British Vogue’s gypset shout out. “The Global Style Hunters” featuring world samplers; NYC’s Suno, Los Angeles’ Cobra Society and Morocco’s En Shalla…:

“An expanding network of fashion entrepreneurs– from as far afield as Marrakesh, Los Angeles, Laos–who tired of conformist jobs and tastes, are creating a 2011 version of bohemian style with an ethical e-commerce twist. What they share is a love of craft and intrepid spirit, and from many angles, an enviable “gypset” lifestyle.”

Just back from Cornwall on England’s south west coast. I met the most gypset couple ever: Cathy and Perry St. Germans. they live in a sprawling ancestral estate called Port Elliot and in the summers host a decadent festival with poets and fashion designers.

Perfectly dilapidated with silk wallpaper peeling off the walls and a antique armoir filled with vinyl records. Family portraits line the walls along with an airbrushed one of Cathy and Perry on an old broken surfboard. (they spend the winters in Waimea Bay, Oahu)

Elsewhere in Cornwall are peeling and abundant surf breaks. its an amazing sight to surf and look in and see castles up on the hill and semi-tropical palms. Many of the farms have teepees, yurts, and gypsy caravans for sleeping. Rolling farmland and not a care in the world…

The upstart label everyone was buzzing about during New York fashion week’s Spring 2012 collections is the new(ish) Electric Feathers.

Designed by New York City based Leana Zuniga, a former stylist and vintage shop owner, the label exudes gypset cool, a touch of 1970’s with dabs of Paris, India, Marrakesh, and Big Sur.

Hand dyed fabrics, chunky shapes that drape easily, and the signature belts that look a little like snake coils. Best of all, each style can be worn several different ways; perfect for traveling light.

On the beach in Montauk, stretching and getting ready for my morning surf session…. so excited to have the moment captured by The Sartorialist on his very cool blog Thesartorialist.com

we love fashion designer Isabel Marant’s groovy gypset clothes and we especially love her cabin retreat in the countryside outside Paris…

“There’s a strict no-fashion-talk policy in effect at the cottage, which is strewn with colorful old kilims, flea market finds and stacks of thick wool blankets for use in the winter months.”

see the New York TImes article for the full story and fab photos by our photographer friend/ gypsetter Adrian Gaut. http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/le-shack/?ref=travel

LOCAL DISCOVERY: CAFE FREDO

BY: JULIA CHAPLIN, JOURNALIST/ GYPSETTER, NEW YORK CITY

(please click on photo to read the story)

The new batch of Gypset Basquait sarongs are finsihed!

100% lightweight cotton from Mombasa, Kenya, they’re great for the beach. Doubles as a wrap dress, towel, and apres sun lounging…

we dont have the photos up in the “bazaar” yet (our web designer is gypsetting in the New Mexican desert right now) so if you’d like to order please email: info@gypset.com. enjoy!

Trasierra is a hotel in an old 16th century estate in the Sierra Morena Mountains north of Seville.

It’s owned/run by Brit gypsetter Charlotte Scott and her family. The decor and vibe is pure gypset with bedrooms carved out of thick Andalusian stone, claw foot bathtubs, and lots of guitars.

Barjac, a town in the country side in southern France, is where artist Anselm Kiefer spent years transforming a derelict silk factory into a strange visual utopia.

he built the whole place up as an installation with strange wobbly towers and other ruins resembling a lost civilization. Large scale earth art that recalls Watts Towers,  James Turrell’s Rodin Crater, and a touch of Burning Man.

“Kiefer devised an artistic project extending over acres: miles of corridors, huge studio spaces with ambitious landscape paintings and sculptures that correspond to monumental constructions in the surrounding woodland, and serpentine excavated labyrinths with great earthy columns that resemble stalagmites or termite mounds.” was how the Guardian described it.

Keifer has since moved on, leaving his eccentric utopia for us to visit….

for more info/ fun see the documentary about it Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow