Montana Ave Artwalk & Music Festival

Looking for things to do around Santa Monica this week? Montana Avenue is holding its annual Artwalk event this Thursday night 7/18 from 5 to 9pm. Stroll along 10 charming blocks in Santa Monica's quaint shopping district and explore some of the most creative local artists in the city. Live music will be spilling out onto the sidewalks too for a festive evening event. Grab your significant other or make it a girl's night out and stroll from 7th Street up to 16th Street along Montana and take in a little culture, stop for a quick bite at one of our local outdoor restaurants, and enjoy the warm Summer night. At Stacia, my shop at 808 11th Street at the corner of Montana, we'll be hosting a Sample Sale event and showcasing encaustic painter, Robin Tripaldi's vibrant, textural work. I was attracted to her paintings because of the layers of texture and rich colors and her unique usage of beeswax as her choice of medium. The encaustic process of painting is very rare and not a lot of artist specialize in this technique, or at least not since good 'ol Robert Rauschenberg. My favorite artist since Parson's days is Rauschenberg, who dabbled in this style of painting for awhile using layers of beeswax to create texture and rich colors in his collages. Robin, one of the Ten Women Gallery artists, will be displaying her fabulous work along 11th Street and in our 1030 Montana Avenue window. Stop by and take a look and learn all about her style of painting and process. Grab some great Stacia deals and enjoy a sip of our wine spritzer to get your night started. See you there! xoxoStacy

Endlesss Summer

My favorite hoodie has hit the Sundance catalog and web site! The endless Summer hoodie is an easy, breezy trapeze-shaped hoodie perfect for the last days of Summer. Especially when there's a bit of a nip in the air here in SoCal, this hoodie will keep you cozy at the beach after a day of surfing. In a multi-colored palette of blues, greens, and grounded with black, this custom-designed spacedye yarn was designed by me with an ode to the long days of Summer that transition into Fall's Indian Summer. Made of a super soft cotton/bamboo, this hoodie is both washable and can be rolled up for easy travel. Check it out at Sundance, on sale now!

Stacia for Sundance: The Haven Sweater

Check out our new Haven cardi in the Sundance catalog. My favorite easy cardi from Spring reinterpreted in a unique space-dye pattern I developed exclusively for Sundance. The perfect throw-on, anywhere cardi for the Summer, light-weight and in a silky soft bamboo yarn. Available in their printed catalog and online at www.sundancecatalog.com.

Huge Stacia SAMPLE SALE this Saturday at the Montana Avenue annual Sidewalk Sale. We'll be set up outside on the sidewalk in front of our store on 11th Street. Stop by and take a peek at all the goodies priced to move! Sample sale prices and nothing over 60 bucks. Inside, the new SS2012 collection will be 20% off one day only. This will be our first participation in the famous Montana Ave. sidewalk sale. Walk the street and enjoy ocean breezes while there's deals to be had. It will be exactly a year ago on that day that I signed my lease on my new shop at 808 11th St. It was during last year's sidewalk sale and I was excited to know that this year I could participate in this huge sales event. Stop by and say hi!

Earth Day at Stacia!

Banking on the Fashion Biz

So happy to be a part of the new Bank of America Small Business ad campaign! Yay! I always thought I'd be a great poster child for America's small businesses, especially the small percentage of woman-owned businesses out there. Luckily I was at the right place at the right time and due to renew my BofA line of credit when they so kindly asked if I'd like to represent a Santa Monica small-business owner. You betcha!

They just launched their first series of ads last week and yours truly is featured (with two of my favorite people - Karen Lascaris and Sandy Skinner!) on the back of the Los Angeles Times cover. Woo hoo! Love the little write up and boy does it make my business sound cool (10 blocks from the beach...so glad I left gritty Brooklyn for Santa Monica!) Stay tuned for more BofA Stacia ads coming up...and hopefully a commercial too. They're coming by the shop on May 3rd to film our business in action. Hope we make the cut!

New Product - the Stacia Sandal!!

Coming soon at my Montana Ave. boutique - the Stacia space-dye flip flop! An exclusive design made just for my store. Four cool space-dye patterns designed by moi will be printed on these comfy, beachy sandals. Stay tuned...

Stacia at FIG for Dallas Market!