JOHNSON HARTIG - LIBERTINE
THE CREATIVE BEAUTY, HUMOR, AND INSPIRATION BEHIND THE CULT LABEL PUBLISHED BY RIZZOLI 2015
PRESS
"'Grandmotherly' is how fashion designer, Johnson Hartig, describes his new house in Los Angeles. If so it seems she's been on a high-speed, hallucinatory world cruise. Dipping into Provence and Marrakesh, via olde-worlde England, the interior is a dense, day glo cornucopia, rich with chintz and chinoiserie, baskets and Baroque portraits all held together by unerring instinct.."
LIBERTINE
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
“Wherever a creative person is, they will be creative,” says Johnson Hartig of Los Angeles–based Libertine, the quirky-clever label that plays with all sorts of vintage tropes—and then embellishes them like crazy, with a Hollywood-like sprinkling of nostalgic stardust to reinvent the past for the present. “I studied art,” he says by way of explanation. “I love decorating surfaces.” While Hartig is L.A.-born and bred, he was, until COVID hit, an inveterate traveler, particularly drawn to experiencing Far Eastern and South Asian cultures. “I’d take two or three major trips a year to replenish my well,” he says. “I’ve not traveled for nine months now, and it’s driving me crazy!” ilovelibertine.com—Mark Holgate
