Digital textile printing elevates design creativity

When reviewing the wide range of textile designs we witness today, the designs can only be made possible by new developments in digital textile printing which has brought about a design revolution and is the most significant advance in fabric-printing technology since the invention of the silk screen, according to experts.  

A selection of digital printed scarfs by Miroglio Textile of Italy, shown at Premiere Vision Paris earlier this year.
Photo by Lucia Carpio for My Fashion Connect.

In my recent research on the subject, I found that the sky is the limit it seems when one reviews the wide spectrum of print designs in the world of fashion – from garden floral patterns to tropical, botanical or nautical themes,  geometric designs from micro to oversize scales, brush-stroke inspired patterns, fantastical scenes, pop art graphics, painted portraits, abstract designs and paisleys .  All these have been made possible by the evolving developments and new technology in digital printing, which has become a means for fashion and textile designers to take their creativity to new levels. 

New technology allows designers to seek inspiration from previously unexplored sources, and use it as a new visual language for surface design.  One may ask - is it printed or hand-painted, is it a photograph or a drawing?  The whirl of colours and printed images are increasingly sophisticated and can fool the eye.  

To read my full article on “Digital Printing” just published in the June/July edition of AT A Journal, click HERE. 

Sitting for Paolo Galetto, the Italian illustrator and artist at Premiere Vision in Paris.

On the invitation of GB network and Miroglio Textile, during the prestigious Premiere Vision trade fair in Paris in February 18-20, My Fashion Connect was able to preview the new fabric designs that form part of Miroglio's ‘Metri d’Arte’ project, featuring an iconic set of three figurative designs by Italian artist Paolo Galetto. 
  

As explained by Elena Miroglio, vice-president of the Miroglio Group, (on the right in this picture with Paolo Galetto) this was an initiative to show off the company's state-of-the-art digital printing technology, combined with the talent of the artist, bringing  together industrial production and artistic creativity,  

The project is proof of the high regard Miroglio Textiles holds for art and creativity. 

  

Paolo is well known for his fashion water colour images and illustrations, and was enthusaistic in showing his portfolio of portraits of famous faces and personalities. Among his commission works have been female portraits created for Vogue Italia magazine.

Thus it was a great honour that Paolo, when out of the blue, he offered to do a portrait of Lucia Carpio, editor of My Fashion Connect. This was indeed a proposition one can't refuse. 

So here's the finished work after the sitting for half an hour.  
Bravo indeed!

Italian illustrator and artist Paolo Galetto, who lives between Turin and Paris, has worked for many years as a visual artist, creating hundreds of storyboards for some of the most renowned film studios of the world, as well as portraits of Italy's influential writers and intellectuals.

Textile mills forge close cooperation - from Archive to Modern Scarf Designs.

Italian mill Miroglio Textile created a real buzz of excitement at the Premiere Vision Pluriel fair in Paris last week.  It demonstrated the importance of history in order to create for the future. 

Exclusive patterns from Archivio Mantero (an archive from more than 100 years) provide inspirational ideas for
Miroglio Textile to develop into new scarf designs.

At the prestigious textile fair, a must-attend event for all in the fashion and related industry, the company presented its debut collection of scarfs which was the result of a new partnership forged between Miroglio and Matero – two textile power houses of Italy.

Above and below left, a selection of new scarf designs produced and distributed by Miroglio Textile.
All photos by Lucia Carpio for My Fashion Connect.

Chiaretto Calo, Global Commercial Director of Miroglio explained that some 60 designs in various colourways were  selected from the archives of Mantero, which has a rich history of more than 100 years of design creativity, and from these, Miroglio using their technical and innovation know-how have developed and produced a wide collection of new scarf designs.  Miroglio will also be distributing the scarf collection.   

Mr Calo explained that the two textile houses were previously rivals but have not resolved their differences and combined their expertise to work together for the first time.

The patterns in the new collection includes floral themes - romantic flora and fauna reproduced with a photographic perspective or in 70s-psychedlia.  There is an indigo range with reinterpretation of nautical themes, a classic range, jungle effect drawings, and geometric, ethnic and mixed-cultural influences as well as optical effects and inspiration by the art of Pollock and Andy Warhol.

Italy's Miroglio Textile sponsors Texprint

Chiaretto Calo - Miroglio Textile's Global
Commercial Director, shows off some of the company's
latest textile developments at a
recent Premiere Vision fair in Paris.
Photo by Lucia Carpio.

Top Italian textile company - Miroglio Textile - well-known for its innovative fabrics and prints, has announced its sponsorshop for this year’s installment of the Texprint competition.  

To read more, click HERE.