What I learned in the past few years is that you love reading stories about the prints I’ve created and finding about what inspired them.
This is why I’ve decided to share behind the scenes about each print from our collection.

Prints are usually either created in-house by the textile designer, outsourced through freelance designers or bought from print studios.
Fashion brand owners usually don't create their own prints, and this is what makes this brand special as I create both prints for my fashion label and design clothes.

Story behind the print:

This is actually the last print I’ve designed for the collection. It was inspired by the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home.

The garden was inspired by modern cosmology, science and mathematics. There are not a lot of plants in the garden, but it sets mathematical formulae and scientific phenomena in a setting which elegantly combines natural featured and artificial symmetry.

I saw the photo of the garden on Instagram and fell in love instantly. It felt so surreal to me.

At the same time, I was listening to Bob Dylan’s album Time Out Of Mind, and there were some lyrics that touched me:

“I thought it would rain but the clouds passed by”

“But I've been looking at my shadow, I been
watching the colors up above
Looking at my shadow, watching the colors up above
Rolling through the rain and hail, looking for
the sunny side of love”

Below, on the left, you can see the sketch I’ve created. The main inspiration were the stairs from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, but I wanted to capture the feeling of hope, new beginnings, freedom and all the things you’re grateful for. On the right side, you can see the final outline I’ve created. After the outline, I created a repeat and then coloured the pattern.

I created this design in the Procreate app on my graphic tablet. At first I wanted to add to the design Pantone’s Colour of the Year (Very Perri), but later decided that I will stick to oranges and browns. You can see below the colour version with the Very Perri color option. I wanted the design to have a feeling of the sixties and seventies, this is also why there are outlines and orange-brown colour palette.. Creating this one was definitely a challenge as I very rarely create line drawings

And here’s the print on our finished products. Let me know in the comments which one is your fave! I absolutely love our Cosmic Speculation maxi dress.