Saturday 10 April 2010

Textile Tales



I was intrigued by an image in today's Guardian Guide of a new work by artist Naori Priestly. Currently on show at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth the show is called Under the Table, and this piece specifically is entitled Follow the Yellow Jacket. Its described as a 'sweetly subversive work' - If you look closely skulls and kitchen knives have been craftily worked into the design.
I like a garment that tells a tale or two don't you?!

Watch this space as a garment idea of my own is gently simmering away...

Thursday 1 April 2010

Old Friends Fresh Trends

When I was across in Glasgow I was thrilled to catch up with an old friend Marina Maclean. She's a fashion designer who runs her own couture wedding dress business but confesses she is 'coming out' as a menswear designer! And boy is she coming out in style! Marina just designed the suit Pete Doherty wore to perform in @ Paris Fashion Week - The Telegraph's Hilary Alexander christened him a 'style icon' in it!
Check out the article:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/7404513/Pete-Doherty-becomes-a-style-icon-at-Paris-Fashion-Week.html


And Marina's fashion blog:
http://stylescanner.blogspot.com/