Dolce and Gabbana autumn/winter 2012/13

Even though this is last year's collection from D&G, I am still in-love with the oil-painting style of their beautiful floral prints.
At the moment in my own personal designs I am inspired by the victorian era and this feeling of a dark, sombre elegance. I believe it is important to incorporate florals into designs often too, as they will always be appealing and popular on the textile market, for both fashion and interiors. This Dolce and Gabbana collection therefore draws together these ideas and shows how a timeless beauty can be portrayed into designs.

kristjana s williams

The graphic art and textile designs of Kristjana S Williams capture my attention with her beautiful illustrative other-worldly drawings. These are made outstanding with a very particular colour palette of bright pops of colour, highlighting the grey, tonal areas. The studio's elegant style reflected in their September 2013 "blom and mynstur" collection hint an influence of William Morris's timeless designs, but with a modern twist with"flowers and monsters". 

Kristjana S Williams illustrations for Triumph Lingerie

antoni and alison

I absolutely adore the fresh, unique look of Antoni and Alison's fashion garments. With a hand-painted quality or photographic effect, their pieces stand out as one-of-a-kind statements of art!

Spring/Summer 2013

Marbling samples

Here I used inks with water as well as soap to create a bubble effect. I have also digitally edited the photographs of them to enhance their vividness and colour. I really like the colours where I have inverted them which created dark blues with accents of shocking pink or orange.

Marbling

Fabulous macro-photographs taken by Cliff Briggie are full of colour and are the perfect example of the marbling effect I am looking to achieve on a digitally printed scarf. Although I wish to create my imagery with my own photographs, drawings and editing using photoshop, Cliff Briggie creates the marbling with layers of inks, sometimes ice and macro photography.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliffbriggie/10549715595/
Video shows how Briggie applies the ink

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliffbriggie/8278382208/in/photostream/lightbox/
Briggie's flickr page. Absolute inspiration

Geology inspiration

Inspired by the marbled effect and interesting texture of minerals such as these, which i came across in Norwich Castle Museum, I hope to develop these photos through drawings and photoshop to finalise an idea which will be digitally printed onto a silk scarf.

Dashing Tweeds

The company "Dashing Tweeds" has become a modern revival for tweed, designing vibrant and unique fabrics which display the quality and appeal of tweed with a new twist. The company began by the founder, Guy Hills wanting a new, yet traditional, tweed cycle suit. Originally tweed reflected the countryside to act as almost a camouflage for those hunting in the tweed sportswear. However, he had an idea to create tweed to camouflage into the city, urban surroundings.

This idea lead to developing luminous aspects to reflect city landscapes.

And also reassuring the original purpose of tweed, for comfort and leisure, creating modern styles to the traditional product, for example this modern cycle jacket.

Dashing Tweeds has also designed for companies such as:

Converse

For Henry Holland

Topshop collaboration

Swarovski Crystals collaboration