Cute Vintage Reworked Bags at this Month's Design Hive Market

This month at the Design Hive Market my booth was across from an innovative artist who paints cute designs on vintage purses. She also makes fun quirky clear plastic and ink pendants. Two Toe Designs sells on etsy.com too. Be sure to check out her store! This was a crowd pleaser and one of my favorites as well:


Speaking of the Design Hive Market, be sure to check it out the first Sunday of every month in Cambridge, MA. It's indoors so it's great on a hot or rainy day! There are always a great mix of innovative designers, a live DJ and fun extras like fashion shows and vintage clothing contests with great prizes! Check the website for each month's theme!

Mesocyclone Fashion Show: The Re-fa-shen Collection

At this month's Design Hive Market, Fashion with Impact presented Mesocyclone "celebrate the awakening of Spring through green fashion. Featuring the re-fa-shen collection". Many of the designers use repurposed fabrics, either from vintage clothing or other salvaged fabrics. Recycling fabrics to give them new life and revitalized look.

Contributing Designers included: Amanda Antunes of d. aMa Design, Tricia Wilde, Lyric Couture, Photosynthesis, Shannon Glasheen, Jillian Gorski (accessories) and B;aires (accessories).


I love the richness of the bluegray babydoll dress.


The red reconstructed sweater is my favorite piece of the show. It has a unique shape, innovative design and great texture. Plus, it is a wonderful way to repurpose a sweater!!


While I'm not typically fond of plaid, this pristinely tailored dress has a playful use of the plaid at the bust with fun delicate straps at the shoulders and back giving an unexpected pairing with plaid.


The white shirt has incredible architectural qualities to it which I enjoy.


Be sure to check out these eco-conscious, sustainability savvy designers!

YazBerry at Design Hive Market!

YazBerry booth at the Design Hive Market. Be sure to check it out the first Sunday in May if you missed it this month! It is an awesome event with some really unique vendors, dj'd music and something extra each month like a fashion show, or a clothing swap.

Here are some pictures of the booth before the show started.

YazBerry Selling New Designs at Design Hive Market in Cambridge, SUNDAY, APRIL, 5!

Event Reminder: Rock your eco-look this Sunday!

FOR MORE INFO ON DESIGN HIVE CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE: www.designhivemarket.com

YazBerry Fashion will be selling many never before seen designs and vintage clothes and purses at this month's Design Hive Market.

Many of my handmade items incorporate repurposed fabrics, antique kimono obi's, vintage scarves as liners and more repurposing can be found!

In addition to our regular music-meets-indie market mashup, on Sunday April 5th, we’ll be hosting the “Get Green and Groovy” event featuring products made from salvaged and recycled materials by local indie designers and a fashion show presented by Fashion With Impact (FWI). FWI will adorn the runway with recycled fashions and debut its Re/fash-en collection of unique garments made from recycled fabrics (fashion show starts at 1pm)

Plus, Autonomie Project, a new Boston-based fair trade fashion company, will have artists on-hand to help shoppers design and paint their own Ethletic custom footwear and screen print their own t-shirts.

Just a quick reminder that we've got some great (groovy & green) events planned for Sunday:
- Sustainable fashion show at 1pm by Fashion with Impact
- Design-your-own fair trade t's and hightops with Autonomie Project
- Live DJ spinning hot tracks all day

Hope to see you there!


*Much of the copy originally found on Design Hive Market event page on Facebook.

Design Hive Market is Better than Honey!

Disregard the cheesy title, I'm just excited! I stumbled upon an incredible designer's market today by way of my favorite fashion blogger's myspace page: Punky Style. Be sure to check out her fashion blog and her vintage store on etsy.com.



Punky collaborated with MakeReady.us and shoestringmag.com, YOURfairygodSHOPPER.com to organize another fabulous (and huge!! about three times the size of the impressive swap she held in Worcester in August 2008, Swap 'til you Drop (click link to view my blog entry & photos)!) clothing swap! I brought a small bag of clothes to swap and had to send myself home quickly as I found TOO MANY things I liked including a mint DKNY Sweater...oh yeah, the swap was that good.

The quantity of cool things at the Design Hive Market almost need two entries to write about...but instead I will bless you with one, really long, juicy entry. I am completely enamored of Designer Nicole Deponte's line lilian asterfield. She repurposes vintage neckties into some beautiful neckware and obi style belts for women! I bought my self a scrumptious belt and am actually wearing it as I write this blog (along with an outfit I acquired at the swap today, yay insta-dress-up)...that's right!

I can honestly say this is some of the most innovative design work I have seen for a long time. Her architectural shapes really flatter the neck, waist and the vintage ties used. Wonderful color combinations and textures abound. And definitely the most innovative design work I have found at a market.

I was also very impressed with the unique shapes and fabric combinations used by Designer Saya Cullinan of Saya Studio. Saya generously answered my prying questions about her line and such. Thank you Saya!

There was a lot of stunning jewelry at the Design Hive Market today, however two Designer's collections really stand out: minta77.etsy.com who has really great shapes and tasty color combinations and cadencedesigns.etsy.com by Designer Cadence Mapes, whose love for paper not only lends itself to tempting packaging but bold jewelry as well!

The all out win for most creative packaging ever is Zamforia.com and Designer Jonathan. Zamforia t-shirts which have hip urban graphics and feature the word love in many different languages, come packaged in slick potato chip bags along with toys and other goodies! Talk about addicting!

Conclusion: YOU NEED TO GO TO THE DESIGN HIVE MARKET IN CAMBRIDGE EVERY FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH!!!

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Please note: Design Hive logo originally found on www.designhivemarket.com . Saya Studio Purse image found on Saya Studio's etsy.com store sayacully.etsy.com