100% Wool

130cm x 180cm

Dry clean only

This is about love, scarves & storytelling......

 Telling Stories Through Design™ by Sonya

I’ve always loved how something as simple as a scarf can elevate an outfit. I’m an emotional buyer when it comes to my wardrobe and love things that make me feel good when I wear them.

I’ve always loved a good story. Hearing them, telling them. Therefore, when I started dog&boy, I didn’t just want to make ‘stuff'. We wanted to create something more than just a seasonal fashion piece.

Our designs had to have purpose and meaning. To tell a story, which could be anyone’s story, but a story about a moment in time that has made you stop, enjoy and appreciate; to make you feel good.

What’s in a name?

All our designs are created with incredible detail using textures, photos, and illustrations. Many of them come from personal moments we’ve loved, telling a story we’ve loved.

Connecting with people through thoughtful design is what dog&boy is all about.

Our sophisticated scarf designs surprise and delight with each telling a story, creating emotion, sparking ideas, and capturing moments. But there is one story that embodies what dog&boy is all about. It’s about a lady called Margot. Margot was my beautiful mum.

Just before launching the business, mum was diagnosed with the insidious and indiscriminate disease, brain cancer. She passed away one month to the day of her diagnosis on May 4, 2015.

After her passing, I found out she was actually a frustrated sketch artist, and a pretty good one. She had sketchbook after sketchbook of mostly botanical drawings and muses – a reflection of her love of the simple beauty in everything she saw each and every day.

It was the simplicity of her sketches that spoke to me. We have used many of her original sketches in our designs and, and it is this simple everyday beauty on which we base the stories of our designs for dog&boy.

So, after all this, I hear you ask, but why the name dog&boy?

Well, yes, I do have a dog, Barry the Chocolate Labrador (yes, he is as big a softie as he sounds), and a boy, my son Nicholas, who are both beautiful magical souls and a constant source of inspiration. 

But the name is more than just words; dog&boy is about the unequivocal youthful spirit of imagination, the possibilities of what could be, and the desire to make it happen.