Calla Haynes, 29, is as lovely, lissome and poised as the lily whose name she bears. The highly pedigreed designer (she apprenticed with Olivier Theyskens and Jeremy Laing) specializes in textiles and prints. Organically sourced, digitally manipulated, and softly applied, the latter are what she’s best-loved for in Paris—where she keeps a tiny studio in the 3rd arrondissement—and Toronto too. Calla is sold at The Room at The Bay, and soon comes home to present her Spring 2012 collection at the Ritz-Carlton. Until then, gaze upon her meticulous and delicate process here, and stay tuned elsewhere for a Style.com video styled by Lula‘s Leith Clark.
An iPhone snap of pink-blooming bushes on Ile de R became the inspiration for spring’s “Chiba” print.
Here it is in an earlier stage of Photoshoporphasis…
…and a later one.
Where her garments hang, so does her stupidly cute dog, Lilybear.
An acid-yellow smoke cloud, found on Tumblr, inspired a similarly citric hue in the spring line-up.
Calla’s sketches are appealingly old-fashioned. Here’s one of a long, long… let’s call it a shirt-gown.
Here, just for you, is an iPreview of the Style.com video shoot.
Technical sketches tacked on the wall, plus a fuzzy-wuzzy mascot Calla used in a line of tees for Opening Ceremony.
