will you inspire me?

A couple of years ago, my dude and I had committed to ridding our house of paper towels. We just decided that they were expensive, and wasteful, and really- how much extra effort does it take to throw a cloth in the wash? Since moving to our current place, we have fallen off the bandwagon. The ability to store bulk items in our pantry had us in disposable paper product heaven.

This week, after roaming about on Pinterest for a while, I came across a picture of “unpaper towels”.  Snappable homemade cloths that fit on a regular paper towel roll.  Brilliant!  It was just the push I needed to recommit to cloth. They looked easy enough to make, so I decided to go for it!

Comme des Garçons, AW97. Photographed by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia 1997.

This amazing photograph of a Comme des Garçons dress provides a perfect visual example of how to think about parts of garments as separate plates that come together to create a 3D form. Thinking about a garment in this way will help you to recognise fitting problems and to correct pattern issues.

Balenciaga, AW13, Paris.

The Autumn-Winter 2013 collection at Balenciaga used a simple palette of monochrome to explore careful draping and pattern cutting around a geometric theme.

The monochrome palette was also punctuated with metal hardware and a series of textures that mimicked the cracks and seaming of marble.

Pour Some Sugar On Me

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fox on a snowy log

Self Portrait (Watercolour)

Jean-Pierre Lupdag

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David Downton draws Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed List

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