This past sunday we trekked out to my parent’s farm outside of Stratford once again to shoot the Fall/Winter 2012-2013 lookbook. I had been hoping for snow since we scheduled the shoot and well, I got what I wanted!

I just received the final edits and they are beyond beautiful. The huge falling snowflakes and baron wintery landscape made the perfect backdrop for the upcoming collection, which is full of COLOUR!

Have a look at some behind the scenes photos from sunday, all taken by my friend Marni!

You won’t be seeing the ‘real’ photos for quite some time, but here’s a sneak peek I posted on fb + twitter earlier this week:

Photographer: Hannah Sider

Models: Felicia + Shelbey from Spot6

Makeup: Julia Sheasgreen

Styling: Whitney McMeekin

Behind the Scenes Photographer: Marni Wolf

Catering: Leslie Wood

You snooze, you lose. The last muff from our FW11-12 collection has been slain. Lucky for you, I have one from last Fall in stock. It’s the Smooth Rock Falls, and features racoon from my grandma’s fur coat. The fur is super long and fluffy and amazing. Better believe I kept one of these for the archives.

It has a zipped pocket inside for holding all essential – big enough for your phone, and a small wallet. There’s even a wristlet for easy carrying (but no strap). Best of all, this bad boy is 50% off until January 31st too.

And, go!

Spring is just around the corner! I don’t know about you, but I am more than ready.

We’ll be launching our Spring/Summer 2012 collection online in February, and it will be hitting stores in early March, but in the meantime here is a sneak peek of some of the innovative new styles you can expect to see!

For our die-hard signature style fans, we have plenty of updates on those too.

We are taking pre-orders from the collection now until January 30th, with delivery around mid February. If you would like an exclusive opportunity to see the new collection in it’s entirety, send me an email (jillian@loveheadmistress.com), or leave your email address on fb or twitter. We’ll send you our catalogue, which won’t be posted online for at least a month!

Enjoy.

Remember being in school, or maybe you currently are in school, and you’d procrastinate and put off writing that essay or studying for that test? And then you’d daydream about coming up with some elaborate story as to why you deserved an extension? Well I’ve just made that dream a reality.

Sort of…except instead of procrastinating about your essay, you’ve been procrastinating about making your Boxing Week Headmistress 50% off Sale purchase. As such, I’m granting you all an extension until the end of January, and hereby declaring this as the Headmistress Boxing MONTH Sale. At which point, Fall/Winter 2011 will disappear forever and we will launch SPRING/SUMMER 2012! WHICH I’M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT.

So go, do it! You’ve already missed the boat on many pieces, and those that remain are few. If you’re in Toronto or Stratford, email me (jillian@loveheadmistress.com) and we can arrange a pickup so that you can skip the shipping.

You are so welcome.

So long 2011, you were swell.

Some highlights:

-renting a second apartment and filling it with weird furniture and owl lamps. Not to mention gaining TWO rooms just for HM! TWO!

-continuing to work with awesome people and expanding our team of HM warriors. Headmistress wasn’t built in a day, and it was built by like, a lot of different people. A for-real, heartfelt thank you to everyone who has chipped in. Thanks for being with me to celebrate the victories. I’m so lucky that I get to do this for a living, and couldn’t do it without you.

-selling to some big retailers. Anthropologie was a crazy experience and a dream come true. I’ve loved Simons for years and it was definitely a moment getting to go and see my work there in person. But more importantly, this year we established new relationships with smaller boutiques and cultivated our existing relationships with the ones who keep coming back for more. This year I learned that they are more important.

-two new york trips (more where that came from). Although their main purpose was (and will likely continue to be) for Headmistress, this year I learned the importance of getting away to get inspired.

-our ever-expanding foundation of followers. I’m so fortunate that Headmistress has such a loyal base of die-hard supporters. I love getting your emails and am so appreciative when you take the time to interact. This is also an appropriate place to give a shout-out to my hometown Stratford supporters. I am so lucky to come from a place where people actually care and want good things for the people it produces. Big things are happening there.

Thanks 2011, here’s to 2012!

The great Boxing Week Sale continues all this week – here are my day 2 picks of some of my favourite pieces from the FW2011 collection. Last chance!

The Cedar Lake turban doubles as your winter hat until it gets TOO cold, and the navy is a nice change-up from black.

The Rainy River hippie is a go-to classic – at $12.50 this baby is a steal with exceptional wearability.

Our gigantic boxing week blowout continues today – and I’m pleased to say it’s off to a running start. 50% off is nothing to scoff at – I like to call it the democratization of the Canadian hand-made accessory game. So,  you’re welcome for that.

I’d also like to take the opportunity to highlight some of my favourites from the collection. Obviously I’m partial to the higher-end LOVE collection, and at these prices you can be too. Of all of the demi-turbans, I’d say the Chickney Creek has gotten the most play in my daily wardrobe. CAUSE IT MATCHES EVERYTHING. You got your browns, camels, greens, and even a touch of blue and orange. Plus there’s even a little bit of black. I have only 5 of these left.

This is our second Fall season making muffs and I am so pleasantly surprised at how they are taking off. I have only 1 muff left from this season’s collection – it’s our Lake Athabasca black persian lamb version. No justification needed at these prices – plus it’s a purse, so you have to have it. Right?

Well, now that Christmas Day is ova, it’s onward and upward for those of us in the retail business – onto our Boxing Week BLOWOUT!

All week – until Jan 2nd, OUR ENTIRE FW2011 COLLECTION is 50% off! This is the cheapest it will ever be so if there’s something you’ve been eyeing all season, here is your guilt-free opportunity to snap it up one last time. There are only 1 or 2 of most pieces left and we will not be producing anymore for the season. Believe it or not, Spring is right around the corner! I’ll be teasing you with photos of all that bizness soon enough.

Until then – go blow your christmas dollaz!!