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Florence Knoll Bassett was a US diplomat... through her revolutionary office designs

The Independent 17 Feb 2019

Knoll’s unobtrusive textile designs – which tended to feature subtle colors – often included geometric or biomorphic prints and woven fabrics in which vertical and horizontal weaves formed a pattern ... The display showcased over 150 well-designed, mass-produced and readily available ......

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Govt to give uniforms to 28 lakh anganwadi kids before polls

The Times of India 17 Feb 2019

Gandhinagar. To woo the parents of 28.5 lakh anganwadi children, between 3 and 6 years of age, the state government plans to give the children two sets of uniforms, in the next few days ... We got the uniforms designed by NIFT and other institutions ... The government got these designed by NIFT and the LD Engineering textiles department ... ....

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Checks, tie-dye, baby dolls: It's all at London Fashion Week

The Columbus Telegram 17 Feb 2019

The designer emphasized a "global citizen" as his show's theme and incorporated traditional Cambodian textile techniques into the urban mix ... Veteran designer Jasper Conran took inspiration from "monastic" shapes with a new collection of utilitarian, sleek tunics and dresses that quietly exuded sophistication rather than screamed glamour....

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Handcrafts and Gifts Fair to focus on Indian exporter

The Times of India 17 Feb 2019

GREATER NOIDA ... The business to business (B2B) fair will host over 3200 exhibitors from across the country where over 2000 styles and designs of home, lifestyles, fashion, furniture and textiles will be showcased to over 110 overseas buyers. Prominent among these include USA, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Thailand, Togo, Turkey etc ... ....

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London Fashion Week: From super-influencers to the political power of dance, this is what happened ...

The Independent 17 Feb 2019

Here, streetwear and office-appropriate tailoring were given an inventive twist, while a number of designers modernised traditional woven textiles with the addition of lace, slinky silk and sequins ... Roland Mouret is a designer that’s forged a successful career dressing women ... A creation from British designer Margaret Howell (AFP/Getty)....

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Baguio mayor downs Maharlika bar extension

Sun Star 17 Feb 2019

Domogan said he has decided on the matter and is awaiting for the City Council’s move on the issue ... The city was included in the CCN network for crafts and folk arts of the Cordilleras seen in architecture, parks, textile, fabrics, furniture, and furnishing fashion accessories, paintings, sculpture, homes and building designs in the City ... ....

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Oscars: Why ‘Black Panther’ deserves to win best picture

The Los Angeles Times 17 Feb 2019

Adding costume designer Ruth E ... Jordan’s Erik Killmonger nuanced and complex, with perspectives never before articulated in a Hollywood blockbuster, but also the film’s dazzling design references everything from Ghanaian textiles to a 5th century Nigerian script to the dress of tribes including the Maasai, Tuareg, Dogon and Zulu....

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London Fashion Week: Jasper Conran goes for monastic chic

The Saratogian 16 Feb 2019

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How This Husband And Wife Fashion Duo Design Vibrant Timeless Collections

Forbes 15 Feb 2019

Evelyn Luna, designer, along with her husband, Scott Chester, serial entrepreneur, founded clothing line, ACID NYC. Together they have taken their experiences in industrial design, engineering, manufacturing, textile design, photography and painting to create a luxury lifestyle brand ... ....

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Fashion Friday: Kokudé – Ghana's new exquisite fashion design powerhouse

Joy Online 15 Feb 2019

Owners Kofi Laing and Dennis Yaw Hunter have incorporated design, artistry and technology in order to take Ghana’s fashion industry to the next level ... and studied Design for two years in the Art Faculty at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science ......

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NY Fashion Week Closes with 'Fashion for Peace' Event Focused on Sustainability

The Hollywood Reporter 15 Feb 2019

Joni Mitchell’s “They Paved Paradise” swelled as the program started and the crowd surged around Sadhguru and the models on their cube platforms in the looks from Kamali, Hoffman, New York-based designer Mimi Prober (who incorporates antique textiles and natural ......

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Interior design of the future will seem like magic

The Conversation 15 Feb 2019

This might sound like something out of Harry Potter, but such magic interior design could become a real part of our lives in the near future ... I call this blend between interior design and interaction design “interioraction” ... We use thermochromic fabric which changes colour, SMA wires which move and crumple, and e-textiles for seamless sensing....

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Obituary: Andrea Levy

BBC News 15 Feb 2019

Andrea Levy was born in London on 7 March 1956 ... Both parents, Winston and Amy, were Jamaican-born of mixed descent ... Instead, she studied textile design and became a costume assistant - finding work at the Royal Opera House and the BBC ... She is a textiles graduate of Jamaican descent whose mother, like Andrea's own, came to England on a banana boat ... ....