DAYLIGHT

My snaps from a week of assisting on a shoot.

The beauty of a backlit draped plastic curtain in an empty studio, like a blank canvas.

Composition with green.

Color scales everywhere you turn. Washed yellow, bleached orange, faded green and  staring blue.

Instant inspiration. Enough ideas to create a capsule collection right there on the spot! Heavy top stitches, unexpected color combinations, brushed metal closures or worn versus shiny. Endless ideas.

Projecting narcissus against the various backgrounds. I love what the studio light does with your complexion. Erasing flaws from the dry winter air.

Capturing artful patterns from walls and cement floors in decay. Red, pink, aqua, grey and green. 

Countless green hues from stacks of husked back walls.
Green screen. Blue Screen.

FOR THE LOVE OF OLD

REFLECTIONS FROM PITTI FILATI

I was amazed when discovering these vintage fabric files from the Book Stand at Pitti Filati. They were to me the most inspiring at the entire fair. While the yarn manufacturers where mostly into fancy yarns, wax coating and shiny lurex blends, these books said a quiet hello with their dusty presence. Countless fabric swatches, neatly prepared from the teeth of zigzag scissors were telling stories of various collections.

The ancient art of book binding: distressed leather covers, featherlight separators and faded paper sheets.

Precise, classic graphics

The idea of reusing the files again and again..

Ceaseless choices

And the liberating variation of color and style! You can find inspiration in everything.