[article_content][author]Author. If delete this tag will be default author[/author][title]Title. If delete this tag will be default title[/title][content] We're launching the full Nautical Street campaign together with a spanking new website early next week! As most of you would have already know, it took awhile to finase the prints for this collection. Now that everything is ready, let's take a look at some sketches, prints that didn't make it and the final prints used for Nautical Street! The first 3 are prints that didn't make the cut. We thought a more softer blue could work. These 2 are the final prints used! Can't beat Navy Blue and Red for Nautical vibes. Red Navy Shawl Black Nautical Shawl We experimented with variations...
Before we even started on producing designs for nautical theme collection, we did some research and got even more inspired to work on this. So here's a little throwback on how nautical theme became popularised. Did you know.... 1) It was Queen Victoria who inspired the nautical trend in the 18th century. She had a child’s sailor uniform made on board the royal yacht for her son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. People were very influenced back then, so everyone at the countryside wanted their child to dress in a sailor uniform. 2) From childrens' wear, the trend got picked up by womens' fashion. Sailor-inspired swimwear was seen in the late 18th century. 3) In 1917, Coco Chanel...
For some of you who are fortunate enough to engage an interior designer, these issues may not be as alarming. My Husband and I lucky are to have a friend who's Father in law is a contractor and we got the design up on our own. We also hear that having an ID is really not neccassary, so we thought this could save us some money. We started planning since last year December and at this point we just started hacking the walls and floors. There are still a lot more planning, sourcing and decisions to be made but if I could turn back time, I wished someone told me these things; 1. Do not get all your inspiration from...
What makes a winning design for Lully Selb shawls? Some days the process of creating a new print is easy, some days are hard and it takes much longer. There are many articles on the process of creativity out there. The most simplified and relatable one is about 5 stages of Making Art. Stage 1- Inspiration Stage 2- Percolation (processing and refining one's idea-sketching, moodboards) Stage 3- Preparation (painting or drawing simple sketches on wacom tablet) Stage 4- Creation (fine-tuning colors and drawing intensively on Illustrator or Photoshop) Stage 5- Reflection I was at our printer's last week to check out the new prints. Here are some of them- Right after printing is usually one of the most important event...
