Zak + Fox / Apparatus

A check in with Zak + Fox. Including their recent collaboration with Apparatus Studio: Strata Study, a series based on a hand painted image by Gabriel Hendifar. Seen above in their always-beautiful Fox shoots. And recent textile designs, from top: Kaze, Pazuru, Hanami, Basilica. HF.

MYR Studio / ink & leather

Swedish Architect/designer Johanna Landin, of MYR Studio (not to be confused with Dutch Studio MYR) ‘s hand painted, eco-certified raw leather accessories. Found on Need Supply Co. HF.

Dries Van Noten Spring 2015

Ophelia and A Midsummer Night’s Dream were cited influences, but I also spied the spices of the Grand Bazaar, the threads of Indonesian tapis cloth and Thai silks & gold cloth. Thanks once again, Mr Van Noten. Images from style.com. HF.

Marni Spring 2015

 

It will come as a surprise to exactly no one that I loved this show. These aren’t flowers; they’re triffids. Images from style.com. HF.

Spring with Rosie Assouline (NYFW 2015)

Raffia skirts and ruffled sleeves at the beautiful Rose Assouline Spring show. The only thing that stood out for me from NYFW. HF.

Keiko Nishiyama

 

Kaleidoscopic lushness and great shapes from the uber talented Keiko Nishiyama. Images from her website. HF.

Vartan

The beautiful textile designs of decorative arts extraordinaire Tania Vartan. Peruse her fabrics, murals and hand painted silks here. HF.

 

SuTurno

I don’t get much/any time anymore to peruse my old faves like sfgirlbybay, but am thrilled when I do, especially when it leads to posts like this one, Madrileño textiles SuTurno (Julia Vergara and Javier Gutierrez Bayo). My kind of palette, and all handcrafted by local artisans. When they’re not doing their own work, they provide designs to the likes of Marc Jacobs and Hoss Intropia. Ah, Madrid – it’s been too long. HF.

Missoni, Sassen & Stone

 

Missoni’s Winter 2014 campaign, directed and photographed by Viviane Sassen, starring Joan Smalls, an amphitheatre and some seriously awesome sculpture & set design (by Sassen and Studio M/M Paris). That coat and those boots, above. HF.

warp & weft

Did you know that there is a Japanese tartan? Designed by David McGill in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first treaty between Japan and the UK (1858) and the arrival of the ‘Scottish Samurai’ Thomas Blake Glover in Nagasaki (1859) and based on the sakura (cherry blossom) in Spring (second from top). I am wholly committed to a check or plaid – particularly those by Begg & Co. (scarf and loom, above) and their recent boom on the runways – Delphine Manivet at top, Thom Browne and Derek Lam above. HF.