My friends and talented artist, Ann Howell Bullard, (featured HERE) has just launched her latest handbag collection, The Dead Flowers Collection. It is stunning and inspired by some of my favorite icons in art, design and more.  She seems to be speaking right to me.

I adore my other clutch by her and carry it constantly.  Ann personally paints and crafts each bag.  It is a work of art that always turns heads!

TODAY ONLY 3/31 Ann is offering 20% with code FRIDAKAHLO. Hurry!

Check out the new collection…but, how do you pick just one? 

“DEAD FLOWERS IS ABOUT BEAUTY IN THE DECAY THAT GLIMMERS BENEATH THE SURFACE OF EVERY LIVING THING.”

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by the inky blackness of water lily ponds filled with koi fish, the album “El Camino” by The Black Keys, and the shadows created when the sun plays with a wrought iron fence.

Approximately a 10″ circle, with a zip top closure and removable shoulder strap.

(Ann Howell actually carries this bag every day — it’s striking, but goes with everything and fits all the purse essentials like chocolate and lipstick and miniature poetry books. 🙂

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by Andy Warhol + The Velvet Underground.

AHB went 3D! This clutch style is newly redesigned with sides sewn in to fit even more essentials for your night out. The sides of this clutch are painted with black stripes.

“HER EYES SUGGESTED NIGHTTIME + VIOLETS.”
-F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by Yves Klein Blue + the cutouts of Henri Matisse.

This tote fits a Macbook Pro (cord nestles in the bottom!) and is 16″ tall, 10.5″ wide, and 3″ deep. The sides are painted with black stars.

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by Henry Matisse’s cutouts, the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, and flower crowns.

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by a photo of Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger posing with a skull, Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz, and the Capuchin Crypt in Rome.

Approximately a 10″ circle, with a zip top closure and removable shoulder strap. Sides are painted with electric blue stars.

 

“DEAD FLOWERS IS ABOUT BEAUTY AS IT BECOMES TANGLED UP WITH SADNESS.”

 

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by prayer charms, religious folk art, and broken heart tattoos.

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired the inky blackness of water lily ponds filled with koi fish, the album “El Camino” by The Black Keys, and the shadows created when the sun plays with a wrought iron fence.

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by Andy Warhol + The Velvet Underground

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by this conservatory, this painting by Cy Twombly, and Ellsworth Kelly’s Plant Drawings.

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by a photo of Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger posing with a skull, Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz, and the Capuchin Crypt in Rome.

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired by a photo of Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger posing with a skull, Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz, and the Capuchin Crypt in Rome.

“WELL WHEN YOU’RE SITTING THERE
IN YOUR SILK UPHOLSTERED CHAIR,
TALKIN’ TO SOME RICH FOLKS THAT YOU KNOW…”

-THE ROLLING STONES

From the new Dead Flowers collection: inspired Mick Jagger’s silk upholstered chair, an antique quilt handmade by my great-great-great-grandmother, and patterns woven into cactus silk rugs.

Shop them all HERE.

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