Isabel Wilson is a NY-based textile designer who has worked for Marc Jacobs, Rodarte, Anthropologie and Calvin Klein. Her home in Williamsburg is full of collectables, including animal bones, sea shells, foams and Madagascan butterfly wings, revealing a true fascination with texture, detail and patterns that is reflected in her intricate works. (Source: Isabel Wilson… Read more »
Surfer girl Julia Nobis looks killer in whole lotta Josh Goot, styled by Jillian Davison for Vogue Australia November 2012. Given his penchant for neoprene and that the prints of his Resort 2013 collection were inspired by The Great Barrier Reef it’s a pretty perfect fit. There’s also some amazing print work featured from Australian… Read more »
Sugar and glitter aren’t the most popular materials for artists, but for Melbourne-based collective Pip & Pop – Tanya Schultz, Nicole Andrijevic and John Kassab – they are the foundations of their universe, or universes… of tiny psychedelic candy worlds. Mountainous sugar piles, cake decorations, origami, found objects and sound, create candy pop kingdoms in… Read more »
Beyonce’s sister (I bet she get sick of being introduced like that), Solange has released a new single, ‘Losing You’. The video features Solange dancing around the projects of South Africa, decked out head to toe in some pretty nice kit, courtesy of Opening Ceremony that is. Print on print on print, she even… Read more »
For the final show to close the season, Miu Miu presented a softer more demure collection compared with those of recent years. 1950s style couture, cut using soft midnight denim, alongside boxy evening coats and jackets were cut from duchess satin. Some were dyed using a tie-dye technique that looked like white wash caps swirling… Read more »
Saluti da Taormina. Mare. Sole. Amore. (Greetings from Taormina. Sea. Sun. Love.) This was the summation of Dolce & Gabbana‘s Spring 2013 collection from the designers themselves. Print is such a literal and direct way for designers to communicate their story – Dolce & Gabbana’s collection is the best example of this. 1950s shapes, embellished with… Read more »
With much speculation as to whether the explosion of digital print excess, pioneered by London fashion designers Mary Katrantzou and Peter Pilotto, will last, the pressure was on for the designers to prove their sustainability. Mary explained in an interview:”I knew I had to jettison the corsetry and the bustles I did last season, and… Read more »
We love to see the work of designers who are embracing the possibility of digital printing and coming up with new ways to explore the technology. In an interview with vogue.com Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler explained that they wanted to explore a mix of “technology and craft” – and that they… Read more »
As always spring is the season for prints, so the next few posts on our blog will be dedicated to the prints that caught our eye at the fashion week showings for Spring 2013. First up: Rodarte. With previous seasons inspired by the Australian outback, the paintings of Vincent van Gough and the Great Plains… Read more »
Ben Fiess is a ceramicist, a painter and an illustrator who lives in Philadelphia. His series of ceramic jars focus on colour and texture, repeating the same form, yet creating something simple and sweet, with a uniqueness to be admired in each one. Ben Fiess is stocked at Third Draw Down in Australia
Photography is a way an artist to frame their view of the world. For New York-based photographer Brea Souders the expenditure of her mind reveals a unique perspective, as her play with colour, composition, line, shadow and depth make for curious imagery. Simple, yet strangely hypnotising, the observer is left to wonder what is real… Read more »
Jazmin Berakha is an Argentinian embroidery artist. Her work is a modern take on traditional craft technique, creating pattern and pictures using bright coloured cotton thread. Some are neater and more considered, while others seem to be more organically evolved with patterns spread over the canvas in a collection of patches.