Bonnie Heart Clyde

Most of the mixtapes we made for our college boyfriends were full of not-so-hidden love/angst messages delivered by hyperconfessional songwriters like Juliana Hatfield and Mary Lou Lord. But because 23-year-old Emily Katz is either way subtler or more clever than we are, one of her college mixtapes for boyfriend Shaun Deller featured Serge Gainsbourg’s slinky-sly “Bonnie and Clyde,” a song that ultimately provoked the Portland-based couple to launch their own line of freehand-embroidered t-shirts, hoodies, dresses, oxford shirts, and blazers. Determined to “live the life of outlaws, but with sewing machines instead of tommy guns,” Bonnie Heart Clyde turns vintage, recycled, and American Apparel cottons into storybook scenes starring delicately rendered wolves and unicorns, birds and flowers, boys and girls, and the occasional skull and crossbones. Now helmed by Emily—with Shaun creating recycled cycling apparel at Deller Designs—Bonnie Heart Clyde next presents a fall/winter 2006 line “inspired by the woman who haunts rare bookstores, waiting to catch the eye of the man across the room reading 1st edition French fairytales.” So romantic, we feel compelled to track down some old Brigitte Bardot songs and compile a very come-hither mix CD for our number-one crushes of the moment.

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