Posts with tag children

It's not too late to go grab an Anthropologie apron from your local shop before Thanksgiving tomorrow! An online search on Anthropologie.com brings up 49 hits and includes sexy mama aprons as well as aprons for kids. It may be hard for you to let your kids cook in these adorable aprons, but they're only $24 ($18 for the half aprons like the one at right), which we all know is pretty good for Anthropologie, and what else are they gonna do with an apron?

We all love the idea of supporting a company that benefits charity, but often, those companies are fairly high end, and not all of us can afford their products. Fortunately, this holiday season, that's not the case -- Payless is donating a million dollars in shoes to needy kids.

Remember when Halloween wasn't all about downing orange and black jello shots and showing as much skin as the weather would allow?

We love all of the amazing independent designers out there and we wanted to find out more about what makes these creative types tick. If you do too, check out more of our Indie Designer Interviews.

Sometimes creativity is a family affair, and that's certainly the case with today's featured artists, Krafty Krew, aka Rita, Frances, and Irene. This mother-daughter trio crafts designs from the heart, including some adorable plush toys for the little ones.

We love all of the amazing independent designers out there. In order to find out more about just what makes all of these creative types tick, we present to you an ongoing segment called Indie Designer Interviews.

Today's interview is with Louisiana artist Jodie Flowers Santora. Jodie creates quirky accessories to brighten up your home as well as fun monster patches your kids will love to wear.

Cute Maddox Jolie-Pitt is probably the most fashion-forward member of the growing brood. He was sporting his trademark mohawk long before Hollywood hipsters decided to bring back the late eighties. In typical "oldest child" style, he continues to lead, this time breaking the color barrier with some blue Manic Panic, hanging with his dad and brother Pax at the Venice Film festival.

There are probably a couple of parents out there thinking, "How can they let him do all of these crazy things? He's seven." But remember, if your mom is Angelina Jolie and your dad is Brad Pitt, you probably have more blackmail material than you know what to do with. Staying up late? Eating cookies? Child's play! For his twelfth birthday Mads will probably get his own Lamborghini, which he'll drive on the private track in the backyard of their mansion.

We love his self-confidence and individual style. Way to rock your own path, little man!

Once upon a time (1998) a little boy named Vincent was born in a land far, far away (Stockholm, Sweden). His uncle Thomas and his partner Patrick wanted to buy him some shoes, "something fun, a little functional, too."

Guess what they couldn't find. If you said "fun and functional kid shoes" you'd be right. You guys are good at this guessing stuff.

Thomas and Patrick were both well-versed in the fashion world and they decided to fill the void that they had discovered. A year later Vincent Shoes opened its first store and they all lived happily ever after.

We don't recall having to carry a backpack in elementary school, but we do remember having to walk uphill to school, both ways, in the snow. Seems like we would recall a backpack.

Times have changed, and much to the delight of chiropractors everywhere, kids are carrying twice their body weight to school and back, albeit on snow-free, relatively flat surfaces.

This is what they're using:

Gymboree is one of the biggest names in quality clothing for children, so it should come as no surprise that they have a great catalog of school fashions (and Halloween costumes- yes, already).

Gymboree has fun and playful couture for kids that are fun and playful. Convenient, don't you think? Like many of the other popular retailers of kidwear they understand the value of the the classics, and as such build upon them. The result is a solid line of timeless clothing and clever accessories.

For example:

Whit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really.

Junk Food Clothing makes t-shirts for everyone, man, woman and child, but they aren't for everyone. They are for the true connoisseur of t-shirt art. Their shirts are soft and weathered, creating a comfortable feel with a retro aesthetic. They combine eras of pop culture and original design with a result that is equal parts geek-chick and contemporary hipness.

Today, in the spirit of school (hey, school spirit!) we're looking at the prints for kids:

Ah, the Gap. We fell into you so long ago that we've forgotten what it was like to be free of your charms. We can scarcely recall life before you- there was a crowd and a food court and rows of glass doors that led to a warm place with a bright orange light in the sky. We don't miss it.

That's why when it was time to dress our family in corduroy and denim for the start of the school year we took our spawn to yours: GapKids.

Your baby might look cute with that little drawstring tie, but it could potentially be very dangerous. Nine companies have been sued over the drawstring controversy. According to USA Today, "Dozens of children have died in the past two decades after drawstrings were caught on playground equipment, cribs or other objects, says commission spokesman Scott Wolfson."

We all agree this is pretty serious. It's hard to argue with it, knowing that dozens of families have been devastated. But what are we going to do about shoelaces? Are children really safer with no strings attached?

There are oodles of adorable children's clothing lines out there -- whatever your taste, you can certainly find a range of clothes to suit you and your child. However, what if, in addition to being adorable, what if the clothing with which you dress your little one was also made from natural materials and made a difference in the lives of those in needs? That's exactly what you get with LemLem!

We're not sure if there's actually anything wrong with having a Children's Fashion Week, but something about it seems a little unsettling. As Dubai continues to blossom into the center of damn near everything rich people do -- including designer hotels and indoor skiing -- we find ourselves wondering if the city's latest invention is really in good taste. More importantly, will Kids Fashion Week wreak as much havoc on the human spirit as beauty pageants do? We seriously hope not.

At Dubai's 6th annual Kids Fashion Week, children in the Dubai area will be strutting down the catwalk in styles by some of the "biggest names in children's fashion." You know: Diesel, Moschino, Bennetton -- stuff that kids are into. Something about getting children involved in a multi-day fashion event just seems kinda odd -- like it's a little too much like pimping your kids out to the fashion industry. Do we want kids to be obsessed with designer fashion? Is that healthy?

[via Fashionista]

Dante Beatrix makes bags. They make backpacks for children big and small and stylish totes for the moms walking briskly beside them.

The 'big kid eco pack' is designed for kids ages 5-10, and is "made of PET (100% recycled plastic bottles) with canvas trim, a naturally biodegradable fabric." They feature themes of peace, love and recycling. It's like understanding, but not as funny.

Is your kid a bit younger? No problem, what the 'little kid backpack' lacks in sustainable material it makes up for in creative design and durability. It's created to fit the 2-5 set and will hold all the crayons they can break.