Scape

It’s always exciting to see designers putting digital printing to the test! Dries van Noten took it up a notch for his spring/summer 2012 collection incorporating custom prints of 18th century landscape etchings, RedoutĂ©’s rose botanicals, jungle scapes, butterfly wings and macro flowers, alongside the work of contemporary photographer James Reeve. Van Noten commissioned the work of  Reeve, a London-born photographer, whose images of the shining city lights of Marseilles, Beirut and London were used a placements prints on silk cropped t-shirts, full skirts and sleek dresses.