From Toe to Wall - interior and fashion print designs from ELEY KISHIMOTO for AW 2015

If you love your wallpaper design, why not wear it too.  

And with ELEY KISHIMOTO’s new offerings, you can see how the London-based brand for patterns and prints is expertly extending the ever-growing cross references between interior and fashion design.

The new ELEY KISHIMOTO’s hand-printed, bold graphic prints render visual strength that embodies the aura of human warmth, all to be taken for personal pleasure, according to its designer.

Above, left to right: Look 21 (Fishbone Borders), Look 9 (Galaxy Bouquet), Look 17 (Vanity Cats). 

Photo by Kumi Saito, courtesy of ELEY KISHIMOTO.

EK has just unveiled its AW15 fashion collection entitled A Wallflower’s House Party, featuring 12 unique patterns taken from the brand’s first hand-printed wallpaper collection launched in 2014.  

Like its wallpaper collection, the fashion range displays the quality of craftsmanship, teamed with simple and relaxed shapes in natural bases.

Accordingly the wallpaper collection was originally inspired by the studio’s fashion archives of some 22 years.  all fabrics printed by EK’s London-based in-house team.

Above: Look 23 (Camo Chevron), Look 11 (Venice), Look 17 (Monster Skin) Photo by Kumi Saito, courtesy of ELEY KISHIMOTO.

Reinforced by its long-standing expertise in pioneering printmaking, the ELEY KISHIMOTO sees no distinction between garment and wall surface, both can be adorned with the same pattern under the motto “Print the World”. 

 “Why be a wallflower at someone else’s party when you can be the belle of the ball at your own?” says designer Wakako Kishimoto, 

thus explains the title of the collection - A Wallflower’s House Party.  

The new ELEY KISHIMOTO’s hand-printed, bold graphic prints render visual strength that embodies the aura of human warmth, all to be taken for personal pleasure.

As part of the new collection, EK has also collaborated with two Scottish knitwear companies, Roam and ERIBÉ on an exclusive selection of UK-manufactured lambswool blankets and hand-knitted garments respectively.

Collaboration with ERIBÉ

Photo by Kumi Saito, Courtesy of ELEY KISHIMOTO.

The colourful knitwear experts collaborate on a joint-label capsule hand-knit range for AW15. Subtly echoing two of ELEY KISHIMOTO’s most iconic wallpaper designs - Vanity Cats and Light On Lattice - are the two gorgeous hand-knitted sweaters shown above. 

Collaboration with Roam

Photo by Kumi Saito, Courtesy of ELEY KISHIMOTO.

British manufacturer Roam is nestled among the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. ELEY KISHIMOTO has teamed up its bold wallpaper patterns with Roam's traditional techniques to create a range of six blanket designs to drape over sofas or even shoulders.

A Wallflower’s House Party from ELEY KISHIMOTO is available to buy as of May 2015.