You may have seen Pendleton Woolen Mills recently on CBS Sunday Morning. You can watch it here:
Thank you to everyone who participated, especially Bobbie Conner, and the entire CBS crew who traveled to Pendleton to talk to us, learn about our history, and film at the mill.
JT explores his outdoor side in a Pendleton Grand Canyon blanket. This promo for his newest album, Man of the Woods, was unveiled on Instagram . You can read more about it here: GQ.com.
See the blanket here: GRAND CANYON PENDLETON
Ed sets a pizza down on a Canyonlands blanket (no longer in the line, but we do have some accessories and towels in this pattern) and snuggles his secret crush turned girlfriend under a Fire Legend blanket. See it here: Fire Legend.
Mountains! Snowboarding! Kittens! Love songs! Pizza! Pendleton Blankets! And Ed Sheeran! What more could you ask for?
Our thanks to the PNW video crew for repping local brands for this video.
Pendleton recently had the opportunity to work with renowned designer Andre Walker on a collection for Paris Fashion Week. Andre has an outstanding track record with fashion press and retailers. Every time he launches a collection, the fashion world swoons.
Andre, like Pendleton, is American. He is known for his freeform, hand-cut designs, described by the New York Times as, “His coats and jackets eel around the body, wrapping, tying or buttoning.” His designs have generated a tremendous amount of excitement since he staged his first show at a New York nightclub when he was just fifteen years old.
Andre worked with Willi Smith in the 80s. With his own label, he won the prestigious ANDAM fashion prize in 2000. He created outstanding work for Comme des Garcons under his And Re Walker label in the 2010s, and worked as a consultant for Kim Jones and Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton in the years since.
We met him Andre in person at our New York showroom during Press Week last spring, and then came home and hustled to get him various weights and colors of our USA-woven wool fabrics. We sent fabrics in a variety of weaves and textures, and Glacier National Park blankets.
Andre transformed our textiles into recreations of his androgynous one-sized designs. The 21 looks Walker showed were based on pieces he designed between 1982 and 1986. He reclaimed long-lost looks from friends and collectors the world over to use for patterning. The show was held on the steps of the Musée des Art Décoratifs in Paris, and generated fantastic press.
It was awesome to work with Andre. He is absolutely the sweetest person ever, so sincere and authentic with an amazing design sense.
See all the looks here: VOGUE RUNWAY
Learn more about Andre’s background here: NEW YORK TIMES
We were so excited to make the Top Ten Moments of Paris Fashion Week here: New York Times
A terrific piece on process and design: i-D Magazine
One of our favorite pieces here: DOCUMENT JOURNAL
And another terrific article here: L’O
More shots here: WWD
All runway shots by Shoji Fujii
We were delighted to see French actress Isabelle Huppert in the New York Times style magazine, wearing our Frankie shirt. Huppert is known for her intelligence, beauty and insistence on challenging roles. Her career spans 45 years and over 100 roles.
You can read more about her controversial new movie with provocative director Paul Verhoeven here: NYT Interview with Isabelle Huppert
And see the shirt here (Huppert is wearing the Black Watch): Frankie Shirt by Pendleton (retired)
Pendleton is proud to be the recipient of the Fisher House Patriots Award. The award was presented on March 23, 2016, at the opening of the 70th Fisher House location in Vancouver, Washington.
We are honored to be part of this compassionate endeavor. The Fisher Houses provide a comforting, first-class “home away from home” for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers. The homes provide free temporary lodging, so military and Veterans’ families can be close to the loved ones during medical crisis.
Pendleton has supported the Fisher House Foundation since 2006. We do this by donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Grateful Nation blanket and Grateful Nation vest to the Fisher House Foundation. The Patriots Award recognizes this contribution, and will be displayed in our Heritage hallway. The engraving on the hand-finished crystal face of the award is etched with the following words:
Presented to Pendleton Woolen Mills
Recognizing extraordinary efforts supporting the quality of life of
our greatest treasure…
our military service men and women and their families
Overall last year, the Fisher House Foundation has helped in these ways:
Fisher House Foundation is a unique, private/public partnership formed to support America’s military heroes, both Veterans and active duty service members, in their time of medical need. We are extraordinarily proud to support the Foundation’s humanitarian work serving those who have fought for our country.
At the March 23rd Fisher House ribbon cutting ceremony, John Bishop, Pendleton Chairman and 5th generation family, presented a special, custom-embroidered Grateful Nation blanket to the staff at this newest location.
On Monday, March 28, the first families to reside at the Vancouver campus Fisher House crossed its threshold. The Foundation expects to serve 500 families in the new site in 2016.
Photos courtesy of the Fisher House Foundation. Used with permission.
If you would like more information on the Grateful Nation blanket and the Grateful Nation vest, please read our earlier blog posts here: Grateful Nation.
Grateful Nation Vest Grateful Nation Blanket
It was exciting to see our blankets on NBC’s The Voice, as stage dressing during a finale performance by Pharrell Williams and his protege Sawyer Fredericks.
Yes, there among the beanbag chairs and the super-chill tambourine girls swaying gently to the “Summer Breeze,” you can see our blankets; Heroic Chief, Mountain Majesty, and Compass Stripe.
Sawyer is an Americana musician. Our American-made blankets bring just the right American vibe for him. From what we understand, the blankets were given as gifts to the crew after filming wrapped.
SAWYER WON! But that’s not even the most exciting part.
When our UK partners tweeted a link to this Instagram:
The man himself retweeted it!
Yes, a good day around Pendleton Woolen Mills. You can follow us on Twitter @pendletonwm. And as always, you can get your blankets at pendleton-usa.com.
Central Park, anyone?
That’s our Glacier National Park Blanket, of course.
Read the full story here: source
If that doesn’t get you ready for summer sports and champagne picnics, we don’t know what will.
We were super excited to see these shots from the March cover shoot for VOGUE, featuring Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss.
Yes, that’s our Chief Joseph blanket peeking around inside that beautiful Airstream trailer.
We love the combination of two traditional American firms, Airstream and Pendleton, making a backdrop for two young American style icons. The BoHo vibe is adorable, and their friendship is palpable.
All photos courtesy VOGUE.com (source). Look for this issue soon on newsstands.
This recent feature on our blankets in WORKWEAR magazine is full of vintage photos and brochures from the Pendleton archives. Photos shared with permission.
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