It was a silk column, in a print recalling London in the 60's, and attached to one shoulder was an Edwardian mutton sleeve in taffeta.
"They got an Indian printer who couldn't read a word of Afrikaans to print it," recalls Brink.
"They would say, 'How did you edit it if you didn't have a work print?' " he recalled.
He would rave in print, he recalls, about "rare import white-labels by groups like Company Flow and Juggaknots, this whole burst of energy happening in New York.
Mr. Rocks then called attention to his T-shirt, half of which was covered in a colorful, African-inspired print that recalled hip-hop's late '80s flirtations with Afrocentrism.
In the spirit of optimism, Michael Kors sent out a upbeat Celine collection on Tuesday of classic separates -- from embossed leather minis and striped canvas hot pants to jackets and strapless minis in an exploding sunflower print that recalled Marimekko.
"Gursky's Gherkin," a very large green pickle resting on a plate in a 4-by-6-foot color print that recalls the enormous images in Mr. Gursky's recent show at the Museum of Modern Art, explores as never before the sense of picklehood, or what it means to be a pickle.
"When we were reaching out to contributors, or when we contacted PR companies to make a request, the first thing they'd ask was, 'is this print?'" Levinson recalls.
Qristyl, another of my early favorites, is making something out of shiny satin in a print that recalls the sprinkles on the Carvel ice cream logo.
Despite some baroque prints that recalled Nicolas Ghesquière's style at Balenciaga, Prabal Gurung restored levity to his label.
