Castles In The Air Luxe Tee
Based on a lush and magical painting from the 1600’s by artist Jan Brueghel titled “Imaginary Landscape”, this kimono is a true flight of fancy! Using Brueghel’s masterpiece, we layered in elements from French artist Hubert Robert, including the classical ruins and a girl swinging joyfully through the trees. To add even more richness, we trimmed the entire design in vintage painterly florals. The resulting piece is full of imagination and depth, just like a beautiful dream :)
About our Luxe Tees:
This is how we do basic! We’ve taken a wardrobe staple — the humble t-shirt — and elevated it to a chic, easy piece that’s destined to become a style you’ll reach for over and over, all year long. Crafted from the same soft bamboo fabric as our stardusters, our Luxe Tees feature a flattering, wide scoop neck, relaxed seamless sleeve, side slits, and hem detailing with a hidden contrast print. Available in two sizes custom-designed to fit different body types, our S/M is cut slightly shorter to flatter sizes 2-10, and our L/XL has extra length for sizes 10-14.
100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as wood and bamboo). Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.
Measurements: S/M — length 64cm (shoulder to hem), width 57cm (underarm to underarm), L/XL — length 75cm, 63cm width (underarm to underarm) Model wears an S/M and is 5’6” for reference.
Based on a lush and magical painting from the 1600’s by artist Jan Brueghel titled “Imaginary Landscape”, this kimono is a true flight of fancy! Using Brueghel’s masterpiece, we layered in elements from French artist Hubert Robert, including the classical ruins and a girl swinging joyfully through the trees. To add even more richness, we trimmed the entire design in vintage painterly florals. The resulting piece is full of imagination and depth, just like a beautiful dream :)
About our Luxe Tees:
This is how we do basic! We’ve taken a wardrobe staple — the humble t-shirt — and elevated it to a chic, easy piece that’s destined to become a style you’ll reach for over and over, all year long. Crafted from the same soft bamboo fabric as our stardusters, our Luxe Tees feature a flattering, wide scoop neck, relaxed seamless sleeve, side slits, and hem detailing with a hidden contrast print. Available in two sizes custom-designed to fit different body types, our S/M is cut slightly shorter to flatter sizes 2-10, and our L/XL has extra length for sizes 10-14.
100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as wood and bamboo). Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.
Measurements: S/M — length 64cm (shoulder to hem), width 57cm (underarm to underarm), L/XL — length 75cm, 63cm width (underarm to underarm) Model wears an S/M and is 5’6” for reference.
Based on a lush and magical painting from the 1600’s by artist Jan Brueghel titled “Imaginary Landscape”, this kimono is a true flight of fancy! Using Brueghel’s masterpiece, we layered in elements from French artist Hubert Robert, including the classical ruins and a girl swinging joyfully through the trees. To add even more richness, we trimmed the entire design in vintage painterly florals. The resulting piece is full of imagination and depth, just like a beautiful dream :)
About our Luxe Tees:
This is how we do basic! We’ve taken a wardrobe staple — the humble t-shirt — and elevated it to a chic, easy piece that’s destined to become a style you’ll reach for over and over, all year long. Crafted from the same soft bamboo fabric as our stardusters, our Luxe Tees feature a flattering, wide scoop neck, relaxed seamless sleeve, side slits, and hem detailing with a hidden contrast print. Available in two sizes custom-designed to fit different body types, our S/M is cut slightly shorter to flatter sizes 2-10, and our L/XL has extra length for sizes 10-14.
100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as wood and bamboo). Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.
Measurements: S/M — length 64cm (shoulder to hem), width 57cm (underarm to underarm), L/XL — length 75cm, 63cm width (underarm to underarm) Model wears an S/M and is 5’6” for reference.
“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
- Mark Twain
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
- Pablo Picasso
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When we finished the sample for this piece, we found we couldn’t stop wearing it! It literally goes with almost everything — warm or cool colours — and mixes beautifully with other prints and patterns. We love it worn with our I Dream in Flowers scarf, a pair of cropped trousers, and sneakers — but you can also dress it up so easily with a bohemian skirt and some layered jewellery.
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The dreamer, the starry-eyed. Women who lead with curiosity and imagination, who seek out adventure on ordinary days. Women who swing through the trees.
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A wildly prolific French art director, painter, and landscape architect from the 1700’s, Hubert Robert created literally thousands of works of art during his lifetime. Nine of his paintings hang in the Louvre alone! Known for his dynamic, adventurous life (he designed many famous gardens for infamous personalities of the day, including Marie Antoinette, and was imprisoned during the French Revolution), he is also remembered for the fanciful and imaginative qualities he brought to landscape painting. Describing his process when painting the magical landscapes we used for this design, he is quoted as saying, “The ideas which the ruins awake in me are grand.” We feel the very same.
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She lets the earth spin and the weeds sleep, leaves dishes under moats of water.
It is an act of believing, to claim this hour as her landscape. A daring. Loud as if she’d dropped the handle of a broom, and stormed out of her own story in to the green woods.
Her hand fits better on the handle of a tree branch, the rope of a swing. The sky is wide, the blue spires of her fancy cut through clouds. Ideas unfurl like tender ferns, golden coils of braid to climb. Her heart hammers, building castles in the air — one swing and then another through the tall trees.
