Clover Canyon A/W 2014-15

Clover Canyon are one of my favourite designers and always feature in each project of mine as I feel my work relates to them. I always revert back to Clover Canyon when I'm deciding on how to place my prints on garments. Canyon's collection heavily feature placement prints which are cleverly placed on garments. This collection featured faces and so it was good to see how they had included this feature into their own work.  The position of the figure and what it was put with really fed into my own work. This collection was based on their Irish heritage using icons such as Oscar wild and features such as tartan and stained glass windows, because the prints were so dizzying the styling needed to be simplistic. It is good to balance this, I feel styling is a big part of my work and helps the final collection work together if I think about this aspect greatly.

Metallic Trend. A/W 2013/14

Marc Jacobs

Milly

Paco Rabanne

Few designers that used metallics as a key feature in their A/W 2013/14 collection.

Wet look leather Autumn/Winter 2014.

Burberry Prorsum

Jonathan Saunders 

Topshop Unique

Here are a few designers who used wet look material as a key feature in their A/W 2013/14 collection.

LDN Fashion Week Favourites.

Tom Ford A/W '13/'14

So this week amongst working on my project I have been following London Fashion Week. I have been looking at collections that I like but also collections I feel that relate to my work in some way. As ever designers that usually stick out the most to me are ones that heavily include print and most of all digital print. I watched Tom Ford's show and was really impressed by his collection, I wasn't expecting big things due to his recent absence from the industry, but I was genuinely surprised. His collection involved a lot of digital prints which isn't unusual of Tom as his collections are usually 'out there' and unique and don't always appeal to everyone, something that actually draws me into his brand. This collection has an Art Deco mixed with Native American vibe. His graphic, bold monochrome prints are similar to mine and give the same effect as what I hope my motifs aim to bring. His prints are like Pop Art and a bit comic book too, this illustrative structure is also key to my work. Ford combines illustrative drawing based prints with bold bright colour.

Peter Pilotto is one of my favourite designers, he is most known for his prints and this is because of his strong textile background which he has been enabled to enhance and bring to the fashion world. His last few collections have been very strong and this one was no let down. His ideas were based on Spanish Renaissance artists and he has tried to recreate the culture using similar colours and abstract marks in his prints. His prints are a great example of digital printing where he has used an original image then played around mirroring and repeating them to create something unique. I have tried to recreate this in my own digital prints to make sure I am creating something new and fresh each time.

Peter Pilotto A/W '13/14