“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…)

OMG. Jumpsuits, knits, jewelry, cut-outs, prints and material-mixing that knows no barriers – Hui-Hui are true masters in the discipline of mixing and matching different styles and techniques to a wearable denominator, and give us great things to watch and wear. Their summer collection 2010 is called “Julian” and was photographed by Florian de Brün. (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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We need…We buy. We spend. We pick. We wear. Philip and Eri Chu state: It´s just because we need. In its fall/winter collection, the Ground-Zero duo regards fashion as an everyday necessity which is a natural impulse such as a spree in the supermarket. They invite us on a fashionable supermarket trip where everyday products meet fashion design with an ironic and funny twist. (more…)

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.