Antoine and Manuel

Horst P Horst

I think these black and white photographs are lovely. They are elegantly timeless and chic.

Bourjois

i like the new vintage design of the bourjois make-up packaging. Each pot in the collection contains an exquisite and celebrated design that appeared from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

Gianni Versace

Here are some garments from Gianni Versace's Spring/Summer 2009 ready to wear collection. The reason i picked them out is because i noticed that the printed pattern on the clothing was illustrations by Julie Verhoeven, and i love them. The print contains beautifully drawn images of sea like objects, collaged with other imagery, including women's' faces. They are eccentric, fun and dreamy and in a pale colour palette.

julie verhoeven

Is a designer and fashion illustrator who began her career working as an assistant to John Galliano, where she did print designs, t-shirts and artwork for invitations to shows. Her illustrative work has been used for the print on clothes.

Her idiosyncratic work, is highly rooted in drawing, where she uses traditional media like a pilot pen, pencil and charcoal that she "Always feels comfortable with." She enjoys collage and multi layering of things. She treats the designs as pictures that should stand alone as a drawing. "I lose interest if i start putting things into repeat." Her preferred fabrics to print on is chiffon or georgette, because it reflects the multi layering of her artwork.

I like her originality of the illustrations and the fun, eccentric style of her work.

Hannah Jefferies

Hannah Jefferies is from Loughborough School of Art and was awarded the print prize by Diane von Furstenberg for the Textprint organization.

Her inspiration came from a 3 month trip to New York from which she produced expressive paintings. Her designs include hand printed and digital prints, where she experiments with scale, mark making and clashing colour combinations. i really like this expressive technique of painting she uses and it reminds me of some missoni pieces.

http://www.texprint.org.uk/

Megan Park

http://www.meganpark.co.uk/

Megan Park is a designer who is recognized for her artisans touch. I love the elegance and femininity of her collections. In the past she's designed textiles for a well-respected agency working for the likes of Givenchy, Dries van Noten and Kenzo. She has now set up her own company. Her inspiration comes from travel destinations around the world, such as the Parisian flea markets, street vendors in Hong Kong, and the bead markets of Old Delhi.

She spends 3months of the year working closely with artists in Delhi, using traditional print methods and hand crafted techniques like embroidery. Block printing is used and the designs are carved out of wood. She explains "Block printing will never be perfectly aligned and this lends to it a certain beauty." Print is an important factor in Park's work and her prints are sourced through old textile design books or findings in flea markets or vintage stores.

She layers her patterns and this is something i admire about her work. She says " The layering of pattern is important to me; it is essential to the look. Print is the background, and from that i can take the design in new directions with beading and embroidery."