AW 12 inspirations

Getting ready to upload the new collection online, and also deliver to the shops, in the meantime feast your eyes on some of the inspiration for this collection...

I went to Jamaica for the afternoon

Sometimes its so nice to get away from the studio, specially on a sunday afternoon, when the weather is good. Don't take me wrong, I love doing what we do, but sometimes, a wee break is needed to gather your thoughts, we went down to Brixton for the 50 years independents street party, it was the night the usain bolt won his first medal, and the atmosphere was electric, we could hardly move amongst the crowds, and eventually the police broke of the party:( but boy, the where some beautiful people out there, that where just rockin that Jamaican colors look!!

process

Another week on instagram has passed..well the week was actually 3 days, with the diamond jubilee celebrations taking over the whole weekend! but as we are in the midst of production for AW 12 and sampling for SS 13, we couldn't drop everything and join the wet crowds on the river, we just picked up what we could on the iPad, and the streets of dalston, it was pretty cool, because the seemed to be nobody about around the studio, so we pretty much had the whole of ridley road at our disposal, we cranked up the volume in the studio and celebrated the diamond jubilee RIYKA style:)

I am not a skater boy

cleaning up my memory disk on my camera, I came across these lovely images I took at an opening for Tim Hans at the print space in shoreditch
I am no skater boy/girl, but I just love how these images are so real, its dificult to capture the skater culture with out it looking like every other skater image you have seen, but these are special

TEXTILE INSPIRATION SS 12

working on the flat drawings for SS 12 production, and playing with the triangles in my dresses created some fun textures, it cant all be boring paper work and hours of boring Photoshop when you are madly stressed about production, I am sure the will be more of these little visual teasers:))

its still AW

Have found some more AW 11-12 images on the fantastic photographer's website who shot the AW look book, ludo, so nice to see some new images, love them !! thanks Ludo:))