Lisa Stannard. Print Designer.

Lisa Stannard is a textile designer , fashion designer and fashion illustrator. She worked for whitney Eve for 4 years, as eel as interning for Mathew Williamson and showing at trend fairs such as Indigo and Premier Vision. I liked her prints as they were very graphic and busy , she also showed us a cookbook she put together for Whitney Eve. It was good to see how she'd laid it out and how she'd put her own stamp on it.

She made some interesting points about trend forecasting. She said she usually responds to what she sees in everyday life. She also said to follow your intuition and to absorb everything around you.  Look at what other creatives are looking at. But also key things to look at were :

• Fashion
• Street style
• Food
• Music
• Film
• Photography
• Literature

Brian Barrat and Maija Louekari

I found these two textile designers when looking at artist research for my final prints. Brian Barrat has digitally designed these prints starting from his own detailed drawings. He has drawn and gathered images and layered and compiled them using digital and hand techniques to create something beautiful. He has a simple colour palette that works extremely well. His inspiration was British wildlife and taxidermy so his work is very similar to mine but on a more minimalistic level.

The second designer I looked at was Maija Louekari. Maija is a finnish designer who became successful very early on. She uses a lot of drawing and colour in her work. She also combines this with linear lines and geometric shapes. She uses a vibrant colour combination and expressive motifs. Maija also draws from natural and organic form using observational drawing as a basis to all of her work.

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