Fashion Week Streeststyle: Winter Pastels
Candy colours at Prada were one of the highlights of fashion month, heralding a truly trans-seasonal approach to colour. Pastel tones were also very…
Colour & Materials
Inspire: Marble Monochrome
MFW Street Style: Primary Brights
With Anna Della Russo leading the way in emerald green, pops of primary colour have brightened up the coldest days at Milan Fashion week. USP:…
MFW A/W 15/16 Emerging Trend: Brown
Always a key influence on colour and pattern the Marni A/W 15/16 was no exception. Confirming brown as an emerging trend, the collection featured…
LFW Emerging Trend: Marigold
Marigold yellow brightened up the dull weather both on and off the catwalk at LFW and is fast becoming an emerging must have colour…
NYFW A/W 15/16 Emerging Trend: Textured Greys
The 50 shades of grey movie may have been slated by the critics but all tones of grey are very much in evidence on…
NYFW A/W15/16 Influencer Collection: DVF
Proving that ditzy florals are most definitely a ‘thing’ for A/W 15/16 the DVF collection features them in abundance alongside pinstripes and lace, in…
Inspire: Folk Florals
Surface Inspiration from Chelsea College of Arts: Graphic Brights
Continuing with our showcase of work by final year BA Textile students from Chelsea of College of Arts, looking at outcomes from a brief based…
Surface Inspiration from Chelsea College of Arts: Honest
Continuing with our showcase of work by final year BA Textile students from Chelsea of College of Arts, looking at outcomes from a brief based…
Surface Inspiration from Chelsea College of Arts: Dark Matter
Working with the final year BA Textile students from Chelsea of College of Art, USP set a brief based on our 3 macro trends…
INSPIRE: FLAMBOYANT FUR
INSPIRE: DARK RITUAL
Colour Inspiration: Geologic mapping of the moon
The lunar landscape has been captured in the Geologic Atlas of the Moon creating beautiful and inspirational images and patterns. USP: Take inspiration from the otherworldly patterns and…
Electro Colour by Cindy Strobach
London based designer Cindy Strobach has created “Electro Colour” a process which combines a modified electrolysis technique and custom-made circuits to enable printing with electricity. An…
Pre-Fall Colour: Marsala
Confirming the Pantone colour for 2015, many of the Pre-Fall collections embraced marsala as a key colour. Gucci combined marsala with black, white and teal…
Inspire: Sandy Surfaces
Pre-Fall 15 Emerging Trend: Blueberry
Blueberry is a key colour trend emerging from the Pre-Fall collections. Deep blueberry shades – somewhere between navy and purple – are important across formal,…
Material Serendipity: Glass
Exploring the potential and beauty of glass in unexpected ways, Anne Buscher, a graduate from Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design adds a sense…
Pre-Fall 15 Emerging Trend: Fair Isle
Traditional Fair Isle is re-worked for Pre-Fall 15 using new colour ways, details and textures. Adding bugle beads, rivets and tiny jewels creates surface interest and…
