freddy&ma

modern bride visits f&m

we were delighted to have the 5 finalists from Modern Bride's "Bride of the Year" contest here at F&M on thursday to design bags!  Allison Ahlfeldt, Lucy Lee, Megan Robillard, Quiana Sloan and Laura Zerfing have been bouncing around the city all week, including a visit to F&M.  We just learned this morning that Megan Robillard is the winner who will appear on the cover! Congrats Megan! We enjoyed meeting all the girls, they were fantastic. 

never a dull moment

this weekend was a whirlwind as I bounced all over the city, checking out the yellow jeans at the madewell store on broadway (not as great as i had hoped), the line for the new iphone at the apple store friday night (5 hour wait), yummy (and strong) Caipirinhas at Buzina pop (amazing pink brady bunch worthy chairs & dramatic black toilet paper), sunbathers in Central Park, very strong but tasty sangria in DUMBO, red wine and chocolate covered key lime pie in Red Hook. 

only in new york

would you see this happening......yes, that's freddy with rocco on the upper west side where someone took this awesome photo and was kind enough to email it to us.  i think rocco needs his own helmet!

happy birthday rocco!

in honor of rocco (our office pomeranian) and his second birthday, this friday june 6th, i wanted to post some information i found about dog friendly cafes and bars!  happy birthday rocco-(a.k.a., rockstar-poopy-jerk-little guy-little jerk -rocky-tough guy)

The Gray Dog's Coffee on Carmine Street (west of 6th avenue) allows dogs inside; it's their policy and apparently they routinely and cheerfully pay off any health inspectors that come around (with regard to dog complaints.) It's a very cool place to hang out with your dog.The one thing to beware, however, is if your dog barks once, you're warned; twice, you're out.            

MUD on 9th street near 2nd avenue (and their coffee bar in Kiehl's Pharmacy on 13th and 3rd) allows dogs inside the     restaurant and in their backyard garden. (In the 9th street location, that is.) The one exception is that no dogs are allowed to set foot in the food preparation area in either location; I can live with that.

Cafe on Greene Street, Soho Dogs are allowed in this eatery            

VESPA:  1625 2nd ave btw. 84th &85th t: 212-472-2050            

Bar Rio 558 Broome Street (btw Sixth Ave & Varick) (212) 966-2174               All organic wine and beer            

Otto's Shrunken Head on 14th btw Ave. A and B ~ A allows leashed pooches.

DBA 41 First Avenue btw 2nd and 3rd St

Chumbley's 86 Bedford Street, ph: 212-675-4449 Another bar to hang out with Fido.

Von        3 Bleecker Street 212-473-3039

new styles coming soon!

we just wrapped an intense shoot with my favorite photographer, courtney brooke, in south florida, highlighting some of our new styles debuting in Summer '08.......lots more images to come and new styles and a brand new website......email me for more info amy@freddyandma.com

best new years ever

New Years Plans changed drastically when I learned on Sunday afternoon that old friends were in Miami with an extra ticket to see R Kelly......so instead of staying home and feeling sorry for myself, I jumped in a cab and headed back home to pack, get my nails done and get a replacement dress for the one that never showed up......I found the most PERFECT dress at Banana Republic of all places and had my gold leather "iolanda" clutch and some super high heeled sandals....and headed to Miami.....the weather was perfect and I spent a couple of hours on the beach in my new swimsuit and curlers in my hair........the concert was amazing and during Keisha Cole's performance, none other than the fabulous Diddy, or Puffy, or Sean Combs, whatever he calls himself came onstage rockin' the most FABULOUS diamond necklace I have ever seen.  Major bling.  While R Kelly has a rather inappropriate taste for teenage girls, his music is really fantastic....as where his dancers.  2008 is going to be a fantastic year.

my new years dress got lost in the mail

while Kait is partying (dress ready to go) in LA, I am sitting in NYC pouting about the fact that I a) did not read the shipping instructions clearly and b) was too lazy to walk over to BCBG and buy the dress vs ordering it online......now my gorgeous new years eve dress will not be arriving until January 2nd and it will do me absolutely no good then.....I'm overdramatizing of course, but geeeeez, I ordered it on the 21st, you would think that they could get it to me a little bit sooner!! Guess I will just have to go shopping again, darn.

when life gives you lemons.......part II

buy a guitar and learn how to play it!  easier said than done.  we bought the guitars (easy part).....needless to say, freddy with his gnarled hands (due to years of climbing) is far better than me and is already playing songs while i am still trying to play the G chord properly!  holding down those strings is really uncomfortable and i still haven't quite figured out the way I'm supposed to be positioning the instrument......but we have another lesson next week.....so stay tuned readers, soon you may be hearing about freddy&ma the band

cross country and back in a day and half

We had to take care of some urgent business in San Diego which meant a delayed red eye from JFK to SFO to meet Freddy on Monday night, a few hours of sleep followed by a 3 hour flight in Freddy's plane, an hour long meeting, another 3 hour flight, some salad in Palo Alto and another red eye back to JFK, straight back to work at F&M on Wednesday morning.....mission accomplished.  Since it's quite a bit chillier in the air than on the ground in a little plane, I had to borrow Freddy's leather jacket which looked quite Amelia Earhartesque when paired with my scarf (security blanket) and trusty Ray-Bans.  Check out the pic of the Hollywood sign as we cruised over LA.

we wanted to tell you about this earlier...