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Interview & virtual tour of the exhibition

October 11, 2015

// EXPOEnvie de vitamines pour démarrer l'automne ? Visitez les Aventures numériques de Modern Love, designers textile anglais !Jusqu'au 31 décembre.   Click link to see the interview Facebook - Posted by La Cité Internationale de la dentelle et de la mode de Calais. on Thursday, 8 October ...

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The Traveller

September 30, 2015

Our new collection influences and images. A new direction has taken us to collaborate with a furniture designer. I saw my first  travels and  adventures as an  intellectual and romantic rite of passage. Landscape, smell sound and taste all combining in the excitement of new wonders and chance encounters. My new collection for Modern Love is a collection of influences. Kimonos, lounge wear, day wear, a camp bed, upholstered cushions, lampshades, wallpaper and Jewelery African Art deco lines with ...

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48 Maisons de Mode 2015

September 7, 2015

Samedi 19 et dimanche 20 septembre 2015 14h à 19h Extrait de la Collection « Modern Love » aimablement prêtée par la Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais Lancée en 2010 par Sarah ARNETT, illustratrice, et Kim HUNT, directrice artistique, le collectif Modern Love crée des textiles de fabrication artisanale haut de gamme. Edités en séries limitées pour la décoration intérieure et le vêtement, les motifs étonnent par leurs graphismes et leurs coloris complexes obtenus par impression ...

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Modern Romance

March 13, 2015

A romance with technology   I have long had the desire to create, make and draw. As a student I didn't feel it was possible to design a surface pattern with out understanding how to spin, dye and weave my own fabric. With out knowing it I stated to play with technology. It may have been pegs in holes on a very old dobby loom and later the wonder of the jacquard and punch cards. Spending hours in the dye lab perfecting colours and understanding the science of colour, developing my own rules and ...

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Aventures Numeriques is Open.

January 28, 2015

'Aventures Numeriques' Saturday 17th of January marked the opening of the exhibition and the start of an exciting year for Modern Love. The opening event started with the showing of our film in the auditorium and speeches from M. Pascal Pestre, adjoint délégué à la Culture, au patrimoine et aux archives (Deputy Director of cultural affaires, heritage and archives) Mme. Anne-Claire Laronde, directrice de la Cité de la dentelle et de la mode (Director of the Lace and Fashion Museum) Mme. Shazia ...

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The Kaftan

January 9, 2015

The Kaftan The kaftan or Kimono has always been at the heart of our collections a classic shape and a beautiful canvas for a dramatic print. The caftan seduces the body. A most unlikely garment of sex appeal, it turns yards of fabric into near nudity with the right warm breeze, and its unfitted form has been irresistible to cultures all over the world for thousands of years. In high fashion, the love affair with the caftan dawned at the beginning of the 20th century. When Queen Victoria’s ...

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Anna-May Wong Wallpaper Print

January 3, 2015

Anna-May Wong Wallpaper Print Unwrapping our prints when they come back from the printers in Como, Italy is very exciting. This was one of the first prints we unwrapped, designed around one of our Muses for this collection; Ann-May Wong and printed on beautiful silk satin. Anna-May Wong was the very first Chinese-American movie star. The print was designed to emulate a black and white analogue film strip flickering against the background of a luxurious wallpaper in glamorous old Picture House. Wong rose ...

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Our Muses

December 29, 2014

Adventures In Digital Illustrations For Adventures in Digital Exhibition   Four muses from four films have inspired my illustrations for my latest exhibition. Sean Young – Blade Runner, Su Li-zhen – In the mood for love, Anna-May Wong – The Thief of Baghdad Tilda Swinton - Orlando In collaboration with Kim Hunt our latest Modern Love project is  titled “Adventures in Digital” and runs from Jan 2015 until the end of the year at the Cité internationale de la dentelle et ...

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