Gift Guide

Mama’s Gotta Brand New…: 5 Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day

May 9, 2012 Fabulous Finds
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Don’t make it a – yawn – Hallmark Holiday. As awesome as Moms are, they are sometimes difficult to shop for. We’re making it easy peasy for you with these 5 made in Brooklyn recommendations: 1. You might hate to admit it, but your Mom is always right. She has wisdom that seems to always help [...]

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Holiday Gifts for the Naturalists, the Naughty & the Self-Absorbed

December 13, 2011 Gift Guide
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You may have been called a lot of things this past year – hopefully it was everything but “the 1%.” Even that shouldn’t get you down. Some holiday gift ideas for those full of it – whether that’s spite or mirth or a wad of cash that they’ve stockpiled. Here are a few ways to [...]

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Shopping Brooklyn Markets: What’s New From Who

December 9, 2011 Gift Guide
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There’s no doubt about it: the cream rises to the top when it comes to indie designers at the market this weekend. If ever there was a weekend to see what the market in Williamsburg is about, this is one of the bestest. California ice cream artisans and foodtruck maestros of marketing Coolhaus come back [...]

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Brooklyn-branded, Manhattan Bound

December 6, 2011 Events
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Cool kids need cool stuff. Its been our mantra since Day 1. And yesterday we got the chance to show the space for next week’s holiday pop-up at Chelsea Market to a few diehards and it’s gonna kill. We’re talking about a carnival of gift-giving fun from over 30 Brooklyn-based and beyond independent designers, artists [...]

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Brooklyn Holiday Gift Guide: From A WillyB Gal Who’s Almost Seen It All

November 30, 2011 Gift Guide
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4 more weeks. Are your ears burning yet from jingles? Molly Cronin might not have seen it all but since taking up residence keeping the peace on North 7th, she’s seen a lot – naming names and keeping tabs. Here’s her takedown of holiday gift shopping, market style: The last few years, I’ve spent Christmas [...]

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Brooklyn Holiday Gift Guide: Shopping with Ricky Becker

November 16, 2011 Fabulous Finds
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Ricky Becker has seen it all. He’s a fixture in Williamsburg, a mainstay on the vintage scene and the consummate gentleman when it comes to offering fashion advice and style counsel – never compromising what should feel good simply with what looks good. His eye for style is without peer. And his holiday picks are [...]

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Brooklyn Holiday Gift Guide #1: Shopping with Cynthia Rybakoff

November 9, 2011 Gift Guide
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Part 1 in a 7-week series of holiday gift recommendations carefully curated by a current market seller to make the burden of gift-giving a bit less of a drag and more of an opportunity to explore some one-of-a-kind Brooklyn finds this season. Cynthia Rybakoff of Cynthia Rybakoff Jewelry is a life long New Yorker with a [...]

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Home Sweet Style & Their Fresh Ink

October 17, 2011 Fabulous Finds
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It’s hard to miss Evolving Habitat and the designs they’ve got going on. Between their deer antler wall-mounts and the super-breezy cloaks that hit you when you first walk into the market. Perhaps it’s also what grabbed the New York Times Style editors last week in a rich write-up of the designs that Meri and [...]

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The Not-So Little World of Wearable Terrariums

August 23, 2011 Gift Guide
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There are no secrets here. You are dealing with layers and layers of living things. It’s rare to hear a designer and jeweler be so candid with the process of creating but Tamar Builder’s Little World Designs pulls no punches. Schooled in horticulture and a self-described lover of all things that live at the bottom [...]

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Mama in the House? A Cheater’s Guide to Gift-Giving

May 6, 2011 Fabulous Finds
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Don’t flake out on your mother this weekend. We’re going to handhold your gift-giving the only way we know how: serve you up a stellar selection of gift ideas from the safe to the wildly exciting from a round up of Brooklynian artists, designers and vintage collectors who know no bounds. Dank Cakeballs is the [...]

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Indie Designer Mash-Up

March 11, 2011 Gift Guide
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Grillz for your mouth. Jewels for your neck. Ice for your ears. Vintage for the rest of you. And an exciting new mobile photo booth collaboration from FilmCycle that lets you get inside and take a picture of it all. That’s just the tip of this killer weekend featuring over 12 Brooklyn-based and beyond independent [...]

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Jewels That Shine, Sparkle & Dazzle

March 8, 2011 Fabulous Finds
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Cynthia Rybakoff cut her teeth in designing jewelry for many A-list brands and fashion houses in New York City for years before cutting the cord and setting off on her own. The results – for her and for anyone who loves and appreciates a fine craftsman approach to high-end jewelry design and production – are [...]

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