MuS Leather Goods


There’s much that’s impressive about Matt Hutchinson’s MuS Goods label. Entirely handmade by the designer in San Francisco, the young brand’s collection of ironclad accessories evince a know-how and confidence of craft that transcend the label’s newbie status. The leather goods collection is made from repurposed manufacturing scraps the designer has collected from various local garment makers. Read More »

A Closer Look: Stanley & Sons


Every so often I will come across an image that so perfectly encapsulates my own taste and aesthetic, it’s as though I’m looking at a still taken from one of my own daydreams. That was precisely the feeling I had the first time I saw the bags by Stanley & Sons. When I then learned that each bag was handmade in the US from salvaged and reclaimed textiles, what started out feeling like a daydream suddenly entered the realm of full-on fantasy. “Really?” I thought “Can I have my cake and eat it too?”

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Instead of Rent: April, 2010

The moderately and (very) immoderately priced goods that I’d rather spend it on this month.

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