Basso & Brooke

Another textile exuberant fashion design team: Basso & Brooke. All things pattern, texture, scale, weights, material choice.

Manish Arora

Indian born designer Manish Arora clearly feeds off cultural imagery but seems to just absorb pattern and colour from numerous cultures. Very textile based, glocal (recognition of roots without ignoring the reality of globalisation), infusion, rich.

www.manisharora.ws

Claire Tough

2008

2008.

S/S 2010 collection.

Knit, embroidery, fashion, illustrative, drawing with stitch

http://www.clairetough.co.uk/ Source: 26

Kahori Maki

Design

Interior commision ( themagentalinks.com/2009/02/12/kahori-maki/ )

Comme des Garcons commision.

Car exterior commision.

Illustrator, designer, interiors, fashion. commisioned by Comme des Garcons, vehicle manufacturers as well as fashion and interiors. Maki is succesfully recognising the wide variety of opportunities available.

Japanese born artist and designer is heavily influenced by nature, insects etc.

http://www.k-maki.com/ Source: 26

Karen Nicol

Quite traditionally british textiles but with clear influences from a more global platform.

Birds, plants, floral Source: 26

http://www.karennicol.com/

Shelley Fox

Shelley Fox

Discarded fabrics and reclaimed clothing.

Fashion Designer, London, launched 1996 - 2006. Renewed interest in craft and the importance of a skill and tradition based knowledge to remain local/european.

Fashion design, textile design, costume design for dance etc

http://www.shelleyfox.com/

Need to check out what she is currently up to but not obvious on the internet. Source: 26

Crochet Dress

Dress by Marc by Marc Jacobs. Source: 25

unFashion

These are some images that could be considered uniforms (or is that fashion?) that do not adhere to fashion, trend and the ever changing world.

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Maison Martin Margiela

Genius - more to come here but my initial thoughts are written on the back of the Exhibition Guide.

Cradle to Cradle

This jacket has been grown in a lab - complete with patterning by Suzanne Lee. http://www.biocouture.co.uk

The Cradle to Cradle (C2C) concept has been around since the 70's but in the last decade it has been re-considered and is currently utilised as a key way of thinking in terms of sustainabilty, ecology, ethis etc. The principles of C2C are to consider what materials you are using and consider while in the design process where they will end up and ultimatly how they can be used after their initial use. The list here gives an overview of some of the terms used.

There is a good book which I believe is called Cradle to Cradle but will find it and add in here later.

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tradition

Viktor & Rolf, 2003. Source 8

This piece from the Flowers collection by Viktor & Rolf is a splendid floral tribute.

Street

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Street style is ever changing but is associated with youth, pop culture. Thinking about looking at older street - need to investigate / read further. Music, film.