Alt Prints

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This is a bit of a convoluted brain wave that needs some careful navigation.  I was thumped the other day by the fact that an old school friend was now engaged – ENGAGED?!?!  That's a word that I say with a question mark lilt at the end as if I've never heard of such a concept.  In a random mind whizz, and here's where the convoluted mind mapping comes in, I suddenly fast forwarded to the thought of having offspring and for me telling her (there has to be a 'her' for me to offload my shit to… ) "Here you can have this cosmic print tee and Peter Pilotto cosmic trews!" and her retorting "Urgh…nobody says tee or trews anymore!  I'd HATE cosmic prints!"  In a similar fashion to how I treated florals at the age of 13. 

There lies my pondering.  As I've been coveting prints outside of the polka/floral/geometric/animal genres – Pilotto's space prints, Schwab's 3-D visions, Goot's marbled loveliness, Basso & Brooke's anything-goes prints and Nicoll's erm…soft porno prints… I just wonder whether in the future these 'alt' prints will be up there along with the more conventional prints outlined above.  So much so that future teenagers will decry 'cosmic prints' and declare their hoary motherships old-fashioned and misguided.  I guess this comes down to high street infiltration and the ol' filtering down process which doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon as copyrights are awash all over said designers' signature prints. 

Still, that was a brief mind map moment where the brain jumped ahead to something ridiculous before it even had the time to think it through properly.  I'm still going to go about gathering up as many 'alt' print pieces regardless of whether future offspring are going to want them or not. 

Altprints

15 comments

  2. If you’re ever giving your cosmic printed things away, give them to meeee, pleae. Especially if your future hypothetical daughter rejects them. Lucky girl though, she gets to inherit all of your wardrobe! I’m jealous of her already, haha.

  3. I love pattern mixing – though I’m timid about doing it myself – and it seems like these alt prints are MADE to be mixed.

  4. i say the more weird/strange/different, the better. everything always comes full circle (one day decades from now designers will be “reinventing” the 2000’s and maybe reference some of this stuff). at any rate, who cares about the future.. these prints are amazing!

  5. 😀 i always wonder, when people talk about ‘archiving’ stuff for their kids / the ones they’re going to have (tamara mellon, rachel zoe), if it’ll really tick them off if they only have boys or if the girls hate fashion… i hope that style continues to go down the eclectic route so any kids i have can love or leave my stuff (just like we do with our mothers’ closets!)
    xxxc
    http://clothestohealabrokenheart.blogspot.com/

  6. those shoes are completely monopolizing my workday daydreams.
    if they hadn’t rendered me speechless, i’d ask who/what/where they are…

  8. This reminded me of my mom the other day, stating she had several bin bags filled with clothes for future grandchildren. This scared me a lot!!
    I’ll have your wacky prints Susie!!

  9. Everything goes around in a circle…the only one in my family who saves her clothes is my aunt and my cousins steal her stuff all the time. If your kids like your style I’m sure they’ll like them, if not hopefully you’ll have young female relatives to give them to. I’m saving my stuff for my future kids I already have jewelery for them from my deceased nana and my watch and necklace from my 21. We also have a tradition that we give our necklaces (made of bone or jade) to our children when we die so that our ‘spirits’ live on in the next generation.

  10. I used to scoff at the clothes my mom would give me from her closet when I was a little kid. I thought they were out of date and totally “uncool”. But when I got older and more fashion conscious, I started going off on my own into her closet and borrowing her clothes. I think when we’re young we look at our parents, especially their style–are completely old and uncool. Now I’m begging her to let me borrow her sequin jumpsuits and butterfly skirts..

  11. I really love the way you re-wear and re-show-us items that’ve been on the blog in the past (it’s your diy shoe-paint-job that caught my eye this time). so many bloggers do a post going bananas over a new item, only for it never to appear again. it’s nice to see how things hold your interest, and how the way you wear a given item can evolve and remain interesting.. thank you for all the eye-candy and inspiration that’s always to be found here.

  14. Love those prints, it is a great season for loud fashions and truly unique, artful pieces. I found some good printed peices at emoda.com.

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