Brooklyn in Paris at Le Showroom

I'm really excited to leave for Paris this time. I mean, I always am, but this time is different. Only two more days and my checklist's getting smaller (which is strange and makes me think I must be forgetting something).

In all the hours and work in getting Bonbon Oiseau ready to exhibit at the beautiful Le Showroom, I announce that I have a few surprises for you in the upcoming weeks while I'm away but I didn't tell you one of my best surprises which I've been saving until now: Last November, Hortensia, the wonderful organizer of Le Showroom, asked me if I would like to curate one of the rooms at the show this season. I could choose the designers I wanted to show and I could express any theme that I wanted. This really is an honor, considering Hortensia and her incredible team are extremely particular about the designers they choose--designers have to be a perfect fit for the philosophy of Le Showroom: away from the mass-produced, no hype without intergrity and celebrating new directions in design. Oh and the space(!) an old 19th c. atelier divided into light filled rooms, like a beautiful museum, is a dream place, so it was such an honor on many levels to be asked to do this. Without hesitation, I immediately thought of a few Brooklyn designers I know whose work I truly love and respect and would represent some of the best of new wave of New York designers at Le Showroom.

Without further adieu, these are the three that will be joining me this season to represent Brooklyn. All three collections are the result of a group of incredible designers, and I thought their collections were perfectly suited to be together, not just because all are NY based designers but because of the skilled understanding of their materials in the function of their designs and their intellectual approach to their collections: Here they are, {Brooklyn in Paris}:

Dunlin Bags
by Shiho Nagashima and Ramana Goldstein





Judith Haas Jewelry
by Judith Haas

Hortensia Handmade

by Michelle Peglau




and then there's little ole' Bonbon...by me.

I'm so honored to have been asked to curate these collections and especially to be exhibiting with all of this incredible talent...
Even though I am leaving in a few days I'll still be coming to you as much as I can, live from Paris--but I also have more surprises in store while I'm away, so stay tuned s'il vous plait!