Thorny

1. Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2014
2. GFF by Gianfranco Ferré Spring/Summer 2003
3. Alexander van Slobbe Spring/Summer 1999

The sleeping prince has been kissed by a rose. As graphic scribble, outline print or cut-and-paste laminate appliqué. The next bouquet of flowers best comes in the form of a pinstripe suit.
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Worm Therapy

1. Proenza Schouler Fall/Winter 2013
2. Ettore Sottsass Bacterio, 1978
3. Proenza Schouler Fall/Winter 2013

With his pattern design for the Memphis Milano movement, Ettore Sottsass turned geometric forms into texture, and laminate became textile. What originally had an op-art effect on furniture, turns into fake fur on clothes.
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