“The Cactus, The Bear, and The Mountain” is not a children book, it`s an ecological knitwear collection inspired by limit challenging youthful curiosity, taking visual cues from Indian culture. Created within 11 weeks by The Danish Design Scholl students Tine Winther Rysgaard and Trine Kristoffersen for the for Innovating Sustainable Fashion Competition 2009. My most favorite fashion Blog Spot on: Textiles got the two hopefully knitters in an interview which can be read here. (more…)

If we do the Craig Lawrenceish way, in 2010, we will meet up in ruffled pop-pom catsuits, silver dominatrix see through costumes and over-yarned fairy dresses to celebrate the fantastic handmade knitted and crafted fashion universe of the young London-based designer. In his third collection, Craig Lawrence, a Central Saint Martin`s graduate, explores volumes and knits in a silver-red mix. Great match and obviously, fun to wear. (more…)

Knit, design, art and now even unconventional jewelry – Marie-Louise Vogt is a pre-thinker when it comes to knits and crafts. In the context of Berlin Fashion Week, the Hamburg-based designer presented a pre-selection of her SS10 collection “Hey Gorgeous” and now, here is the brandnew lookbook photographed by Martin Thaker. It makes me want to have it all.

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If on the streets, in studios or on runways – If it´s fashion, sooner or later, media is on the track.
Fashion magazines and fashion blogs, TV and online networks massively inspire and affect our common sense of style, decipher fashion codes of different subcultures and influence our collective taste.

No matter if we like or not, the brotherhood of fashion and media is a strong one, vivid because of continuous cross-fertilizing and growing since online users actively contribute.

Movana Chen, a Hong Kong-based artist and curator, calls this strong relationship into question. Is fashion making media? Is media making fashion? Where are the borders of observation and interaction?
What is the system of communication between individuals, fashion and media?
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Never expected to call the Skolpen a sleeping beauty, but when BLESS kissed the dull Oxbow knit sweater alive, it evoke like a prince. No more thoughts about the ugly SKOLPEN frog, quaking the 90s aesthetics melody. What we see here, is the new born, famous again Oxbow knit sweater king, known for its great function and now – for fantastic design.

Thanks to BLESS who proved again that creativity and daringness lead to great things.
Hopefully the Oxbow design team has learned a great lesson about how to excite and refresh. It´s definitely not the stripes, checks and fancy prints that could create such a buzz. (more…)

The great thing about upcoming designers is that the good ones quite stir the fashion-web even without having a website or public portfolio. When KB posted a magazine scan from Russian Vogue, Jen from knit kicks did some research and BANG – Russian knit-designer Irina Shaposhnikova who studied at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts – stood in the online-limelight.

Several Blogs and Fashion sites featured her work as a student and continued when Irina Shaposhnikova surprised again with her outstanding graduate collection “Crystallographica”. No matter if she knits or does other handicrafts, her fashion is art and her art is wearable. Don´t miss to glance at the “Crystallographica” Collection here.

Photos via Knit Kicks. Others about Irina Shaposhnikova: le-be, today and tomorrow, Fashion Copious.

Aloof from the Berlin Mitte fashion mass, Hamburg-based designer Marie-Louise Vogt presented a preview of her upcoming SS10 collection at Store Nr. 4 in the context of Berlin Fashion Week. Besides some intricate, handmade dresses, the young knit designer showed her new jewelry collection composed of single handmade and found pieces.

For the first time, Marie-Louise Vogt did not only mix & match single handmade components into wearable pieces but also added bought and found components such as trivets. (more…)

If you love knit, you should become a follower of knit kicks. While on research for the Zoo, i accidentially ended up on Jennifer Jarvis´ blog and immediately stayed.

I was pretty amazed, that I finally, Finally, FINALLY founded a knit blog which features not every knit-gossip flowing around in the virtual world but only great designers. If it´s the bigger names or upcoming youngsters, on knit kicks there´s a great selection of the knit talents of the now, interviews, short portraits and collection photos. While being a very talented knit designer herself, Jennifer Jarvis offers a great platform for the mentionable ones in her business segment. (more…)