BBC - Hidden Treasure of Indian Textile Art

An origin and history of textiles always fascinates me. I found 

this documentary from my favourite canal on youtube. On this 

documentary Griff Rhys Jones (a Welsh comedian, actor and

writer) in his quest to find out if traditional art still thrives

among the indigenous people of the world and he goes to 

India in search of exquisite textiles. It was worth watching and 

gave me an interesting grasp of traditional Indian textile art.

Hope you enjoy it too!!!

Strip & Spot - Tessuti Award

I made this dress to my second entry for Tessuti Award. 

I was inspired by Marc Jacobs RTW 2012 collection,

which simple structural lines manipulated with parallel lines.

If you like my dress please vote on following link.

http://www.tessutiawards.com.au/entry/459

Many many thanks!!!!

Del Kathryn Barton - The Nightingale and the Rose

I heard a lot about Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton who won 

Archibald prize 2009 (Australian most prestigious art award). 

  I really adore her art work and recentlyI saw her new book inspired

 by Oscar Wild classic story The Nightingale and the Rose. Her 

exaggerated aesthetic and exceptional detailed work has given a 

contemporary feel to a classic fairytale. Del Kathryn Barton was 

teamed up with Romance was Born designers Garden of Eden 

collection in 2008. Definitely I'm going to have this book and 

also find out she is going to have an exhibition in Heide 

Museum of Modern Art on November. Can't wait to see

her original works.

Polka Dot - Lime Green to Tessuti Award

She is my lovely daughter Anushka modelling for the 

dress I made her and for the Tessuti Award. This summer's 

trend of fluro inspired me to use lime green contrasting 

with polka dot. She loves French style and chic look, so

I created this design for her taste. Anushka loves the dress

and I am so happy. If you like the dress please follow the 

 link to vote for my design. 

http://www.tessutiawards.com.au/entry/403

Thanks!

Cherry blossom - Pink Dress - Spring

 Finally, Spring has come to Melbourne.

I really liked this pink colour as it reminds me of cherry blossoms. I found this cherry blossom fabric for almost nothing whilst actually looking for calico.
After having this fabric for quite some time, I saw Caroline Sieber's below outfit in last month's Vogue and I loved it. At that time I was making a dress pattern for The Tessuti Award 

and so I thought I could use the pink fabric as calico for the pattern. If it came out good I'd 

finish as dress. Fortunately, it came out not bad. 

So I copied the outfit! Remember Picasso's quote 

"Good artists copy, great artists steal".