WHEN I AM FEELING BLUE

... I LIKE TO READ THIS LETTER FROM THE AMAZING KATHY ROSE.  SHE'S GOT MY BACK.  I LOVE HER.  SHE LOVES ME.  I LOVE HER RAMBLE JAMBEL WRITING STYLE. I  RECEIVED THIS NOTE THE NIGHT I PRESENTED THE FILM "LA BLOOM" FOR SPRING '08 AT TAYLOR DE CORDOBA.  IT MAKES ME WANT TO CARRY ON.

CANVAS IN WAITING

I heart Canvas.  Tote bags anyone?  Coming soon to a Jesse Kamm web store near you!

THE BOARDWALK

Can we just revel in this image for a moment.

My day.  These folks are so awesome.  The boy on the right is my son's great-grandfather.  The man next to him is his great-great-grandfather.  Those bloomers have me stunned with envy.  Great Grandma Sylvia reminds me of Coco.  Jesse Kamm Spring 2012 perhaps???  Would you wear it?  Thanks Golda Bear.

REAL SIMPLE/ REAL COOL

The Jesse Kamm Pocket Tank was featured in this month's issue of Real Simple, woo hoo.  The tank is now available in 4 amazing spring colors at www.jessekamm.com!!!

JESSE KAMM FALL 2011 ON REFINERY 29!

http://www.refinery29.com/jesse-kamm-s

STUDIO VISIT WITH CLARE VIVIER

LAST WEEK I WENT TO MY FRIEND CLARE'S STUDIO FOR A LONG OVERDUE VISIT.  WE SWAPPED.  SHE PUT A NEW JESSE KAMM SACK DRESS AND A POCKET TANK TOP IN HER COLLECTION, AND I WALKED WITH SOME FAB NEW LEATHER WARES.  SHE TOOK MY PHOTO, THEN TOOK PHOTOS OF HER BAGS.  I LOVE CLARE'S WORK.  I EVEN LOVE ALL OF HER PAPER GOODS THAT COME WITH THE BAGS.  AS ALWAYS, I AM INSPIRED.

HOW GOOD DOES THIS KELLY GREEN SHOULDER BAG LOOK WITH MY VINTAGE GUCCI WALLET?  YO YO

BADLANDS

This weekend I went to a beach.  It was millions of years old and at the top of a mountain.  I collected rocks.

MOM AND DAD

I am sitting at my desk totaling up wool yardage for fall, listening to Mark Ronson and my boy Alexu.  My mom is coming to visit from Illinois in less than three hours.  I am full of glee.  My mom is awesome.  My dad is awesome.  When I was little, my family was very different from the other families in the midwest.  I think we were straight up hippies.  My mom is an amazing potter, and my dad is a man of many talents.  He built the house I grew up in with his bare hands.  He learned how to build a house by reading library books.  They were the ones who made me who I am today.  I know how to make things, because they made things.  I thought I should share these snapshots.  My parents were foxy.  We rocked underpants as hats, and drove a boss Plymoth.  What a life.

LA MAGAZINE/ JESSE KAMM A-Z

http://lamag.com/LAtoZ/article.aspx?id=29021

LEARN TO SWIM

This morning's big wave alert made me glad to know how to swim.  I was recently at the library doing some research.   I found this photograph in a book.  These are young navy lads learning to swim...on land.  So strange, yet so wonderful. Right?

MY IDOL, CIRCA 1971

THIS WEEK MARKS THE PASSING OF ONE OF MY MOST INFLUENTIAL STYLE ICONS, SHIRLEY BROWER.  SHIRLEY WAS THE GRANDMOTHER OF MY MAIN MAN LUKE.  HER TASTE WAS PERFECTION.  SHE WAS MORE COMFORTABLE IN HER SKIN THAN ANYONE I HAVE EVER MET.  SHE HAD A GLORIOUS LAUGH, AND IF I COULD BE AS PUT TOGETHER AS SHE WAS JUST 1 DAY A MONTH, I WOULD BE CONTENT.  SHE WAS A HUGE SUPPORTER OF JK.  I THINK OF HER EVERY DAY.  

I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME SNAPSHOTS OF HER IN 1971. THE GORGEOUS MAN ON HER ARM IS HER HUSBAND NED BROWER.  NED WAS A FASHION MAN.  HE OWNED BEAU BRUMMEL CRAVAT HOUSE.  SOME OF YOU OLDER READERS MAY REMEMBER HIM AS THE MAN WHO GAVE RALPH LAUREN HIS START.  RALPH LIPSCHITZ  (THAT WAS HIS NAME BACK THEN) AND NED STARTED A HIGH END LINE OF TIES CALLED THE "POLO" LINE.  WHEN RALPH WENT OUT ON HIS OWN, GRANDPA NED GAVE HIM THE POLO LINE AS HIS PARTING GIFT.  WHAT A GUY.  

THESE IMAGES ARE FROM A SILK BUYING TRIP TO ITALY. 

STRAIGHT OFF THE YSL RUNWAY, RIGHT?

WITH A DAPPER SILK DEALER

NOT AFRAID TO STRIKE A POSE WITH A DOOR KNOCKER

SO PERFECT, MY GOD!

SHE BRED NEWFOUNDLANDS.  ONE PUP, NAMED BEAU BRUMMEL, 

WON BEST-IN-SHOW AT WESTMINSTER.  THIS IS NOT HIM.  NOTICE NED'S 

AMAZING LEATHER MAN BAG, AND SHIRLEY'S GUCCI MESSANGER BAG

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT SHIRL!

CASUAL BY THE SEA.  SO GOOD!

I MISS YOU BAD, GIRL.

A FOREST BURNED TO CHARCOAL, DAY INTO NIGHT

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JESSE KAMM AND CLAIRE OSWALT.  WE WERE IN A FOREST ON A FRIEND'S PROPERTY.  IT HAD BURNED IN A FIRE LONG AGO.  THE TREES LEFT BLACK ON YOUR FINGERS.  IT MADE FACE PAINT. 

AND THEN THE MOON ARRIVED.

ONE FOGGY MORNING

THIS MORNING I WOKE UP TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FOG WHICH HAD ROLLED ALL THE WAY UP THE HILLSIDE TO OUR FRONT DOOR.  IT REMINDED ME OF A MORNING A FEW YEARS BACK.  I DUG UP THESE SNAPSHOTS OF ANOTHER FOGGY DAY... WE FELT LIKE WE WERE ON THE EDGE OF THE EARTH.

                                                                              CLAIRE OSWALT

                                                                                  JESSE KAMM

                                                                                 LUKE BROWER

                                                                                  SAM SHELTON

                                                                    JASON SCHWARTZMAN

           THE LANDSCAPE...