Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Fashionable Fabrics

New York Fashion designer, Diane Von Furstenberg. Is rolling out something new, more like rolling out new bolts of her own fabric. It’s true, she has just recently launched her very own fabric line for the home. This is exciting news if you are a DVF fan like me!




For DVF, the fabrics were an opportunity for her to play with scale, the line offers checks small and large, blooms blown up or reduced in size, and fun animal print in bright colors like hot pink, yellow, and lavender. “Patterns are natural for me, “says DVF. “I capture them from nature, through photography, and then reinterpret them.” Many of her fashion favorites translated beautifully to interiors. “It’s all about mixing –scales, patterns, and colors, “she says. The fabric line features, animal prints, Ikats, and Batiks. Take a look.




collage created by chelsea murray

These fabrics are available at Nathan Turner. DVF has designed many of the rooms at the Calridge Hotel in London. Here is one of the guest rooms she designed.


*images via elle decor

These fashionable fabrics are cheerful and sophisticated, and will add a little DVF flair to your stylish space. One of my favorite ways to get inspiration when designing a space is through fashion. Fashion makes a great source of inspration by pulling color, texture and pattern from an existing garmet and transposing it into upholstery, draperies, furniture etc...