Imperfections

New to the Every Little Counts Imperfections Sale-

"A Violent, Sensual, Sensitive Girl" v-neck, size small, $20

(see listing for details)

we're moving... again!

so, we've decided to leave the factories, tractor trailer trucks, desolation, and general ugliness of east williamsburg/ bushwick for the quieter, prettier surroundings of park slope. this means giving up our huge loft for a slightly smaller place with a slightly smaller studio, but being amongst the presence of trees and coffee shops and restaurants is worth it. 

 to get to the point- we're having a big sale in hopes that there will be less to move on the big day.

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updated style alert

Our "Ode to Ali MacGraw" tee is now available in grey. 

Available only in the Etsy shop.

summer sale reminder + new vintage

you have until july 31st to get 25% off the summer collection.  make sure to enter "HOTHOTHOT" at checkout

&

check out tons of new items in the vintage shop!

titus andronicus

i was pretty stoked when i heard that amy klein, guitarist and violinist for titus andronicus, bought our "wild at heart" tank from emerging thoughts at the pitchfork music festival a few weeks ago in chicago. unfortunately i was stuck here in new york, so i was especially happy to see this video.

new summer styles

"Faraway Places" A-line Dress

"Whimsical Tree Branches" Dress

"A Violent, Sensual, Sensitive Girl" orchid tank

"A Violent, Sensual, Sensitive Girl" black tank

"A Violent, Sensual, Sensitive Girl" grey tank

i know we went a little nuts with the "violent, sensual, sensitive girl" tank, but i just couldn't stop myself. we've actually had these pieces for awhile now, it just took forever to schedule a photoshoot. i hope all of this hot weather still has everyone thinking of summer.

HOT SUMMER SALE!

Get 25% off the spring/ summer collection from now until Friday, July 23rd!

Available ONLY @www.everylittlecounts.net

xoxo,

amy & adam

new style alert

Our most popular print, "A Violent, Sensual, Sensitive Girl" in a all new easy, sexy style for summer. 

  

Available here:

Every Little Counts on Etsy

Calico

***Photos courtesy of Elissa from Calico***

the clothing menu

so it's friday again. i can't believe it's here already. instead of our normal "top 5 friday" feature, you can check out the interview i did with kristen at the clothing menu.

 

...and if you didn't see last week's top 5 with tessa from apparellel, you can do that here.

Ali MacGraw

I know I've posted on Ali MacGraw before (here and here), but while I was working on my Top 5 Post with my mom, I found so many more great photos of her. I just couldn't resist! The headscarfs and turbans are killing me... I love 70's glamour. 

As an added bonus, here are some behind the scenes pics from us printing our "Ode to Ali MacGraw" tee in the studio...

Top 5 Fridays with: Adam

It's Top 5 Friday again and this week we have the other half of Every Little Counts, my husband,  Adam Schwartz. It's funny because sometimes I'm not sure if all of my readers know that Every Little Counts is first and foremost a graphic t-shirt line, which is designed & produced by Adam and I in our Brooklyn studio. I like to say he makes up the snarkier side of Every Little Counts. Even though I totally roped him into this business of making romantic t-shirts for girls, he has been beyond incredible. We divide up the day between bickering and joking around, but we actually work really well together. And if you ever order a t-shirt from us, it's Adam who screenprinted it by hand with me acting as his assistant. But not only is he my business partner, he is also an artist, graphic and web designer and a photographer. He is also, on occasion, a professor... so he knows a lot about a lot and likes to talk about it.

So being just as obsessive as I am, Adam had a small problem narrowing down his answers. He definitely cheated in the book section, but I guess I'll allow it ;)

Here are Adam's Top 5....

Top Five Books:

 -The Clash, Before and After, Penne Smith

 -A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash, Johnny Green

 -Heat, Bill Buford

 -Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain

These books are grouped together, which I know is cheating, but they're all the same kind of book, where I'm bored but don't feel like committing in some big way to a new book, I re-read these. They are my alternate fantasy lives:  being a chef, and traveling back in time to be a member of the Clash's entourage.  This is a small selection.  One day I will open the Adam Schwartz Library of Books About the Clash.

The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem

I used to live in the Brooklyn neighborhood Lethem writes about - Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens.  Today, it's a BoBo Stroller-ville, but Lethem writes about it back in the bad old 70's and 80's, when he grew up there.  Hip hop, graffiti, Punk, getting mugged, going to public school.  Fun.

Lush Life, Richard Price

Easily the best book I've read in the past couple years.

Cruising Paradise, Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard has said in interviews that he can't stand that he is known to most people as an actor.  He's mostly a playwright and a screenwriter (Paris, Texas), but here he writes prose. This was written in the 1990's, and consists of little vignettes, pieces of dialogue and short stories.

Everything That Rises, Lawrence Weschler

In this book, Weschler points out all these images and paintings, etc, from different places, contexts and time periods, and how they're all related, and how we seem to have a common image bank as humans that we keep repeating. Nerdy but fascinating.

Top 5 Films

The Harder They Come

This movie was made kind of cheaply, has bad acting, sloppy camera work, poor sound and a really bad dance scene, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. It's a classic tale about a Jamaican shanty town dweller who rises to stardom as a reggae star and criminal, only to be cut down by the long arm of the law. It's like every gangsta rap song before there was such a thing.

Zoolander

"What is this?  A center for ants?!"

The Good Thief

A re-make of the French new wave classic Bob le Flambeur directed by Neil Jordan.  This one kind of came and went when it was released, but I love a good heist movie, and this one has it all - arabic hip hop, the sketchy south of France with its seedy clubs and drugs, a great heist, and an amazing, post-AA, gravelly, completely destroyed Nick Nolte, who's running on nothing but charm and some Leonard Cohen songs, and manages to save the day.  Fun.

Instrument

Instrument is easily one of the best music documentaries ever, and it's nice that it deals with not only a contemporary band (Fugazi), but one that's a bit tricky to understand and often gets simplified and stereotyped.  This movie was artful enough to be included in the Whitney Biennial in 2000.

 From Russia With Love

Something of a Bond fan, me.   Most people point to Goldfinger, the third Sean Connery film, as the best of all time, but that's just because the original producers timed it so the hype peaked with the third film.   Others like to get all "record collector" like, and go for On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the only one featuring George Lazenby as Bond, and the only one where Bond gets married.  But they are all, tragically, wrong, because From Russia With Love is the best Bond film of all time.

 Top 5 Artists

This was hard!  I'm still not really committed to these... 

 Cy Twombly

Richard Prince

 Glenn Ligon

Caravaggio

 Peter Saville

Top 5 Crushes

Penelope Cruz

When we get a cat, it will be name Penelope Cruz so that way we can live with Penelope Cruz.

Natalie Portman

Someone I read once panned a movie with her in it, because the material was too dark, and even though her acting was good, they said she's just too beautiful to do anything but just stand there.  Tragic, really, since she went to Harvard and really can act.  She does kind of hurt your eyes though.

 Claire Danes

Not anymore, but back in the day - the It Girl of the 90's.  Now, she seems like an annoying person to be around, right?

Kathi Wilcox

I always thought she was the coolest member of Bikini Kill.  She had this awesome bass that she borrowed from the guys in the Nation of Ulysses that had a big letter "P" on it, for P-Power.  She sang one Bikini Kill song (I think it was I Hate Danger?).

Juliet Swango

Lead singer of a band called the Rondelles, originally from the same New Mexico scene that gave us the Shins.  They moved to the East Coast when I was in college, and opened for The Make Up a lot.  She played in bright mod dresses with an old beat-up Fender Flying-V tuned down to D.

 Links:

Adam Schwartz Art

Adam Schwartz Graphics

Adam Schwartz Photo

we love you.

I have some of the sweetest customers ever. I really, really do...

Liv from "Dessert of Disaster" wearing our "La La Land" tank.

Rachel from "softspoken" wearing our "Ode to Anna Karina" tee.

Rachel also makes many, many things I love like this and this. Check out her entire shop here.

Marianne from Toronto dressing up our "Faraway Places" tee.

Crosby from PR Couture wearing our "A Literate Passion" tank.
(Crosby just won "Blogger of the Year"at the Influence SD awards!)

If you've bought something from Every Little Counts, we want to see you! Post your favorite pics on our Facebook page! 

etsy exclusive: faraway places

  don't know if y'all saw this one- our "Faraway Places" print is now available is this drapey sleeveless wrap.  i just wore it yesterday- it's perfect for summer.
find it exclusively in our etsy shop

sale stuff

  I'm beginning to think that warm weather might actually be here to stay. Both yesterday and today I have been wearing shorts and tank tops. Yesterday it was "Faraway Places" and today it's "A Charming Girl", which I still wear and love despite being happily married! 

So to celebrate warm weather, I've added a few new things to our sale section in the Etsy shop, including some of my favorite styles from last year's summer collection like "La La Land," featured above. Check it out here.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I got to see my two adorable nephews in Massachusetts, hang out with family, eat birthday cake, had a studio appointment with the lovely Jess from Toronto, and spent Easter exploring Astoria with one of my oldest friends- lounging around at the park and drinking beer at a Czech beer garden. I don't normally drink beer, but it was a beer garden afterall, and I got to drink out of a stein. It was perfect.