See what Jennie will be wearing at The People’s Print Project 1 next week!
Slow Textiles Group joins Maison Martin Margiela dialogue!!
Cubo Futurist painting by Hatice to start her design process.
Initial interpretations of the brief by Hatice and Emma.
Maison Martin Margiela, in true conceptual fashion style, made an open source offering several years back, to take up an unfinished dress pattern and create a new vision with it.
Here was MMM’s challenge:
“Rather than merely allowing the downloading public a chance to recreate the garment, Margiela wished to offer an opportunity to engage them in a two-way exchange, a dialogue of mutation and innovation with the esteemed design house. The simple shift dress pattern, without sleeves and with no hemming, is the basis to make a design of your own conception – by augmentation and addition. As if joining the actual designers at the key stage in the making of a garment, this is your raw material to shape into the new.”
The Slow Textiles Group have entered the dialogue! Members have just started a project that brings the MMM garment together with a Cubo-Futurist aesthetic. Inspired by the work of Baranov-Rossine, Alexander Bogomazov, Aleksandra Ekster and Lyubov Popova, the December 2011 workshop aims to introduce the layers of innovation, mutation and augmentation that Margiela decribes!
“At the vanguard of avant-garde designers, Martin Margiela and his eponymous Maison are masters of reworking existing clothes, fabrics and objects to create new garments and accessories!”
How nice it is to share passions and concerns!
Samantha Warren for Martin Margiela at Slow Textiles Workshop!!
These gorgeous digital print designs are some from the first stage Cubo-Futurism digital designs that a group of designers produced at the Slow Textiles Group’s Introduction to Cubo-Futurism: Learn to Create Placement Prints for Dynamic, Timeless Fashion Textiles workshop this weekend!
These six are by talented British textile designer, Samantha Warren. They represent her initial experiments on a Martin Margiela dress pattern.
Experiments Begin with Co-Design Postmodernism Prints!!
Hot off the press!! Emma and Geraldine’s postmodernism prints converge in an intergallactic collision! Geraldine’s grass green and hot pink are softened for an older look…the red to catch the lips!!
Slow Textiles Group Members Pioneer New Design System!!
Innovate the system and you’ll innovate the product. That’s what the Slow Textiles Group specialises in!
Here’s a sneak preview of a new print identity methodology that some of our members are working on.
See the last page for a brief introduction to the methodology and further details:
http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf
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