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Graduate Profile, Textile Design – Kate Lynch

28 Jun

New digital technologies have transformed the landscape of fashion design, particularly when it comes to printed textile design. Recently, fashion has seen designers such as Mary Katrantzou making colourful and eclectic prints their signature style. Printed textiles are flavour of the year in the fashion world – to the extent that at the recent Graduate Fashion Week, Julien Macdonald voiced his opinion that the print market is currently ‘saturated’. But many young designers are experimenting with digital, trying out new software and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved when you move away from traditional methods. Kate Lynch has just graduated with a wholly digital collection. Kate will be selling her work at New Designers and Indigo.

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AVA ADVENT GIVEAWAY – 20 DECEMBER

20 Dec

The Fundamentals of Printed Textile Design provides an introduction to the creative skills, techniques and processes required by designers in order to produce a professional, creative and commercially aware portfolio. This book is up for grabs in today’s advent giveaway so if you would like to be in with a chance of winning a copy simply comment on this blog post by 4pm tomorrow! [...]

AVA talks to…designer Alex Russell

2 Aug

A chat with the designer and lecturer – along with many examples of his textile designs. [...]

Graduate Fashion Week 2011

16 Jun

Northumbria Fashion show GFW 2011

Photos and news from GFW in Earl’s Court, London… [...]