As you can probably guess we are crazy about prints and printing here at Digital Fabrics, so when Fashion week begins we keep a sharp eye on the designers who add a little special printed elements to their designs. A few Designers we love to watch are Mara Hoffman, Libertine, creatures of the wind,Honor, J.crew and Lela Rose just to name a few. As we view the updates coming from New York fashion week, we spotted one Designer duo with a unique look at mixing pop culture with high fashion. Rodarte’s Latest was inspired by childhood nostalgia and these Star Wars inspired gowns took us right back to our own childhood. What do you think of these gowns?
Rodarte Fall 2014
Rodarte Fall 2014
Rodarte Fall 2014
Rodarte Fall 2014
Images: Style.com
Since Mary Katrantzou first collection in Fall 2009 we fell in love with her use of Digital printing and simple garment shapes. This season she steered away from her signature Digital Prints and instead focused on embroidery, beautiful fabrics and pleats. Although Digital Printing is nowhere to be seen we love the use of embroidery to create a pattern, the garments speak for themselves, a beautiful collection and a designer we will always be inspired by.
Mary Katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou
Images Style.com
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
As you can probably guess we are crazy about prints and printing here at Digital Fabrics, so when Fashion week begins we keep a sharp eye on the designers who add a little special printed elements to their designs. A few Designers we love to watch are Mara Hoffman, Libertine, creatures of the wind,Honor, J.crew and Lela Rose just to name a few. As we view the updates coming from New York fashion week, we spotted one Designer duo with a unique look at mixing pop culture with high fashion. Rodarte’s Latest was inspired by childhood nostalgia and these Star Wars inspired gowns took us right back to our own childhood. What do you think of these gowns?
Rodarte Fall 2014
Rodarte Fall 2014
Rodarte Fall 2014
Rodarte Fall 2014
Images: Style.com
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
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.
www.natashagan.com.au
www.seafolly.com.au
www.seafolly.com.au
www.talulah.com.au
www.talulah.com.au
Day of the Dead Skulls
Leading on from last week’s post on Halloween (did you spook or get spooked?) Dia de Muertos is forming the base of our inspiration for creation this weekend. The Mexican Day of the Dead festival which celebrates the life of family and friends who have passed has become quite a fascination with popular western culture in the past few seasons and it’s easy to see why.
Brightly coloured tattooed skulls (known as sugar skulls) have adorned t-shirts and hoodies. Simple black and white imagery could be seen on scarves and tote bags on every second person and even models were done up in makeup resembling adorned skeletons for Lena Hoschek’s spring/summer 2013 catwalk show in Berlin. For a while there it could be found everywhere and it might be too early to tell if the trend has past or just lying low for the moment.
While we wait to see where this trend takes us, why not take a moment to reflect on life and death and then turn it into a creative celebration of the circle of life.
Day of the Dead symbols from a font on www.fontbros.com/
Images from Lena Hoschek’s spring/summer 2013 catwalk show in Berlin.
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.
www.natashagan.com.au
www.seafolly.com.au
www.seafolly.com.au
www.talulah.com.au
www.talulah.com.au
Spooky Scene by Poofy on Flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/enchanticals/galleries/72157627899470504#photo_2950228894
Next week is Halloween people. Time to get your print scare on.
Now Australia has only in recent years, embraced the whole October 31st party vibe, that is more traditionally seen as an American festival of all things spooky. And while there may be complaints from some about our country becoming too “Americanised” this is one occasion which should be taken on board whole heartedly, or less heartedly if you’re inclined to dress up as a heart eating monster this year. Simple because you get to dress up as anything you want to, scary or not and how often do we really allow ourselves this chance?
Trending this year are popular shows from the past couple of years, notably Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen, the Breaking Bad boys and somewhat more random, Duck Dynasty a ‘reality’ show about duck hunters.
Now you could jump on this band wagon, let Yahoo! do the work for you with their recent top ten’s lists (see below) or you could use that imaginative spirit that was born for an all hallows eve festivity and get crazy with your outfit!
With Halloween right around the corner, Yahoo has released the lists for the top 10 searched Halloween related items this season.
What better way to scare (or impress) the boo out of your friends than rocking up in an outfit that you not only made yourself, but had the fabric printed specifically for it as well! Think cobwebs and creepy crawlies with splashes of suspicious colour or eerie scenes of mist through an abandoned street. It is also no coincidence that Mexico’s Day of the Dead follows up Halloween on November 1, so there’s some great inspiration right there.
If this post seams a little excited, it’s because it is. Purely because there’s so much creativity that comes with dressing up for an event like this, it’s hard not to see the potential for Halloween to play muse and feed into your print designs. So turn the lights down low, light a few candles and let the shadows take you to the witching hour.
A designer edge for Halloween (L-R)
Dolce & Gabbana, Christopher Kane, Ashish (sweater), Mary Katrantzou (skirt)
We are still looking at aerial shots in the office for inspiration after some research we discovered these beautiful photographs by photographer Joseph Ford
Ford teams aerial photographs with designer garments, giving a visual for how we can translate environmental inspiration into collections or prints.
Aerial: Riserva Naturale dello Zingaro, Sicily
Jacket: K-Way
//www.josephford.net
www.josephford.net
Aerial: Sicily
Jacket: Barbour
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Aerial: Macari, Sicily
Sweater: Missoni
www.josephford.net
Aerial: Sardinia
Blazer: Missoni
Aerial: Morocco, Merzouga
Jumper: Kenzo
Background shirt: APC
Images from Joseph Ford