………………………For the August 03 show I presented my first TSV……..it was a Boiled Wool jacket with “Wheat and Vine” emb. this jacket was so successful that it was reordered for the next 3 or 4 years. I think if this jacket were avail today it would still sell as well, and I know many of the ladies still own and wear it. I think my mother had it in FOUR colors!……The “Upsell” to the TSV jacket was a silk and cotton TN…..next a long cardigan coat with a self tie belt. It was an English rib cardigan with a turn over collar……next is the silk charmuse shirt which coordinated with the quilted jacket, and below that a jersey tunic shirt with silk charmuse collar and cuffs also in coordinating colors……to the left of the shirt is the Ponte knit Blazer Coat with pick stitching detailing…..The third Fall season was off to a good start! A successful TSV makes everyone happy!!….P.S……I still have some of these TSV jackets!
I have the Boiled Wool Jacket in Seafoam. I wear it with the Faux Washed Silk Tunic and Pants in Seagreen. The embroidery on the jacket brings out the color of the tunic and pants. What a stunning piece! I still love it!
Lovely! One —or more— of each would be what I’d want!!! Such great pieces. Do you miss not thinking about creating new designs and pieces, Louis, or are you at a point that you feel satisfied with all the great work you’ve done through your career?
Dear Mary….the creative mind doesn’t come to a halt. I some times dream about designer clothes, and wake up and think how beautiful they would be, as a matter of fact I had one of those dreams last night…..though I don’t dream about designs for QVC……I certainly am not thinking about clothes and jewelry 24/7 the way I was, but ideas do come to me and I think how I would execute it, and the fabric and colors I would do it in. I’ve worked almost non stop for a little over 50 years, since 1970, and I am happy with the work I have done and the influence I’ve had on so many women through the years.
HI, Louis! i haven’t stopped mentally designing rooms in my retirement, either! But the good thing is that I no longer go to friends’ homes and mentally re-do them LOL! When I had to retire my old mare Portia due to her arthritis, I decided that one way to re-direct myself was to buy an off the track Thoroughbred mare to retrain. A granddaughter of Secretariat on the sire side and a niece of Silver Charm, the winner of three parts if the Triple Crown on her dam side. She looks just like Silver Charm. A pedigree to beat the band! But she hated the track and was afraid of other horses if they came too close to her or seemed to approach her. I gave her the barn name of Pippa. So as sensitive, intelligent, and responsive as she is, she has always been a handful! We are both now retired from riding her, and she is spoiled rotten and living the life. Now I don’t know that you will want to go out and buy a retired race horse to retrain, but throwing myself into something far removed from my earlier work did the trick. Pippa LOVES Ray, BTW. He doesn’t ask her to do anything, gives her apples, and she puts her head right up next to him and tells him her troubles.
I have the gray/black TSV and still get compliments every time I wear it.
I still have some of those TSV jackets too! Timeless embroidery, great boiled wool, and look like new. A family member washed my coordinating silk-cotton turtlenecks once and ruined them 🙁