Sew & Tell
It’s Travel Week on BTR, and on today’s special encore Sew & Tell, we’re featuring an accessory line that will transport you with exotic prints. Katie Wright-Buckley and Megan Pflug launched CAIRO, their line of hand-painted, one-of-a-kind silk scarves, this past fall, and buzz is already building about these beautiful accent pieces. The designs offer aesthetic allusions to disco, Ancient Egyptian culture, and menswear tailoring, blending unlikely sources to create perfectly feminine fashion. On today’s show, Katie and Megan talk about how CAIRO got started, their use of Kickstarter to raise funds, and their unique vision for the line as an art studio that offers specialty fashion pieces.
Plus, great tunes from Bon Iver, Pepper Rabbit, Peter Wolf Crier, and Male Bonding! Take flight to new summer adventures with good style and good radio… (Original air date 8/26/11)
CAIRO by Katie Wright-Buckley and Megan Pflug
(Photos courtesy of CAIRO)
Bon Iver
(Photo by Charlotte Zoller)
June 2 – Brady Theater – Tulsa, OK
June 3 – Riverfest Amphitheater – Little Rock, AR
June 5 – Hard Rock Live – Orlando, FL
June 6 – Fillmore Miami Beach – South Beach, FL
June 7 – David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts – Tampa, FL
June 8 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park – Alpharetta, GA
June 9 & 10 – Bonnaroo Music Festival – Manchester, TN
July 1 – 3 – Roskilde Festival @ Dyrskuepladsen – Roskilde, Denmark
July 4 – 7 – Heineken Open’er Festival – Gdynia, Poland
July 8 – Stadtpark – Hamburg, Germany
July 9 – Open-Air Am Tanzbrunnen – Cologne, Germany
July 11 – Kardinge – Groningen, Netherlands
July 12 – 14 – Latitude Festival – Suffolk, United Kingdom
July 15 – L’Olympia – Paris, France
July 17 & 18 – Paleo Festival – Nyon, Switzerland
July 19 – Piazza Castello – Ferrara, Italy
July 22 – Palacio Euskalduna – Bilbao, Spain
July 24 – Coliseu de Lisboa – Lisbon, Portugal
July 25 – Oporto Coliseum – Porto, Portugal
July 27 – Poble Espanyol – Barcelona, Spain
July 28 & 29 – Midi Festival – Hyeres, France
July 30 – Theatre Antique De Fourvieres – Lyon, France
July 31 – Freilichtbuhne Killesberg – Stuttgart, Germany
Peter Wolf Crier
(Photo by Cameron Wittig)
June 1 – 3 – Primavera Sound Festival – Barcelona, Spain
June 6 – The Slaughtered Lamb – London, United Kingdom
June 13 – Triple Rock Social Club – Minneapolis, MN
June 15 – Memorial Union Terrace – Madison, WI
Tom Vek
(Photo by Alexander Kell)
June 8 – England Expects – London, United Kingdom
June 9 – Parklife Weekender @ Platt Fields Park – Manchester, United Kingdom
June 29 – July 1 – Hop Farm Music Festival – Tonbridge, United Kingdom
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