Category Archive: garment

23 Sep

Hills of Kyoto; Beauty in All Things

Hills of Kyoto; Beauty in All Things

More from the exhibition Japanese Art and Design at MAD recently which showcased art objects from the museum’s permanent collections, by Japanese artists. Silk fronds simply …

 
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31 Jul

OP textile

OP textile

Another favourite from  the current exhibit ‘Pop: Design, Culture, Fashion’ at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. c.1966 Hans Jurgen-Holzer’s screen printed cotton for Heals Fabrics. Share this ___________________________________

 
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28 Jul

POP and Paper

POP and Paper

Some favourites from the current exhibit ‘Pop: Design, Culture, Fashion’ at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. The ready-to-assemble couture is perhaps a forerunner to Miyake’s …

 
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14 Nov

Paris fleas

Paris fleas

Flea chairs are a tad difficult to carry on the metro, let alone back to a guest couch, so I sadly had to forego each purchase. I will go back with a car next time! and suffer the drive and the tunnel, since what I saw would make it all worth it.

 
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22 Oct

Alba Prat

Alba Prat

And so to Berlin, Berlin! and the work of Berlin fashion designer Alba Prat, a sculptural and breathtakingly post-post-modern voice. Her Tron-inspired collection, “Digitalized,”  features …

 
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17 Sep

Horsehair Lace

Horsehair Lace

The intricacy of the woven horsehair strands; their red dyed coloration and the tiny scale of brooch and necklace components is perhaps not surprising for a country with such a lace-making heritage.

 
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24 Aug

Brook Roberts and the Eye of the World

Brook Roberts and the Eye of the World

Roberts draws inspiration from x-rays and CT scans, body-mapping and contouring the human form. For AW2011 the collection teams with accessories from Eye of the World; a collaboration between Liam Motyer [a teacher] and Hope Von Joel [a stylist]. Each wooded accessory is uniquely crafted and finished by hand in London. It is a balance where each offsets and carries the other into a seamless look.

 
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20 Aug

Sybil Connolly Couturier

Sybil Connolly Couturier

Nine yards of unpleated linen was required to make one yard of the pleated fabric. Linen, a notoriously creasing fabric, is fairly crease resistant when smocked. The gown would likely have been quite light and very comfortable since the fiber breaths and is quite absorbent, making for a gown that is both beautiful, form fitting and comfortable.

 
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28 May

a hand full of Italian lace

a hand full of Italian lace

…”Seventeenth-century lace has a voluminous character—rather than the light and airy form of later periods—reflecting an era when luxury was equated with grandeur…

 
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18 May

Real Fantasy…

Real Fantasy…

Prada skips into a brave new world…

 
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