Cartoon Couture reflects the excitement that's been flooding through London's creative scene. It brings pixel designs and hallucinogenic colors for bold, outrageous style.

Cartoon Couture reflects the excitement that's been flooding through London's creative scene, with designers Jeremy Scott (left), Cassette Playa (middle) and Kill City (right), making their mark that's now seeping deeper into menswear through street style and high fashion. It brings pixel designs and hallucinogenic colors for bold, outrageous style

The make it wearable, the key is balancing proportions of print, color and silhouette. If the silhouette is loose on top, like designer Henrik Vibskov (middle), slim fit jeans balance the look. The same principle applies to color and print. Where prints dominate in street style (left) and at Bernhard Wilhelm (right), the rest is kept basic.

Brit band the Klaxons, styled by the designer behind Cassette Playa, (left), ignited the new rave renaissance. Using vivid, bold colors including lime and soda-pop purple, designer Carri Mundane is inspired by retro video games and psychedelia. For bold street-wear, Australian brand Coogi (right), have embraced neon color and geometric graphics.

At New York's Blue tradeshow, Japanese cartoons influenced men's clothes, in the form of wearable art, as seen at Rolland Berry, (right), who uses his own original artwork, as well as at Her Majesty's Secret Studio, which featured Japanese Hanafuda cards and iconic cinema influenced screen-prints for dramatic, unique t-shirt designs (left).

This catalog was created for hardworking fashion merchandisers devoted to their consumer and their well-stocked boutiques. Above is a small tasting of extraordinary labels promised to bring any shop success. For contact details on manufacturers shown, conduct a keyword search.

Publisher: infomat
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Web: www.infomat.com
Published: July 2007
Market: womens
Region: usa
Industry: apparel
Editor: Angela Cunningham

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