Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly highlight offers a quick look at the key print and pattern trends for Cruise/Resort 14, focusing on the overriding monochrome palette. Stark black and white makes a striking impression for the season.
Bold black and white patterns create optical illusions.
Daisy fever springs straight from the
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Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly highlight pays homage to William Morris, the single most influential designer of the 19th century. Birds and fruits intertwine with flora and fauna in his stunning, detailed repeats.
We also explore recent runway designers who have been inspired by his timeless,
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Stylesight's Graphics Team was in the Big Apple this week to see the stunning work from the 27th edition of Surtex.
Surtex is the international fair for original licensed designs and a B2B marketplace for purchasing artwork. Novelty prints, naïve character sketches, micro foulard prints and colorful paisley patterns were just some of the trends highlighted throughout the show.
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Famous for vintage-inspired prints and cutesy homewares, Cath Kidston unveiled a concept house and café as part of the brand's F/W 13 collection preview.
Moving-on from the more traditional floral prints associated with the brand, over 30 new designs were presented, comprising “more hints of prints” than “kitsch print overload”.
To best showcase this younger, fresher aesthetic, a concept house was installed
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Eye-catching prints and patterns from F/W 13 runways meet an obsession with nail art, resulting in the amazing manicure site, Miss Ladyfinger. Here one can learn how to recreate Rodarte’s colorful tie-dye, Jonathan Saunders’ metallic stripes or Dior’s graphic cable knits with easy step-by-step guides, allowing anyone to easily sport miniature versions of their favorite runway looks on their nails.
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Patternity (Stylesight's one-stop blog for inspirational prints) launches the Pattern Power - Superstripe exhibition this April, taking over the Londonewcastle Project Space on Redchurch Street.
Patternity discovers the powerful presence of prints, with a compilation of striking images, hands-on workshops, industry discussions and creative pop-up events. The exhibition brings together experts from the worlds of Fashion, Art, Design, Science and Technology to explore
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Presented in Details magazine, these eye-popping photoshoots by Sarah May showcase an eclectic clash of prints and patterns.
Zany, striped ties overlay painterly shirts, chevron socks peek beneath baroque pants, and palm tree tops pair with foulard trousers for a truly eccentric look. Outfits clash against backdrops as brash brights collide with neons. Who said you can't mix prints together?
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Following the collaboration between Rem Koolhaas’ architecture firm OMA and Prada for its F/W 13 menswear collection, Studio Job took its turn to partner with Viktor & Rolf for the womenswear show last week in Paris.
In the past few years, runway design has become more and more determined by the impact and visual memory of fashion shows, entailing the involvement
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Stylesight recently stumbled across an exciting collaboration with the Greek fashion designer Mary Katrantzou and s(edition) where she created her first digital artwork, titled Pound.
Best known for her signature digital prints, Katrantzou has gone one step further with this compelling and mesmerizing video, showcasing her S/S 13 currency prints. Pound is a collage of many fragments of English pound notes that are fused
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Stylesight’s Graphics team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of the pocket print trend recently seen on Mens' tees.
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Stylesight’s Graphics team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of prints, patterns, and graphics seen on cushions.
Cushions are a new addition to the Society6 collection and we absolutely love all the designs, but for today, we hand picked just a few of our
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Stylesight's Graphics Team explores the ever-popular camouflage print and how designers are continuously discovering new ways to reinvent the classic pattern.
Designers and retailers are experimenting with camo designs, incorporating unconventional shapes, color accents, and techniques into the mix. Pixelated versions look new while neon yellows add a zany freshness to sweaters and tops. Shapes and patterns are becoming ever-more abstract
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Designer Marta Lavinia Carboni and photographer Ambra Zeni teamed up to translate culinary ingredients from different ethnic groups into beautiful specific colors and patterns for dinnerware.
Today’s metropolises are constituted by endlessly growing melting pots of cultures, lifestyles, traditions, and customs. Food embodies the best and most authentic key to understanding this pluralism, and inspired artist and designer Marta Lavinia Carboni
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This pattern-tastic collaboration between Paper Mag and Emily Shur is the perfect print mood board for anyone in need of some inspiration. Color and ethnic prints collide to create this eclectic photoshoot showcasing labels such as Mark McNairy, Alexis Bittar, 3.1 Phillip Lim, M.C.L. by Matthew Campbell Laurenza, and Carven. We love a print mash-up!
Images from Paper Mag.
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In true Piccadilly Circus style, The Performers, the latest collection from Famille Summerbelle, conjures the whimsy and free spirit of the circus coming to town with a colorful collection of home decor for kids and parents to enjoy. Founded by Simon Summerscales and Julie Marabelle, the design company unveils pillows, trays, mugs, screen-printed posters and more with magicians, rabbits and
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