The Sketch Book

it's the most wonderful time of the year - #73SPRINGSHOP is back

Who: Inslee By Design, Society Social, Persifor, Ashley Brooke Designs, Loren Hope* What: Are hosting the most glorious Pop Up Shopping Event of 2015** When: December 3 - 20th*** Where: In my stud...

September is here!

Do you remember the 21st night of September.... Rejoice! We have shifted through time to the best song-month of the year! Gone are the sandy, sun bleached idol hours of August set to the rhythm ...

art for the new Jack Rogers offices

Today I had the delightful pleasure of visiting the Jack Rogers team in their gorgeous new headquarters to see some of my art installed all around the new space. It is so exciting to see my work...

Babies and horses and ramps, oh my! Daphne's exciting first week of may...

Where to begin!? May has been such an exciting month so far. First of all, did you notice how I just happened to don my favorite old pale pink taffeta Oscar de la Renta party frock on the evening...

spring in the city with daphne

Hello! Spring has FINALLY sprung in Manhattan. Are there leaves on the trees? No. Is it warm enough to walk around without a coat? Not exactly. But, I didn't say spring has sprung in Acapulco? No...

April Calendar Girl 2015: A story blooms in the west village

Close your eyes. Call on your darkened imagination to summon the remembered sounds of a spring rain. The first elastic drops echoing off newly minted leaves and grass, the sounds gradually grow...

inslee sketches at nautica

#todayinsweetgreen

  Can we talk about Sweetgreen? And the stylish lettuce mafia that bursts forth each day to wait in the chicest line in town for an order of Guacamole Greens?  I can mark the phases of my lif...

Bon Matin, Paris

Have you been keeping up with @dressingdaphne's insta-jealousy inducing Paris antics? She just spent her birthday among the glittering French fashionites. New York may never sleep but Paris never...

February 2015: The Tea Cup Smuggler

4:30 am. Every morning Elspeth walks the fifteen frigid blocks from her apartment to the Flower District to scout the best selection of flowers before sunrise. She loses herself amongst the cut ...