LAURA LAiNE

Laura Laine is an amazing fashion illustrator. Her drawings are so inspiring...http://www.lauralaine.net/

People Should Smile More - Newton Faulkner

I love this song by Newton Faulkner at the moment. It has become the song I first listen to on the train on the way home from my stressful days. It has become my de-stress and relax song......People should smile more :-)

Print development

Experimenting with taking photos and scanning in pleats and shibori techniques to create repeat prints for all over and placement digital prints.

I am really starting to like the development of my textiles. I am not stuck in Sapa anymore (as Cecelia would say ;-) I am getting out of the village and interpreting it in a contemporary, funky and Rhiannon way.

I am actually starting to see my collection now :-)

Double pleated arashi

Bleached arashi denim

Accordian pleats

Evolution

So this is how my collection has evolved over the last 6 weeks or so.........

Summer evening wear TO ethnic sports wear TO funky day wear using pleats and shibori dyeing techniques TO a summer dressy daywear collection with lots of digital prints of pleats and shibori patterns and now FINALLY to a transeasonal collection using bleached and printed denim, prints of pleats and shibori patterns.