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Where I see Fashion

Once in a while you’ll be deep inside the internet and stumble across something new and exciting which get’s you thinking about designing and all the wonderful stages of creativity. Where i see fashion collections fashion images and apirs them up with images of art, architecture, scenery, photography, really anything that shows a resemblance to the actually fashion photograph.

These photos though not what the designers where looking at when designing, make you think they might have. We are now obsessed with this new found Tumblr account and love seeing what it has to offer, we hope if inspires you as much as it inspires us!

images from Where i See fashion

banners

As the festive season nears we seem to have an influx of orders as expected, with customers wanted to personalise and spice up their homes and events, here are some ideas for any occasion to add some personality to any event

1. Printed menus

Create a set menu for your event and have a banner printed for each guest to keep and see whats next to eat, great for weddings and special parties.

Printed menu banner found on pinterest

2. Personalised birthday banners

Make that special someone feel even more special on their birthday, this is a great idea which we spotted on the website Lillychicevents.com.au

Hungry caterpillar inspired banner from lillychicevents.com

3.Cake toppers

Pinterest if abuzz with different cake toppers, we designed, printed and made this cake topper for a special mother which could be easily changed for any occasion.

Cake Topper printing and made at Digital Fabrics

5.Wedding banners

Personalise your wedding with banners, you’ll have the banner and the photos for the rest of your life aa reminder of your special day

wedding banner found on pinterest

6. Christmas Spirit

Personalise your home this Christmas with some printed items, advent calenders, banners like the garland we spotted on refreshrestyle.com, tree ornaments like the one seen from the website missmustardseed.com. The possiblities are endless.

advent calendar garland from MissMustardSeed.com

Christmas garland from refreshrestyle.com

All of us at Digital Fabrics hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New year!

We have moved!

We have moved! After a big weekend we are excited to see all our bits and pieces in our new space, from today we are creating from our new studio Unit 8, 28-30 Lilian Fowler Place Marrickville NSW 2204. All services resume as usual and there are more exciting things to come at Digital Fabrics.

For all deliveries please use our new mailing address:

Digital Fabrics P/L
Unit 8
28-30 Lilian Fowler Place
Marrickville NSW 2204

Our phone number stays the same for enquiries or to organise an appointment at our new office, call us on 02 8307 0258.

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 design, garment construction, space styling and branding etc . Here are few names that we would like to share with you.

Rebecca Harding

Jessica Reynolds

Kamellia Allaf

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 designs. Students quickly realised that when digitally printing even a pixel can make a difference, here are our winners.

The Winner is:

Sarah Smith

We chose Sarah Smith’s design as the winner for her unique hand drawn designs, inspired by the crusades.

1st Runner up is:

Malani Biasetto

We loved the collage of texture displayed on Malani Biasetto’s repeating print. We thought it was a great way to display an array of prints inspired by Morrocan tiles

2nd Runner up is:

Jacqueline Wong

Jacqueline Wongs repeat came in 2nd runner up for using an image of a shipwreck inspired by a nautical theme into a textured all over print.

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 of our “local Produce Scarf competition” is:

Madison Watson-Hicks

1st runner up:

Katelyn Phillips

2nd runner up:

Natalie Hick

Judging these scarves was not an easy task. Student did an excellent job executing their ideas into scarf design, you’re all winners in our eyes.

Scarves are now on sale at Limelight Gallery in Central, Sydney.

Capsule Range Winners

The Winner is:

Sarah Smith

We chose Sarah Smith’s design as the winner for her unique hand drawn designs, inspired by the crusades.

1st Runner up is:

Malani Biasetto

We loved the collage of texture displayed on Malani Biasetto’s repeating print. We thought it was a great way to display an array of prints inspired by Morrocan tiles

2nd Runner up is:

Jacqueline Wong

Jacqueline Wongs repeat came in 2nd runner up for using an image of a shipwreck inspired by a nautical theme into a textured all over print.

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 students colour palettes to work with and asked that they design a repeat print to go with their collection.We received 22 submissions which we had the very difficult task of choosing the winner and 2 runners up. Here are the 22 designs, which are your favourites?

Amy Stivicic

Rebecca Strickland

Olivia Gow

Maysam Naaman

Malani Biasetto

Madison Watson-Hicks

Kristy Micallef

Keone Raiwi

Keang Tong

Katelyn Phillips

Hikaru Todoroki

Jacqueline Wong

Gemma Della Bosco

Despina Gregoriou

Cerrie Chan

Bing Dimaporo

Bianca Makdessi

Belinda Ireland

Wan Li Li

Sarah Smith

Rebecca King

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. What do you think?

You Design We Print

Digital Fabrics Exhibition at the MUSE, ULTIMO

Printed scarves on show

printed samples table

wall of printed scarves

“Bright” is for summer

When the rest of the world is moving into the winter, we are here in Australia getting ready for a sweltering season, that is sizzling in colours and bursting with summer prints.