Love By The Moon Pixie Duster (Cropped Length)

$129.00

When we saw the finished painting for our Moonstruck kimono by magical artist Leslie Love, we fell crazy in love with it and knew we had to make more than just one version! Our Love By The Moon design is a playful take on Leslie’s painting, with a sepia colour palette and retro font inspired by early 1900’s film and photography props that used giant paper-maché & cardboard cut-out moons as backdrops for fantastical scenes. This kimono is truly charming — a whimsical, wonderful piece that’s delightfully easy to wear. Go on— love by the moon, and look adorable doing it.

100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as bamboo and wood). Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.

Kimono measurements: length 58cm, width (across back, underarm to underarm) 74cm. Model is 5’4” for reference.

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
- Oscar Wilde

“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your own being.”
- Rumi

“There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

How To Wear

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This whimsical piece is perfect for elevating your neutrals! Layer it with beiges, ivories, khakis and blacks for a pop of playfulness. We love it paired with trousers and a white collared button-up for an avant-garde menswear-inspired look, but it’s completely adorable with jeans & tees for everyday too. Or dress it up and with a simple cotton shift dress underneath, add some oversized earrings… and get ready to love by the moon :)

Our Muse

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The lover, the seeker. Women who embrace all the splendour and heartache of love and keep shining. Women who dance in the moonlight. 

More Inspo

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Large paper and cardboard moons were one of the most iconic and popular photography props during the early 1900’s. Usually set up at carnivals, fairs, and events for quick portrait sessions, they were the previous century’s version of the Instagram photo op! Check out “antique paper moon photographs” on Pinterest to see charming snaps of these fun moon postcards and pictures. For more vintage moon inspo, definitely check out stills from the classic 1902 French film “Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)” to see one of the most influential cinematic representations of the moon.

Leslie Love is an artist and painter born and raised on Vancouver Island, on a wild piece of land called Song Farm. Of her process and her work, she says “I go outside daily and wander, and wonder. I’ve learned to collect less, and only take what I’m going to use, so I can leave more for the future. Here, on a crooked dead end road, I’m talking to ravens, the neighbourhood dogs, and to myself excitedly when I find a new mushroom, flower, or bird I haven’t noticed in a while, or ever before. I may even talk to the plants, and the stars. Let me show you what I see.” She creates her own paints from materials she finds in nature, including rosehips, acorn & inky caps, Oregon grapes, blackberries, copper, walnut husks, wood, and water from the ocean, lakes, and rain. See more of her luminous world and work at www.inkymoon.ca, and on her Instagram @lesliewlove. 

The Poem

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All the moons she’s seen, saved up
like silver coins inside her. 
The moons she slept under 
with her back to a wall, and the ones
with her back to a lover. Nights 
where dishes crashed in the sink, 
and others where waves crashed 
on the shore, awash 
with bright and broken kisses.
Autumn moons on the highway, 
summer ones in her childhood bed, 
and even a full moon she sang to once, 
heart bursting and feet bare in the sweet night.
So many moons inside her, so many shining coins 
she’s wished on in the dark: 
give me tomorrow. Tomorrow is new.