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Tucker Paisley Handbags and More - Exclusive Interview

Filed under: Handbags, Celebrity Shopping

Designer Tracy Fredkin (right) launched Tucker Paisley in Los Angeles in 2006, and since then, the line has been skyrocketing.

Beginning with six signature bags covered in her very own paisley print, she has garnered celebrity fans like Jaime Pressly, Hayden Panettiere and Katherine Heigl and expanded her range to include accessories like scarves, and now, clothing.

We met up with Tracy at a BagTrends event at Blue Bag in NYC.

Luxist: So, your paisley print started it all?

Tracy Fredkin: Yeah, that's what started it all. We came up with what we thought was a modern, fresh take on a paisley, and created it, copyrighted it and trademarked it. It was the inspiration for our signature line, which was all paisley. Our six signature bags were all prints, and then we moved styles that were really popular forward and started doing leather more, and using different textures and different colors, using the paisley as an accent. Now, you'll see it in a pocket, on a zipper, as the lining for a bag; that's sort of the direction we started going. In our Beach collection and some of our new accessories, we brought the paisley back to be the focus of those items.

L: How did you create the paisley pattern? Did you draw it?

TF: We went to tons of fabric stores and looked at old patterns, new patterns, different things that we liked in all the different colors, and then just started playing on a computer; making it bigger, making it smaller, whether we wanted it to be repeating, all different things.

L: Was it always intended for handbags?

TF: It was always going to be for handbags, yes. We wanted to do the handbag line. We had the shapes of certain bags in mind. That was the plan.

L: I love the different textures you're using, and there are metallics, patent leather, all sorts of things.

TF: Yeah, we're trying to bring in all different things. We have some soft lambskins, we have different metallics, we have heavier cow leathers, we brought in some raw silk in some of our things. We try to keep changing it up and have groupings of things for different people.

L: Cool. I heard you have clothing coming out for summer.

TF: Yes, we're doing a Beach line with some accessories and some dresses, light silk dresses in different silhouettes. It's all [the Tucker Paisley] look. Classic, chic -- what we're going for is very easy, timeless stuff that you can wear to different things, that are versatile.

We love her fresh paisley print and easy-chic style, as well as the free shipping on her website (though you can probably find Tucker Paisley at a store near you. Check out the gallery for photos of more bags, including the ones celebrities have been spotted carrying -- or, for shopping shortcut:

Katherine Heigl wore the Molly Tote ($108)
Jaime Pressly has the Thomas Hobo ($225)
Hayden Panettiere has been seen all over the place with this gorgeous Emma Clutch (normally $215, on sale for $105) -- check the gallery to see the paisley inside

Gallery: Tucker Paisley

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 03/01/09

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From Move Trends:
--You can rent the home once rented by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for $100,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Katherine Heigl is trying her hand at selling her house, shown above, again. The home was listed last summer for $1.75 million and is now listed at $1.595 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--"ER" actress Maura Tierney has listed her Los Angeles home for $2.195 million. The listing is here.
--The Toluca Lake home of actor Alan Thicke is for lease at $15,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Screenwriter turned art gallery owner Laurie Frank has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.495 million. The listing is here.
--Former football player Brian Bosworth has listed has listed his seven-bedroom Malibu home for $8.995 million. The listing is here.
--Emmy award-winning writer and television show creator Gary David Goldberg has listed his eight-bedroom Brentwood home for $19.95 million. The listing is here.
--London rapper and mixed martial arts fighter Mams Taylor has listed his Beverly Hills home for $9.95 million. The listing is here.
--Kirsten Kemp Becker, host of TLC's series "Hope for Your Home" and "Property Ladder" has listed her Montecito estate at $5.195 million. She has renovated the eight bedroom home which sits on 1.71 acres. The listing is here.
--Actress Natasha Henstridge has put her five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks, California on the market for $1.75 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata has cut the price of the apartment building he owns in New York City. The price for 43 Crosby is now $15 million. Last year, he was asking $22 million for the freshly renovated building which includes three floor through apartments, a duplex penthouse plus a ground floor/basement retail. The listing is here.
--Iceland has put four of its ambassadorial residences up for sale. We'll check out the Washington DC ambassadorial residence Monday as an estate of the day.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Danny Errico, the co-founder of Equinox gyms, has sold his home in Amagansett, New York for $11.895 million. His asking price was $14.995 million.
--Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of England's Manchester United soccer team, may be trying to back out of purchasing a penthouse at the Manhattan House development on East 66th Street.
--Richard and Cherylyn Cieri closed on their Manhattan House penthouse purchase for close to $8 million.
--Financier Stephen Benson has reduced the asking price on his Park Avenue apartment again. He originally wanted $13 million for the two-bedroom residence at 885 Park Ave. but is now asking $8.25 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Financier J. Christopher Flowers has put the Harkness mansion, which he bought in 2006, on the market for $49.95 million. He reportedly also spent millions on renovations.
--Aby Rosen's $75 million listing at 22 East 71st Street will be the site of the 37th annual Decorator Show House to be held this April and May. Rosen reports that he has received two offers above $60 million for it. Rosen paid $15.65 million for the house in August 2004 but isn't interested in cutting the price. We covered this home as an estate of the day last November.

From the Real Estalker:
--Moby and Stacey Bendet are leasing their Hollywood Hills home for $15,000 a month.
--Adam Levine of the band Maroon 5 has put his Los Angeles home up for rent for $10,000 a month. The listing is here.
The Castillo del Lago mansion in the Hollywood Hills is rumored to be soon to hit the market. The home was once owned by Madonna.
Last year, Los Angeles real estate agent Kurt Rappaport paid $15.99 million for a home in Beverly Hills. He has now renovated it and flipped it back on to the market for $28.5 million. The listing is here.
--Tennis star Lindsay Davenport has put two of her Southern California homes up for sale. We'll check out her Ventura beach house as today's estate of the day.

Gallery: Sunday Real Estate Round-up, 03/01/09

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 6/29/08

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
-- Loews Hotel chairman and NY Giants co-owner Jonathan Tisch and his wife, Lizzie, have gone to contract to buy a full-floor co-op at 2 E. 67th St. for somewhere above its $40 million asking price.
--One of the most impressive properties in Southampton, New York has hit the market for $67.5 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Elisabeth and Tim Hasselbeck have sold their three-bedroom apartment on West 79th Street for $1.6 million. The couple bought the unit for just under $1 million in 2005.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--30 West 21st Street, the building famous for its old new-wave dance club Danceteria is now 11 luxury apartments listed around $5.8 to $7.9 million each, plus a triplex penthouse for $7.7 million and a townhouse apartment for $9.25 million.
--James S. Chanos, the president and founder of a hedge-fund group called Kynikos is in contract to buy the penthouse at the iron-fenced mansion 3 East 75th Street, which was listed for $24.85 million.
--Larry and Annette Everston, the owners of the high-end shoe shop Otto Tootsi Plohound, who decorated their loft at 285 Lafayette Street in a Moroccan theme complete with a citrus garden of lemon and orange trees in the sunroom, have sold their 7,000-square-foot apartment in the Soho condo for $7.35 million.
--The six-story mansion at 18 East 80th Street sold this month for $37.5 million, making it one of the largest townhouse deals ever in New York, even though its owners bought the place in 2001, when the asking price was just $8.9 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Ronnie Claire Edwards has sold her Los Feliz home for $3.85 million. It looks like the owner might be a celebrity. The Real Estalker says it is Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
--Winona Ryder has sold her co-op apartment in Manhattan's Gramercy Park for $2.2 million.
--Country singer Deana Carter has placed her two-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $899,000. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Oprah Winfrey has put a two-bedroom Fisher Island condo on the market for $2.09 million. The condo is located in the Seaside Village section of Fisher Island. The listing is here.
--Jamie Foxx has put his Tarzana, California home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Olympic medalist and Playboy model Amanda Beard has put her three-bedroom cottage in Venice, California on the market for $1.045 million, the price she paid for it in 2006. The listing is here.
--Pete Sampras may have sold his Beverly Hills mansion to Will and Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick and his entertainment attorney husband Erik Hyman.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--John Cleese has finally sold his Montecito equestrian ranch was finally sold. It had been originally listed at $28 million and has reportedly sold for around $16.5 million.
--Sports agent David Falk has listed a Beverly Hills condo he owns for $2.245 million. The listing is here.
--A home in Beverly Hills which was owned by a friend of actress Valerie Harper,who is now acting as executor of the estate, has an accepted offer of $5.4 million even though it was only listed at $4 million and appraised for less than that.
--Katherine Heigl has put her Los Feliz starter home, shown above, on the market for $1.75 million. The listing is here.
--Television producers Kent and Susan McCray have listed their Malibu home at $3.8 million. The five-bedroom home's property website is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Tennis Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander has listed his home in Sun Valley, Idaho for $8.5 million. Wilander and his wife Sonya bought the land in the 1990s and built the home. The listing is here.
--A condo in the Georgetown area of Washington D.C. has hit the market at $10.6 million, which may be a record for the area. We'll be looking at it as our estate of the day on Monday.
--A Jupiter, Florida home owned by British Internet entrepreneur Stuart Lawley has sold for $4.65 million which is around 22% less than he paid for it in 2001.

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