Talking Textiles

The famous dutch trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort talks about the future of textiles.

Bibhu Mohapatra

This young designer (his first collection was during New York Fashion Week in February 2009), also graduated economist, offered us a wonderful spring 2013 collection with fantastic prints!

Take a look

You can also see more of his work at this link  http://www.bibhu.com/content/

Colour of 2013

Looking for a colour? How about green?
The Pantone-trend experts nominated this week “Emerald” as the colour of the year 2013. It´s quasi like the Oscar for colours! So I guess, we´ll see a lot of green things next year, clothes, furniture, paper hangings, cars, etc…
I like the kind of green, but my favourite from the “Oscar-winning” colours remains for the time being 2009.

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 2012   2011  2010

 2009  2008  2007

(Seen on www.pantone.com)

Wild pattern

Prints were definitely this year a big theme and will be also in 2013. So it´s time to have a look, what Mary Katrantzou suggests. She is a greec fashion designer and famous for her expressive mix of patterns. It seems for her newest designs she was very inspired by stamps and bank notes. In my case the first time, that I´ m interested in stamps…

Kimono – True Art

In theory, Kimono are T-shaped, straight-lined robes worn so that the hem falls to the ankle, with attached collars and long, wide sleeves. Kimono are wrapped around the body, always with the left side over the right (except when dressing the dead for burial.), and secured by a sash called an obi, which is tied at the back. And also very rich inspiration for all time…

 

 

 

 

I am really excited with Mamechiyo Modern kimono…

 

Print Market for the Next Season

Brocade for Everyone

In the next season, Brocade changes Floral! Here is a small collage…

Heimtextil Trends 2013/2014 “Being”

Graphic Patterns for the Next Season

Small collage of what awaits us, from graphic patterns in the next year…

Under the Microscope 1

I can`t say, that I know much about chemistry and biology, but that pictures and forms, what we can see only with a help of microscope, can be irresistible and completely something different. In this Post, I`ve chosen some examples that give us a “line games”. Also, lines waiting for us in the next fashion season. So its time to make them interesting…

Ich kann nicht sagen, dass ich viel über Chemie und Biologie weiß, aber diese Bilder und Formen, die wir nur mit der Hilfe des Mikroskops sehen können, könnten unwiderstehlich und komplett etwas anderes sein. In diesem Post habe ich einige Beispiele gewählt, die uns ein “Linien-Spiel” zeigen. Auch, die Linien warten auf uns in der nächsten Modesaison. So machen wir sie interessant…