A paisley-shaped flower garden in London’s Hyde Park was the starting point for Paisley Brocade, fashion designer Paul Smith’s latest textile collaboration with Maharam.
Building upon Smith’s longtime interest in reimagining traditional motifs, Paisley Brocade enlists unexpected color, exaggerated scale, and references to both traditional needlepoint and modern digitization. Smith’s approach brings freshness and dimensionality to a pattern that has appeared over centuries and throughout the world—including his forthcoming Autumn/Winter ’21 collection.