I love Vivienne Westwood’s new collection of wallpapers for Cole & Son. All the prints are based on signature designs from her fashion collections and use fabric details as motifs, ranging from cut-out lace to classic dogstooth weave. Her designs are surprisingly restrained and translate beautifully and effortlessly from body to wall. No safety pins or dog collars in sight!
This hand-drawn rendering of an antique lace fragment draws inspiration from Vivienne’s S/S 07 I am Expensiv Collection. I love the charcoal colour and the subtlety of the pattern.
The drawings for this design were based on old technical drawings of royal jewels which influenced the paper jewellery in Westwood’s A/W 00-01 collection.
Trompe l’Oeil Drape is perhaps more what I would expect from Westwood. Not as pretty and delicate as her other designs but fun and quintessentially British!
I first came across Tim Walker's photographs in the pages of Vogue and was immediately captivated by his work. His photos have the ability to transport you to another world which is at the same time strange and familiar. The imagination behind the set design is pure genius; the locations, the props, the meticulous attention to detail, the juxtaposition of the everyday with the absurd. Above all, each photograph is beautiful. I envy the jobs of the set designers.
