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Red and Roses

Some recent collages made using Desi bride magazines big and small. 

Their full of lush colour spreads and head to toe images of models vary greatly 

from pure Western bridal magazines and fashion magazines. 

I remember reading somewhere that even in the Indian subcontinent, 

the poorest are dressed in vibrant colours.

Colour chains

In fact it reminds me of the beautifully shot and written film Monsoon Wedding (2001), 

directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan. 

Colour is in its element and even in the darkest moments of the film, 

colour is boundless and just as complex and gritty too.   

Patchwork collage

Palette Pin: Purple and Pink and Blue

I love how even the black areas in the palette look dark blue, 

or is it the other way round? 

 

Zooming out to give you a wonderful view of the print on this fabric

The touches of peach work alongside the pinks is

one of my favourite things about this fabric.

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Butterfly prints flutterby

 John Lewis Edition Spring 2014?

Only because the dark needs some colour to it
and a lightness to it lines.

Advert for Marccain @ Marie Claire January 2011

Labels of a decorative sensibility

The original tags for the jeans that are now, sadly deceased (a moment of silence), 

but preserved in photos in this old blog post here. 

Love the simple graphic stripes with these 

wonderful decorative floral like shapes.

Blue skies, rain and denim

Then orange, then pink, so denim splurge.

John Lewis Edition (unknown)

Marie Claire. January 2011, pp. unknown

Embroidery on denim too is something that really fascinates me at the moment, 

some of my own embroidery below:

Testing out watercolour brush in MS Paint - nice texture, really irritating point/beginning of it though. If it was a gimp moving brush maybe that would be better? Blues abundance. 

John Lewis Edition Spring 2014/2013, pp. unknown

References:

John Lewis Edition. Spring 2013/2014, pp. unknown

Marie Claire. Spring/Summer 2013, pp. unknown