Friday 15 February 2013

In the making....


Southward to Como in Italy, home of the beautiful lake, George Clooney and some of the finest silk mills in the world. It was for the latter than our 'reclusive creative' spent an extremely busy week developing new ideas for our Spring Summer 14 Collection which we shall be selling to the stores this July and available in the shops early next year. Yes- we work that far ahead! 'Creatives' first port of call was to his favourite place in the world - a vast archive of literally thousands of books devoted exclusively to textiles, some dating back to the 18th century. 

Flying over the Alps

Archive Paradise

Archives


Having spent a long day in this visual paradise saturated with inspiration, these ideas are added to to a pool of other design possibilities which have been developed over the past few months. The rest if the week was spent working with fine high quality specialist silk weavers developing patterns, motives, textures and, most importantly of all, colourisation. Thus begins a three month process in which a collection is developed. We shall keep you posted as progress is made. See you again soon .........

Ideas on the drawing board

Our Illusive designer and ingenious colleague