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Eye See You
<p>I'm so pleased to have covetable, collectible stationery by Minnie Olga aka Lauren McIntosh on the shelves of our tiny shop. Her own store, Tail of the Yak, is legendary and does not have a website, so one must imagine the wonders all the more! One day I will visit. <a href="https://www.catbirdnyc.com/designers/minnieolga.html">Until then</a>... xo Leigh</p>
NYFW as seen from my couch
The most fashion-y thing I did this fashion week was wear my new Italian nightgown to visit my best friend's new baby boy in the hospital that both she and me and my daughter were born in. I'm also enjoying my usual internet prowl around the shows I like to look at (Rodarte, Marc Jacobs, Simone Rocha, Miu Miu, Prada, Cecilie Bahnsen, No 21, Rochas, The Row, Valentino) to search for some styling inspirations, ie how to wear my socks and old party dresses, t-shirts I've inherited from my husband (and my new favorite from Rony), and sweatpants come winter. And then of course there is the glory of the colors - I like it like candy, sorbet, pastels, but with a streak of weird and mainly black and white (best treated themselves as colors). Currently, I aspire to the perfect plastic tote (see attached Simone Rocha for Moncler reference) to house my brown-orange-seafoam plaid Prada pouch, and my daughter's bottle.
xo Leigh
A thing I love: literary newsletters
I manage to keep up to date with all the latest happenings about 50+ year old literary scandals and the gossip of said demi monde with a retinue of literary newsletters, including but not currently limited to: Lit Hub (oh how I covet their unpurchasable Joan Didion tote!), The Paris Review, TLS, and NYRB (though i was very mad at them for publishing the article revealing the identity of Elena Ferrante!).
xo Leigh
Dress to impress a donkey and a fairy queen.
Current mania for dresses paired with sneakers as evidenced by: myself, my small daughter, and I believe Titania pictured here, were she to hike up her party dress to show you her kicks.
xo Leigh
Slip slip
Scoop!
Summer take me I'm yours
(though i will say the same to fall and winter and spring too - i'm profligate in my season love)
xo Leigh
Catbird Spotlight: Lauren W
Read MoreLauren is a Louisiana native that moved to Brooklyn last year to work for us! She is a bright light in our jewelry studio - always ready with a joke and a big smile. Here is a little bit about her and the work she does here at Catbird HQ!
were it not for the chartreuse
We are not yet in the stretch of summer where the cool dark of a corpse by the side of a pond laden with lily pads feels like the right place to be, but we are always in the days of dresses in colors like cold scoops of ice cream sidled up next to black as night, white as a lamb shifts.
-Leigh
La Rose de Malmaison by Jean-Louis Victor Viger du Vigneau via Pleasure Garden
A swan's messy throne.
Learning about swans today for so many new swan things, and my favorite bit thus far: swans are notoriously messy nest builders.
xo Leigh
"Pierre climbed out of bed"
I can't stop listening to Maira Kalman interviews. How does that relate to Pierre, by Elizabeth Peyton? New York? Observing? Maira's mother never asked why, or what, they thought of art. Just look, she said!
xo Leigh
