Stewart + Brown’s Cub Reporter

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Karen, Huxley and Hazel make chalk drawings

Hazel Stewart Brown was born in 2002, the same year that her parents, Karen Stewart and Howard Brown, founded their pioneering eco-fashion label. Stewart + Brown, which they pronounce “Stewart Brown,” rather than “Stewart and Brown,” was named not after themselves but for Hazel—and six years later, for her brother, Huxley, as well. Here, the budding eco-fashionista hones her journalism skills by interviewing Stewart + Brown’s co-founder and design director, whom she happens to know by another name: Mom.
Photos by Torrey Jay.

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And The Winner Is…

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Thank you to all who participated in last month’s contest to create an outfit from our sale section for under $150. We got lots of good looks but there can only be one winner and that lucky lady is Irene Vidyanti. Congratulations!

Park City: Fashion in the Mountains

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Shown:
Honeycomb Sweatercoat // Net Stitch T Neck

S+B loves the mountains and loves places that we call home. Recent add-on S+B intern, Jennifer Steinwurtzel flew back “home” to Park City where she joined forces with her mother to host the first Park City Trunk Show. The crowd ranged from yoga aficionados to inspiring humanitarians. But all had one common interest – a love of clothing, and even more so a love of sustainable clothing. The setting was perfect looking out over the picturesque Wasatch mountain range that make up Park City’s world class ski resorts. Hot items were of course our luxurious and wearable cashmere collectionas well as the merino sweater coats.

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Who Wore It Better?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Shown:
I Love You S/s Tee

Today, Paris and I wore the same “I Love You” tee to work (and to coffee where we no doubt looked a bit “I love you” cultish to the outside observer). I thought it’d be cute to do a little “who wore it better” so…who wore it better? Head on over to our facebook page to voice your opinion.

Make Your Own Outfit, Win $100

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

In these thrifty times, we are hoping to inspire you to dress green and save green. That’s why we are giving you an opportunity to win a $100 gift certificate to stewartbrown.com when you create an outfit from our website that is under $150.

Here are the specifics: send an email to contest@stewartbrown.com that lists the items that make up your outfit and include the final total of your outfit (not including tax and shipping). Feel free to be creative – if you want to make a picture, all the better, but you don’t have to for this one. The lucky winner will be selected at random and we will also pick some of our favorites to show in the next newsletter. One entry per person. By entering you are giving us permission to publish your name, post your outfit and sign you up for our mailing list to let know if your are the winner. You must submit a valid entry by August 25th at midnight.

Here is an example:

Dear creative S+B employees,

My name is Jane Doe and here is my outfit for under $150:
1. half pant
2. gathered kimono tee
3. mini trench
Total = $150

For more inspiration, check out our ideas here

Fall 2009 – Behind the Scenes

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Shown:
Tie Oxford Dress

Way back in February we did our autumn / holiday photo shoot. The shoot took place at the home of our photographer Nancy Neil. The house was originally built out of railroad ties at the beginning of the 1900’s and has tremendous character and warm, cozy feeling. We felt it was perfect for our collection. Check out all the shots here as we pull back the curtain and unveil Autumns brand new looks and a sneak peak of what really goes on behind the scenes of our shoot

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Teens Turning Green

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Shown:
Party Dress

Combine the energy of high school girls with the wisdom and direction of consumer safety advocate advocate Judi Shills and voila, you get Teens Turning Green. This rapidly growing network of teens is doing its part to educate the community and has been featured in magazines like Teen Vogue and Seventeen. Their first order of business; make prom night green. When they asked us to help by designing some custom green prom looks, we were more than happy to heed the call. Read the full story to see the looks and read more about Teens Turning Green and Project Green Prom.

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Two Interns, One Camera

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

We’re Sarah and Kidada, new interns at Stewart+Brown and old friends pre-Stewart+Brown. Last weekend we were given the assignment to catalog our fourth of July for this newsletter so we decided make a trip out to a little town east of Ventura called Ojai, enjoy the scenery along the way and end the day with family, friends and fireworks. Check it out!

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On The Road…Hybrid Style

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

The seeds for a hybrid road trip were planted when Karen and I were invited to spend Earth Day this year at Toyota’s North American headquarters in Torrance, CA. Toyota, hybrid-early adopters with their ever-so-popular Prius, also owns the Lexus brand which has its own line of luxury hybrid vehicles. Stewart+Brown is a partner of Lexus Hybrid Living and has teamed up with the brand for several marketing events over the last few years so when it came up that we were taking to the road in a few weeks for a trunk show at the fabulous eco-luxury boutique Eco Citizen in San Francisco our friends at Lexus offered to let us test drive one of their Hybrids and let them know what we thought about it. A no-brainer, right? For those of you that haven’t experienced a hybrid, they are a BLAST to drive! Especially the Lexus 450RX hybrid SUV that they generously loaned us for our road trip. It was our 15 month old son Huxley’s first road trip and an amazing trip for the whole family.

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Haiku Contest Winner!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Inspired By:
Twill Village Short

Congrats Lindsey! You’re the lucky lady who was selected at random as the winner of our haiku contest. I was so amazed at all of the entries we got for this contest and it’s so amazing to have such a creative set of newsletter-getters. I really had so much fun reading them all and thanks to everyone who entered. Check out the full story to read some our favorite haiku’s that were submitted.

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