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  • Nebraskaland

    Nebraskaland

    February 2022

    Though I am a proud New Yorker, at the end of the day, I will always be a small town girl from Nebraska. For our Spring ’22 collection, I (along...

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  • Rachelle's Reading List

    Rachelle's Reading List

    February 2022

    Last week, at one of the last remaining, truly old school skating rinks in the tri-state area (the carpet doesn't lie!), we had a blast shooting our Fall '22 look...

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  • Ski Style

    Ski Style

    February 2022

    Give my boys some good waves to surf in the summer and fresh powder to ski in the winter, and they are happy campers. I'm lucky to be along for...

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  • Marvin's Box

    Marvin's Box

    January 2022

      My grandpa Marvin was the sort of man who had more than one workshop in his tiny corner of Ceresco, Nebraska. He needed ample space for his tinkering–much of which revolved...

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  • here comes the sun and ob-la-di ob-la-da | The Beatles and Lingua Franca sweaters

    Lingua Franca + The Beatles

    November 2021

      The Beatles occupy an iconic and nearly unprecedented place in our human reality–they are, inarguably, a part of our collective consciousness. How else can I explain the fact that...

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  • The Story behind...Our Paper Flower Shop

    The Story behind...Our Paper Flower Shop

    October 2021

    If there's one thing this pandemic has reconfirmed for me, it's my love - no, my NEED to keep my hands busy creating and making. My obsession with paper flowers...

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  • La Dolce Vita!

    LA DOLCE VITA!

    October 2021

    The Italians know what living well means and OMG have I missed toasting with them in the flesh! I was lucky enough to travel to Italy over Memorial Day weekend,...

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  • LF x Paula Martini

    LF x Paula Martini

    September 2021

    Whatever will be, will be...." You know how there are people in life that, upon meeting you feel like you are kindred souls in an inexplicable way? My friend Paula Martini is...

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  • The Making of our First Womenswear Collection...

    The Making of our First Womenswear Collection...

    April 2021

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  • A Revolution Has Many Lanes...

    A Revolution Has Many Lanes...

    June 2020

    In the past few days, I've written and re-written this newsletter more times than I can count. How does one even go about addressing such a complex situation – especially...

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  • Rachelle's Reading List 5/1

    Rachelle's Reading List 5/1

    May 2020

    A quick reminder. Today is International Workers' day and thousands of workers at Amazon, Target, Wholefoods, Instacart and Trader Joes are going on strike to protest what they say are unsafe...

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  • Help Us Unpave Paradise This Earth Day

    Help Us Unpave Paradise This Earth Day

    April 2020

    Over the last six weeks, I have personally gotten used to this new sort of "normal." And, in this new world order, I have learned a lot about how little...

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