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Fashion flair

As you all know, last week we held a women’s scarf exhibition in conjunction with St George TAFE students fashion show, where students presented their super creative final collections.  Every corner of students dedicated space was well thought through, fabric…

Scarf Competition Winners

Last week we exhibited all the scarves St George TAFE Fashion Design students Designed for our Local Produce scarf competition, On the opening night we announce the winner and 2 runners up. For those who couldn’t make it The winner…

Capsule Range Winners

After some time deliberating over the beautiful print submissions we had to choose our winner and 2 runner ups. What we were looking for was a overall repeating print with unique elements that would translate well into their overall collection…

Capsule Range competition

Along with our competition with TAFE we were also asked to contribute to the 2nd year Fashion Design capsule ranges. We wanted students to build on their knowledge about printing and how to get a print to repeat. We gave…

Exhibition

Last week Digital Fabrics was asked by St George TAFE to exhibit the scarves their students designed for a competition for us. For those who couldn’t make it we took the liberty of photographing our space for all to see….

Photoshoot

We are kicking off this week with images from our scarf photo-shoot in which we tried to capture an amazing scarfs that were designed by fashion students from St George TAFE for our “Local Produce” woman’s scarf SS14 competition. Here…

Freshly made

This pretty tote is one of the examples of what we do at Digital Fabrics. Made last week from scratch, designed, hand painted, printed and made at Digital Fabrics.

Live Global, Print Local

We live in a very “international” age where it’s pretty impossible to live in any part of this country and not have access to information about a plethora of subjects and issues spanning the globe. And whether or not you…

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…

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…

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…