it's sale season at still life boutique! in preperation for the arrival of autumn/winter 2010 collections in coming weeks we've marked down the entirety of our spring 2010 pieces remaining in store from 40-70%!

this sale includes all of our ladies premium denim from joe's jeans and genetic denim! some of our most beloved styles of women's denim are now available for 50% off the original price. with prices set to clear, sizes & styles will go quickly as we get ready for new arrivals.

pop down this weekend and get some great new jeans to go into fall with and stop by our new friends at rook & rose just a few doors up on johnson street. owner and lead designer erica smolders has opened up victoria's best new floral design shop just this morning and is ready to attend to all your floral needs. congratulations erica, we're excited to have fresh cut flowers return to still life!

urbanears is a collective out of scandinavia, motivated by a common interest in global relationships and shared involvement in the relevance of the living brand. urbanears promotes a deeper connection to color, form and people while providing the freedom to transcend individuality and unify the sound experience.

urbanears was created by a number of individuals with very different traits gathered around a belief in the concept. the crew is made up out of entrepreneurs, industrial and graphic designers, tech nerds, former retailers, salesmen and business men - most of which can be described with more than one of these traits. they come from backgrounds in fashion, electronics and design based in stockholm, sweden.

we've moved our fair share of headphones out of still life boutique over the years, and we're more than thrilled to start offering urbanears to our friends in victoria. matt & jordan have been sampling a couple pairs over the last month and they're killer. we've got a very small starting run of the scandinavian-designed headphones and don't expect them to sit long on the shelf - come in soon to check them out and keep updated on our facebook page to know when more and more show up.

our third drop of fjallraven backpacks showed up at still life bright and early this morning and our beautiful display wall is complete once again! we've got another great colour break from the swedish adventure company: army green, oxblood red, burnt orange, a heap of blues, greys & navys, and the yellow!

these ideal summer lake/pool/camp packs are made of vinylon f, the functional fabric that has made the kånken daypacks seemingly immortal for the last 25 years. though a synthetic fiber, vinylon f has many of of the positive properties of natural fibers - swelling like a natural fiber when wet, the weave becomes more dense when raining, causing the pack to absorb moisture better than any other synthetic fiber. this gives the fabric waterproof qualities by construction eliminating the need for a coating.

these bags have been flying out of still life over the past few months: they're functional, individual, cute and super wearable. pop by the shop this weekend, grab yourself a new bag, and hit the beach/lake/pool.

back in april we received the first of our bensimon collection for spring - and today we're happy to offer our second batch of our favorite women's canvas shoe to keep your feet right through the rest of the summer.

at the end of world war II, serge and yves bensimon's grandfather started a business importing american second hand clothes in france. some 25 years later, in 1980, serge & yves continued the family business travelling the world bringing uniforms and work clothes home to france to customize and sell at the shop. colourful, casual and elegant, glamorous and functional, the first bensimon collection of jackets, jodhpurs and pullovers launched in 1984 with their bensimon tennis shoe immediately becoming a must-have women's shoe within the french fashion community.

four new limited edition styles for summer are now available, including a beautiful allover floral print laceup, a vintage indigo tennis shoe and an adorable white with orange detail bensimon boat shoe! these shoes are fantastic with denim (cropped for summer or full length year round) and nice and low (and femenine) to pair with your summer dresses.

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complimenting our our early spring delivery comes additional summer 2010 pieces from the creative minds & hearts of jenny graham and toni spencer: a colourful, inspiring collection from velvet & 39 sixtyone.

velvet, long known for ultra soft tees and jersey/slub dresses, arrives today with some stunning wraps, tanks and river dip dyed scoop neck tees (think james pearse with more colour & ruching).

39 sixtyone, a difusion line from the graham & spencer signature line offers the same high quality, ultrasoft pieces produced in the same LA-based factories as its sister lines, but at a more affordable pricepoint. the varied selection for summer offers clean, strong colours (tree green, lake blue) and stunning dip dyed tanks & dresses.

graham & spencer, velvet and now 39 sixtyone are some of the most wearable items we carry on the women's side of still life - worn with ease and beauty by girls sixteen to sixty-five years old. come down this week and see what they're offering as the rain evaporates and the sun returns to the garden city.

this weekend is the us memorial day long weekend which means... sasquatch music festival 2010!

none of the still life staff will be able to make it to the gorge this year to ensure all our friends & family are outfitted appropriately for the unruly sasquatch weather. they're expecting some muggy rainy days which means dirty, messy, grubby music fans going bananas for lcd soundsystem, pavement, patrick watson, the national, vampire weekend, the xx, camera obscura, dr dog, band of horses and the insane amount of other incredible acts.

in honour of the return of the sasquatch music festival, still life will be offering 15% off all regular priced items and 25% off all mens & womens outerwear with your sasquatch ticket from now until 8pm friday night!

we're thinking sasquatch essentials include: fjallraven kanken bags, tretorn skerry boots, native shoes, ray-ban sunglasses, dunderdon hoodies & spiewak coats. we're excited to kit you all out in style for the festival, so come down and let us know who you're excited to see and grab some new pieces.

the capital city scooter club is a classic scooter club dedicated to the preservation, restoration and enjoyment of classic european styled scooters such as vespa, lambretta, triumph, bella , or clones like pgo, bajaj, sears, puch, sil or serveta. every may they hold their annual garden city scooter run and spend three solid days seeing the sights of lower vancouver island on scooters.

participants range from local victoria scooter riders, to western canadian friends, and visitors from washington and oregon state. lower vancouver island is such an ideal area for scooters, with beautiful natural sites, beautiful old english architecture and plenty of pubs, cafes & parks to stop off at and hang out with your crew. still life is happy once again to help the ccsc enjoy their may long weekend in style with gifts from us and fred perry including an assortment of limited run polos and a gorgeous throw back leather fred perry bag. if you've got a scooter and are looking to join up at any time, check out their website - they'll be stopping at heaps of our favorite victoria locations like peacock billiards, scooter underground, vancouver island brewery and smiths pub during the three day rally.

still life congratulates the capital city scooter club and all it's visiting friends on their 26th annual run and look forward to seeing you all this weekend - ride safe.

this sunshine - seriously! can you believe it!? 18°C in the victoria inner harbour in the middle of may. absolutely perfect!

our post this morning gave any victorians visiting the mainland this beautiful weekend a destination to visit and items to seek out, but what about all you CRD faithful staying in the garden city catching all the sun this weekend? we've got ideas! this weekend will definitely be dominated by visits to the beachfronts and parks in and around the capital region, and a certain swap meet that you will most definitely find mr matt and mr jordan of still life scouring in the early hours of sunday morning.

we wanted to outline some of the essential summer pieces we've got in store right now that will ensure a weekend getaway/hideout in style. for our girls we've got a great batch of bensimon sneakers to dress with your summer dresses or cropped summer jeans. our lily & jae spring collection is looking incredible with some of the new pieces jude delivered last week, and topped off with a cute brixton summer hat her denim dresses are adorable. our still life men have their pick of the litter with the amazing pieces we've got available moving into the warmer months. a full selection of ray-ban sunglasses to keep your eyes hidden behind their dark shades while you're at the beach, and fjällräven backpacks that can fit beachwear, beers, and all your other secret stuffs while you're riding around town on your bike wearing your official new summer shoe from native.

we'll be spinning our favorite new records over the weekend from jonsi (go), broken social scene (forgiveness rock record), lcd soundsystem (this is happening) and sharon jones & the dap kings (i learned the hard way) so come down and say hi if you're staying local this weekend!

ken diamond consists of our vancouver friends ken diamond and jolene eeuwes. ken began to work with leather in the late 90's and established ken diamond in 2003. jolene has a background in couture fashion and joined the company in 2007. together the pair creates simple, high-quality leather goods with classic designs, made entirely by hand in their vancouver studio. they view leatherwork is a dying art, and work tirelessly at keeping the traditional craft alive while using modern techniques to keep their works simple and minimal.

we are very excited to finally offer ken diamond pieces at still life. the only brand worth cutting into the well loved still life front desk for. these pieces need to be seen, so come down and check out in the new display. custom orders are available on a limited basis.

tonight is the night! we're absolutely elated to have our friend, the wonderfully talented, judith feller in the store at still life tonight for a meet & greet line presentation for her final batch of spring/summer 2010 lily & jae pieces here at still life! judith will be at still life tonight, may 7th from 6pm-9pm where we will be serving wine and appys to our friends and guests and offering a special one-night-only 15% off special on any and all lily & jae pieces in the store, plus some surprise giveaways.

western canadian media fell in love with the runaway collection from lily & jae's spring/summer 2010 season with spots on ctv's e-talk and guest-blogging posts for the national post. the thelma & louise inspired collection gives lily & jae pieces to keep sheltered from that blistering summer sun as they rip through the desert in their hot convertible. our last batch of pieces includes an amazing summer multiprint cut in the sway skirt and bloom dress and a vibrant papaya cotton cut in the lost dress, dakota dress and meadow tank as well as a handful of new styles of the amazing lily & jae enzyme-washed supersoft denim skirts.

come visit us tonight at 600pm when we welcome jude and the remainder of her lily & jae spring/summer 2010 collection to still life.