A new take on Animal Prints

Last season animal skin/fur prints were huge, especially leopard and tiger. With the likes of majoy fashion houses such as D&G and Cavlli.


However the new season is seeing another kind of animal print come to trend, ... actual images of the animals so famous for their prints such as Leopards, Pandas and Giraffes.

Louis Vuiton has been the main designer for this trend using many jungle animal as inspiration for his prints, my favourite is the Giraffe suit as the print being so tall gives the illusion of a longer leg.


This is a Marcus Lupfer jumper that I saw at my work, I love the colours and sequin embellishment BUT is £300 to much for a jumper ???

Twas the night before christmas ......... and I bought D&G

Very poor photograph of a gorgeous top I bought at work today !
Its a silk-chiffon babydoll, in cream/black bow print from D&G's s/s 2010 range.
My plan is to wear it for Christmas dinner with the family tomorrow, by pairing it with skinny jeans and my YSL trib too's that Santa's dropping off tonight ;)

Perfect Prints

Digital Technology is now also greatly used to create prints and patterns for garments.

For example this season animal prints have been huge !. These prints would be made by finding an initial image, say a photograph of leopard fur, and cleaned up in a programme such as Photo-shop and then tiled repeatedly to create a large piece of print, then using the manufacture techniques from before, added to garments and cut out into fabric.

The pro of using Computers for print design is that it saves time and also gives you alot more choice. You can use photography or a drawn image that is then edited or even make one from scratch. The example I found for this was Alexander Mcqueen's Atlantis collection Jellyfish dresses, which was photography of different areas of a jellyfish, zoomed in to create great detail.



I loved the collection that much I bought the dress ... THE PRINT IS GORGEOUS ! It's detailed and the colours are amazing.

The only downside to using computer for print design is that it is becoming harder to find beautifully hand drawn/painted designs such as those of William Morris, who's prints I thought were so delicate and beautiful.