The Italian brand Etro also has a history of imaginative printing, mostly done with a traditional silk-screen process, and it has created a cache of patterns that can be used for inspiration.
Knits with rich textures and sculptural depth and ultra-imaginative prints were constant themes.
But although comparisons might seem unfair, after London Fashion Week's displays of ultra-imaginative digital printing, Italy's efforts seem rather tame.
His designs used imaginative accessories, silk prints, and embroidered fabrics.
The result was a clear win for the sophisticated prints and imaginative cuts of Marcobologna, a label by fashion duo Marco Giugliano, 26, and Nicolò Bologna, 27.
It's broken up into five different fiefdoms in competition with the others, each with its own set of pink, green, and yellow plastic-covered menus printed in Chinese and imaginative English.
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
As for special effects, did you honestly doubt that peeling duct tape and a sheet of printed fabric, if handled with imaginative brio, could be as frightening as any ten-million-dollar monster?
In The Disasters of Wars first two groups of prints, Goya largely departs from the imaginative, synthetic approach of Caprichos to realistically depict life-and-death scenes of war.
One is effeminate, an imaginative take on the Brummellian dandy; think last autumn's leopard print at Topman Design or printed shirts at Burberry.
Some of the most hilarious and imaginative pieces were caftans and hoods made from printed towels found on the Venice boardwalk and collaged together — elephants grafted with sharks, panther bodies with human heads.
