HighSnobette has always been a major booster of M.O.B./MTTM and its head designer Leah McSweeney. The belief has always been that her talent, her vision AND her force of personalilty are unmatched when it comes all that’s up and coming in women’s fashion. And after spotting the images from Bread & Butter of her first cut and sewn line, we knew it was time for a catch-up chat.

At Leah’s studio/home, where three employees (another two who arrived after we wrapped things up) were hard at work, we talked about her near-term plans to make the business official with a move to an office in the Empire State Building, as well as the stresses of expanding M.O.B in a big way while also starting a family (and how much it sucks how women always get asked questions about their babies but men never do!) A LOT of what we talked about has to stay off the record (sorry!), but as far as her plans with shoes go, I am allowed to say that if you liked her Collette/Reebok collabo, there are even bigger shoe things in the works that are even more draw-dropping.

^^A sneak peek at Fall/Holiday, which includes denim, leggings, outerwear, crewnecks, fiited caps, bags and jewelry. Leah says so far she likes the crew necks most of all.

HS: You’re moving your business to the Empire State Building. Why?

Leah: It’s time to get real deal. I’ve gone from working out of my Grandmother’s apartment that I got evicted from to working from my own apartment and it’s time to move on and take things to the next level.

HS: Bread & Butter was your first trade show. What’d you think?

Leah: It was great. We thought we’d have to educate people on the brand in Europe, but there was more recognition than we expected. But I’m not a trade show person so I was bored. And it was weird to have people touching my things.

HS: When does the collection ship and who gets it?

Leah: We deliver fall September 1st, and we’ll work with the same kind of good stores that we’ve always worked with.

HS: How was it putting together your first cut and sewn collection?

Leah: The designing part is fun, but the production part is not fun. That part was really fucking hard. And stressful.

^^Another angle on the collection.

And for those of you who were waiting to find out who the bountiful boobs belonged to from our "Guess the Celeb Rack" post earlier in the day(drum roll please)…..

…it was none other than Leah McSweeney holding up a pair of MTTM jeans including in the fall/holiday collection!

Love ya,

Lois: HighSnobette at Hotmail.com

A few posts back, I linked to what was supposed to be a live cam of Collette, except when you go to the link there’s nothing there. Just white space. Not sure whose live cam came first, but I cam across this one that Nike is doing to create some buzz around its snowboard shoe launch.

Not surprisingly, big Swooshy puts down its live cam without a hitch. But when you go there, see if like after two minutes you don’t start thinking that dude is operating under very cruel and extenuating circumstances.

I mean, isn’t it abusive to put a person in a situation whereby not once during the ENTIRE day is he able to stick his hands down his pants, much less dig out some ear wax or …..just.do.NOTHING like most corporate workers do 80 percent of the day? (I remember this temp job I had with Morgan Stanley way way back. One of my supervisors–I was a shared admin–I AM NOT exaggerating here, I swear, I know I do a lot, but I’m not here–spent THE ENTIRE WEEK planning her wedding, which included gossiping with friends about it, but still, that’s all she did. Corporate America in case you didn’t know has some major scam aspects to it.)

Supposedly Collette is doing this live web cam thinger, whereby you click on this link and you’ll get to see people shopping in the store. But either the cam is busted or the world of Collette is far more strange than I could ever imagine ’cause all I see is blankness. Which, wouldn’t that be awesome if you were to enter a store and everything was like a blank white page, including you?? Like you were one with the room and everything in it. And no sound either, but everyone’s thoughts would be all mixed together. Which, than again, actually, might be kinda scary.

Acid flash backs ARE real,

Lois: [my email address is here, but you can only see it from inside the the Collette cam!]