I am very interested in developing my abstract paintings and large scale expressionist style designs into digitally printed textiles and so far have not found alot of designers who specialise in this particular style. I want to investigate whether there is a market for this style of print in the fashion/accesories market...
There are alot of designers who use digital print in there couture collections.
As the digital print costs alot to produce it makes the price of the garment very high which means selling it with a high price tag in the couture area of fashion.
This means digitally printed bags and garments can only be found in couture designer collections or high end boutiques.
When looking online for digitally printed fashion it was very hard to find, I came across a website called Farfetch.com which had some abstract digitally printed dresses for sale in a silk satin fabric, each dress was by the designer Peter Pilotto. The price of each dress was £795.00 online order avaliable in various sizes and quite a few in stock so these were not one off unique designs but they did have a price tag that u would expect to pay for something that no-one else had.
There are artists that have had there paintings put onto fabric and also artists that have done comissions for interior designers by using their paintings as large scale interior pieces.
When visiting the Peter Lanyon exhibiton at the Tate St Ives I noticed there were scarves for sale with Peter Lanyon digital prints, each scarve was £250 and avaliable in all Tate gallery shops. The scarves are in a beautiful silk and neutral coulors, they look very contemporary and are unique in the sense that you are walking around wearing a painting. ( Images from tate.org.uk )
I am interested to know if there is away of putting digital designs into the high street or making them more avaliable online for more resonable prices...
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