We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Logan Spector. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Logan below.

Logan, appreciate you joining us today. One of our favorite things to hear about is stories around the nicest thing someone has done for someone else – what’s the nicest thing someone has ever done for you?

It’s hard not to attribute my entire career to the kindness of others. (And a bit of luck, of course.) I truly wouldn’t be where I am today without the gift of kindness from more people than I can count.

When I started my brand, my (now) husband and I had just moved in with my parents a few months prior. I had been working as a freelance illustrator for a little over a year, and I was barely scraping by on freelancing earnings. Moving in with my parents was an incredible gift that allowed me to slow down my freelance grind and assess what I actually wanted to do as an illustrator. I had this risky and ridiculous idea for selling semi-erotic illustrated silk scarves, and free housing gave me the financial security I needed to take that risk. Without that kindness, it’s unlikely that I would have started my company.

Likewise, without the kindness of so many friends and strangers who believed in me or were excited by what I was making, it’s very likely that the business would have immediately failed. In the earliest days, several lingerie bloggers that I knew from our shared circles on the internet – The Lingerie Addict, Sweet Nothings, Comics Girls Need Bras, and The Lingerie Raven – shared my work on their blog, which was an incredibly generous gift. They widened my audience, and I was shocked by how many people I had never met came out of the woodwork to buy a scarf or say something incredibly kind and encouraging to me.

Over the years, I’ve gained so many truly wonderful customers who believe in me as an artist and want to own my work. I consider it a great honor to make art that people want to wear, and I’m incredibly grateful to all of the wonderfully kind people who make my job possible. Hard work and good ideas aren’t a rarity in this world – but enough support and kindness from other people to pull those ideas off is a true gift to receive.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I’m an illustrator and scarf designer, and I run a small luxury silk scarf brand under the name of Logandria. Each silk scarf has a narrative or symbolic theme, often related to art history, mythology, fantasy, queerness, or the natural world. Many (though not all) of my scarves are explicitly erotic – though, when worn, erotic details are often reduced to an abstraction of line and color.
My goal with each scarf is not only to create a beautiful illustration that looks great on a screen or on paper, but to create something that looks utterly incredible when worn. Detail, composition, and color scheme are all carefully considered from the wearer’s point of view, and the result is a beautiful and highly detailed piece of wearable art that looks fantastic from every angle and changes each time the scarf is tied.

While the majority of my scarves are my own work, I also collaborate with Guest Artists to create scarves. These projects vary from single-artist commissioned works, to conceptual collaborations where both of us plan a piece that I then illustrate, to much more involved collaborations where both of us work together to conceptualize the piece as a whole and illustrate different sections. To date, I’ve worked with Lee Woolhiser, Cora Harrington, Danielle Roberts, Marlowe Lune, Fyodor Pavlov, and Arlo Teague, with more collaborations in the works.

My scarves are released in limited edition, and only once. I have a personal policy of never releasing the same scarf twice – once they’re gone, they’re gone forever! This policy of leaving previous releases in the past gives me the creative space to emotionally resolve projects and direct my creative energy towards new work.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

If we want to live in a world full of art and beautiful items, we should all make an effort to support the arts in the ways that they can. We can support artists by purchasing their work when we shop, and by doing what we can to help them reach their audience – whether that’s liking and sharing their posts on social media, or talking about their work to a friend that you think would resonate with what they do.

Additionally, I believe we should also take a firm and vocal stance against AI “art” and actively avoid purchasing anything involving images hallucinated by a machine. Generative AI image models actively harm human artists, first by stealing their work to be trained on, and then by stealing their jobs. If we wish to live in a thriving creative system and enjoy lives full of art, we must make a concerted effort to value the skills of human artists in all fields.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

It’s hard to put into words how special it feels to see people using my scarves to express themselves. It’s truly an honor to make art that people decorate themselves with, and it’s such a delight to see my work folded into the lives of so many cool people! I still grin every time I see someone tagging me on social media to share that they’ve worn my work out to see a friend perform, to deliver a lecture, to celebrate a milestone, or just to feel nice on a regular day. I’m so lucky.

It’s also incredibly rewarding to be able to leverage my business and online presence to raise money for others. After all, money isn’t something we can take with us when we die, but we can sure as hell use it to help each other out in life.

In the wake of Hurricane Helene last year, a flash sale gave me the immediate funds to buy several hundred dollars of immediate relief supplies to take with me to Western NC – I was headed up anyways to muck out flooded buildings with my brother, and I didn’t want to arrive empty-handed. Afterwards, I organized an art raffle with ten other artists to raise $4,500 for rebuilding efforts.

Currently, I’m making preparations for a collection of silk scarves illustrated with abortifacient herbs, intended as a protest against the state of reproductive healthcare access in America. In our modern times, it’s harrowing to imagine some people turning to such a life-threatening last resort of dangerous herbs when the medical technology for safe pregnancy termination exists just out of legal reach. A portion of sales will be donated to The National Network of Abortion Fund’s Collective Power Fund, which distributes grants to abortion funds across America, with a focus on the South and Midwest, where it’s often most difficult to access a safe abortion. With last year’s release of abortifacient scarves, I was able to make a $3000 donation, and I’m hoping to exceed that number this year.

And again, we circle back around to kindness – nothing I do would be possible without the generosity of so many wonderful people. It’s hard to put into words how grateful I feel towards them. I hope to be a worthy recipient of that kindness.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.logandria.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/logandria
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/logandriashop
• Other: bsky.app/profile/logandria.bsky.social

  www.tumblr.com/blog/logandria

Image Credits

All photos are taken by the artist. All modeled photos are of herself.