Burberry is a luxury designer brand that uses a lot of pattern in their pieces. The tartan pattern is used a lot in Burberry clothing, and the beige tartan print is used very often in their signature clothing.
Burberry’s signature pattern is a pattern that indeed can be used by other brands and other companies, however it had become such a signature stable for Burberry clothing that that’ll be the first thing a customer would think of if they were to see that pattern for the most part. It is also a pattern that is very versatile, and as you can see it can also be used to fashion accessories, as well as household items and even umbrellas.
Mary Katrantzou is a fashion and textile designer who takes placement print to an extreme level. By using digital print technology, she designs the garment shape and cut simultaneously with the print design, to achieve unique compositions on the body, quite often fused with string optical effects. Digital print technology allows photo-realistic images to be printed directly onto textile substrates in millions of colours using a CMYK print process.
What do you make of the article’s reference to ‘the room on the woman’ and ‘the woman in the room’?
The term ‘the room on the woman’ is referring to the fact that Mary Katrantzou truly brought interior-exterior decoration. Katrantzou imagined the woman as a connoisseur, surrounded by objects of beauty like Fabergé eggs, Meissen porcelain, cloisonné enamel, and Ming vases. The term refers to the fact that she brought interior decoration and these beautiful objects onto the model. ‘The woman in the room’ could be referring to the fact that it seems more as if the woman is surrounded by the interior decor. as she’s wearing the clothing and isn’t actually embodying it. https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2011-ready-to-wear/mary-katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou is a London-based designer bursted into the scene in 2008 with her prints that were, as Vogue put it, “almost beyond imaginable limits.” She has received multiple prizes from the British Fashion Awards—and collaborations with Topshop, Current/Elliott, Adidas, and Lesage, among others, have been lavished upon her. https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/mary-katrantzou
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