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The Haberdashers (Charities Issue)

The Haberdashers (Charities Issue)

21 October 2012 - The Haberdashers (Charities Issue)

The Company has been supporting Texprint since 2005 with the most recent grant having been made in July this year. The Chairman of the Committee, Mr George Pulman, QC, has recently been interviewed for Texprint's website as they wished to showcase the support they receive both financially and in kind from a number of sources including several Livery Companies. Read full article

Première Vision’s Knitters Combine Fashion and Function

Première Vision’s Knitters Combine Fashion and Function

25 September 2012 - KnittingIndustry.com

Debra Cobb, a veteran of the US textiles industry with experience in the development and marketing of yarns, fabrics, and apparel trends, gives her expert opinion on the industry's latest innovations… … Also featured at Indigo were several designers from the UK’s Texprint® organization which provides opportunities for talented textile design graduates. The colourful and playful knitwear from Carlo Volpi, winner of the Texprint Body Prize for the best fashion fabric design in any discipline, reflected his background in print design with strong graphic patterns and patchworked textures. Also outstanding were the knitwear offerings of Texprint designers Sarah Burton, Charlotte Crombie, Catherine Hodgkinson, and Guri Pedersen. Read full article

Indigo Paris: Texprint 2012

Indigo Paris: Texprint 2012

25 September 2012 - ARTS THREAD

As in previous editions, Indigo Paris offers 24 cutting edge textile graduates an opportunity to showcase their work under the umbrella of Texprint. ARTS THREAD speaks to a selection of the designers to find out what Indigo has meant for them. Read full article

Texprint 2012: textile focus

Texprint 2012: textile focus

30 July 2012 - WGSN homebuildlife

Texprint 2012 showcased textile designers graduating from UK colleges with a particularly strong exhibition this year. The strength of emerging talent was on show last week as graduating textile designers from UK universities took part in the 40th anniversary Texprint event. A panel of industry professionals led by Texprint's creative director, Peter Ring-Lefevre, chose 24 of them for the Texprint mentoring and career development programme and their work was shown at the Texprint London 2012 event, held at the Triangle Building, Chelsea College of Art & Design. The event has become a key moment to network for the graduates selected and Texprint chairperson Barbara Kennington introduced them to designers, sponsors, press, decision-makers and strategic creative leaders from fashion and interiors at the private view. Read full article

Stylus: Manri Kishimoto

Stylus: Manri Kishimoto

24 July 2012 - Stylus.com

Manri Kishimoto was selected for a Colour Award at textile design talent showcase Texprint London last week. A graduate of London’s Central Saint Martins college of art and design, Kishimoto showed colourful textile designs that mix stitch, print and beadwork embellishment. The panel of special-prize judges comprised Caroline Burstein, creative director of London’s Browns Fashion boutique; textile designer Neisha Crosland; Paul Stamper, lead designer at French car manufacturer Renault; and executive vice-president and chief product officer of Canadian athleticwear company Lululemon, Sheree Waterson. Kishimoto impressed Waterson so much that she selected her as the winner of the inaugural Lululemon Texprint Award. Kishimoto received a £1,000 prize and will now join Lululemon’s design team at its Vancouver headquarters for a three-month paid internship. Before that, the Yokohama native will show her work at creative textile and surface design show Indigo in Paris in September, and then travel to Hong Kong with the Texprint special-prize winners to exhibit at textile show Interstoff Asia Essential. Read full article

Stylus: Lily Kamper

Stylus: Lily Kamper

24 July 2012 - Stylus.com

London Royal College of Art MA graduate Lily Kamper showed her beautiful textile jewellery and accessories collection at Texprint – a design award that champions innovation and talent within textile design. Inspired by the structures found in a religious temple in north London, Kamper created a lathe-turned Perspex component that was also developed in wood and brass. This component was applied to her textile accessories in a variety of ways including embellishment, magnetic bag fastenings and pendant necklaces. Held at London’s Chelsea School of Art & Design, the Texprint exhibition ran from July 12-13 2012. Read full article

My Fashion Connect: highlights Texprint 2012

My Fashion Connect: highlights Texprint 2012

24 July 2012 - My Fashion Connect

Texprint introduced 24 textile design graduates to members of the industry at its annual Preview event held at the Chelsea College of Art & Design, in Pimlico, London. The 24 were selected from some 200 entrants in this year's competition. Read full article

Texprint 2012: Prize winners

Texprint 2012: Prize winners

16 July 2012 - ARTS THREAD

Texprint’s 40th anniversary London presentation took place last week at Chelsea College of Art & Design UAL, showcasing the work of 24 of the best textile designers graduating from UK universities and colleges this summer. Read full article

Burstein’s Winners: Texprint 2012

Burstein’s Winners: Texprint 2012

15 July 2012 - vogue.co.uk

Browns' creative director Caroline Burstein was one of four judges who selected the winners of the 2012 Texprint Prize, which recognises the best textile graduates of the year working in print, weave, knit, stitch and mixed media. Read full article

Chinese designers lead a sartorial revolution

Chinese designers lead a sartorial revolution

19 March 2012 - Telegraph magazine

Journalist Tamsin Blanchard reports on three London-based Chinese fashion designers determined to make their mark on the world's catwalks. Momo Wang (Texprint 2011) is one of three Chinese designers featured in the article: “She also received sponsorship from Texprint, an organisation that mentors British textiles designers, to show her work at Premiere Vision, Europe's leading textile design trade show, last October - she sold five pieces to be used as inspiration for textiles (one went to H&M, and she says she is looking forward to seeing how it will be used).” Read full article