UPDATED Sample Sale: Sunshine and Shadow and Osborn Design
On Sunday March 6 from 2 to 7, you might feel like you live in New York or LA.
Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Mar 01, 2011 at 09:30AM
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Slideshow: Sunshine and Shadow and Osborn Design treat you to the life of a fashion insider at a sample sale on Capitol Hill on Sunday March 6. Here, looks from the former’s spring/summer 2010 collection.
View Slideshow » Illustration:The Osborns make shoes for ladies and fellas, for high-top folks as well as straightforward oxford types.
View Slideshow » Illustration:From Sunshine and Shadow’s spring/summer 2010 look book; unclaimed items from that collection are on offer this weekend.
View Slideshow » Illustration:Osborn Design is all over the Ikat and ethnic textile thing. Or rather, you’re all over it in Osborn’s oxfords.
View Slideshow » Illustration: View Slideshow » Illustration:If you lived in New York or LA, you’d check the sample sale listings in the alt weeklies or on the city mag blogs, or you’d wait to hear about so-and-so’s loft sale from your brother’s ex-wife’s sister. Both cities have garment districts and highly populated pools of designers, fabricators, and showrooms. You’d be privy to some pretty rad stuff.
But you live in Seattle, and you’re privy to a lot of rad stuff they don’t even know about in those other places, so it all more or less works out. Still, it’s a fairly big deal that on Sunday, March 6 from 2 to 7 two really great designers will be offering up some past season goods at wholesale to you and your town.
Lily Raskind is a Seattle native whose vibrantly imagined line Sunshine and Shadow has been featured in many a fresh, inventive editorial. After studying textiles at RISD, living and working in New York for some time, and establishing herself as a master of that modern, wear-anywhere shift dress/tunic top boxy/clean slouch aesthetic, Raskind came back to the Northwest and began designing a line for Urban Outfitters. Kind of a local girl-done-good success story, no?
Pieces from Sunshine and Shadow’s gorgeously color-blocked Spring 2010 collection will be way, way below retail at the sale. Check the slideshow for visuals.
Osborn Design creators Carla and Aaron Osborn are not Seattleites, but their friend, the artist Justine Ashbee, is. The Osborn’s patterned co-ed oxfords and high-tops are key pieces in cool kid uniforms from Ballard to Brooklyn and beyond, but they go further than that, too — in terms of genesis, materials, methodology, and outfit-transformation value.
Men’s and women’s rad pattern shoes will be at wholesale or lower on Sunday. We’re talking about one-off styles, styles that’ve never been in the online shop, and a good range of sizes. See the slideshow for examples.
UPDATE 3/1 1p PLEASE NOTE: Sales are CASH ONLY.
The sale is being held at a private resident at 1820 16th Ave (near Denny) #203. There will be a sign on the door with a phone number to use for entry. Use it. Opportunities like this don’t come around all the time.
At least not around here.
Osborn Design Studios shoes are THE best! I got my first pair the Christmas of ‘08 and they are a spring time staple! I can’t wait to get more!
Those blue shorts are pretty awesome, too….