Novella

Novella A monthly collection of vintage and new clothing. Our aim is to bridge the gap between clothing and other art forms, via literary means.

Favorite details of favorite people from last weekend’s pop-up! I was very sporadic with my picture taking last weekend ...
03/21/2022

Favorite details of favorite people from last weekend’s pop-up!

I was very sporadic with my picture taking last weekend and if I missed your rad ensemble I apologize in advance and please don’t take it personally….I wasn’t very consistent! Thank you for your cooperation and support 😋

📚 💍 🍵 📖 💎 ⛓

A few shop moments from last week, xx 🌹
03/18/2022

A few shop moments from last week, xx 🌹

SOURCE MATERIALS: A ZINE For each Novella pop-up we try to publish an artwork and/or zine that encapsulates the collabor...
03/12/2022

SOURCE MATERIALS: A ZINE

For each Novella pop-up we try to publish an artwork and/or zine that encapsulates the collaboration/conversation.

In keeping with the theme of jewelry and fashion publishing, it felt right to make something that could be worn, and also read.

This zine is strung on a leather cord and hangs on a silver ring, and features:

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Jewelry,” a Valpak-style essay reflecting on the ornamental nature of jewelry copy, by Nate Hoe

“Works in Progress: A Studio Visit With Faris Du Graf,” a poster-word-picture-tour of Faris’ jewelry workspace in Interbay, Seattle

Faris Du Graf & Abigail Buzbee’s Reading Lists

A Novella bookmark

A stone of your choosing.

Come get yours at this Saturday and Sunday!

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be f...
03/07/2022

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be featuring.
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Next Up: Viscose Magazine

“Viscose is a new journal for fashion criticism. Launched between Copenhagen and New York in 2021, the irregular periodical will publish critical writing and projects by a wide range of authors from the worlds of art, fashion, literature, and academia. Through specially edited thematic issues, Viscose gives space to projects that challenge and expand the possibilities of research, practice, and critique of fashion.”

Featured Work: VISCOSE, Issue 2, “Clothes” (shown above) takes a turn from Issue 1’s focus on the immaterial notion of “Style” to focus on the material reality of “Clothes. This edition comes with a new format and binding method, and features a cloth garment “care label” sewn to the outer front and back covers. Featuring articles with Novella favorites such as and others, this issue asks, “What knowledge can we gather from the studying of fashion objects, be they material or immaterial? What is the difference between clothes and fashion? And to which extent is even “fashion" ever successfully signified by things?”

If you like: “71% Criticism, 18% Research, 10% Images”
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March 10-13th
Thursday-Saturday 12pm-7pm
Sunday 12pm-5pm

03/07/2022

SOURCE MATERIALS: YOUR ANSWERS

As with our last pop-up, we took to IG Stories to ask our friends the pertinent questions surrounding the theme of our pop-up.

This time we asked, “Describe a piece of jewelry that’s meaningful to you:”
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March 10-13th
Thursday-Saturday 12pm-7pm
Sunday 12pm-5pm

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be f...
03/05/2022

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be featuring.
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Next Up: Bill Magazine

Bill is an annual, “magazine without words” designed and edited by Julie Peeters, a graphic designer based in Brussels. By prioritizing new or previously unpublished imagery from contributors, Bill encourages the reader to fill in the blanks and imagine their own narratives without the distraction of text.

Featured Work: Bill 3 (shown above) is a special archival issue, featuring “unpublished Martin Margiela lookbook photographs, a horse, street style from the 90’s, vases of Japan, a silver story, a flash forward and back, tennis, an icecube tray, more Margiela, Hysteric Glamour and a bunch of frivilous images.” The stories are sourced from the book collections of RareBooksParis and Julie Peeters.

If you like: 1990s Margiela, surprising paper stocks and magazines that leave room for the imagination
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March 10-13th
Thursday-Sunday

03/04/2022

SOURCE MATERIALS: YOUR ANSWERS

As with our last pop-up, we took to IG Stories to ask our friends the pertinent questions surrounding the theme of our pop-up.

This time we asked, “What makes something jewelry?”
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March 10-13th
Thursday-Sunday

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be f...
03/02/2022

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be featuring.

Next Up: Floriane Misslin

Floriane Misslin is a “researcher, designer, and educator whose practice focuses on developing participatory and visual research methods.” Misslin’s research centers on the study of fashion photography and practice that challenges the binary of womenswear and menswear. This takes shape with the ongoing project Diagramming Fluidity, which was published as a book by Onomatopee in 2019. Misslin graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2016 and is currently a PhD student in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London.

Featured Work: Diagramming Fluidity (shown above), investigates the ways in which gender fluidity is actualized in fashion photography. For this work, Floriane Misslin interviewed fashion editors, art directors and photographers whose work challenges the fashion binary in order to dissect the history and future of gender fluidity in fashion imagery. Using the resulting interviews as a starting point, Misslin reorganized these transcribed texts and diagrammed a visual manifesto for the future of fluidity in visual culture. These manifestos were printed via risography, along with an essay about Misslin’s research and methodology.

If you like: Diagram-as-research, sociology, manifestos and risograph printing
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March 10-13th
Thursday-Sunday

03/01/2022

SOURCE MATERIALS: YOUR ANSWERS

As with our last pop-up, we took to IG Stories to ask our friends the pertinent questions surrounding the theme of our pop-up.

This time we asked, “What role does jewelry play in your life?”
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March 10-13th
Thursday-Sunday

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be f...
02/28/2022

Leading up to our pop up at FARIS March 10-13th, we will be sharing a preview of the authors and publishers we will be featuring.

Next Up: Oppi Untracht

Oppi Untracht was a renowned metal-worker, Fulbright scholar and jewelry historian. As a Fulbright fellowship recipient, Untracht traveled to India to document and photograph “persons wearing fast disappearing traditional jewellery” during the 1950s-70s, collecting thousands of specimens which he bequeathed to the V&A after his death. His wife, Saara Hopea, was also a jewelry designer and a frequent creative collaborator. Untracht penned several books, and his first, Metal Techniques for Craftsmen, is considered the standard training textbook for silversmiths.

Featured Work: Jewelry: Concepts & Technology (shown above). It took Untracht ten years to finish this book, widely considered to be one of the most comprehensive surveys of jewelry history and construction ever published. Featuring over 900 photographs and 300 jewelers from 26 countries, it is the definitive reference book for jewelers of all skill levels.

If you like: thicc books
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March 10-13th
Thursday-Sunday

02/27/2022

SOURCE MATERIALS: YOUR ANSWERS

As with our last pop-up, we took to IG Stories to ask our friends the pertinent questions surrounding the theme of our pop-up.

This time we asked, “What’s an early jewelry memory you have?”
gallery at
March 10-13th
Thursday-Sunday

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