The Mercedes-Benz Miami swim fashion week 2014, have come and gone for this year. Be inspired by our favourite printed swimsuits for summer 2014.
Mara Hoffman
Mara Hoffman
Mara Hoffman
Suboo
Nanette Lepore swimwear
CM Cia Maritima Swim
CM Cia Maritima Swim
Doloros Co
Launching your own Swimwear label? or do you simply want to make your own swimmers with your own unique print? Contact us and we can discuss prints and printing to help you stand out of the crowd next summer.
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Flipping through pages of the internet and exploring current fashion supplies we came across many beautiful fashion prints in forms of dresses, tops, swimwear etc, that’s on the market right now. Printed digitally or not, they are simply beautiful and striking, have a look at some of the fashion prints that we think deserved an extra attention.
Cameo – Warpaint Dress
Wish – Ophelia Dress
Talulah – Isla Mist Magic Dress
Nicholas – Sleeveless Dress
1&20 Blackbirds – Claude Monet Peplum Top
Staple the Label – Molten Lava Sleeveless Shirt
Stylestalker – Fractal Tank
Tallow – Voodoo Swim Suit
Soboo – Armando’s Beach Club One Piece
Seventh Wonderland – Deja Vu Strapless One Piece
There is a defined thought of summer in our minds, as we get shivering all day long in our studio. But in dreams of heat, before it gets too hot and sticky, we want to give an admiration to this season with these cool tones.
Who knows we might be back to these colours in coming summer, to cool ourselves down.
Full Piece, Full Print
(L-R) Erdem – Pistol Panties – Seafolly – We Are Handsome
Did you know that this July marks the 67th birthday of the modern bikini?? So to mark this occasion let’s have a look at some cool print trends making a splash and having a frolic in the swimwear world.
From vibrant florals and crisp clean tribal designs to 1950’s inspired prints and styles, even the one piece suits get in on the action with some great examples of the scope of digital printing onto lycra. There’s plenty of animal action as well, We Are Handsome perhaps being a little too obvious for some? And who thought food was where it’s at, Top Shop sure thought so!
Start working on that beach bod and look forward to the array of exciting colours and prints that will be on offer in the not too far off future. Here’s to sunshine that will hopefully show her rays this weekend!
1950’s Glamour
(L-R) Wild Fox – Top Shop – Orla Kelly
Happy Birthday Bikini
(L-R) Miss Selfridge – Roxy – Top Shop – Miss Selfridge
To see more great options, take a look at Vogue’s Top 100 here.
We have found a few great websites that assist fashion designers with starting up their own business. The websites we found assist designers with inspiration, keeping up to date with the latest trends, and websites that help with making, grading, pattern making, marketing and much more. We thought we would share with you our favourite and most helpful websites. If you have a favourite website for emerging designers, share it with us!
Start up fashion
Information on how to start up a fashion label, supplying articles on where to find makers for our American based followers, articles on how to market your product and articles on how to sell. This website has a lot of resources for emerging designers.
startupfashion.com
Business of Fashion
BOF featured an array of fashion articles, keep up to date with what’s happening fashion wise around the world and step by step points on how to start a fashion label and how to market.
www.businessoffashion.com
Business of fashion, 8 steps to start your own fashion business
We came across this great article on the BOF website, 8 steps to start your own fashion business.
www.businessoffashion.com/2007/02/the-business-of-fashion-basics-1-setting-up-your-own-fashion-business-what-do-i-need-to-know-first.html
Ragtrader
Rag trader is a premium Australia directory for everyone in the creative industry. You’ll have to sign up to this website and pay a subscription fee, but it is well worth the money to access fashion agents, textile agents, suppliers, labels and so much more contacts.
www.ragtrader.com.au/index.cfm
AusIndustry
This Australian government website is aimed at helping small textile business in Australia. The Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Small Business Program provides grants of up to $50,000 for projects to improve the business enterprise culture of established TCF small businesses that have not received grants or qualify for assistance from other TCF programs. Worth a look for all small fashion business’.
www.ausindustry.gov.au/programs/small-business/tcf-sbp/Pages/default.aspx
Fashion shop till u drop
Olena Lugassi runs one on one private design tuition and fashion online courses for designers who want to start their own business.
www.fashionshoptilludrop.com/index.html
Launch Initiative
Assisting designers from the start providing pattern making, grading, digitizing, sample machining, fabric advice and production services.
www.launchindesignstudio.com/index.html
Elizabeth Sonter
Elizabeth Sonter provides a pattern making and grading service.
elizabethsonter.webs.com
This week we bring you a list of blogs that we at Digital Fabrics like to look at for inspiration. Be it to kick start our creativity, be transported to another part of the world or to just read what other creative designers and artist are doing around the world.
1.Quirky Style Bubble by Susie Bubble
Invited to an array of showings, fashion shows and always wearing some crazy outfit, Susie Bubble is one to follow for all the latest on fashion and labels.
www.stylebubble.co.uk
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www.stylebubble.co.uk/
2. New York City inhabitants on Humans of New York curated by Brandon
Love people watching? Now you can people watch in New York without leaving your computer; Get some inspiration from the streets of New York
www.humansofnewyork.com
www.humansofnewyork.com/
www.humansofnewyork.com
3. Amazing dairy of creativity by Kelly Wearstler My Life My Vibe
Be inspired by art, interiors, fashion, museums and so much more on this Blog.
www.myvibemylife.com
www.myvibemylife.com
www.myvibemylife.com
4. Leandra’s blog The Man Repeller –
A humorous outlook on “men hate” fashion with a killer wardrobe.
www.manrepeller.com
www.manrepeller.com
www.manrepeller.com
5. The Gary Pepper Girl on FELLT
Blogger/Globetrotter, be inspired by Nicole Warne’s images of beautiful places around the world and her ever changing wardrobe.
fellt.com/garypepper
fellt.com/garypepper
Keeping up to date with the fashion world has gotten a whole lot easier now with the internet. We now have instant updates on what’s happening around the world not only in the fashion world, but also in the every aspect of life.
There are various websites we continuously check to see the latest news or trends in the fashion world; I particularly enjoy viewing live feeds of the latest fashion shows, the most recent being updates are the Fall 2013 Couture shows.
Here are the top 5 fashion websites we keep an eye on here at Digital Fabrics.
1. Style.com
Latest shows updated as they happen, fashion news, parties, trends, street style photos, behind the scene shots, beauty and much more.
style.com
2. Who What Wear
Fashion trends, celebrities, where to buy, shopping and beauty.
www.whowhatwear.com
3. The Satorialist
Fashion Blog at it’s finest.
www.thesartorialist.com
4. Stylesight
Inspiration for any creative person looking for fresh ideas, trend forecast, inovations, news on fashion, art and culture.
www.stylesight.com
5. Vogue UK
Up to date fashion shows, beauty, fashion news, street style photos, parties and much more.
www.vogue.co.uk
Fausto Puglisi : Clover Canyon : Monique Lhuillier : Tory Burch
As the temp around Oz drops this weekend and the snow bunnies rejoice, if you need a little warming look forward to sunnier days by perusing the Pre Spring/Summer ’14 shows coming out of Europe.
These in-between season showings have an over relaxed and mellow vibe with the exception of the exciting prints and splash of colours pre-empting the full blown summer buzz. There seems to be a real movement around the digital fabric printing in many of the new collections, which is so nice to see being that Digital Fabrics is in the business of digital printing…
There are the pretty florals and the tropical imaginings but there are also so really intriguing combinations out as well. Bold graphic motifs paired with photographic images and ditsy florals. Scale is on the large side with many panel pieces on show making for great statement pieces which are likely to carry through to the summer ranges. Even the boys get a look in with some funky mix up prints stealing the show!
In any case, the parades might just warm you from the mere idea of warmer days. Rug up and enjoy here.
James Long
Status – As an indication of wealth or opulence, uses the motifs (but not limited to) of gold chains, jewels, animal skins and ornate scroll work often all in combination and in rich vibrant colours.
Checks/Spots/Stripes – patterns of squares, circles and rectangles of varying size, colour and orientation i.e. horizontal/vertical as well as edge definition. A broken or ‘non symmetrical’ circle is still considered a spot.
Scenic/Pictorial – Traditionally called a Toile de Jouy, uses figurative scenes of an illustrative quality (now more photographic) and often with a narrative and generally in a horizontal orientation. Traditionally printed in monochromatic colour on a plain white or ivory ground.
Paisley – Stylised tear drop motif often with abstracted floral elements in accompaniment, now seen with various combinations of many types of fashion prints. Paisley takes its modern name from the Scottish town which saw a great deal of production of these patterns in the 1800’s. These motifs are now most recognisable as Indian or Middle Eastern from where its tradition is embedded.
Tribal/Ethnic – Perhaps more appropriately termed World Cultures, using motifs and elements specific to a nationality or culture with a western interpretation. Popular areas of inspiration are Africa, India and Arabia but also include the folk arts of Eastern Europe and South America. Care must be taken not to use motifs or symbols of a spiritual or special meaning to the culture being used as inspiration.
I’ve noticed a certain trend popping up of late and its little Cactus gardens. Wherever I look I seem to see these colourful cacti, which is making me want to have my own. It really adds colour to a space and the low maintenance of the cactus is a big factor to want to recreate a garden of my own. Just like in print I think the best gardens are the one with a lot of variety and texture and lots of colour.
I hope these inspire you as much as they inspire me.
cactus garden
cactus garden
cactus garden
cactus garden
cactus garden
cactus garden
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