Wool And The Blog - in English

Bring on the chunky wool

Thibault — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:23:00 +0200

Never stopped loving the gargantuan knitwear of Giles Fall 2007 collection.

How we wool - Clancy

Thibault — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:31:00 +0200

"How we wool" is an inspirational exploration of how to wear knitted pieces along with an everyday outfit. We have asked friends and members of the gang in New York to show us how they turn our collection pieces into their own, how they incorporate these in their own wardrobe.

Today it's Clancy's turn, sporting the Quarterback Dress in Midnight blue. She's 25 years old, from Malibu, a film co-producer - her style influences are comfort, practicality, her travels, music and most important, her grandmother."

Photographs: Kit Chaney

how we wool - christian

Thibault — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:07:00 +0200

Christian rocks the Foxy Scarf in the NEW Crazy Sexy Wool Khaki Green

Photographs: Kit Chaney

Introducing khaki green

Thibault — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:00 +0200

Rag and bone spring summer 2012

Thibault — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:42:00 +0200

We love the new Spring Summer 2012 collection by Rag and Bone. Create the same effect by tying on a new strand of coloured yarn to create a tie dye wash to your new knitted garment.

Photographs courtesy of vogue.co.uk

POSTCARDS FROM THE GANG

Thibault — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:45:00 +0200

Camille, our true WATG gangta, knitted up two Supreme Sweaters this summer. She personalised one style knitting with stripes. J'aime!

Zara our beautiful sales assistant from NYC, took her Mary Sweater to Florida- happy to escape the city. She's back in NYC, fresh and getting ready for Fall

Knit sexy with Terry

Thibault — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:50:00 +0200

We were used to see Terry Richardson completely naked on a beach taking pictures of Kate in the same outfit, but it seems that he's found something really exciting in knitting too when you see one of his photoshoots with Lara Stone for Vogue France Magazine! Knitting has never been that sexy even if the clothes are a bit naf today!
No grandma you can't wear this!!

Thanks Jade for this hot find!

Knit the night at Barneys!

Thibault — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:58:00 +0200

Woooo! WHAT A NIGHT! Last thursday, in order to celebrate Fashion's Night Out in New York City, the gang settled at Barneys and welcome knitters from all kind (fresh faced beginners, already crazy addicts like Chennie who learned how to knit with WATG,...). The main goal of this very night was to knit the biggest and crazyest blanket ever! A blanket of love, friendship and peace that will be auctioned soon to raise money for The National September 11th Museum & Memorial Foundation.

If you missed the event, don't worry you can't still be part of the blanket by sending us CRAZY SEXY WOOL knitted squares (25x25cm — 10x10 inches).

Send your knitted squares to:
Wool And The Gang
225 West 36th Street - 6th floor
10018 New York - New York USA

Thanks again to everyone who joined us at Barneys!
Check out our photos of the event:

Happy Birthday Caro!

Thibault — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:40:00 +0200

All the gang wishes a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our british gangsta Carolyn!
xxx

Carolyn and the Foxy Roxy in Tyrian pink (photo: Martin Bruno)

Fashion's Night Out — Wool School at Barneys New York

Thibault — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:30:00 +0200

Hey gang!

In occasion of the Fashion's Night Out in New York City, an initiative from Vogue and many local supports, Wool And The Gang is hosting a Wool School at Barneys from 6 to 11pm, September 10th. To celebrate fashion our favorite designers, editors and friends will be knitting a square to complete a special, one-of-a-kind blanket to benefit charity. Come knit a piece of history with our cool collective and even knit a piece of your heart. Be part of the craziest blanket in the world. Be good, be bad, be proud, be you, and just knit it with us!

Join our Barneys New York knitting relay during Fashion's Night Out!
660 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Main entrance, ground floor
From 6 to 11PM

More about Fashion's Night Out !

Join our Barneys New York knitting relay during Fashion's Night Out!
660 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Main entrance, ground floor
From 6 to 11PM

Summer memories part.02

Thibault — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:23:00 +0200

This is the story of two kids under the sun of ibiza, a ball of cotton in their hands. Knitting made them come together, creating a link between them, the time, the place and the object produced. It acts as a record of what was going on this very summer, the air that they breathed, the love that they felt. They knit to share.

Jade and Eduardo wear Zion Lion hats in SHINY HAPPY COTTON Magic Mint and Brick Red, pure and groovy prototypes !

Summer memories part.01

Thibault — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:03:00 +0200

Woodstock and Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, John Baez in 1969...
40 Years later the Gangsta Wool family at the amazing Glastonbury festival, all gathered for LOVE, PEACE, ROCK AND ROLL and KNITTING !

Join the gang — Camille

Thibault — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:27:00 +0200

Summer is going really weird in Paris, from really cold weeks to endless heatwave... Can't decide which yarn to knit! Camille, a super cool knitter from Switzerland just send us pics of her Lil'Joe in sherpa blue — YES, the summer is not just about cotton, LET THE WOOL SHINE and welcome in the gang Camille!

First contest results

Thibault — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:58:00 +0200

Here are the results of our first creative contest "knit in public". Nadège Winter, our style director, helped us select the craziest creation that represent our gang spirit. OUR WINNER is KnitSpirit and her cool street knitting performance, inspirated by the Knitta Please artwork. We found it the most powerful and proud as it takes place in an everyday place. We also love the name "yarnbombing" ! Congratulations Gaëlle and enjoy your Tala Tank Top kit !

Congratulations also to the other contestants for their creations below.

Elene from Aufildelene

Martine Tominaga

Thanks a lot to everyone for participating, can't wait for the next contest !

Back to blog

Thibault — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:35:00 +0200

Thanks a lot for your comments and "likes" (on facebook) we are so happy that you love the new collection ! We can't wait to see the new patterns follow you to the beach, lovely summer nights, etc... Send us pics as soon as you can !

I'm sorry that the blog went really slow this past few weeks as we were working on an updated version, including our friends links and little changes in the design so that you'll be aware of everything at any time ! I'm also currently working on a interview of our fashion muse, Nadège Winter, talking about her inspirations and this fall next step with great surprises (should be online next week!)

In order to give you a little something to be patient, here is a cool pic that Nadège send me, one of our favorite bands, MGMT seems to enjoy knitting as a really cute knitted headband appeared in their last and really weird video on the head of the sweetest but traumatized kid ever ! A really nice idea if you go to a music festival this summer, embroid a Nina Rich headband with the name of your favorite band ! That rocks !

By the way don't forget our "Knit In Public" contest ! Send a crazy pic, video or drawing about this theme and win a Tala Tank Top kit ! Few more days till the end of the competition (till sunday 5) so don't waste a second ! More information here.

New collection — Shiny Happy Cotton

Thibault — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:44:00 +0200

Hey everyone,
i've talked a lot about our new SHINY HAPPY COTTON collection coming out, HERE IT IS !
Introducing 6 new ready-to-knit kits (and our first "experienced" kits), an extra soft and luster 100% Pima Cotton — summer is going to knit crazy !! Have a look at the collection pictures below and shop new kits on our updated eshop !

Tala Tank Top

Halona Scarf

Mahal Poncho

Lil'Indiana Joe

Etenia Bag

Yuma Poncho and Totsi Overshoe, our first kid project !

Knit in Public Day contest

Thibault — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:13:00 +0200

While we are in a big rush for the SHINY HAPPY COTTON launch, here is something to have a lot of fun! We love knitting and we claim it as today is World Wide Knitting in Public Day! To celebrate, WOOL AND THE GANG is organizing its very first contest around the idea of outdoor knitting! We want to see you knitting in the sudway, in a train, under the rain, ... in the crazyest places! Be creative, be crazy, be proud and have fun !

Nadège Winter, our funky style director will choose the most creative one in the Wool And The Gang spirit. — TO WIN : a ready-to-knit kit from the SHINY HAPPY COTTON collection: our Tala Tank Top, this summer's must-have!

Send us your photos or video before June 30 at join@woolandthegang.com
Results on July 2 on the blog!

Aurelie Mathigot — I need space

Thibault — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:35:00 +0200

Aurelie Mathigot's world is made of textile. From embroidery, crochet or knitting, her work is questionning the ideas of recovery, second skin or protection. Her knitted sculptures and embroided pictures will be exhibited at Lacen Galerie (Paris) from the 28th of May to the 25th of July — and as she's a friend of the gang, some of her works are made with our CRAZY SEXY WOOL !

PREVIEW on thursday 28th of May, from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. COME !

Galerie Lacen
20 rue de Picardie — Paris 3e
More infos www.lacengalerie.com

More Cotton Photoshoot Backstage

Thibault — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:39:00 +0200

Here are some more pictures of the summer COTTON collection photoshoot in Ibiza. Enjoy the sun !

Martin Burno, the coolest photograph ever.

Erin, Jade and Martin

Our Princess Lisa (in the middle) and her daughters Estée and Jade

Erin, Rosie and Nadège on set

Photos by Patrick Anin

Join the Gang — Zion Jack Lion

Thibault — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:47:00 +0200

Jack can definitely strike the pose !

Few days ago, Lili received a message from Marina, mum of a little Jack, for whom she knitted a really cute tweed grey Zion Lion hat ! Looking for a "I love my alpaca" she's bought 3 kits so far and was still desperate to find this very patch. Lili is such a sweetheart so she send to her one of hers. Here is Marina's cool message :

Dear Lili
here is a pic of Jack in his new hat
i learnt to knit last month on your web site (found out about you through a friend who became a fan on facebook), i never thought i would knit... nor live up a mountain... one just never knows!
great fun
thanks again,
Marina