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Shop in shop in Amsterdam
Friday, April 16th, 2010
If you hadn’t heard already we’ve just opened a shop in shop in Amsterdam in Cowboys 2 Catwalk. The store is one of the best menswear stores in Holland with a rich mix of brands so we were delighted when they asked us to take over a floor in the store. The space is small but we’ve made it our own with little touches such as old wear boards from a pottery factory in North England, a few pieces of furniture that we designed in-house and one of the best selections of Folk outside of our own stores.
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New stockist in San Fran
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Union Made is our latest stockist in the US. One of the best menswear stores in San Francisco these guys have a nice selection of our clothes and shoes. See here for what ACL has to say about it.
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New store in Antwerp
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
We were across in Antwerp a couple of weeks ago to see our latest Folk stockist. ”Your” Antwerp is a 1000m2 space in the cool antique area of the city. We’re a little bit biased as it was designed by the same people that help us do our stores (IYA) but its a beautifully designed store that has a raw feel without being too industrial that lets the product shine out.
So if your in Antwerp (which is well worth a couple of days of pottering about), have a look….
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Folk ladies shoes in Shop at Bluebird
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
A selection of our shoes for ladies has just arrived at one of our favourite stores, Shop at Bluebird
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Folk in Denmark – Goods
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
We always welcome a visit from one of the stores that stock Folk and Shofolk abroad and last weekend we had the pleasure of Kasper, founder and owner of Goods in Copenhagen.
Kasper opened Goods in August ‘08 and it has become one of the most interesting destination mens boutiques in Denmark. Situated in the eastern part of Copenhagen called Østerbro, GOODS is a pleasantly small store stocking brands that are rarely see in Copenhagen and Kasper has created a cosy and friendly atmosphere in and around the shop.
The interior is a mix of a few specially made objects and some great flea market finds, such as old gym equipment, 50´s wooden palisander shelves, chairs and table all combined by small nicknacks such as ww 2 desert combat glasses, vintage bicycle repair books (which they sell) and much more.
Kasper says he likes to work with smaller companies, whom are experts in developing and refining their clothing each season and we’re delighted that he sees us in that category and chooses to stock Folk and Shofolk alongside a small number of others such as Garbstore, Acne, Norse Projects and the kings of underwear, Scheisser.
So if you are in Copenhagen please pop by to say hello.
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Harvest time
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
After a stint helping us at Folk Philip Stolte headed back to Munich with a grand plan to open a store that offered something a little bit different in his home town. True to his word Harvest opened about a couple of months ago with a nice selection of brands and a shop fit with an exquisite attention to detail. A perfect home for Folk and Shofolk!
We asked Philip about his new store and what goes on in Munich.
what brands do you have in store?
Folk | Shofolk
Acne
Our Legacy
Dunderdon
NewBalance
Penfield
Prism
Ayzit Bostan
Lovem
Stocket
Stean`s
can you describe a bit about the area of Munich your in?
Its the area where most of the universities are in munich – also with the most museums / art gallerys. Another museum opened some months ago for temporary art.
Also other shops are located here, a lot of cafes, restaurants and students but also creative types who have their studios in the backyards and rich fellows, who can afford paying the rents here. bling,bling.
whats your favourite shops in munich?
for clothes:
serieA / Harvest – sorry not much!
books/magazines:
sodabooks
Haus der Kunst (gift shop)
Hmm.
Thats it? yep.
if you could recommend a weekend to someone that didnt know munich, what would they do?
Go for some museums i.e.: “Haus der Kunst”
See the english garden ( Englische Garten ) a huge park in the middle of the city, not far away of Harvest.
If the weather is nice go for a small or big beergarden they are nice in general.
go for lunch/dinner at the “barcorso“
Afterwards some drinks at CafeKing
And party hard there or at “ersteliga”
And do some shopping maybe…..
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Folk in Italy
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Last month we did a bit of a whistle stop tour of the shops that sell Folk in and around Milan in Italy. Now Italy is a special place for shopping as there are few department stores or multiple chains so there are a lot more interesting independent shops than we have in the UK. That combined with the Italians mild obsession with clothing has led to Folk becoming a firm favourite in the stores that stock us.
Firstly, Wok in Milan, which is an edgy little store selling a good mix of some of the shining lights of cutting edge fashion, Folk and Shofolk sits next to the likes of Opening Ceremony, Wood Wood, Henrik Vibskov and Pam
Then we headed to Planet in Treviglio. Next stop was Brescia to find Oslo, and finally, probably our favourite because of the layout, its venue in the wonderful city of Verona and the staff was Macando
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Competition time – I’ll show you mine if you show me yours
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
The naked truth behind Folk’s creativity
If you keep really still, like an old Redwood in the Californian forest, you can sometimes catch his long ears trailing behind him as he snuffles towards the tea cupboard for his elevenses. But you’d be lucky. Mostly, Otter – Folk’s resident spirit genius, hangs out in Elbe’s Lealman’s holly-bush red hair, or Cathal McAteer’s tangly beard dishing out inspiration in Folklish. And usually only the two designers can see and hear him.
Ever since the best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert brought it to Folk’s attention that the Ancient Romans and Greeks believed in divine attendant spirits, who were in part responsible for a person’s intellectual and creative prowess, we pleaded with the gods of Lambs Conduit Street to send us one to our HQ. We expected an ugly goblin-like creature, but got Otter instead. A hairy, bush-rabbit hybrid, who is so full of positivity and ideas he sometimes starts sneezing when he can’t keep it all in. He is truly a ‘genius’, in the original Roman sense of the word, i.e. a divine spirit who assists our thinking process and creative output.
At Folk we discovered that having a genius, rather than being one is a win/win situation. For a start, it protects you from developing too much narcissism because if a collection is a huge success, we can never take all the credit. And conversely, should a collection ever fail to inspire our loyal clientele (thankfully this has never happened and hopefully never will), it won’t be a total disaster because we can always blame it on Otter.
Because Otter has been such a big part of Folk’s growth and success, we wanted to throw a party for him and invite some other divine creative spirits. As they are mostly not visible to the human eye, we thought it would be easiest if you drew a picture of your spirit and emailed it to us at shop@folkclothing.com by 1 September. Then we’ll put all the spirits together in the tea cupboard for an afternoon, and together they can make the cups and saucers dance.
At the end of the spirit bop, Otter will hand out a prize – a £75 discount off his owner’s next Folk purchase – to his favourite genius, based on kindness, dance moves, dress-sense and life juice. Please make sure you pick your spirits up no later than 11pm on the day of the bop.
Please email your divine spirit sketches to: shop@folkclothing.com
For more information and insight into divine attendant spirits, check out Elizabeth Gilbert’s inspiring speech on TED.com.
If you can’t get the link to work, you can always catch the low-tech version on youtube
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Shofolk in Sevilla
Monday, June 29th, 2009
From Helen in a pair of Lotties: Tanned feet, Shofolk Sandals and a night in the tapas bars of Sevilla. Good times.
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Folk in Santa Barbara
Monday, June 29th, 2009
A fan of Shofolk wearing his white Armstrongs at a vineyard in picturesque Santa Barbara County.
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