Illustrator Bernadette Pascua created the art for the beautiful soft feminine prints of Stephanie Downey’s Spring/Summer 2014 collection for her label Dress Up. The main design is a hand painted Protea motif in an ink blue and frost grey colorway. A watercolor zig zag stripe based on the leaves of the Banksia plant was created to… Read more »
Xue Li is the Chinese Central Saint Martin’s textile graduate who really caught our eye with his neon tribal collection. Inspired by the Long-horn Miao village – an ethnic minority group in southwest China, whose traditional clothes feature a lot of brightly woven fibers in neon pink and orange. Below are some pages from his… Read more »
Soft Rock scarves are designed by product designer Bethan Laura Wood. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006, her work includes jewellery, furniture, lighting and installation pieces. Her digitally printed scarves are based on a different rock or mineral. The outer edge of the scarf is dictated by the form of the rock… Read more »
The human mind loves to arrange and organise information by categorising it in a way that boils it down to a few defining checkpoints. Reflecting on fashion history is a good example of this. Our collective conscious perceives fashion history in decades that somehow define the world’s taste at that time. But is each decade… Read more »
Leila Jeffreys is half British, half Indian and grew up living all over the world with her family, including Papua New Guinea with a possum called Albert and a houseboat in Kashmir. She now resides in Australia where she shares her passion for animals and nature through her photography. Her series of photographs of beautiful… Read more »
Pitch Zine has published this incredible editorial devoted to Andéol – the print-centric accessories label of Think Positive’s own Emilie Cacace. Dedicated to unearthing emerging creative talent, the monthly online zine curated a selection of Andéol’s latest designs from her collection ‘Sol’ in this beautiful shoot styled by Savannah Young. We did a post on… Read more »
The beautiful winter collection of LaurenceAirline. Based between Paris and Abidjan, is a brand with a social conscious working to educate and provide sustainable employment opportunities on the Ivory Coast. LaurenceAirline has a modern aesthetic, paired with vibrant African textiles. This collection included subtle camo, acid yellow and black check, berry tailored paints, patchwork shirts…. Read more »
A lovely shoot for A Magazine styled by Rosa-Safiah Connell. Love the graphic collage style by Australian British artist Cosmo Macdonald, who also shot the story, created as a visual diary of their trip to the secluded Caribbean island, Nevis Island.
Kit Willow has continued her fascination with textures for her Resort 2014 collection ‘Coexist’. In the past it has been Italian marble or crocodile scales that has caught her gaze. This season she reworked a weave-like print in micro focus digitally printed onto silk crepe and silk crepe de chine. (Willow is digitally printed by… Read more »
From indigenous wood carvings, medieval decorative arts, to 20th century modern design, artists, designers and creators have gravitated towards wood for it’s natural textured beauty and dependable strength. Benwu Studio, fouded Hongchao Wang ( ECAL/ University of Art & Design Lausanne ) and Peng You ( Royal College of Art ), endeavored to reappropriate wood, while retaining the… Read more »
After working for Target designing knitwear for juniors and men, Annie Larson decided to quit her job, with no plans for what to do next. But she soon found herself a small business owner of ALL Knitwear. What began as a hobby, making sweaters and beanies for friends is now a full time job, will… Read more »
Dion Lee‘s Resort 2014 collection was based on the theme of oil and water, and the way that the two fluids co-exist retaining their individual properties as they interact. Dion’s prints capture that metallic sheen of oil as it mixes with water and the surface patterns of these fluids as the oil bubbles and seeps,… Read more »