sula & the colour pink!
The sula team sit down to discuss designer Alison Taylor’s thoughts about pink, what has inspired our pink hues for spring summer 2024 and the history of the beloved colour.
The sula team sit down to discuss designer Alison Taylor’s thoughts about pink, what has inspired our pink hues for spring summer 2024 and the history of the beloved colour.
“I was always a massive Kate Bush fan and met one of my oldest best friends through the Kate Bush fan club, and women’s voices speak to me in a special way”
Overalls have all been carefully cut to flatter the female form. We also present our first bridal dress as well as a new print, inspired by the faded pressed flowers found betwixt antique books.
sula collections always start with a colour story, the incredible Jennifer Packer exhibition I went to see inspired our following spring and summer collection we created.
most people are trichromatic, this means they have three different types of cones in their eyes. A tetrachromat has 4 different colour perception channels.
The Rosalita dress was inspired by the Rosa jacket which has roots in Eastern European workwear. I am wearing mine as a spring coat for this fresh weather.
In Vietnam our production team have been busy marking up the cloth for cutting and stitching. Meanwhile, by the sea, we are cutting final pieces of material and checking patterns.
“What’s the hardest part?
The supply chain is very long and sometimes things are simply out of my hands — and things sometimes do go wrong.”
Take a look at this interview with Aaron Joel Santos, we have worked with Aaron on every one of our photo shoots over the last 5 years. We love what he has said about sula!
We found our dressing room, adorned with an old rope hanging amongst the dusty sackcloth and drying workers clothes of a 400 year old spice store. The colours of the room were amazing.
Alison and Archana share the same intensity in their approach to their work, not pausing for a moment until they have found the right combination of threads, beads and buttons.
I am talking a lot about my trip to India, it was so amazing it might just go on for a while yet. I was very inspired by what I saw, here are some photos I took.
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