Georgia Chapman co-founded the fashion label Vixen Australia in 1993. Here she combines her passion for designing original handcrafted textiles with their use in a limited production fashion range, and more recently, homewares.

Chapman’s design process includes experimenting with layering textures, colours and patterns using techniques like dyeing, over-dyeing, hand printing, etching and embellishing.

Her design and textile printing studio is in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Working with a small team, including fashion designers, the production of textiles is carried out in-house. Chapman has always been committed to hand production but digital printing is opening up new possibilities.

You can see Chapman's work in the new exhibition Smart works: design and the handmade, until 4 November 2007 at the Powerhouse Museum.

Smart works: design and the handmade

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+ Smart works: design and the handmade
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+ Mass-production
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