks show at Lingua Franca NYC. The brainchild of fiber artist and activist Diana Weymar, but executed by oh so many hands, the store's walls are covered with pieces creatively embroidered with *45's most egregious statements. 

I appreciate people (female shop owners for the win here) using their platforms and their spaces to generate conversation, initiate thought, expand the necessary idea that being a citizen of the planet and this country means engaging with each other and looking out for one another, amplifying what you want to see more of, and calling out the bullshit when you see it.

Happy July. Come see me. Come shop, come chat, come hang out.

Oh yeah, and LOTS of things are on SALE.

On Tuesday June 11th we'll be celebrating the opening of Tess Michalik's show, The Progress of Love. Tess's work moves me. Her paintings are layered and the paint is thick. She gestures toward decorative interiors: wallpapers and elaborate finishes, sometimes explicitly and sometimes more impressionistically. The paintings are luxurious and rich while expressing both freedom and claustrophobia. I adore them. I want to eat them. 

I hope you come see for yourself.. as much as they reproduce beautifully, and they do, they are so much better in person.

As an added bonus, and also a stylistic counterpoint, we will also be joined by Althea Simons and her collection, Grammar NYC. Althea makes crisp white, and occasionally black, shirts out of organic cotton. They are manufactured here in NY and fulfill all my minimalist dreams: elegant in their simplicity, fresh and clean.

Last week we welcomed ceramic artist Gregory Knopp into the store for a trunk show. His cacti and egg-shaped air plant receptacles are gorgeous and wild. They reminded me a little of Louise Bourgeois' spidery and alien work. I love them. 

I convinced him to leave a nice assortment with us, so if you missed it, you're in luck. 

Photos below:

Hey loves,

public sphere inspiring us daily. 64 gorgeous cards out to the likes of: Christine Blasey Ford, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Nancy Pelosi, Stacy Abrahms and more.

Here are some pics. More events to come, and all are welcome.

Our January Sale continues, and there are still plenty of delicious bargains to be had. Xirena's dreamy alpaca sweaters are $149 from $282. And the baskets are overflowing with steals at $25, $50, and $75.

In the meantime, Hartford's first Spring shipment just arrived complete with new Liberty prints, and a sweet red linen dress with pockets(!). New beauties from Velvet arrived on Friday as well: fresh t-shirts, soft half-sleeve cashmere sweaters, and new silhouettes.

And pleasing to the bod and the pocketbook: Alternative Apparel sweats are back in stock along with their super cute leopard print tees.

We hope to see you soon.

xDiana

A peek at the pieces I'm dreaming about wearing right now:

Xirena's Dylan dress in Le Marais stripes

Xirena apres ski alpaca sweater in Vail

Matta cotton voile sarongs in cheerful stripes

Xirena cotton channing shirt in Le Marais stripes

Matta Sabina dress in cotton voile shot through with rainbow stripes of delicate metallic lurex

Xirena apres ski sweater in Taos stripes

Here we are at the end of 2018. It was a fast-forward kind of year here in DK-land. So much happening in the world and so many moments of feeling both powerless and powerful. There is pleasure and purpose in realizing that although things are broken, we each individually can make them better.. and when there is SO MUCH room for improvement, you can dig in wherever you want, it ALL helps.

To wit: we expanded our collaboration with artist Jenny Belin, showcasing more of her portraits of feminists, including more contemporary women: gun-control activist Emma Gonzalez, writer Rebecca Solnit, artist Amy Sherald, professor Anita Hill, and more.  We created buttons of many of them, so you can carry their images out into the world, because REPRESENTATION MATTERS.

In October we hosted the glorious Turning The Tide: Blue Wave Project from the Pen and Ink Brigade, a collective of women artists and illustrators. We raised over $8000 for voteriders.org, ensuring that people who needed assistance getting to the polls would have it. The artworks were spectacular, as was the opening party :)

This year I dug into it all by co-creating Persisticon. If you haven't checked it out yet, please do. It's a passion project: a social enterprise full of art, laughs, love, and making a difference in the world. Our ultimate goal is the election of pro-choice progressive women, but along the way we seek to foster community, provide platforms for funny women, support our local small businesses, make some art, and have fun. Here's the award winning poster Johanna Goodman did for the first Persisticon event, held in late March at the Bell House in Brooklyn:

When I started this post I planned to include a bunch of pretty new things from the resort collections pooling on the racks in the store.. but it's gotten so long I'm just gonna make another one...

Wishing you and yours all the blessings this world has to offer, and looking forward to seeing you in 2019. 

xDiana

The weather broke yesterday. Or at least the humidity did, and it's a pleasant 75 degrees, with a calm, overcast grey sky. It's delightful. So I pulled out a few sweaters. They've been squatting in the back room waiting patiently for a moment when their mere existence won't be offensive to summer-lovers, bent on guzzling up the rays.

I love summer for sure, but man am I happy to feel a gentle, slightly cool breeze skimming my skin after a few weeks of oppressive heat. And so. I'm celebrating by pulling out a few of our sweaters. There are more to come, but in the meantime here's a little cashmere tease from Velvet. Available in a rich brick orange-red, and deep cobalt blue.

If you're traveling somewhere cold, you're welcome to ask.. the back room has more cozy goodness from Xirena, Velvet, and Hartford holding out for appropriate weather, and we're happy to give you a sneak peek.

In other news:

The sale baskets are overflowing, and we've initiated a new system: everything in there is marked with a dot: blue, green, red, $25, $50, and $75. Lucky finds abound.