Waiting for the OLEANA Spring collection

We are going to have to wait at least a month before we get our Oleana for spring/summer order.  Some of you were lucky enough to see the collection when it was here, and placed your orders for when the shipment arrives.  My colleague Grete in Switzerland has posted a YouTube film of the catalogue for everybody to see!  This beautiful peony cardigan comes in two colour-ways and is simply exquisite.

New OLEANA skirt

The Oleana skirt with the box pleats has been available in green and brown for a few years and now black has been added.  The woolen fabric is just amazing.  This skirt is a wardrobe staple that will never go out of style.  We have combined it in the window with a new short alpaca Pernilla jacket, and an Oleana top with belt.  It looks so fresh for days moving into spring.  The necklace is from Connie Wright on Bowen island.

Also featured in the window is the work of Morija designs, from Vancouver--beautiful textile jewellery made from finely pleated silk embedded with beads

Spring cardigans

Urbanity has carried softly knitted cardigans made by Pernilla Svenre and her team of 6 people since our very early days.  I met Pernilla at the Copenhagen fashion fair way back in the '90s and loved her casual style.  I promised that one day I would have a shop where I would sell her designs!  Pernilla works with a basic model using different yarns and knitting styles.  This season she has made a short version of her cardigan that can be tied or left loose.  We have it solids,  leaf patterns, and super soft alpaca in a lacey stitch.

Getting to the roots - Knitting Values into Fashion

A visit from OLEANA reminds me of what my concept is and why I am doing what I am doing.  Why I have a store that sells products made by caring hands, a store that does not mark up in order to mark down.  A store that addresses the need for less but more beautiful clothes. URBANITY is about clothes and accessories that look at the roots of our being, and responds in a new way to old designs -- not copying old, but being inspired by them.

Fana sweater by Oleana

(Click on the image to read the story about the history of Knitting in Norway.)

Watching people touch and savour the glorous colour and the softness of natural fibres and who feel at one with what URBANITY is about makes me really happy.

Signe Aarhus, co-owner of Oleana, visits Vancouver

Keeping you up-to-date!

The Grass Roots Wedding Fair is happening on Saturday, Feb 12 at the Heritage hall on Main Street from 11 - 16.  I will be showing OLEANA silk skirts and tops -- perfect for any member of a wedding party -- or any party!  There will be lots of goodies, and I will be giving out $20 coupons for an Urbanity purchase - to sweeten the $15 entrance.

Last weekend my info-mail did some-thing strange.  We tried to send it twice.  Still, many people did not get it.  You will always get news when you are signed up here!!

Upcoming visit from OLEANA!!!!  Signe Aarhus, co-owner, and founder of OLEANA will be here for only one day on Monday, February 21st.  She will be giving a talk about OLEANA at Kwantlen-Richmond, and YOU ARE INVITED!  Signe is so interesting listen to.  I hope you can find time from 11.20 - 12.20 to join us.  More info will be sent soon.

Toronto

I saw this wonderful look on one of the guests at the Toronto Interior Design Show this past weekend.  Leg warmers OVER boots!  Stunning!  Urbanity stocks leg-warmers - still available in many colours.  You can do this too!

Oleana blankets at the exhibition were a huge hit.  It was so much fun to show them at such a fabulous venue.