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Pull Up A Seat
Here is an innovative brand and design house making one long front row for customers and designers to sit side by side. Based in Berlin, Germany and conjured by local Florian Ellsaesser, Front Row Society is all about “design with…
Fabric printing-Little bit of history
Block printing on cloth for the clothing market has been in circulation since the time of the Ancient Egyptians. India and China both too have rich histories in printing cloth to be worn as garments. In Peru, prior to the…
Amy Dudman, Textile Artist
These beautiful images from textile artist Amy Dudman caught our eye this week when posted on another fav blog site Pattern People, and we just had to spread the word! A recent graduate and award winning at that, Amy showcases her area…
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…
All in a Flap about Gatsby
Is anyone else on the edge of their chaise lounge fastening their t-strap pumps about to bust out the Charleston, with the expectation of Bazmark’s hotly anticipated remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name?!! It’s almost as…
Are You Punk Enough For Couture?
The Metropolitan Museum in New York opens its doors this week to the annual Costume Institute exhibition with this year’s theme, Punk: Chaos to Couture. It looks back to honour the roots of the antiestablishment counterculture that emerged in the…
Masha Reva
Ukraine born Masha Reva is an artist who is using fashion as her current medium, and absolutely killing it. After researching up on Reva I was confused as to why I hadn’t heard about her work earlier, she is a…
The Vogue Festival 2013
Last weekend the doors of fashions elite opened once again for perhaps the most glamorous occasion on the circuit. The Vogue Festival held in London, offers up designers, photographers, celebrities, models and magazine editors to the fashion plebeian in us…
Archibald
It’s nice to get out of routine and head to a museum once in a while, this time it was The Archibald Prize. As usual it did not disappoint my favourite were by far the artworks that used mixed media…