Asta Masiulytė

I’ve mentioned my love of scarves several times on this site, so I was thrilled to discover Lithuanian designer Asta Masiulytė’s colorful, hand-painted collection. These lush vibrant scarves are perfect for summer and make great transition pieces for fall. You know what else is perfect for summer? A great haircut. I’ve found the most wonderful woman in Boston who did an amazing job at a ridiculous price. If you’re in the market for a great/ hidden/ no-frills Dominican salon and you’re really nice to me, I’ll hook you up with her contact info… Anyway, I digress… Back to fashion.

For more of Asta’s fantastic designs, check out her website here, facebook here and purchase at NJAL. More about the designer:

Asta Masiulytė was born in Lithuania, a small country on the cost of

the Baltic Sea. From an early age she watched her grandmother using

the loom to make traditional Lithuanian quilts and weaving mats out of

old clothing scraps, while her love for knit-wear came from watching

her mother work at a knitting machine. In her teenage years, Asta was

often embroidering and crocheting, her house was always full of

thread, fabric and knit wear, so it’s not surprising that later she

choose to study Textile Art at Kaunas Art Institute Vilnius Art

Academy. With the master degree in her pocket and driven by love, Asta

ended up in Spain. Here she plunged into the world of fashion and

started designing clothes. Asta Masiulyte is a designer who focuses on

the mixing of textiles and handmade details. Her priority is always

natural materials: silk, wool, and linen. At the moment Asta’s focus

is on hand painted silk scarves and their promotion. She believes that

hand painted scarves are wearable art; it is not mass production

without a human touch. Hand-work is a direct contact between a

designer and a consumer, it’s something spiritual.

Asta’s scarves’ series “Touch” was inspired by how the dye “spills

out” on the silk. This is the world of expression, watercolors, color

bursts, dynamics, layered spaces… Each layer has a deep personal

touch as silk cannot stand negligence and carelessness. Each scarf is

unique because it is impossible to reproduce exactly the same pattern.

A scarf is the expression of designer’s work and the ability of silk

to “spread” colors. The result of this is always unique and

unpredictable. Asta has a dream that one day two charming women

wearing her hand painted scarves of the same design would meet and

decide to play a “find 10 differences” game.

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