Romance Was Born has been working hard! After the success of their MBFWA presentation, the label has released the lookbook for their pre-collection 2012. Their digital prints are the work of Australian artist Stephen Bush, who is known for his Australian landscape paintings in psychedelic abstract colour, often incorporating elements of the absurd (including a… Read more »
Charlotte Linton is a London-based illustrator and textile designer. She creates beautiful wool delaine scarves printed with her illustrated representations of whimsical far-off lands, including Greenland, Java, Tibet and Madagascar. Each collection of scarves is based on the adventures of her alter-ego Ermantrude, an early 20th century zoologist. This season she travelled to Greenland, where “under… Read more »
Romance Was Born is known for their love for Australiana, but this season they went in a different direction – in more ways than one. For their Spring Summer 2012 collection, shown at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Marvel Comics was their none-too-subtle theme, conceptualised with bold graphic prints comprised of the familiar faces of The Hulk… Read more »
Andéol is the very special side project of Think Positive designer Emilie Cacace. Her recent lookbook is a record of her time in India, shooting her collection of digitally-printed silk scarves on the beautiful people of the Rajasthani desert. In the introduction to her lookbook she explains: Each scarf from Andéol’s collection ‘Vedas Maya’ is… Read more »
We were beginning to despair that the beautiful illustrated prints of Swash were no more. After a period of inaction on their website they are back with a brand new site – a true reflection of their work and well worth a visit (as you scroll up their prints become animated!). Each garment from the… Read more »