“Woman on Front Cover of Tate!”

Women always appear on the front cover of glossy magazines, right?  In the art world, not…

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Bode SS18

Today in the studio we’re loving Emily Bode’s new menswear…

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MCQUEEN FALL 2016 SHOW

Sarah Burton’s collection for Alexander McQueen (Fall16) is quintessentially British. In yesterday’s show, we were presented with a mix of evening party glamour, moonlit boudoir and punk constraint.

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What Is It About Textiles?

The textiles industry and its industrial legacy is central to the Industrial Revolution and capitalist dynamics expressed through cloth.  We invite textile researchers to write a history of the industrial legacy of the textiles industry from the eighteenth century to today.  Please contact us if this is something you’re interested in participating in. There is…

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Pattern, Textiles & Fashion on Film

Quentin Jones for Kenzo Pre-Fall 2012   You may have noticed that we embrace animation and film narratives as integral to contemporary textiles practice. This is because textiles manifest time and story-telling in their very DNA. Even digital code is textiles inasmuchas each pixel echoes the needlepoint stitch or punchcard hole in order to make the…

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