This was a project I worked on with a fantastic photographer I met last year… Teena Taylor. We got chatting about pattern making and image manipulation and I bleated on about a dress I made at uni which was a giant photograph that had been cleverly abstracted…(I say cleverly I mean it was an accident in the pub – vodka related shaky hand abstracted!) and printed onto georgette silk before draping it into a dress. I said I had always wanted to do it commercially so we set about on an experiment and these are some of the results. To look at you wouldn’t think they have much of a story behind them , however they are all photographs taken by Teena and then put in repeat and the scales changed around. For example the red one perhaps more obviously is a rose repeat. The monochrome is actually ceiling lights and the navy (my favourite) is an a cross section of an onion!
The ties are digitally printed onto tie-weight silk twill and then made by the lovely ladies in Kent. I deliberately made them a non-standard width blade, they are 7cm at their widest point. This is in my opinion a great shape… very skinny ties can look a bit straggly and are not to everyones taste and regular ties can sometimes be viewed as more traditional. I have made these ties the exact middle width between a traditional and skinny tie which I think gives the best of both worlds, they cover the placket of a shirt and are substantial enough to make an impact whilst still looking cool.
I have a very limited number of these, if you would like one they are completely unique and cost £40 – same as the all the other samples when they are gone they are gone.. I will happily ship to the States.
If you are interested in Teena’s work her website is here and if you need her for anything feel free to name drop me, she’s lovely!
