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REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion
Archway Lampshade skirt and Picket Parade jacket, Spring/Summer 2011
"Digital was taboo at college. I taught myself Photoshop. I use my mouse as my paint brush!" - Mary Katrantzou
With her delightfully fresh digital collaging, Mary Katrantzou made lampshades walk, and ballrooms, balconies and curtains breeze along the runway in her spring show of 2011. By Photoshopping interiors, she conjured a multicoloured word in her computer. Her method was an act of self-taught rebellion against the limitations of traditional screen-printing, the only technique approved at Central Saint Martins when she was studying for her masters in 2008. She discovered the Silk Bureau, a small British company that had invested in a digital printing machine, and sales of her first NEWGEN collection in autumn 2009 took off internationally.
Polyester, silk, crystals
Digital print backdrop
Polyester
Courtesy Marv Katrantzou
All text Copyright The Design Museum © 2023
P-00679-No-015_rt
REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion
Archway Lampshade skirt and Picket Parade jacket, Spring/Summer 2011
"Digital was taboo at college. I taught myself Photoshop. I use my mouse as my paint brush!" - Mary Katrantzou
With her delightfully fresh digital collaging, Mary Katrantzou made lampshades walk, and ballrooms, balconies and curtains breeze along the runway in her spring show of 2011. By Photoshopping interiors, she conjured a multicoloured word in her computer. Her method was an act of self-taught rebellion against the limitations of traditional screen-printing, the only technique approved at Central Saint Martins when she was studying for her masters in 2008. She discovered the Silk Bureau, a small British company that had invested in a digital printing machine, and sales of her first NEWGEN collection in autumn 2009 took off internationally.
Polyester, silk, crystals
Digital print backdrop
Polyester
Courtesy Marv Katrantzou
All text Copyright The Design Museum © 2023