So many ampersands, so little time! We wanted to thank our neighbors at Paper & String for the lovely shout-out that they gave us a few weeks back. Their intrepid reporter Whitney Port (yes, Whitney Port!!!) very kindly declared her adoration for our Gary Graham duds and Castor & Pollux Maggie bracelets, among other things. We like that she is obsessed with all of our favorite West Village snack spots, too – we have a pretty bad One Lucky Duck habit here at the store and have been known to finish their Cacao Latte in seconds. SECONDS!!!

Big ups to Paper & String for its support of independent retailers and neighborhood businesses in NYC. Viva la West Village!

Lately we’ve been fortunate to be getting press from people that really understand and appreciate what we are trying to do over here at C&P.
We are greatly committed to our intention of bringing beauty to the world and making the experience as pleasurable and memorable as possible, because, after all, shopping does have the ability to make people happy, inspired and curious.  And, although we know that retail therapy won’t solve world events we will be donating 10% of the Maggie Bracelet sales to Japan for the month.  Maggie’s Mother and Father (my Grand-Parents) lived in Japan for quite some time and I’ve held Japan close to my heart since I was a little girl (for some time I only wanted to be addressed as Tomoko, ate with chopsticks and wore kimonos!) so this seemed like a logical way to show our support. And, with the way that the Maggie Bracelets are selling currently (graduation gifts, Mother’s Day gifts, wedding party gifts) we hope to donate an amount that makes a difference in someone’s life.
And, here’s the piece that Elizabeth Schofield wrote about her experience here at C&P that so succinctly describes shopping at it’s best. Thanks, Elizabeth!
PS. Upon reading Elizabeth’s great article we asked her to grace the Ladies section of our blog, which she happily agreed to. We’ll have her post up in the next month and you can get a chance to see what interests and inspires her. Good stuff.

Thanks so much for the lovely piece about what we are doing over here – just trying to make everyone’s day just a little bit more beautiful, however that may be.
Have a great weekend!

We love Refinery and their never ending support of designers, stores and all things interesting. We just found out about this little post they did covering our trunk show tomorrow night with Hache and Ter et Bantine – hope you can come by and meet the lovely Italian ladies behind the collection. They will be showing pieces from Spring 2011 as well as the Fall collection that you can leave with! Italian wine, Italian clothing and Italian people – sounds like a perfect way to spend your Thursday, si?