twigs & honey

Incredibly cute head and neck pieces from twigs & honey by Myra Callan.

especially this floral doggie collar!

Find her website, blog, shop and etsy


via sweet sassafras

Vintage Bathing Suits

See more inspiring vintage bathing suits compiled by Millie Motts here.

Colette Patterns

Love these pattern booklets from Colette Patterns.

Ziad Ghanem

It is exciting to see the talented Ziad Ghanem from Lebanon break the rules by combining high-couture techniques with raw street elements. Based in London, Zaid is fundamentally a Haute Couture designer. He recently joined forces with graphic designer Robert Boon, as designer and partner of the label Maiden Britain.


In a move towards supporting revolutionary concepts of art, fashion and contemporary cultures and end creative laws limitations. He is also creative consultant and director to performance and fashion magazine, Drama Magazine.


For more information, visit Ziad Ghanem.

via greenmystyle.

Rowan Mersh

I love the neckpieces by Rowan Mersh, textile sculptor who explores form and fuses design with technique, emphasizing experimentation as the focus of his practice. His new website is under construction, but there is a great interview at Londoners.



For more information, visit Valery Demure and Rowan Mersh.

via the incredible Surface magazine .

Studio lo/n°

Pod slippers
Felt, screen printed

We love the Pod Slippers from Studio lo/n°. The rotation of the serigraphic screens, as well as the cut generates a hypothetically infinite permutaton of non-standard patterns on each slipper.

via our favourite HITSPAPER.

Grégoire Alexandre

We simply love this beautiful image by French photographer, Grégoire Alexandre

via the amazing HITSPAPER

Jess Bonham

Stunning art direction by Jess Bonham for Seiko, in a collaboration with Alexandros Pissourios.

For more information, visit Jess Bonham

[via the artist and his model.]

Emma Cassi

Flowers necklace
Black tulle flowers with black jay beads, plated gold chain
£45


The black bracelet
Vintage flowers trimming embroidered with black jay beads
£60

Emma Cassi is a French jewellery designer and a stylist based in London. Her gorgeous collection of handmade jewellery with antique lace was made from some lace she found in a castle near Limoges, when she was on holiday. Other pieces in her collection also include crochet lace found in Frech antique markets and vintage shops. As most items are made of vintage stones and rare lace, their quantity are limited. Purchase her collection from her online store.

[images and text from Emma Cassi.]

For more information, visit Emma Cassi.

Michelle Jank

Michelle Jank 2007
[image from Iqons]

Michelle Jank graduated with a Diploma of Fashion Design in 1999 from East Sydney Tech. Her design portfolio includes fashion and jewellery and as well as styling. Her latest collection of jewellery can be viewed at Iqons.




[image from Iqons]

Michelle Jank is the fashion wonder from Australia, who wowed the critics with her debuted collection in 2000, at the Australian Fashion Week. Known for her exquisitely embellished demi-couture, Michelle offers an array of reworked clothes that are sexy. For her Spring 2002 collection, she used antique fabrics reworked into finely fitted and finished dresses and tops with ragged jumbles of excess fabric draped and trailing in side bustles. She has worked in exotic silks and laces, faded miniature Australian flags, fragments of old flour bags and crocheted baby shawls, with zig-zagged hemlines trailing with long, shredded tendrils of lace and silk around the ankles.

[text extracted from fashionwindows and fashionista]

For more information, visit the showcase of Michelle Jank at Iqons.

A Walk in the Wardrobe

[image from poireton]

A Walk in the Wardrobe is a suggestive exhibit recently organized by a group of 7 fashion curators from the MA in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion. As a collective, they operate under the name Glass-case, and are currently exploring aspects of fashion curation. Glass-case is committed to developing new ideas in the presentation and interpretation of the dress. They aim to push boundaries and challenge the traditional museum approach to curation. The exhibition was held for a week at the Ada Street gallery.

Glass-case went beyond just visual to explore the intimate relationship between fashion and memory. A Walk in the Wardrobe was set out to trigger lost and forgotten memories through the sense of sound and smell. The soundscape of muffled noises sounding like people walking and rummaging through closets; was paired with bygone scents of moth and lilac, quite reminiscent of grandmother’s wardrobe.




[images from poireton]

The exhibit was held in two rooms. The first room showcased a more masculine wardrobe, where the walls were lined in black top hats. The other was dedicated to a more feminine feel, featuring white dresses from assorted eras, hung from the ceiling through a system of fishing wires. The whiteness of the dresses, evoked an eerie and ghostly quality.

[text extracted from Fashion projects and Glass-case.]

For more information, visit Fashion projects; Glass-case; and poireton.

ThreeAsFour

From ThreeAsFour Lookbook: Human Plant
[images from ThreeAsFour]

ThreeAsFour is the international design collective previously causing a stir as AsFour. The original quartet consisted of Gabi, originally from Lebanon; the Adi, from Israel; Ange, from Tajikistan and their German colleague Kai.



From ThreeAsFour Lookbook: Kindergardens and Inferno
[images from ThreeAsFour]

Their fashion extravaganzas are often described as elegant, innovative, timeless, strange and curvilinear. The collective made a big impression on New York's underground fashion scene in 1999 with ‘Puppencouture', a performance installation peopled by 44 miniature puppets that were modelled on AsFour's members. It was an interactive happening, in which the public had to prevent the dolls from falling. ‘It was a nightmare,' Ange remembers. All the same, they followed it with more multimedia shows that agreeably push the boundaries between fashion and art. In 2002 they won the American Ecco Domani Award for new designers.

Their highly original designs have attracted clients such as Björk, who they dressed as a mermaid, as well as Mariah Carey. Their most famous design is the ‘circle bag', a concept that started as a joke: a circle with a hole in the middle. Helmut Lang thought it was wonderful. Since ThreeAsFour has been operating as a trio their output has become less conceptual: ‘We're over that now.'

Their commercial work includes designing clothing, accessories and rugs for the American label Kate Spade.

[text extracted from the 2007 Arnhem Fashion Biennale]

For more information, visit ThreeAsFour.

Julian and Sophie

Julian Roberts is a London fashion designer, film maker, graphic/web designer, and Professor of Fashion at the University of Hertfordshire. He has created 13 collections under his labels, nothing nothing, Julian And, JULIAN AND SOPHIE and Parc deS EXpositions.

Sophie Cheung graduated from Printed & Knitted Textiles from the Glasgow School of Art in 2000, and obtained a Masters Degree in Mixed Media Textiles at the Royal College of Art in London, in 2002.



JULIAN AND SOPHIE - autumn / winter 2003
Pyjama Combat; No: J&S12
[image from Blow PR]



JULIAN AND SOPHIE - autumn / winter 2003
A limited range of "Pyjama Cases"
[image from Blow PR]

Julian is the inventor of a new style of garment construction called ‘Subtraction Cutting’, a free-hand method he has demonstrated at the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Glasgow School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Kent Institute, Bath Spa University College & the University of Hertfordshire.

The Royal College of Art invited Julian and Sophie to teach their pattern-cutting method to nine MA textiles students over a three-day period. They used to publish a beautifully illustrated guide to three techniques on their online Pattern Cutting School in full and free for all. Not anymore the last time we checked. Oh what a shame.


This is the work of Emily Parsons from the RCA class project.
[image from Blow PR]

Julian also helps support 25 of the newest cutting-edge designers represented by Blow PR/ The Off-Schedule Guide, to which he donates show production advice, designs websites, show videos and graphics.

[text extracted from Blow PR]

For more information, visit Julian and Sophie.