Los Angeles trend designer Natalie Martin and Bahamas-based textile designer Lulu de Kwiatkowski have collaborated on a sun-soaked clothes assortment simply in time for spring break travels.
NM x Lulu DK brings de Kwiatkowski’s Caribbean-inspired textiles to graphic seaglass stripe clothes, sheer shirts, sarongs, caftans, shorts and quilted vests in cotton, silk and chiffon, accessible starting Sunday on Martin’s web site and at choose retailers from $150 to $498.
Aussie transplant Martin began her label in 2011, impressed by childhood holidays in Bali. Her breezy Balinese boho block print Fiore maxidresses, Iris peasant tops and drawstring Jasper shorts are the unofficial uniform of ease in Los Angeles and past, with Gwyneth Paltrow, Busy Philipps, Rihanna, January Jones, Kristen Bell and lots of extra in her fan membership.
Lulu de Kwiatkowski and Natalie Martin
A New York native and graduate of Parsons the New College of Design, de Kwiatkowski is understood for her colourful materials, kaleidoscopic collages and work, and for bringing her bohemian life-style to interiors and to her 2008 visible diary, “Lulu.”
She and Martin met when de Kwiatkowski lived in Los Angeles within the early 2000s they usually turned quick associates.
“We each sort of watched one another develop in our years in L.A. and there’s all the time been a mutual love for colour and laid-back type that appears fairly easy,” stated de Kwiatkowski, zooming in from her residence within the Bahamas with Martin becoming a member of from L.A.
A NM x Lulu DK gown.
Courtesy picture/Ashley Turner
“Within the Bahamas, you simply wish to throw issues on rapidly and look nice and presentable. And I put on a variety of Natalie’s issues in a very informal method. However my mother-in-law, who’s 93 and nonetheless lovely, tall and chic, places on jewellery with them and appears sort of dressed up.…It’s very nice to have a seashore gown that may also be a night gown.”
“Her use of colour particularly, and colours you wouldn’t consider collectively, in her work, in her prints, and even within the shell work now, it’s simply unimaginable,” stated Martin. “The prints we ended up utilizing actually spoke to me…geometric watercolors that just about appear to be a stained-glass window or sea glass.”
A NM x Lulu DK prime and shorts.
Ashley Turner
“It’s nearly like a graphic David Hicks idea, or sailboats I’d see as a baby rising up in Quogue within the Seventies….I additionally grew up sporting Lacoste shirts with thick stripes. So all that combined with my mother’s large floral wallpapers and patterns in all places turned who I used to be,” stated de Kwiatkowski.
“I wished the colours to be as shut as potential to the unique…they usually’ve obtained an actual gradient and watercolor impact to them,” stated Martin. “It was difficult, however I feel we obtained actually shut, and I’m actually pleased with the outcomes.”
A NM x Lulu DK prime and gown.
Ashley Turner