Orla Savage for Hermione de Paula

I spotted these leggings whilst browsing through the Soiree issue at Fashion156. I was showing them to everyone at work and discovered that Orla Savage made them! To see her graduate collection go here: http://www.catwalking.com/GRADUATES/GRAD_08/BA_shows/shows/CSM/shows/38-Orla-Savage/index.html

I know the past couple of posts have been about people I work with..but what can I say, they’re a talented bunch! Orla has just come from working at Diane Von Furstenberg and has now joined the Mark Fast family.

Matalafria

This knitwear label sent me over images of their work a little while ago. The label is a Barcelona based knitwear brand called Matalafria. Each piece is made from programmed knitting machines to achieve new modern and innovative dimension to their designs. The collection is an experiment of volumetric structures in Merino wools that sculpt around the female form. Garments are simply in red or black. It reminds me of the new concepts that Sandra Backlund is experimenting with at the moment…Except these pieces can actually be purchased on the Matalafria website: www.matalafria.com

This is very much a  new label, as it was only launched a few months ago for this Autumn/Winter. It will be interesting to see what else we’ll see from them in the future.

 

Sandra Backlund

Sandra Backlund Spring Summer 2010. Found Via www.dianepernet.com.
Photography by Peter Gehrke

Andrew Yates

As I’m ill off work today I thought I’d take the time to update this place. So..the following work is by another one of my work mates, this time it’s Andrew Yates. He graduated from Central Saint Martins back in 2008 and went on to work in Australia up until about June this year.

 

He worked for Purl Harbour ( http://www.purlharbour.com.au/) famous for its ready made/custom made knitted garments and also Adettes. The work on this page are his designs for Adettes (http://adettes.com) which are basically conceptual hand knits that you can knit yourself. The website is work in progress at the moment but I think the idea is that these designs come in packs with the pattern and wool ready to go.

Andrew is now back  in London working for Mark Fast. To see his graduate collection go here: http://www.catwalking.com/GRADUATES/GRAD_08/BA_shows/shows/CSM/shows/14-Andrew-Yates/index.html

 

Problems/ Amazing Waistcoat

Yeah I know, I haven’t updated this for aaages. I’m trying to sort out and update the whole blog but keep running into problems….but hopefully I’ll have it sorted before new year.

This is going to be a short post, I just had to share this waistcoat with you all. It was made by one of my friends at work, Emilia Pancheri for her aunts birthday. She was all embarrassed about showing us it but I totally love it.