HH <3's Mizz Greenpoint

The first annual Mizz Greenpoint pageant was a total success! Our darling Mimi placed as first-runner up...not bad for a pageant novice.

Check out the Style.com article for the down and dirty details of the event.

Check out the video about the blood, sweat, and talent it takes to become a champion.

More to come...but for now, we'd like to thank Eric Majorelles and Kat Hennerty of East Coast Aliens and Brooklyn Glamour for a smashing success of an event.

BEHIND THE SCENES -- FALL 2008

This is my first blog post ever, so I'm sorry if it doesn't sound bloggy enough. I wanted to give everyone a little sneak peak of what the Fall08 Catalog will be like. Today I will post some backstage shots. Tune back for some of the real deal shots next week

The shoot was great and lots of fun (and lots of bagels). The models, Monica and Masha were wonderful and the whole team worked really hard. Kat, a very good friend and amazing photographer & cinematographer let us use her family's house in Great Neck which worked out perfect for the shoot. hope you enjoyed the post. if you didn't then just pretend you did, because its my first one and i'm sensitive and self conscious. au revoir -mimi

First Annual Mizz Greenpoint pageant!

everyone at hayden-harnett is SO excited about the first-annual Mizz Greenpoint pageant!!!!!

why? because our lovely and uber-talented art director, Madeleine Eayrs is one of 10 contestants who made it through the grueling finals and will be strutting her hot argentinian/greenpoint stuff in hopes of winning the crown.

although we don't want to give away too much info about our champ, let's just say that she's being styled in hh gear by our amazing apparel designer, Laurel Wells for the catwalk portion...the secret weapon involves a rubik's cube and a hula-hoop. this is a must see event.

the Mizz Greenpoint pageant starts at 8:30 at the East Coast Aliens event space on Franklin Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Cover is $20, and includes two drinks! Click here to make a ticket reservation.

Come out and cheer for our Mimi, check out 10 local greenpoint designers and their muses, and chill out with a brew.

it's all about the shoes...

ladies love shoes. men love nice shoes on ladies. good shoes make life worth living, especially in nyc. hayden-harnett <3's shoes. 211 franklin street is shoeville, with no exiles.

ohmydog...everyone at hh is 100% freakily obsessed with shoes, me included. every time the ups guy drops by, 8 out of 10 times, there's a fresh pair of shoes being delivered to some lucky lady who's hoping that "this is the pair"...the magic pair that are super-stylish, comfortable, well-made, and not a total rent buster. the elusive footwear "one".

so, what to do about this all-encompassing problem? bags we have. check. awesome bags for both fashion and travel. apparel we have. check. great dresses and outerwear that we all love and help us refrain from nudity.

shoes were the only thing missing from the mix. time to design some shoes, obviously. so i did. i sat down on saturday, 4/27 and started sketching exactly what i was looking for. style. comfort. personality. crafty leather love. wearability with an edge. kicks with style and soul. interesting to look at. easy to love.

what came of the saturday sketch session? a collection of shoes for hayden-harnett that will launch for spring 2009. nine styles that range from a slide to a zippered cuff boot that can be worn over the knee. all in our signature soft, natural leathers we use on the handbags. seven weeks later, we have a fully sampled line and we're sending out linesheets.

we will be introducing our shoes to buyers during the collections at WSA in the venetian hotel at the end of july. super. hurrah! all the hh ladies love the shoes and i'm now testing out the first pair of personals that i ordered for myself, the iskia link wedge. they float around my foot. they are easy to wear with everything. they are badass and woven with a covered leather wedge heel. they rock and they roll. even ben likes them.

further sneak peeks of hayden-harnett shoes to come.
--toni

Shakira, Shakira! These Wrists Don't Lie

We can't lie, these wrists are perfection. Since we first heard Shakira, she's been something of an H-H obsession. We were floored when we discovered she rocked our Ramone and Joey cuff on her latest tour.

green is good? green is great!

Press has been all over this handy tote like butter on toast, but I thought I might contribute my 2 cents (actually, all proceeds to FarmAid, to be quite accurate) on this bag as a real live actual user.

I use this super sturdy tote for anything and everything, from carrying my yoga clothes and lunch to and from the office to saving a plastic bag and toting my groceries to packing a picnic and a book to the park. And in a pinch, it works really well as a barrier between my pants and the wet grass or a nice little pillow for naps in the great outdoors.

To top it all off, I feel good knowing that I'm spreading a positive message all over NYC and that I have contributed to a great cause.

So there you have it. My tote/my self. Don't tell my mother.