Meag West for RUSSH no. 40 in bright clashing prints. Seen above wearing London-based digital printing maestro, Mary Katrantzou. Styled by Stevie Dance; photographer Will Davidson.
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Aqueous Chroma
Leif Podhajsky is a Melbourne-based digital artist and Creative Director. His work explores “themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic or altered experience”. We hope to see his work as prints some day!
Dion Lee S/S 2011
For Dion Lee’s Spring/Summer collection ‘Composure’ industrial technologies paired with highly-skilled tailoring presented a range that paralleled the world’s leading fashion houses. With the endless possibilities that today’s technology provides it is exciting to see young designers implement such new and varied techniques, involving experiments with digital printing, plastic, leather, binding, acid and other fabric… Read more »
Eyedazzler
As the wild wild west continues to inspire fashion and popular culture, it seems only natural that Native American textiles are in the mix – after all, where there are cowboys, there will be Indians!
Lolita
The beloved Bambi in silky prints, bright brights and metallic leather for Oyster issue 92. Styled by Imogen Barron; photographed by Bec Parsons.
Josh Goot // SS2011
Josh Goot returns to Rosemount Australia Fashion Week for Spring Summer 2011/12, with his first show since 2005. The familiar Josh Goot mini dresses and a-line skirts were replaced by more sophisticated shapes with structured tulip skirts, voluminous dresses and boxy suiting. As a designer who never comprises on quality all fabrics seemed perfectly considered…. Read more »
Star-Spangled Rodeo
As models glided down the catwalk to David Bowie “Lady Grinning Soul” in crystal-studded jumpsuits and gold metallic suits for Balmain’s Fall 2011 showing, the influence of seventies glam rock was far from subtle. But no rhinestone-spangled story can be told without reference to fashion’s pioneer of the ‘too much is never enough’ philosophy, rumoured… Read more »
Digitalism
All images from style.com Designers exhibiting collections at the fashion weeks of London, Paris, Sydney and New York have sourced inspiration for their print designs from everything from horsehair to 1920s jewellery–interpreted in varying degrees of abstraction.