Birds of North America X Neil MacCormick 'Sparkle Bright Laundrette' Tee
Description
The cutest cropped tees have come in from Birds of North America in collaboration with artist Neil MacCormick. Neil has painted full time since 1984 and co-owns Birds of North America with his partner, designer Hayley Gibson. The two have shared a studio since meeting in 2006.
Notes from Hayley Gibson:
This one is particularly special to me because I remember it so well from my childhood in Victoria! The name of the business, plus the darling little girl in the yellow dress and red socks, hits me right in the heart.
Sparkle Bright was located in a little commercial strip on semi-busy Quadra street in Victoria, and there was a Dutch store right beside it that had traditional painted yellow wooden shoes in the window that I became obsessed with. I was 8 years old, and the shoes were $18, and it’s the first purchase I remember ever making (aside from candy!) with my own money!
I’m not sure why those shoes beckoned to me so urgently, as I have no Dutch heritage, but I remember finding them beautiful and fascinating, and I ended up wearing them a lot! Maybe the little girl’s outfit inspired me, and I thought those shoes would help me to sparkle as brightly as she did ❤️
Neil painted Sparkle Bright Launderette in 1994, when he lived in Victoria. He had moved out west in 1989, after growing up in Toronto, and found that certain types of things stood out to him. ‘Victoria had a really different feeling to me - in a way I was just trying to identify what exactly that feeling was. Part of it was that the culture was so different, like the trailers and campers that dotted the streets. Part of it was the time capsule feeling of things that had disappeared in Toronto before I left - old storefronts and signs especially. It was like everything I was interested in was still there - as if the era I grew up in was still represented in Victoria.’
100% Organic Cotton Jersey
Amelia is wearing XS
Hayley is 5'7 and wears size XS
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