I’ve always had a sweet spot for Henrik Vibskov’s amazing knitwear. His fresh use of both simple and complex graphic prints is really extraordinary. While checking out the British online store, No-One, I discovered that he also designs shoes. My favorite pair are these adorable electric blue booties.

I’m so excited about Marimekko’s collaboration with H&M, which is due to launch this April. The collection of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel will feature the firm’s signature prints from the 50s through the 70s. I can’t wait to get my hands on one of the tunic dresses!

I’ll be away from my computer for a few days while I’m at the Direction Textile Show in NY. I’ll be back on Monday or Wednseday!

I love Olly and Suzi’s new t-shirt collection for Topshop. In such a pro-green fashion moment, this collaboration is wonderful (and dare I say, grossly trendy). But regardless, I love Olly and Suzi’s drawing style as well as creative concept. The two met as art students and have spent their creative careers approaching wildlife in it’s natural habitat, and together working to ‘capture their prey on paper’. Check out their book here, Olly and Suzi: Arctic, Desert, Ocean, Jungle.

While searching for the perfect summer dress, I stumbled upon these adorable nautical-inspired dresses from JCrew.  I love the way the large conversational prints are used in a new way to reinvent these classic summer dresses.  I especially love the anchor shirt dress!

As some of you may know, Leo and I have a textile studio in Philadelphia. I just wanted to let you all know that our website is newly redesigned (you can see it here) and we have a video on there showing what a typical day is like at Printfresh. Enjoy!

Lately I’ve had a lot of people asking me what it is that I do during my days. And my answer to that is, I direct a textile swatch studio in Philadelphia called Printfresh. Many of you are probably not familiar with this aspect of the fashion industry. The gist of it is that when apparel companies need artwork for their garments and want a fresh look from outside their artwork department they turn to swatch studios who come and show their work. It’s a great way for apparel companies to look at artwork, select pieces that suit their needs, and send it off to their production facilities right away (cutting down on lengthy artwork development stages).

All of the artwork that we as well as other swatch studios create is one of kind a kind and only sold once, this ensures that no two apparel companies will have the same artwork on their garments.

Well, what kind of fashion blog would this be if I didn’t mention the Golden Globes. I’m not really a gown sort of girl, but here are some ladies that deserve an honorable mention. I always love Chloë Sevigny, in a vintage Yves Saint Laurent I think it’s great that she opted to wear a print. No matter how wacky her looks always are, she always looks contemporary and fun. The only thing I didn’t ‘get’ about the styling was the shoes, they were too chunky. I love Sienna Miller’s milk maid hair, but the Marchesa dress was a bit stuffy for her. And last but not least, Jennifer Garner, in Gucci looked nice and elegant. I love the simplicity of her dress and her casual and modern approach to hair and makeup.

I was paging through Tiny Showcase and came across a print by artist Jeana Sohn which immediately caught my attention.  It’s so lovely, but unfortunately sold out.  The above image is a painting which is on her site.  I love the Russian story book feeling to her pieces.  They are minimal in coverage but incredibly narrative.

I love this crazy botanical wallpaper from Johanna Basford.

I love this new creation by my friends over at Anthropologie, it’s the first printed ipod dock in the whole wide world. This isongbook is the perfect holiday gift for the girl who needs pattern in every part of her life.

Tsumori Chisato is almost impossible to track down on the web, but I’ve managed to find some shots of her spring 07 collection. I love her shoe silhouettes, and her amazing use of patterning. The day of the dead theme she pursued for this collection actually works, and I’m craving the last image on the bottom right, a skull lace dress.

Mini Mouse style has never been so strong. I love all these different approach to dots. These are the largest, most dominant dots we have seen in a while. I feel that for the last couple years we have been mostly seeing tiny, barely-there polka dots. This direction with strong dots speaks volumes for the strength and pop of this years spring collections. Above are looks by Betsy Johnson,Milly,Cynthia Rowley,Zac Posen,and Karen Walker.