Hello Just a quick message to say thank you to everyone who has sent me messages over the last few months asking why I have stopped updating the blog. In short I have moved house, had problems with internet installation and to be honest I have been much too distracted by interior design and decorating to get around to blogging but on the plus side I have found lots of lovely textile related interior stuff to share. Exam’s kicked off this week but next week the blog will be back with regular updates and maybe a bit of a rebrand.
Eunsuk Hur Creates these multi layered modular textile pieces for fashion and interiors, she layers the techniques of laser cut fabric (leather, felt and wood), printmaking and etching to create these amazing textile creations that almost grow from the wall like textile ivy and cocoon the model in a blanket of texture.
Mary Katrantzou showcased her debute collection in 2009, a collection which wowed audiences with what has become her signature style placement prints. Graphic prints of perfume bottles follow the contours of the models body, going in and out in all the right places.
In her spring summer 2010 collection Katrantzou uses imagery of blown glass to inspire the digital placement prints, the flowing curved lines of the prints again following and flatering the contours of models body, structural ruffles mimic the shapes of manipulated blown glass and the patterns work with the shape and forms of the garment rather than the garment working to the constraints of a pattern fabric.
Artist Jane Waggoner Deschner takes discarded photographs and uses them as a substitute fabric on to which she embroiderers quotes from great philosophers, artists and writers.
‘The snapshot (is) the form of photography that is most defined by love’.
-Nan Golden, I’ll be your Mirror, 1996 (via www.janedeschner.com)
The idea that someone loved these people enough to capture them forever in a snapshot photograph is something we can all relate to, the mother and child, the year book photograph, birthday parties, holidays, weddings, we have all experienced been in front and behind the camera for snapshots unstaged moments that document our existence. We attach sentimental value to the snapshot photograph as they capture special moments, however the ‘value’ disappears when we ‘go’ and the photographs are often discarded.
Today i thought I’d take a step back to the 1960′s and share some of the revolutionary designs of Mary Quant, (born 1934) an English fashion designer who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. She opened ‘Bazaar’ a boutique on the Kings Road in 1955 a time when ‘fashion wasn’t designed for young people’.
By 1964, the first mini-skirts designed by Quant arrived in New York by now (especially in London), the “mod” or “Chelsea look” was the popular fashion trend and Quant was the most influential designer of the scene. Among her numerous designs were vinyl boots which became known at “go go boots”.
Maurizio Anzeri creates these eerie embroidered photographs or sculptured photographs using a kind of symmography (string art) but instead of wrapping the thread around pins the embroidery thread penetrates the photograph. Anzeri scours secondhand markets for vintage photographs looking for photographs that where once important to someone now discarded.
The way Anzeri masks the faces is interesting always leaving at least 1 eye uncovered allowing the person to see out through the thread and allowing us the viewer to see in. This adds to the eeriness of the imagery, sometimes the subject becomes quite strange even monsterous, sometimes the results of the embroidered faces can be somewhat comical.
I’m a little bit in love with the illustration style of Tara Dougans, the detail of the pencil marks that describe the hair, the patterns of the fabrics all just beautiful. There is something fantastical and surreal about her illustrations, the subjects intriguing for their oddity rather than their beauty, women with a hint Frida Kahlo style facial hair, men with spindly arms and bouffant hair.
Comme des Garçons RTW S/S 2012 collection was an all white affair named “white drama” by designer Rei Kawakubo. Beautiful white dresses of lace, crochet, ruffles, tulle, flowered embellishment and veils glided down the catwalk. The “white drama” is a reference to the stages of life, birth, marriage and death traditions and rituals captured in a garment or a fabric from lace of a christening gown to the satin of a wedding dress to the shroud of flowers which surround the dead.
Today I thought I would share a post that combines surface design and fashion by sharing the Vivienne Westwood Wallpaper collection for Cole & Son the patterns are inspired by Westwood’s signature designs and fabrics such as tartan and tweed.
Recent headlines aside John Galliano is the king of couture, and champion of British fashion design. Head Designer at Dior for over 15 years Galliano created some of the most iconic dresses of couture. Inspired by the theater each collection tells a story played out down the catwalk, from fantastical clothes, to colourful backgrounds and staging, the models do not simply where his clothes they preform them.
Hello Just a quick message to say thank you to everyone who has sent me messages over the last few months asking why I have stopped updating the blog. In short I have moved house, had problems with internet installation and to be honest I have been much too distracted by interior design and decorating to get around to blogging but on the plus side I have found lots of lovely textile related interior stuff to share. Exam’s kicked off this week but next week the blog will be back with regular updates and maybe a bit of a rebrand.
