Once, now & next

  • Postcard from PAVARDA...*

    Postcard from PAVARDA...*

    We flew out of PAVARDA HQ last week for a holiday in Bali - and our hats have had their first outing! Visiting this beautiful part of the world, full of heartwarming...

    Postcard from PAVARDA...*

    We flew out of PAVARDA HQ last week for a holiday in Bali - and our hats have had their first outing! Visiting this beautiful part of the world, full of heartwarming...

  • A year of living experimentally

    A year of living experimentally

    Pavarda celebrates storytelling. While it's not rocket surgery, leading up to launch we're sharing some of our insights about audacity, experimentation and love...

    A year of living experimentally

    Pavarda celebrates storytelling. While it's not rocket surgery, leading up to launch we're sharing some of our insights about audacity, experimentation and love...

  • Hello!

    Hello!

    Why hats and why now? We have been working towards beautiful things and macguyvering ways to make the world a better place, since as long as we can remember... 

    Hello!

    Why hats and why now? We have been working towards beautiful things and macguyvering ways to make the world a better place, since as long as we can remember... 

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Moments like these - swoon - loving living on Bundjalung Country! Yesterday’s rescue mission with our daughter, somehow looks like a fashion shoot… She’s done all the styling, thrifted and fabulous, and is best at cajoling echidna across the road 😍 Very difficult as stubborn and spiky - thankfully this beautiful creature is back in its habitat and all are well. Next time echidna, let’s meet somewhere safer on a sunny day with our PAVARDA hats! #behindthescenes #bundjaluncountry #australiana #slowfashion
Spring is busting out beautifully here at Pavarda HQ! What’s inspiring you today? We worked in the garden. New white jacaranda blossoms and firey maple leaves made us swoon. We played the meditative puzzle of moving rocks, and devoted loving care to plants inside. Thanks to friends too🌻glorious! All so nourishing and creatively rich. #gratitude #bundjalungcountry
Feeling great feels in PAVARDA this weekend. How are you sunlovers? 🌞 Gearing to to launch is so exciting! We’re valuing all the IRL insights and feedback now helping us finetune designs to bring you the most beautiful, unique and functional headwear. Each of the scarves is an exquisite artwork. We can’t wait to soon announce the first three collaborating artists and their stories, and have been deeply moved by their vision working with PAVARDA. #slowfashion #art #behindthescenes
Beautiful to greet the sun again after big rains here! 🌞 We’re so excited to be wearing first sample hats and honing details for PAVARDA’s launch 🤌🏼 Focusing on feel and function, we’re testing everything from sun coverage and staying-on-power, temperature and robustness, and ways to wear the integrated scarves for style and easy changeability. You can see more previews and stories at pavarda.com We can’t wait to reveal PAVARDA designs, and announce the exquisite artists and makers we’re working with… Appreciation too for beloved @sukkhacitta singlet and @sukworkwear shorts, gracing these steamy days and making positive impact with fashion!
Happy Monday! Stepping outside Pavarda HQ this morning to this muse ✨ What’s lighting you up this week? #BundjalungCountry #slowfashion #mondaymotivation #dawn
We have been absolutely enthralled by the @irisvanherpen show now at @qagoma 🙌🏼 What sublime beauty, curiously, innovation, senses and paradox, tranquility and movement at play in van Herpen’s work! ‘Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses’ is an immersive experience. We swooned in this fashion show as each garment is so beguiling, and were startled too by her headwear, shoes and sketches! Curated beautifully in this exhibition with other stunning artists, designers and details from our natural world. Inspired anew to create meaningfully with PAVARDA! Right now to cultivate beauty in our garden and kiddo is sewing up a storm. It’s an enchanting invitation to be audacious and present in all we do. What is inspiring you lately? ✨ #irisvanherpengoma
While we work with artisans to hone our hat designs for launch, we’re loving wearing first Pavarda prototypes as spring blossoms 🌞 You can see some sneak peeks of the sustainable hats with artists’ scarves in action, here and at pavarda.com Wearing Pavarda here at HQ and everywhere we roam, we are so happy with the comfort, protection and elegance of the hats! Yes, can’t wait to soon reveal the designs and announce the incredible artists and makers we’re collaborating with 🙌🏼 We are founding Pavarda to create beautiful solutions that shelter us within the elements. Collaborating with artists and innovators, Pavarda designs are composed of unique artworks and stories. We strive for sustainable production and to give back to regenerative agriculture. With storytelling we embrace our origins, interconnections and futures. You can find out more at pavarda.com - we are so looking forward to sharing more about Pavarda and our stories as we progress to launch… Huzzah too for @sheselectric_thelabel for amping up todays outfit for adventure ⚡️ #startup #purposefulbusiness #slowfashion #hats
Celebrating an amazing collaborator, our daughter! She’s pictured here under a mountain of old hats we were upcycling and macguyvering to design our early prototypes, and sketched by Kathryn as we were exploring words and feelings behind our brand * This kid has been a key player in Pavarda getting started ✨ One of our fave nicknames for her is LIGHTSTORM, which she made up one imaginative young day… And yes, LIGHTSTORM is a confident force of nature. She loves talking over paradoxes with us, singing to be a star and maths for fun, and riding her motorbike and inventing new designs, and playing pretend and fighting Jiujitsu, and millions of things. Now 9 years wise, this multitalented and hilarious fashionista has always been our muse and motivation ⚡️ With slow fashion we strive for Pavarda to be part of positive change for her future, and for all life on Earth, with appreciation for our ancestors and yours. We’re building our purposeful business ethically and sustainably, aiming to make impact with culture and with regenerative agriculture. Meaning ‘hearth’, the word Pavarda comes from Latvia, which is part of her and Mike’s heritage. This word carries much heart and tradition, as from ancient times we humans gather around fire to keep warm and connected, cook food and stay safe, and to share stories and wisdom. With Pavarda we are working with exquisite artists, makers and innovators. Our designs are composed of unique artworks and stories, which we can’t wait to share with you! With storytelling we embrace our origins, interconnections and futures. * Scribbled in the sketch, “Sei umarmt” is an old fashioned way to say ‘feel embraced’ or ‘be hugged’ in German, and grammatical variations of this beautiful phrase. These works link with part of Kathryn’s family tree, and her creative and caregiving journey, and are part of our inspiration for Pavarda 💌 #slowfashion #shoutout #purposedriven
100% Building PAVARDA and navigating life’s obstacles, 💯 is our approach. Co-founder Kathryn reflects here about how helpful this can be, and writes about more life experiments in our blog - link in stories ✨ As Kathryn explains… “Ow, 100% is a vivid way to live, love and grow! When I hit the wall doing #allthethings for PAVARDA and our goals, it’s a invitation. When I feel fearful or trapped, or want to play safe with nice defences and ninja problemsolvjng, when I seek to be liked and admired, or notice other unhelpful old stories and behaviours 🫥 I’m pausing to tune in… Sometimes I simply need to give myself rest. Or a sandwich. I might pick up my pen and draw, and I love moving my body and shifting gaze to bigger horizons. And I feel into that uncomfortable feeling and let myself change as it changes. I can ask to be heard, for help, or sometimes simply a hug. I find ways to care for myself in ways that are nourishing. A decision or desire or curiosity arises, in its own time. TBH, sometimes that’s a much longer time than I’d like 🤬 and this can be overwhelming to navigate. So thank you to my loves, friends, inspirations and all the helpers that make themselves known in life! With this experiment, I’m all in. And when I forget, just practise again, it seems to be getting easier… It opens up space, to wholeheartedly create and state my truth with integrity and respect. And with practice I’m letting go of pesky delusions of controlling the universe or changing others!” Yes, there is a lot more to creating exquisitely elegant and sustainable hats, launching a purposeful business and making a difference for our world! Good things take time and so much more! And yet, this 💯 intent underpins all we do now… Our collaborations with superb artists and makers, as we strive for impact in developing our supply chain and brand. How we envision, do, face challenges and flow with the go! Our care for customers and the quality, beauty and shelter you will receive with PAVARDA hats ✨ Thank you for connecting with us on the journey! We’d love to hear what resonates with you and your stories too 💌 #slowfashion #storytelling #startuplife
Loving the details. Our Xanthorrea grass trees grow so beautifully slowly, and dazzled us today with tiny blossoms on the flower spikes rising tall above us 😍 As much as we carefully curate and cultivate our garden, plants have their own teachings, speculation and surprises to share. I often wonder what we may hear if we knew how best to listen! Good things take time. Always learning this in new and ardently challenging ways! While plants grow and seasons shift, we’re also now focusing on new hat details for Pavarda’s launch. Devoting time to elegance, quality, sustainability and innovation 🤌🏼 With thanks to exquisite makers and artists, we’re working together to create beautiful solutions with positive impact ✨ So looking forward to sharing more soon!
Thrilled to be working with some amazing people towards Pavarda’s launch and impact 🚀 Our first shout out is to Claire Goldsworthy @thefashionadvocate 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The Fashion Advocate is helping to build a better world through slow fashion. Claire is an incredible mentor and inspiration, a pioneer for positive change in fashion and business. She shares invaluable expertise and helps many entrepreneurs in stepping up with courses and community to make a difference with ethical, sustainable, circular and slow fashion. Thanks Claire for your brilliant support behind the scenes for PAVARDA. We 💗 the insights and motivations you bring to light, including this ripper quote from Margaret Mead! And wow the excitement build now working with exquisite artists, makers, and regenerative innovators! Can’t wait to reveal more… You can find out about us - and why hats, why now - at Pavarda.com 🌞
Have you seen the sneaky PAVARDA preview at pavarda.com? 👀 We’ve been testing out our new hats and scarves 🌞and are thrilled to be honing designs for launch! You can find out more at pavarda.com - love to hear your thoughts here too 💌
Stepping outside Pavarda HQ to this muse ✨ We are so appreciative of the lands, ocean and rivers of the Bundjalung Nation, where we live, love and work 🙏🏼 With respect always to the Traditional Owners and Leaders of this Country, their ancient and ongoing culture and creativity, care and storytelling. As Pavarda celebrates stories and aims to create regenerative impact for our world, we’d love to share some our own tales and insights at Pavarda.com (link in bio 👆🏼) And we’d love to hear from you about your inspirations and connection to nature, and yes all about hats!
Postcard from PAVARDA 💌 A new blog post - with sneaky peak preview for you - live now at pavarda.com ✨ We’ve been away exploring Bali and testing out new PAVARDA hats and scarves 🌞 You can find out more at pavarda.com - and let us know what you love or wish for in hats this summer!
During this NAIDOC Week we’ve been enthralled visiting Bali, with respect to Bali Mula people and all who call this beautiful country and ocean home 🙏🏼 Soon we return to Bundjalung Country, where we love living, and always we respect and celebrate First Nations leaders, past present and emerging. We’re reflecting with our daughter about this year’s NAIDOC theme ‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud’, about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural strength, vitality and enduring connection to Country ❤️💛🖤 Some of our favourite businesses are led by incredible First Nations entrepreneurs, artists and change makers 🙌🏼 Here today, Kathryn’s wearing @official_liandra to swim (and we’re marvelling at all the exquisite plants everywhere - this is the Madagascar Almond 🌿) and we’ll share more of these amazing First Nations brands as we go! And along with with the beloved Liandra Rain cozzie and sarong, here’s another sneak peek of one of our Pavarda sustainable hats with artists’ scarves… We can’t wait to soon reveal the designs and announce the incredible artists we’re collaborating with ✨
We’re grateful to be in Bali this week 🙏🏼 and loving wearing Pavarda hat prototypes here! Sharing some sneak peeks of the sustainable hats with artists’ scarves in action… Wearing Pavarda everywhere in this gorgeous city and countryside, in temple and resort gardens, under tropical sun and in the delicious breeze ✨ we are so happy with the comfort, protection and elegance of the hats! Yes, can’t wait to soon reveal the designs and announce the incredible artists we’re collaborating with 🙌🏼 We are founding Pavarda to create beautiful solutions that shelter us within the elements. Collaborating with artists and innovators, Pavarda designs are composed of unique artworks and stories. We strive for sustainable production and to give back to regenerative agriculture. With storytelling we embrace our origins, interconnections and futures. You can find out more at Pavarda.com - let us know what you love or wish for in hats this summer🌞 We’re looking forward to sharing more about Pavarda and our stories as we progress to launch!