Shipley & Halmos Designers, Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos. Photo Credit: Scallywag & Vagabond.
Designers Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos are now taking their brand, Shipley & Halmos, on the road to meet and greet fans in Barneys CO-OP stores throughout the nation. The brand begun its “Fill in the Blank” Tour at the Madison Avenue flagship store in New York City and will travel through the East Coast, Texas, Southern California, and finally to Seattle, where the tour ends August 26th. Shipley and Halmos will be taking pictures in an on-location photo booth to collect a range of personalities and personal styles of their customers to publish in book form in the Fall. The nationwide tour will allow designing duo to create an expansive portrait of the Shipley & Halmos customer.
Jessica Szohr in a Shipley & Halmos Leather Jacket, Fall 2009 collection. Photo credit: The Fashion Spot
Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos have been working together for nearly a decade before the debut of the quirky, eclectic brand of Shipley & Halmos. The West Coast natives left behind the surfer prep brand Trovata, the brand they were previously designing for, and headed to New York City. In NYC they created their own collection of wearable, classic pieces that could be worn by people in every corner of the U.S. Since the brand’s first collection in Spring 2008, the duo has won the coveted Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) award and has even seen their pieces worn by celebrities such as Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr.
Shipley & Halmos, Fall 2010.
While on the road Shipley and Halmos plan on keeping an online diary, that will be available via the brand’s Twitter page which will document their travels and allow fans and customers to watch the tour unfold. There will also be custom t-shirts to commemorate the tour, much like that of a concert t-shirt. Other custom Shipley & Halmos gifts will be available for willing participants at each of the Barneys CO-OP stores that the designers visit. Every customer portrait will be accompanied by questionnaire, so that each page of the final published book will reveal the spontaneity, humor, and personality of the quintessential Shipley & Halmos customer.
Shipley & Halmos "Fill in the Blank" Tour 2010.
The book will be available in Barneys stores this fall to give readers an inside look into the inspired world of Shipley & Halmos, as well as Barneys CO-OP. Since the brand’s first collection in Spring 2008, Barneys New York has been a strong supporter of Shipley & Halmos. The diverse cultures and styles of the Shipley & Halmos customer, and the Barneys New York customer, will be vividly portrayed and able to shine through the published book.
