Alpha Mayle

I was excited to read on Refinery 29 this morning that Jane Mayle is collaborating on a five piece bag collection for Club Monaco. The fashion flock will be rejoicing for sure. This also is the perfect opportunity to look at some old and new photos of her West Village apartment. 

The five Mayle bags will be priced from $195 to $595 and will be available in Club Monaco stores and online beginning on October 3, 2012. 

Jane at work sketching for Club Monaco. 

Remember this famous photo of her shelves from the September 2007 issue of Domino?  

Another photo from the Domino spread by Athur Elgort. 

Some new shots of the same West Village apartment from Here We Go Now. 

An old Mayle moodboard. 

Jane in front of an old Mayle moodboard. 

Another old Mayle moodboard and logo below. 

 

On Writing

I'm busy finishing up the text portion of my book so it can go to print soon and feeling a bit too frazzled to write a proper post today.  I came across this Zadie Smith On Writing post on tumblr and it seemed like a perfect fit for today.  It actually came from an article Ten Rules for Writing Fiction from The Guardian but the rules really apply to any writing. I'm going to try to work on #7 and get back to work. Later skaters!

Zadie Smith - On Writing

1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

4 Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.

5 Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.

6 Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.

7 Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

8 Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

9 Don’t confuse honours with achievement.

10 Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Photo by Arthur Elgort