Side Button Maxi Skirt - Jumble YaYa™ Print

Pattern released in 2012

As easily as New Orleans’ rich cultural heritage can be summoned, it isn’t easily summed up. Our music reveals itself to be infinitely more complex on successive listenings than its original toe-tapping seduction may have alluded to at first.

When Kathy Schorr, our resident fabric design Pooh-Bah, was handed the task of illustrating New Orleans’ multi-dimensional cultural immersion, she ran from the room. We finally located her recumbent on the banks of Bayou St. John jumbling hand-rendered mix ‘n match tiles into a magnificently imaginative, playful and colorful design that shows the interconnectedness of all things New Orleans. Like jazz, repeated engagement is rewarded with new insights; and like New Orleans, with evermore-unified relationships.

And the buttons? Our button designer began by crafting a new typeface, then carved its NOJF font over a square base in a deep duotone that echoes Schorr’s palette and motif. Jumble YaYa from the bayou. Have big fun!