Today marks our one-year anniversary in this big old warehouse on Atlas Drive. It's the fourth location for ES, if you count my apartment as the first one. The team made this sneaky video about what it's like here at ES and how the past year has been, and they shared it with us at lunch today. I'm embarrassed that this made me cry so much, but really life doesn't get much better than this. Thank you, team, for making what we do possible, and thank you, Chris, for going boldly down this road with me. I couldn't not share this with the world.
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Release Notes: WWC 2017
Our Warm Weather Collection has arrived. I’m thrilled to share these pieces with you - garments centered around warm climates, with pieces designed for ultimate comfort and simplicity. Lightweight linens,...
BTS: Warm Weather Collection 2017
Our Warm Weather Collection will complete our transition to a fully seasonless company. Instead of generating new product every three months, we’ll have three core collections available year-round. This lets us...
The ES Team & The CWC Styles You Love
It’s no secret that our clothes are made to be lived in. We are shameless about focusing on versatile, functional, comfortable, and hard-working clothes that are at home in a...
BTS: The Process of Our Knitwear Collaboration
On any given day from fall through spring, you can find me in a good sweater. Despite my love for it, knitwear is not my expertise. So to bring the...
Money Talk
I’m here on New Year’s Day with something kind of random to talk about. It’s actually more than one thing, it’s a kind of hodge-podge of things that have been...
Evening In + Evening Out
I talk a lot about versatility and functionality. Those words mean many different things to ES, but versatility in occasion is one of the big focuses of each piece...
Ask Me Anything: Personal
Q: Who is your fashion icon? A: Right now, I’m having a moment with Diane Keaton! I also really love Sophia Loren and her incredible confidence. I’m really interested in...
Ask Me Anything: Professional
Q: How did you start? A: This is always a hard question for me to answer because there wasn’t a clear, defining moment. I sewed in college and started selling...
An ES Gift Guide
Our team has grown significantly this year, and, as I was searching for something to get everyone this holiday season, I couldn’t settle on a gift that seemed...
Three Outfits, Day to Night
As the holidays approach, the internet can be a pretty intense place. It can be overstimulating and overwhelming with brands imploring you to shop...
BTS: Our Knitwear Collaboration
On any given day from fall through spring, you can find me in a good sweater. Despite my love for it, knitwear is not my expertise. So to bring the...
Our Muse: Eileen Ray
EILEEN RAY Little Seed Farm is a favorite company around Tennessee - their products are beloved as are the folks who run the operation. As they put it, their mission...
ES Halloween: 2016
We have had some pretty epic parties here at ES, but this Halloween was truly stellar. Last Friday we did a team costume contest, and I expected to see some...
CWC 2016: Oregon
Our editorial shoots are an opportunity to paint a picture, to tell the story of a collection. To explore concepts and communicate visually beyond the utilitarian...
CWC: The Beginning of the Story
For the first time in a long time, I am struggling to find words. I’m sitting in a hotel bed at the Imperial River Company in Maupin, Oregon. It’s not...
The Cold Weather Collection
Our Cold Weather Collection is launching October 4th. Many of you have been wondering about our Fall/Winter collection, but we are doing things...
The Living Room
The concept for The Living Room developed pretty organically, as a kind of convergence of two desires I’d been feeling for a while. One was a desire to...
One Strand At A Time
Several years ago, I met Allison Shelton at the Porter Flea market here in Nashville. I had just started my business (it was still an Etsy shop!), and it was...
Our Muse: Lisa Przystup
Lisa first caught my attention because she is arrestingly beautiful. We have been drawn to using real-life women who inspire us in our campaigns…
Traveling With Signature
In May, Chris and I went on our first vacation in quite some time. We don’t get away much, and it’s hard to leave a young and growing business for...
Meant For Keeps
Picturing a woman opening up a package from Elizabeth Suzann is something I do often. A package she’s curated with intention, purchasing her favorite pieces...
SS16: Narrows of the Harpeth
Our Spring/Summer Collection this year was designed for the heat, for the outdoors, for the sticky, humid days in the middle of summer where the sun is high and you...
We've Moved!
The first week of November last year, my husband and I found ourselves in a massive, black warehouse in the middle of the night, bundled in sweaters and gloves...
Our Muse: Jennifer Jeremias
I met Jennifer a few years ago at Porter Flea here in Nashville. I had just moved to Nashville, and it was the first time I had ever sold my clothing under...
SS16: New York City
This March, we traveled to NYC to photograph the SS16 Collection. I’ve written before about the inspiration for this season - warm weather, traveling, learning...
Our Muse: Erin Boyle
I have been looking forward to this muse feature from the moment I reached out to Erin about participating. She is the author of one of my favorite blogs...
SS16: The Process
I’ve never been a warm weather person. I’ve written before about how I prefer fall and winter - I’m much more at home swathed and wrapped in layers. To say...
Our Muse: Rosie Kovacs
I so admire Rosie's skill - she has the eye and commitment to detail and quality that many good designers strive for. She co-founded and runs the hand-crafted...
Thoughts on Signature
The Signature Collection didn’t start out as “The Signature Collection.” It began with my first real collection - Spring/Summer 2014 - the first season I released...
Our Muse: Maya Jankelowitz
I first stumbled across Maya on instagram - a friend was traveling in NYC, and posted a photo of a beautiful dish and these adorable sugar packets from her...
The Elise Dress
I am so honored to share this story with you all. When I designed the Elise Dress, I was trying to make the little black dress I’ve always wanted. Something...
Our Muse: Lisa & Rebekka of Earthen
These ladies embody exactly what I love about this city. They are both brilliantly talented and are running their own creative businesses. They just moved…
Warmth
Rich warmth - the natural response to our last editorial, full of blues and grays and cool neutrals. I look to clothing frequently as a source of comfort, power, and...
Our Muse: Maryanne Moodie
I was a huge fan of Maryanne's long before we connected personally. Working with textiles all day, I have found weaving to be an art form that really appeals to me…
Shoes: The Process
As a designer, it’s incredibly hard to let things go, particularly when it comes to the creation of a product. Quality of construction, ethical manufacturing...
BTS: FW15 Shoot
We shot the FW15 collection with such a talented team. Take a peek at our day in the studio, and get a sneak preview of some of the FW15 collection!...
"Cool Tones" FW15
We photographed some of my favorite FW15 pairings in our most recent editorial shoot, and looking back on the images I see such a clear pattern of dressing. The fall...
Our Muse: Jessie Baylin
Dressing artists has always been my intent - and while not all of our customers earn their living through art, I think so many women are creating and living their lives...
Our Muse: Ivy Elrod
Ivy, along with her husband Josh, is the owner of gorgeous Nashville interiors shop, Wilder. They relocated here from New York, where Ivy was a Rockette...
BTS: Signature Shoot
We recently rephotographed our entire Signature Collection, adding in new colors of old favorites, cleaning up design details, and rounding out the collection...
Stripes
I struggle with prints and patterns. I'm so drawn to them when I'm shopping and exploring - there is something about rich, vibrant, chaos in textiles that attracts my eye...
Traveling Light
When I designed the SS15 collection, I really focused on the practicality and versatility of basics. Those are always at the forefront of my design philosophy, but...
Our Muse: Barb Keller
We ran into Barb when the whole team was out plant shopping for the studio. In the midst of picking out a slew of trees and greens for our workspace was...
Los Angeles: SS15
These are some polaroids I snapped back in March, when we traveled to LA to photograph the look book for our SS15 collection. It was (surprisingly) my...
Our Muse: Jesse Maria
Jesse is one of the coolest people I know. She is the kind of girl that just makes you want to be her, even before you know her…
Holiday Presentation
We had such an incredible time last week putting on our first solo event. It was a presentation rather than a traditional show, so everyone shopped, mingled...
FW14
Fall is my season. I know everyone says that, but it’s true. It’s the time of year I feel the most like myself, the most comfortable, the most invigorated. The...
Our Muse: Melaena Cadiz
We met Melaena several months ago, when she was beginning her cross-country tour with her talented husband and photographer, Mikael Kennedy...
Wide Eyed Legless
The lovely Madelynn Furlong (of the tightly curated blog Wide Eyed Legless) took a few of our S/S14 pieces with her to Hawaii this summer. These are some of favorite...
