Leave it to our endlessly chic and cool friend, Badaude (a.k.a. Joanna Walsh, the creative force behind the charming blog, Badaude), to use 2 essential summer items — the short sleeve graphic tee and the canvas tote — to transition our summer wardrobes seamlessly into Fall.

And she’s got solutions for girls far away from Chicago, too…

Get your very own Eiffel Tower tee and tote here and shop the entire story here.

Illustrations (and styling) by Badaude.

You’ve heard us talk about writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh, aka Badaude, before. We just love her smart and original approach to blogging and can’t get enough of her adorable illustrations. We feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to collaborate with this genius from across the Pond on more than one occasion.

Remember these?

Illustrated touches throughout our Fall 09 lookbook

Our very own exclusive illustrated story. How great is that?!

Well now you, too, can have your very own piece from Badaude because she’s WRITTEN A BOOK! I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to get my copy!

London Walks is sort of a walking tour through London, highlighting all of Joanna’s favorite places. She’s a smart, stylish and sophisticated cookie, so I’m sure this is an absolute must-have guide to the city. Not to mention, it’ll be a treat to look at even if you’re nowhere near London. And if you order your copy from Joanna, she’ll even sign it and add a little illustration just for you. The book comes out on June 1st, but you can pre-order your copy today. What are you waiting for? Go get it!

And have a great weekend, all!

visit Baduade to order your copy of London Walks today

Can’t say it enough…..Happy 2011 everyone!!!  What better way to start the new year than with a little art + fashion  We love our new cover story this month!!  To the rescue!!, is written, styled & illustrated by one of our fav blogosphere friends, Ms Joanna Walsh of the most loved Badaude.  Thank you Joanna!!  You are awesome!!

OH!! There Joanna..bottom right hand corner in the SONIA peacoat How cute is she??

Check it again on Flickr and Facebook

You know we love sharing all the behind-the-scenes.  For our last Cover Story we collaborated with illustrator, Joanna Walsh of Badaude, to give our Fall Story just the vibe we were looking for.  With all these fantastic images, you can see our challenge…lots to choose from and we wanted to use them all!  Check out Joanna’s Biba Girls post here and here to get her take on 1960’s London.  Thanks Joanna!!

Our September Cover Story just went live on the site and Arlene and I cannot get over it! We wanted to shoot with our item shot model, Holly. You’ve heard us talk about her before. We absolutely adore her and think she is a fantastic model and have wanted to give her something meatier to do. Then Arlene found this shot in Crash…

…and an idea was born. We knew that we wanted to work in black and white and we also knew we had the opportunity to work with Karl Rothenberger again. The only problem is that all the clothes we had planned to use weren’t available! Such is the nature of trying to run this crazy website. As we have grown accustomed to doing, we rolled with it. We left the studio on Monday afternoon after a full day of shooting item shots with little to no idea what we were going to do the next day. Hair, make-up and Holly were scheduled to be here at 8am and Arlene and I were praying for creativity and inspiration. 

Somehow, it actually all came together and the result is even better than we ever could’ve imagined. The hair was a BEAST (over 400 bobby pins!!!), but turned out perfect. And the make-up was just exactly what we had envisioned. And Holly and Karl? Well, it was a match made in Heaven. The 2 of them just fed off of each other and worked together brilliantly. During the shoot, as Karl was thinking of how to mix things up, he said to us, “Do you guys happen to know any illustrators?” That’s all he had to say. Arlene immediately got online and emailed the lovely Joanna of Badaude and Joanna took our idea to a whole new level.

We love a good collaboration and this one was maybe the very best yet! Hope you all enjoy it as much as we do! To see the story in its entirety, click here.

A big THANK YOU to all involved!!! XOXOX! A and B.