Escada Summer 2008 Collection Color Codes
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Pelle Pelle, The Urban & Hip Hop Clothing Boutique
Pelle Pelle clothing has been a staple in the urban community for more than a quarter century.
A hip hop brand before hip hop was there to inspire it, Pelle Pelle clothing has been providing customers with stylish sportswear since 1978. Brands come and go, but rarely does a designer have the staying power of [...]
Download PANTONE® the Color Swatch
If you are a designer, printer or photographer you might find this useful. Printers love to know what Pantone reference your designs are using so help yourself by helping them.
Use a Pantone reference guide. It may speed things up a bit.
From print and digital color reproduction to product development for fashion and interiors, Pantone continues [...]
> Tom Tom - Happy new technology?
I’ve got an XL Tom Tom, a five mega pixel camera and an Ipod; I put a sleek black Samsung next to them on the desk and engage Bluetooth – that should impress them. The door opens and three young men who I suspect live with their mothers, read horror novels and have a shampoo [...]
> king-apparel - streetwear
Pushing the boundaries of credibility and distinction, KING has the streets on smash and continues to set the standards by which others follow.
Founded in 2003, its creators were brought together through a shared goal. To create a new apparel brand, a reflection of the creative freedom of their own lifestyle and culture. From the [...]
>feebee - Japanese artist
Born in Japan and living by the ocean close to Tokyo. As a self studied artist Feebee produces some very striking and original graphics for advertising, product, interior and garments design. Combining a creative flair with very strong imagery. Influences are clearly Japanese with world wide appeal. Check out her website at www.feebee.jp
> BOYCOTT UZBEK COTTON
“Do you know where your cotton comes from?” If you knew what you are wearing, you might be ashamed.
What Continental® CAN do, is to guarantee that the cotton we use does not come from Uzbekistan. (Continental® uses Turkish & Egyptian cotton.)
To substantiate this, each of the factories Continental uses, in Turkey and India, have [...]
> UK Urban fashion awards 2007
“The 2007 UUFA awards ceremony is on the 9th November. It is to recognise the achievement of urban fashion designers in the UK………..”
Who is UUFA?UUFA aims to bring together UK urban fashion designers, recognising these designers in their own right and acknowledge that they represent an important facet of the fashion industry.
Where is it the [...]
www.bgdf.net
The British Garment Decorators Federation (BGDF) website has a new face. They have revamped the forum, made great improvements to the design and navigation. The refined topics and a better user experience should provide a greater level of social networking.
Its forum is a free internet networking resource portal for garment and promotional product decorators with [...]
Harajuku Fashion
What is it? Well if you don’t know, here is the Japanese Designer Keifla explaining it. Included in the video are some examples:
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Designer Forum
We would like to introduce the The Designer Forum which is a UK-wide support network for the fashion & textiles industry. Actively supporting many of Britain’s leading designer & brand labels, High Street retailers, manufacturers & academia across four key areas:
DESIGN - Including Trend Resource Centre, Trend Presentations, Freelance Directory, Specialist Designer / Manufacturer’s Directory plus [...]
Exhibit on our banner (free)
No, you are not mistaken, we mean it. We have started a graphic banner exhibition at the top of the www.october.biz homepage. This offer is to any garment/fashion designer or graphic artist who wish to showcase their design. View previous blog for more detail: “Showcase your design”.
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Tshirt graphics & Ink technqs.
There are a lot of great T-shirt graphics around at the moment but they may not be sufficient in an increasingly competetive market. Ink techniques can be used to pull a range of visuals together into a coherent family of ideas, but a subtext or theme behind the artwork is important. Identifyable message and direction in a [...]
Print or broke
Mind bending drugs, armed robberies gone wrong, sexual dysfunction – there are many reasons why people are drawn to the garment decoration industry, and surely one of the first decisions to make is ‘Do I print and embroider it myself, or do I get some other witless goon to get their hands dirty?’ I’m a [...]
Our print techniques
Plastisol – the most common plastisol based print used in garment decoration. Good colour opacity onto dark garments, clear graphic detail, with as the name suggests, a more plasticized texture. This print can be made softer with special additives or heavier by adding extra layers of ink.
Water Based inks – these penetrate the fabric more [...]
