OMG… can you believe how fast May is zipping by? I refuse to let this summer slip through my fingertips like last summer!! I have tentative plans for a trip in June and will be on the Vineyard for the 4th (maybe I will see you there?) … anyway, my summer wardrobe is officially boring so I’m definitely in the market for some fun new stuff.
I am painfully bad with my website e-mail… so I apologize that I am not giving the proper person credit for Popomomo (if it’s you, shoot me an email today and I promise I will include the fact that you suggested this awesome designer in the post!). Anyway, I am also sorry for all the unanswered emails. I really appreciate all the site suggestions and inquiries and I respond to all of them, I am just a bit behind. Ok enough rambling… more on today’s designer:
Popomomo stands for post-postmodern movement which designer Lizz Wasserman explores through clothing. Instead of floating in relative perspectives and endlessly reworking the past, her work focuses on the new and true.
Growing up in Milwaukee, Lizz started her design career at the age of six by passing her mom sketches of clothing for ‘production.’ She soon learned how to sew and let her mom get back to work. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in sociology, she received an industrial sewing machine and a dress form for graduation.
Lizz has been designing popomomo since 2002, when she started designing for Urban Outfitters and Free People in Philadelphia. Looking for something to balance her mass-market and consumption-heavy day gig, she found in popomomo the freedom to try any shape or idea.
Since then, the line has evolved into a full two-season collection while Lizz has moved to brooklyn and now LA. Popomomo was nominated for an New Garde LA gen arts award in early 2008 and was selected for the first Gen Art/soyjoy fashionably natural show which kicked off LA fashion week in October of 2008.
The Popomomo line is locally produced in LA using sustainable and/or organic fabrics and wash techniques and tries to work with other companies with similar beliefs whenever possible.
Check out Popomomo’s website and buy on ShopFlick and Green With Glamor! (Yes dad, the top dress is actually named “The Buckminster”)
P.S.
- If you are in the Boston area, the wonderful ladies at Black Cat Rescue just got a litter of adorable little black kittens that need loving homes (they rescue all sorts of cats from all sorts of situations, not just black cats!). Stop by Black Cat Rescue for more details!
- My friend from back in the day, Rebecca has an awesome website called OM Girl that you should definitely check out!
- If you are looking for a good workout, you can thank Kate for suggesting Core Fusion. Classes are run out of Exhale Spas but you can also buy the video at places like Amazon.com. Take it from someone who was subjected to torturous workouts while running D1 track & Field, this is probably the best workout I’ve ever done. Definitely worth checking out a class. The best part? If you buy the video, most come with a coupon for a free class!
6 comments
Lindsey L. says:
May 20, 2009
wow urban outfitters and free people are two of my favorite places to shop for clothing at. thats pretty cool Lizz Wasserman work for them and designed clothes for them. no wonder they have nice clothing. i would like to work for those two companies too in the future. but i do like Lizz’s Popomomo ideas in her designs. it is very fresh and modern, like it’s suppose to be, “true and new.” my favorite dress up there has to be between the second and third one. i like how the back of her dresses are revealing but it is done so with different open back designs. oh and i hope people do go to adopt a kitten or any other cats at the rescue center for cats! i just got a white tan and grey colored kitten from a friend of mine whos cat just had kittens 6 weeks ago. it is so adorable!
daria says:
May 28, 2009
wow, thanks for the item on popomomo, her clothes are simply fantastically chic
Jennifer Stott says:
May 28, 2009
Thanks so much for spreading the word! We can use all the help we can get this summer!!
kelly says:
Jun 8, 2009
Hey, urban socialite. Love you’re promoting yoga. Just wanted to let you know the phrase, “Get Your OM On” is a pending trademark/copyright of Innerspace Yoga LLC. If you’d like more information, please feel free to visit http://www.innerspaceyogas.com. I would just ask that you not use our very clever phrase without appropriate attribution. Thanks & Namaste, kg.
urbansocialite says:
Jun 8, 2009
I have never heard of Innerspace Yoga and literally put no thought into the post title (I didn’t actually find it to be that clever, lol). Anyway, changed it up so you’re good.
nicole says:
Aug 11, 2009
All I can say is date with ned dress and ra ra skirt!
glad to have found popomomo, love lizz’s work.