Questions? Give Us a Call
(678) 940-6433

HBF Textiles Revamps Fabric Classics

HBF Textiles Revamps Fabric Classics

Keep up with the latest from CCR-Mag.com

Fill out the form Below

Home New Products HBF Textiles Revamps Fabric Classics

 HBF Textiles has collaborated with Elodie Blanchard for the third time with a collection that reimagines classic motifs as anything-but-basic textiles. The New Basics collection of upholstery fabrics celebrates timeless patterns like minimal geometrics and modernizes them through color and texture. To inspire the line, designer Elodie Blanchard first experimented in another medium: paper. Blanchard tested folding, cutting, and hole-punching paper to find the shapes and sizes of each of the three textiles designs. From there, her vision was translated to fabric, using weave structures and tufted textures to mimic their original effects.
Blanchard explains, “I was particularly inspired by the works of artists Frank Stella and Agnes Martin, with their abstract, minimal aesthetics. For New Basics, we used that same simplicity and applied it to a modern design environment. Using HBF Textiles’ intuitive approach to color and expertise in dimensional weaving, we created a final collection that exudes ‘high-tech happy’—something that is usable and classic, but still makes you smile.”
Blanchard has a history of creative textile design. Her aesthetic is modern and imaginative, with each unique piece showcasing her ability to take everyday objects and transform them into extraordinary textiles with diverse design applications.
New Basics is the third collection in her ongoing collaborative series with HBF Textiles, and it acts as a continuation of her first two. Two of the new designs, Dot Grid and Moving In, are plays on best sellers from her award-winning 2014 line, and the New Basics upholstery fabrics act as complements to her earlier Winter 2016 collection of wrapped panel textiles. All of the collections link together through Blanchard’s unique approach to texture, fiber, and pattern.
Adds HBF Textiles Vice President of Design, Mary Jo Miller, “We look beyond the design itself to understand how it interplays with surface and color. Elodie’s modern take on New Basics turns up the volume on classic patterns with a playful edge that incorporates a textural identity.”
About Elodie Blanchard French designer Elodie Blanchard began designing clothes and organizing fashion shows in her teens, before moving to Paris to study sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and fashion at the Duperre School of Design and Fashion. She won the young designer prize at the International Fashion Arts Festival of Hyeres, which gave her the opportunity to sell her eponymous clothing line at the famed French La Redoute store. As the recipient of the Colin-Lefrancq grant, she studied at CalArts in Los Angeles, where she collaborated with musicians and dancers creating musical clothes and street performances. This intimate knowledge of material and fabrication led her to start her own Brooklyn company ELODIE BLANCHARD STUDIO in 2005, through which she produces her own projects and custom textile installations and designs for clients. New Basics is her third collection with HBF Textiles.
About HBF Textiles HBF Textiles gives dimension to the lives and spaces of users, designers and communities through the essential qualities of fabric. Our expertise comes from understanding the inherent qualities of fabric— yarn, dyeing, spinning, structure and weave. What we produce is not just textiles, but a larger web of relationships. Weaving textiles together with manufacturing and production, we are part of a two hundred year old legacy of textile manufacturing within North Carolina. And, with like-minded mills and collaborators––locally and globally––we explore together the myriad of possibilities of what fabric can be. Visit us at: www.hbftextiles.com

Events

Read more BELOW

 

The 2024 virtual Men’s Round Table will be held Q4, 2024, date TBD.

2024 Virtual Men’s Round Tables

2023 Virtual Men’s Round Table was held on November 7th, 2023 via Zoom.


 

2024 Virtual Women’s Round Table

2023 Women’s Round Table #1 was held on October 20th, 2023 via Zoom

News

Meijer brings its neighborhood store concept to Ohio

Meijer is expanding its smaller-format Fairfax Market banner beyond its home state of Michigan with the opening of a 40,000-square-foot store in Cleveland that offers more than 2,000 products from local vendors. Progressive Grocer

Supplements/Podcast
See Website for Details

This content (including text, artwork, graphics, photography, and video) was provided by the third party(ies) as referenced above. Any rights or other content questions or inquiries should be directed such third-party provider(s).

Receive the CCR 2024 Idustry Report

Get ahead of your Competitors with CCR's FREE Industry Insider's Report 2024!

Always stay two steps ahead of your Competitors. Stay informed with the latest in the Industry. 

This site uses cookies to ensure that you get the best user experience. By choosing “Accept” you acknowledge this and that ccr-mag.com operates under the Fair Use Act. Find out more on the Privacy Policy & Terms of Use Page