Our 12th annual American Flowers Week is coming right up – June 28th through July 4th. To showcase this year’s Botanical Couture collection, I’m welcoming return guest Françoise Weeks to the Slow Flowers Podcast. A longtime Slow Flowers Member, her name is synonymous with botanical couture. As an educator, she has taught thousands of students around the globe, as well as from her Portland, Oregon-based studio, and online. Slow Flowers asked Françoise to create a lily-inspired floral fashion for this year’s American Flowers Week collection, an idea originally proposed by Flowerbulb.eu, a Slow Flowers sponsor that that promotes lilies grown from European bulbs for U.S. gardeners, flower farmers, and florists. Françoise designed and created two alluring styles to highlight lily petals and blooms. In addition to discussing this project, Françoise shares some of the techniques and mechanics she has developed for botanical couture – and you might want to add them to your floral tool kit!
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DESIGN + CONCEPT:
Françoise Weeks, francoiseweeks.com
@francoiseweeks
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Theresa Bear, theresaisabear.com
@theresaisabear
HAIR/MAKEUP:
Katherine Sealy, Event Cosmetics
@event_cosmetics
MODEL:
Acariyae McCrae
@acariyaemccrae
LILY GROWER + LOCATION: Peterkort Roses, Hillsboro, Oregon
peterkortroses.com
@peterkortroses
SPONSOR:
Flowerbulb.eu and their U.S. lily bulb vendors have partnered with Slow Flowers to provide beautiful lily inspiration and farming resources to help growers and florists connect their customers with more lilies. Learn more at Flowerbulb.eu.
LINK: https://flowerbulb.eu/summer-flowering-bulbs/lily-grower/