THE MAKING OF A MURAL WITH ARTIST EMILY EISENHART

If you haven’t heard, we’re opening an extra-special new store in Austin, and we can’t waaaait (July 31st people, save the date). To help spread our excitement, we tapped local artist Emily Eisenhart to paint a supersized mural in front of our future new digs. She’s inspired by natural landscapes like the beaches of Washington and Southwestern deserts—so her style is right up our alley. Read on to learn more about Emily and find out what it was like to work on such a big project.

#madewellues: Celebrating Our New Uptown Manhattan Shop

Last night we fêted our new uptown Manhattan store—the third in our flagship city of New York. And, in Upper East Side fashion, celebrated with a very proper housewarming (only ours had an instant photo booth). Despite rain clouds overhead, the sun finally came out and so did some of our local friends, who we asked to finish this sentence: “You know you’re a New Yorker when…”

From the top: plants by The Sill; our photo booth fill-in-the-blank cards; belts on belts; wordplay