Sun Valley

After years of hearing about a fabulous art show in Sun Valley, we finally made the pleasant trip to Sun Valley to participate this past weekend in this year's show. Artists have told us about all the Hollywood people summering in Sun Valley that come to the show and how wonderful sales are at this show, so we went hoping for a fun weekend spiced up with a little celebrity sighting.

We did see stars, but only the celestial ones on the clear cool nights. When the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, which puts on this annual art show, had to move the show's location from a site next to the Sun Valley Resort's Lodge to park in downtown Ketchum (only about a mile away), it seems they lost the loyal following of celebrities and other guests staying at the posh lodge. Oh well, our regular customer's are the true stars in our life.

As always we met some wonderful people and found good homes for many of our creations. We also found time to soak in a delightful natural hot spring a few miles up the road from Sun Valley. We could have gone to a free symphony concert that night at the new $30 million concert venue (built on the site where the art show used to be held), but we were too tired and thought a hot spring soak would be more our speed that night.

Maybe it is because summer is past it's prime, but we noticed a clear up tick in interest in our shearling garments at this show, as opposed to our leather garments at previous shows. Perhaps it was due to evening temperatures in the low 40's? We just hope that anyone interested in a new shearling coat for this winter plans ahead and places their order early so we have time to make what they want. With the rising costs of shipping leathers and skins from Europe to the U.S., our suppliers in NYC are not willing to fly in supplies like they used to, so delivery times are getting slower.