Castles In The Air Luxe Tee

When we finished the sample for this piece, we found we couldn’t stop wearing it! It literally goes with almost everything — warm or cool colours — and mixes beautifully with other prints and patterns. We love it worn with our I Dream in Flowers scarf, a pair of cropped trousers, and sneakers — but you can also dress it up so easily with a bohemian skirt and some layered jewellery.

The dreamer, the starry-eyed. Women who lead with curiosity and imagination, who seek out adventure on ordinary days. Women who swing through the trees.

A wildly prolific French art director, painter, and landscape architect from the 1700’s, Hubert Robert created literally thousands of works of art during his lifetime. Nine of his paintings hang in the Louvre alone! Known for his dynamic, adventurous life (he designed many famous gardens for infamous personalities of the day, including Marie Antoinette, and was imprisoned during the French Revolution), he is also remembered for the fanciful and imaginative qualities he brought to landscape painting. Describing his process when painting the magical landscapes we used for this design, he is quoted as saying, “The ideas which the ruins awake in me are grand.” We feel the very same.

She lets the earth spin
and the weeds sleep,
leaves dishes 
under moats of water.

It is an act of believing,
to claim this hour
as her landscape. A daring.
Loud as if she’d dropped
the handle of a broom,
and stormed out
of her own story 
in to the green woods. 

Her hand fits better
on the handle of a tree branch,
the rope of a swing.
The sky is wide, the blue
spires of her fancy cut
through clouds. Ideas unfurl
like tender ferns, golden coils
of braid to climb.
Her heart hammers,
building castles
in the air — one swing
and then another
through the tall trees.