Philip Meech @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Published December 13, 2011 |
I’ve had the privilege of working with Fashion photographer Philip Meech for the past three seasons. For a reminder of the incredible lookbooks he’s shot for me click here. I attended the opening night of his brilliant exhibition, currently at The Fashion and Textile Museum, and touring the country throughout 2012. It captures the spirit of backstage photography before the Prada runway shows. Every season, Phil spends the three days before the Prada show capturing the build up, the fittings, the run-throughs and the sets before they culminate in the brilliance that is a Prada runway show. Catch the Catwalk to Cover exhibition before it moves on in February! See more of Phil’s glorious work here
NY mash-up
Published December 13, 2011 |
A recent business trip to NY combined meetings with retailers, space combat zumba on the high line, Ratti at the Met, rage at occupy wall street and glittering lights from the Rockafella rooftop. Mega!
Tanti Baci
Science Inspired Design features on WGSN!
Published September 5, 2011 | Hi all,
Here is a press shot from my recent interview with the leading online trend analysis and research service WGSN:
Sadly you have to be a paying subscriber to view the real deal, but nonetheless I am thrilled to be featured in what has recently been described as ‘the online fashion bible of the 21st century’!
x
Science fiction, but not as you know it
Published June 15, 2011 | 
I recently visited the British Library’s Out of this World exhibition. I was researching Science Fiction novels, films and objects for my SS12 collection. More about that later..
The exhibition is a wonderful reminder of the creativity and imagination borne from science. It covered all kinds of treasures from Issac Asimov’s I, Robot to Edgar Allen Poe’s frightful gothic works.
See a video about the exhibition here
… Science-Fiction, but not as you know it.
Tanti Baci
Dissection of a look
Published March 7, 2011 | 
This is Phil Meech’s brilliant dissection of my science-inspired knits. Always picking up on the stitch detail, graphic lines and texture; his style of shooting is exacting yet spontaneous and honest. The series of shots for AW11 create a wonderful narrative throughout the lookbook, which will be on the website this week. In the meantime, his brilliance is on show in the SS11 Lookbook: www.brookeroberts.net
This season’s knitwear programmes were inspired by an x-ray calibration film – assessing grey scales according to exposure (a product of kVp and mAs – for those of you into radiation physics). I programmed the knitted jacquards from the x-ray film, mixing yarns in multi-tones of grey, camel and natural cashwool.
The garment construction incorporates tailoring techniques, and focuses heavily on silhouette and style-lines. The yarns used include 3M retro-reflective, cashmere, silk, extra-fine merino wool, wool mousse boucle’ and camel hair. The accessories are Eye of The World Designs for Brooke Roberts: hand-crafted wood, perspex and PVC belts and hats.
Techno-luxe. Trad-future.
Tanti Baci
CiR
Published March 6, 2011 | As mentioned in my previous blog post, I’ve been shortlisted for The Hospital Club’s Creatives in Residence Award. The Award is unique in that it fosters cross-arts projects and relationships, with Awards being given in the fields of Theatre, Film & TV, Visual Arts, Design, Fashion, Music and Dance. I’m hoping to add science-inspired design to the mix.
Previous winners include Destiny Ekaragha, who wrote and directed the short film Tight Jeans (watch it, it’s great!) and Dean Quinn.
The Hospital Club has the first HD film studio, and other incredible facilities for creative people to work and play.
Here’s the shortlist (click to make it fullsize):
The winner of each category is announced on March 17th. Stay tuned!
Tanti Baci
(capsule) – Paris Fashion Week
Published March 5, 2011 | And so fashion month storms on; current location: Paris. I’m at (capsule) showroom in Garage Turenne. It’s a light, bright, industrial space – the perfect backdrop for my AW11 CALIBRATION collection.
I’m still on a huge high from being shortlisted for CiR at The Hospital Club. The Awards Presentation is on March 17th, so more on that soon!
Tanti Baci
Knitalia AW11
Published January 30, 2011 | I’m back at the knitwear factory in Italy, programming and designing with just knitting machines for company. They don’t argue. They don’t answer back. They don’t swear at me in Italian. It’s all good.
So to AW11. The 3M developments are looking great. And while I’m looking forward in terms of yarn and knitting techniques, the mood for AW11 is from the past – albeit a Science-inspired past. Space travel, new-age synthetic fabrics, industrial precision – it must be Pierre Cardin.
Enjoy:
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Of the 45,000-odd views, quite a few are mine. It’s my ultimate fashion show film.
Tanti Baci
BCF rules!
Published January 26, 2011 | In my previous post I neglected to mention the little matter of my four weeks’ holiday in Southern Queensland. Family time! I relaxed a bit, worked a bit, and met my new nephew Alexander. Fun times.
I got completely sucked in to the beauty of my bro’-in-law’s fish tank, and spent hours in BCF (that’s the Boating, Camping, Fishing superstore, peeps) exploring silicone fishing skirts (not at all what they sound), cast and hand-painted fishing lures and all manner of glittery, squidgy, rattling fishing kit. It was ace – stay tuned for SS12.
For now, here’s where the inspiration started:
And finally, Brisbane city pre-flood:
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Happy Australia Day.
3M …continued
Published January 26, 2011 | Happy 2011, Lovelies.
2011 is already flying. It’s been a busy period of x-raying, knitwear programming, knitwear consultancy and designing my AW11 collection. I received an email from wordpress with my 2010 Blog-Health-o-Meter™ saying ‘Wow, you’ve done well’. You ain’t seen nothing yet, WordPress!
3M is still blowing my mind, and my camera flash. Check these:
It’s incredibly difficult to work these yarns, but who cares when they look so beautifully alive? More updates to come from Knitaly.
Tanti Baci
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