3 shops in Austin carry Full Moons hemp cigarettes. Honest plant, honest people.
Cosmic Cowboy is a family-run shop on South Congress, which is the stretch of Austin I think about when I think about how a neighborhood can stay itself while everything around it changes. What I love about the room is that the people behind the counter actually talk to you, first-timer or lifer, and there is a dog named Princess Laya somewhere in the mix. They keep American glass, they keep the classics, and they keep their taste honest. We belong on that shelf.
Noah Marion has been making beautiful things on South Congress for years, vegetable-tanned leather and brass hardware and soap stitched together a mile down South Lamar. The kind of shop where someone wanders in for a wallet and leaves an hour later holding incense and a card for their mother. Heirloom people. They believe in objects that get better with handling, and that is more or less how I think about a pack of ours. Honest company on an honest shelf.
Noah Marion runs a leather and apothecary studio in Austin, the kind of room where the wallets are vegetable-tanned, the hardware is solid brass, and somebody out front is pouring coffee good enough to argue about. I love a place that means it. Heirloom belts, hand-cut bags, soap and incense made from things you can pronounce. Our packs sit on his shelf because the people who walk in already know the difference between fast and made. Stay sexy, find a way through.