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Swimwear Ahoy
Did you know that this July marks the 67th birthday of the modern bikini?? So to mark this occasion let’s have a look at some cool print trends making a splash and having a frolic in the swimwear world. From…
Helpful websites to start your own fashion label
We have found a few great websites that assist fashion designers with starting up their own business. The websites we found assist designers with inspiration, keeping up to date with the latest trends, and websites that help with making, grading,…
fashion blogs for daily inspiration
This week we bring you a list of blogs that we at Digital Fabrics like to look at for inspiration. Be it to kick start our creativity, be transported to another part of the world or to just read what…
Top 5 Fashion Websites
Keeping up to date with the fashion world has gotten a whole lot easier now with the internet. We now have instant updates on what’s happening around the world not only in the fashion world, but also in the every…
Pre Spring Summer 2014
As the temp around Oz drops this weekend and the snow bunnies rejoice, if you need a little warming look forward to sunnier days by perusing the Pre Spring/Summer ’14 shows coming out of Europe. These in-between season showings have…
Types of Fashion Prints – part two
Status – As an indication of wealth or opulence, uses the motifs (but not limited to) of gold chains, jewels, animal skins and ornate scroll work often all in combination and in rich vibrant colours. Checks/Spots/Stripes – patterns of squares,…
Types of Fashion Prints – part one
Fashion prints are as trend driven as colour and garment style. Fashion prints are becoming an increasingly utilised tool in a fashion designer’s tool kit. Therefore although the following is a general run down of the various types of fashion…
Crazy about Cactus
I’ve noticed a certain trend popping up of late and its little Cactus gardens. Wherever I look I seem to see these colourful cacti, which is making me want to have my own. It really adds colour to a space…
SHOWcabinet
A creative collaboration between Iris Van Herpen, Nick Knight and Daphne Guinness; has resulted in one amazing piece of wearable art. Rules don’t apply to Iris Van Herpen who is well known for her eccentric futuristic couture masterpieces. For her…
Forest For The Trees
It has come to light this past week that internationally recognised Finnish home wares and textile house Marimekko, has allegedly pilfered a print design from a Unkraninian folk artist, Maria Primachenko. Although Marimekko as a company holds the commercial license…
Knight Florals
Nick Night of SHOWstudio.com is among the world’s most influential photographers of our time, working for magazines such as Vogue, i-D and Dazed & Confused. He also has customers such as Alexander McQueen, YSL and Dior who call upon…
Pretty Petals of the Chelsea Flower Show
Pretty Petals of the Chelsea Flower Show Could there be anything more inspiring for a floral print than attending the horticultural world’s most prestigious week every year? Celebrating the centenary of the of the Chelsea Flower Show being held at…