Sketches by Marteal Boniello, Fikri Afif and Aaron Mallery

You DESIGN. SEW for fun. LOVE the feel of velvet and the SPARKLE of sequins. Your friends ask where you SHOP. You are a person who seeks something UNIQUE, made with a personal touch. Maybe you wandered in here looking for fabric for a wedding dress and detoured into the design GALLERY. You are trying to build a DESIGN portfolio, showcase your work, or want to break FREE from the established fashion industry. Or maybe you just love fashion from the bottom up and inside out.

WHY DO WE CARE WHO YOU ARE?

Because YOU have stepped off the beaten path of the established fashion industry. You like to be INVOLVED in fashion. You want to be involved, you can see that by being independent you can be more CREATIVE, you want to offer your creativity to discerning shoppers, you want to be a STYLE LEADER, an ENTREPRENEUR, to SHARE, CREATE, BUILD.

We want to build a space where your PASSION can come to LIFE, where designers are in charge of pushing their VISIONS to market, where FASHION LOVERS can be involved in the fashion creation from the early workshop days to the final product. We believe that by opening the doors to everyone a better industry will emerge. It’s a lot for a small company but nothing that we cannot build together as a community so we are reaching out for your next move.

WHAT TO DO NOW…

Designers:

Upload sketches to the gallery. Browse around, check out what others are doing. We intend to help more of your bring their creations to market (stay tuned for more)…

Seamstresses:

List your services (yes it’s free) share your designs on the gallery, offer advice to new designers.

Fashionistas:

Like, Tweet, Pin and share designs and ideas.

Mix and match.

Create your own looks and look books.

Sponsor a designer. Create unique looks.

Have one our existing designs custom made in your unique choice of fabric and to your own unique sizes

Everyone:

Stand up and SHOUT OUT. Tell everyone what you think, what you like, what you want to make. Talk, Talk, Talk.

Together we can SET FASHION FREE!

Winter Shadows

Under a heightened sharpness
shades of bleak grey, bounce
from the tarmac
under the blinding sun
to form purple hues
kissed lightly
with gold, green, yellow.

From a seeming nothing
comes everything.
Color is everywhere!

Check out our winter silks
for
unique fashions
great prices
and
fantastic style!

Charcoal Silk Dupioni

Violet and Gray Silk Charmeuse

Seafoam and Orange Silk

Frost

Dazzling
fingers of white reaching to the sky,
branches coated in frost.

Silver trails etched across the window.
The blistering cold stings your face and sends your fingers diving back into warm, furry gloves.

Ice

Snow

Frost

Winter. Wrapped in white.

Beauty is everywhere.

Find inspiration in the everyday. Match your fabrics to your world.
Luxuriate in our white faux fur, our stunning silk flower puddle fabrics then throw in a dramatic contrast with a soft draped crepe back satin, the richest color of the midday sky.

White Faux Fur

White Silk Flower Puddle

Aqua Crepe Back Satin

Alexander Henry: Azucar

But Alexander Henry has something for everyone. For the men (or women) we have the ever popular series of handsome studs with “Heavy Equipment” and “Cowboy” to spur the imagination and ideal for making boxer shorts or pyjamas. For the boys there is the fast-paced “Kage Fighter” or “Custom” and for everyone else there is something to celebrate life, joy and color!

Click here to check out our full selection of Alexander Henry Fabrics.

My absolute favourite exhibition was Modern Love – the name says it all, as they capture the heart of Portland Oregon where they are based. Passing their exhibit felt like passing the gateway to a fairytale world rich with exaggerated lifeforms. The designs are breath-takingly large in essence – even the designs with tiny detail had enormous soul, from the clean white canvases with a single character that gripped your sense of humour and stole your last desire to the myopic graphic illustrations. Big lips, tiny people. The Moulin Rouge of fabric Design. Get a little taste of their designs at www.modernloveart.com and let’s hope to see their fabrics splattered across our lives.