Signature Pieces
Introducing the Signature Collection; our best selling styles from the past few years, made to order, just for you.
May 13 2019
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - May 13 2019
Introducing the Signature Collection; our best selling styles from the past few years, made to order, just for you.
February 19 2019
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - February 19 2019
The spring collection will be available tomorrow! All the pieces shown here and more to come. Linen, silk and cotton garments, handmade to order.
All photos shot on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Tuba Qurban.
February 19 2019
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - February 19 2019
A small collection of handmade homewares, including linen tote bags, drawstring bags, lavender sachets, handwoven tea towels, essential oil candle and all natural cold process herbal soaps.
January 20 2019
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - January 20 2019
A lovely photo series by Elle-May : www.elle-may.com
Elle is wearing the Pauline jumpsuit in creme linen.
January 13 2019
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - January 13 2019
A lovely photo series by Elle-May : www.elle-may.com
Elle is wearing the Mathilde dress in grey stripe.
January 10 2019
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - January 10 2019
January 02 2019
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - January 02 2019
A beautiful photo series by Ellen Rogers, "Pylons".
See more here: https://ellenjanerogers.com/blogs/gnosis/pylons-and-other-signs
Maria wears Celeste blouse and Mathilde dress by Ovate.
December 03 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - December 03 2018
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
Model is Kelsie Hastie.
November 06 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - November 06 2018
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
Model is Na-Ovalie Labelle-Thiphavong.
October 30 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - October 30 2018
One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host. Far safer through an Abbey gallop, The stones achase, Than, moonless, one’s own self encounter In lonesome place. Ourself, behind ourself concealed, Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment, Be horror’s least. The prudent carries a revolver, He bolts the door, O’erlooking a superior spectre More near.
(Emily Dickinson, 1862)
All photos on 35mm by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Tuba Qurban.
October 28 2018
Audrey Cantwell
October 28 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - October 28 2018
I see nothing.
We may sink and settle on the waves.
The sea will drum in my ears.
The white petals will be darkened with sea water.
They will float for a moment and then sink.
Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under.
Everything falls in a tremendous shower,
dissolving me.
(Virginia Woolf, The Waves)
From a misty, windy September afternoon with lovely friend Rebecca wearing Ovate in Newfoundland.
All photos by Audrey Cantwell on 35mm film.
Rebecca is a talented photographer, you can see her work here:
http://rebeccacairns.com/
September 20 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - September 20 2018
August 30 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - August 30 2018
I will be away on holiday from September 1-16. All orders placed during this time will be shipping upon my return, week of September 17th. To make up for the short delay in getting your order out, please enjoy free international shipping on all orders over 150$. Please use the discount code freeshipping at check-out.
I am excited to come back replenished and ready to release the fall collection!
Yours very truly,
Audrey
July 03 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - July 03 2018
All antique clothing available in the online shop.
Photographed on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
June 25 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - June 25 2018
This series is especially precious to me as the models are my two best friends, Anika and Kelsie. I took these photos in my bedroom on Kelsie's last morning in Montreal before moving back to California, we all cried over breakfast and snuck in this quick little roll of film together. These last two images are out-takes but they warm my heart so much.
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Models are Anika Ahuja and Kelsie Hastie.
June 19 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - June 19 2018
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
June 09 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - June 09 2018
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
May 19 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - May 19 2018
All photos on 35mm by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Ayanna Dozier.
March 21 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - March 21 2018
All clothing is from the spring collection "Under a Glass Bell".
Photographed by Audrey Cantwell on 35mm film. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
Location is Style Labo in Montreal : http://stylelabo-deco.com/
March 19 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - March 19 2018
It was a stately house where many lives had accumulated and left their essences.
It was also a house that seemed about to vanish.
The mirrors were framed with white roses made of sea shells. From the ceiling hung enormous glass chandeliers, blue icicle bushes shedding teardrops of blue glass light on the gold furniture. On the mantelpiece, the shepherdesses, the angels, the gods and goddesses of porcelain, all seemed to have been caught while in motion by a secret enchantment and put to sleep with a dust of white sleep like those secret enchantments of nature enclosing the drops of water in dark caves and turning them into stalactite torches, candlesticks, hooded figures. That delicacy of design only created in a void, in great silence and great immobility. No violence here, no tears, no great suffering, no shouting, no destruction, no anarchy. The secret silences, the muted pain brought about by riches, a conspiracy of tranquility to preserve this flowerlike fragility in crystal, wood, and damask. the violins were muted, the hands were gloved, carpets were unrolled forever under the feet, and the gardens cottoned the sound from the world.
The light from the icicle bushes threw a patina over all objects, and turned them into bouquets of still flowers kept under a glass bell. The glass bell covered the flowers, the chairs, the whole room, the panoplied beds, the statues, the butlers, all the people living in the house. The glass bell covered the entire house.
Everyday the silence, the peace, the softness, carved with greater delicacy the glass chandeliers, the furniture, the statuettes and laces, then covered them with glass. Under the giant glass bell the colours looked inaccessible, the shapes strongly beautiful as of something that can never be repeated. Everything had that transparency, the fragility of stalactite created in silence and obscurity and breaking when the caves are opened and the breath of man enters.
-Anais Nin (Under A Glass Bell)
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
March 18 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - March 18 2018
Ovate spring 2018 "Under A Glass Bell".
Available online March 22nd.
March 04 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - March 04 2018
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Chloe Chauvet.
March 04 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - March 04 2018
I am very excited about these two new colours of linen gauze for the Mathilde dress, available in limited edition next month.
Photographs on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie
February 15 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - February 15 2018
( Ariel jacket in creme linen. Simone trousers in black linen. )
Photographs by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
February 05 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - February 05 2018
New in the shop - handcrafted leather camera strap with blackened steel hardware.
January 29 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - January 29 2018
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
http://www.zolajesus.com/
January 23 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - January 23 2018
On the day of breasts and small hips
the window pocked with bad rain,
rain coming on like a minister,
we coupled, so sane and insane.
We lay like spoons while the sinister
rain dropped like flies on our lips
and our glad eyes and our small hips.
"The room is so cold with rain," you said
and you, feminine you, with your flower
said novenas to my ankles and elbows.
You are a national product and power.
Oh my swan, my drudge, my dear wooly rose,
even a notary would notarize our bed
as you knead me and I rise like bread.
-Anne Sexton
Photographs by Audrey Cantwell on 35mm film. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
January 16 2018
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - January 16 2018
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Pierre Luc Huault.
December 16 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - December 16 2017
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
Models are Allie O'Hora and Kelsie Hastie.