A Lady's Scarf
I have been working on turning the leopard and markhor design into a lady's scarf. The idea is that it would be digitally printed onto something like pashmina or for a lighter weight version, silk.
A blog of the concepts, designs and stories which are coming together to form the clothing label Hindu Kush. Please feel free to comment on posts, any feedback would be most appreciated.
Monday, 5 August 2013
Sunday, 4 August 2013
Sunday, 28 July 2013
The Himalayan Edelweiss
The lady's coat is back from the tailor. No pictures of it yet I am afraid, but there will be soon! I have done a little drawing of a Himalayan Edelweiss to go inside it. I saw quite a few of these in 2006 near Baroghil around the Karumba lake on the border with Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor. It's a beautiful area of high altitude pasture, famed for it's wild flowers... and very remote, it take 3 days or so to walk in from the jeep road. I pressed quite a few flowers (below) and also started a drawing of local Wakhi women spinning wool- the same technique which is used in the manufacture of shu.
Monday, 24 June 2013
A Jacket Finished... at last!
This is about to go off to the factory in Pakistan, so I really hope that I have my first complete product! All my models are off building a parallel universe or something like that in Glastonbury, so I am afraid that you have to see me wearing the jacket. I thought that I might call it "Hill Jacket", does that sound pants?
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Screen Captures for the website
My friend David Midgely is starting work on the Hindu Kush website. Here are some screen captures of how it will look. Each image represents a different window and the last image is of the navbar. I think I might also have some GIFFs on the home page- I made one from film taken on my last trip to Pakistan, to see it click here.
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Waistcoat Nearly Finished
I have nearly finished tweaking a waistcoat for the first collection. The lining is the 'exploded' Khyber Pass design I posted about earlier, the buttons are horn and the cut is close to the traditional Pakistani 'waskit'. Here it is modeled by the devastatingly handsome Alex Robertson during our trip to the Hindu Kush last month. He is flanked by a jeep driver of immense skill and Zar Wali Shah our guard, who was a very nice guy and also a great dancer...
Sunday, 2 June 2013
A New Leopard Chasing a Markhor
The leopard chasing a markhor design has been weighing on my mind.... I have re worked it, which, depending on taste has either made the scene much clearer, or made the whole thing even naffer. I also think I will present it as a picture sewn onto the lining with a caption, as below.
The leopard chasing a markhor design has been weighing on my mind.... I have re worked it, which, depending on taste has either made the scene much clearer, or made the whole thing even naffer. I also think I will present it as a picture sewn onto the lining with a caption, as below.
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