This is a bit of a convoluted brain wave that needs some careful navigation. I was thumped the other day by the fact that an old school friend was now engaged - ENGAGED?!?! That's a word that I say with a question mark lilt at the end as if I've never heard of such a concept. In a random mind whizz, and here's where the convoluted mind mapping comes in, I suddenly fast forwarded to the thought of having offspring and for me telling her (there has to be a 'her' for me to offload my shit to... ) "Here you can have this cosmic print tee and Peter Pilotto cosmic trews!" and her retorting "Urgh...nobody says tee or trews anymore! I'd HATE cosmic prints!" In a similar fashion to how I treated florals at the age of 13.
There lies my pondering. As I've been coveting prints outside of the polka/floral/geometric/animal genres - Pilotto's space prints, Schwab's 3-D visions, Goot's marbled loveliness, Basso & Brooke's anything-goes prints and Nicoll's erm...soft porno prints... I just wonder whether in the future these 'alt' prints will be up there along with the more conventional prints outlined above. So much so that future teenagers will decry 'cosmic prints' and declare their hoary motherships old-fashioned and misguided. I guess this comes down to high street infiltration and the ol' filtering down process which doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon as copyrights are awash all over said designers' signature prints.
Still, that was a brief mind map moment where the brain jumped ahead to something ridiculous before it even had the time to think it through properly. I'm still going to go about gathering up as many 'alt' print pieces regardless of whether future offspring are going to want them or not.
