It’s not just that screen printing by hand allows for greater control of print detail, as we can see here, it also allows for varied intensities of colour within the print.

The majority of pricing for screen print allows for a couple of straight pulls of the squeegee blade across the screen, but due to the large heart and the true craftsmen’s approach of our very own Matt, we spotted him layering up colours at no extra cost, with a slightly more freestyle and creative approach.

He’s a modest man, so we filmed him secretly, but hope you agree that our screen printers have a tendency to go beyond the call of duty…

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Inspirations for St Paul’s grainy black and white photographic designs, with a floral motif, are eclectic, ranging from punk icons The Clash, to Constance Spry, the original high society florist. The designs started with the St Paul Lifestyle love story. Designs feature photographs by artists including Zoe an exhibitor at the National Portrait Gallery and one half of the artists “The Girls” (who recently completed an installation at Selfridges). St Pauls Lifestyle also supports and celebrates emerging musical talent: all the models on St Pauls’ website, and who appear within the designs themselves, are musicians who have been scouted by the founder, Rose Paul.

Born in Kuala Lumpur to English parents, Rose Paul’s embarrassed father would introduce his daughter as ‘Fifi the au pair’ on account of her black and yellow and shaven Mohican hair style. Fashion runs in Paul’s blood, her grandmother Jessie Phillips was a fashion designer who supplied her own label to Harrods, and designed uniforms for the QEII.

St Pauls gives young musicians a showcase on OVERGROUND SOUND which is featured on the BLOG at www.stpaulslifestyle.com  OVERGROUND SOUND is a place for airing new music (so pass the word around please to any band or artist you know looking for  a platform – tell them to email info@stpaulslifestyle.com). It also hosts music reviews, and interviews. It is a huge success.- Recent interviews on OVERGROUND SOUND include “Pulled Apart by Horses”; the multiple award winning Canadian superstars Joel Plaskett with Peter Elkas and “Bury Tomorrow” on the eve of their major Japan/US Tour.

Launched online on 14th May at www.mepod.co.uk, mepod t-shirts feature a
stylised baby that expresses women’s interests pre-pregnancy – focusing on activities and indulgences that go on hold for nine months.

Whether it’s the putting a halt to gym membership, parking up the bike, missing a ski season, or simply craving a daily coffee fix – the tees provide women with a stylish slogan t-shirt with designs that are worn on the bump – far beyond anything else in the maternity market.

mepod’s creator Lucy Sibbald commented: “The aim with mepod is to create a brand of t-shirts that you would consider wearing even if you weren’t pregnant. My major gripe when I was carrying my two littlies was the lack of excitement surrounding the clothes out there – mepod is something we want women to look forward to wearing. Loving sport pre-baby, I also wanted people to know that I did ‘stuff’ too it was just on hold, and mepod does just that, letting women give an insight into their lifestyles and giving them an identity beyond the bump – the ‘me’ behind the pod.”

mepod talks beyond natural birth versus epidural, breast versus bottle – topics that so often consume mother-to-be – mepod is about the woman behind the baby bump and the life they will bring to their child.

mepod t-shirts retail at £30 – take a peek in the pod at www.mepod.co.uk
www.mepod.co.uk birth announcement: born on 14th May, 8.44am, weighs 400 KB, all vital sections functioning correctly, and mama doing well too.

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For further information please contact Lucy@mepod.co.uk or 07889 125 366

PANTONE fashion colour report 2010

Designers continue to exhibit a degree of caution for fall 2010, yet offer a palette of beauty and excitement with a blending of colors, some with similar undertones, in surprising and intriguing combinations. Inspired by the ongoing phenomenon of film animation, vivid colors are often juxtaposed in inventive ways, creating arresting and extraordinary color combinations.

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The brand has also featured on MTV, T4, E4, Skins,Hollyoaks, the TV series WAGS Boutique, been worn by Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, M.I.A, London-born rapper Example, Tim Lovejoy, members of The Automatic, Mumm ‘Ra, New Young Pony Club and Lady Sovereign and have designed customised jewellery for the shoe designer Gil Carvalho who has worked with the likes of Madonna and Liz Hurley.

They have also recently had our jewellery featured on Project Catwalk on SkyOne and also had a one-off customized piece of jewellery worn by M.I.A on her recent cover shoot for Notion magazine.

All this has been achieved since the launch a year ago, helping to firmly establish Chateau Roux as one of the most exciting and sought after young labels around today.

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tshirt printing, screen printing, embroidery

“These are one-of-a-kind tees. Before we print a run of shirts we test the design on a tee to make sure there aren’t any leaks, pin-holes and overall defects in the screen. After a while the designs overlap creating layers and layers of greatness.  Every single test tee varies a bit. Also, there may be finger smudges or other attributes that add character to these artifacts.”

Some words from Terry Christian about the man behind the brand.

Pretty Green, taken from the title of a Jam song, is to be the name of Liam Gallagher’s new clothing range: classic styles as befitting a true star and reflecting the tastes of his audience. Liam says he is sick of the studenty skinny-jean look and wants to bring lads’ fashions back, and what true lad wouldn’t want to look like a rock star?

Gallagher was always going to be a star, from the first time I saw him, singing shyly at the Boardwalk club on a bill with Molly Halfhead and a band called the Cherries, to larging it up to full houses at Earls Court and Maine Road. If you were a 15-year-old kid sitting in your council house watching the telly, you’d want to be Liam Gallagher and to look like him; you wouldn’t necessarily want to look like Brandon Flowers or Russell Brand. The older I get and the more I hear the middlebrow brigade in their Hush Puppies sneering at Gallagher, the more I embrace the lad. To be annoying people still after all these years, he’s got to be doing something right.

Gallagher was always a bit of a style icon in his native Burnage. According to his old mate from school, Mark Bierne: “He was always smart, with good taste, a sort of Sixties-influenced mod look with a bit of Stone Roses thrown in. He used to love those Belstaff leather jackets, Converse boots — a classic, young-lads-around-Manchester look, really — but he carried it off well. It was the sort of look most of us were trying to perfect. He always looked good, even when he was broke.”

In the book Brothers from Childhood to Oasis, Gallagher’s older brother Paul told of how the 14-year-old Liam would help himself to his stuff while he was out at work. “Things would always go missing from my bedroom: adidas bags, T-shirts, the lot. It was my shirts that bugged me, especially my Ben Shermans. I’d complain and our Mam would just say: ‘Leave him alone, Paul. You’ve plenty of money for shirts.’ He always wanted to look perfect; he used to smother his hair in my gel, nicking my deodorant and aftershave too. He wouldn’t go out unless he looked perfect.”

Back then Gallagher was very much a young lad on the dole in a new band (Noel hadn’t joined Oasis yet and Liam, Bonehead, Guigsy and Tony McCarroll were still called Rain). He’s remembered for occasionally descending on offices in New Mount Street in Manchester, where small record labels, independent music pluggers and the Inspiral Carpets were all based. He would flog jeans and T-shirts out of a huge holdall: mainly Calvin Klein, Stone Island and that type of gear. There was a lot of it about at the time, allegedly thanks to a Burnage contact at Manchester Airport.

In many ways, you could say that selling clothes was Gallagher’s first real earner from the music business, but then that was what scallies did.

No doubt the glossies will sneer at a working-class kid who dares to call young student types sartorially challenged. Personally, I look forward to rummaging through his new collection, perhaps out of a holdall sported by some young scally in a bar in town.

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Times March 20, 2009