Studied Journalism and Advertising in Brazil at Catholic University of Santos and St. Cecilia University respectively, and has been working as a Print/Graphic Designer and Art Director for over 20 years.
Chris Brooke
British
Fashion Designer
Studied Fashion at Kingston University, gaining a First Class honours degree, and an MA at the prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in 1997 and has been working in the fashion industry ever since.
Bruno & Chris have been consulting for important international fashion houses, designers and high street stores, hotels and private wealth clients around the world for over a decade.
They founded their eponymous fashion label Basso & Brooke in 2003, its diffusion Menswear label Basso & Brooke Studio in 2012 and The Artwork Club in 2014.
Awards & Achievements
2004 - Named winners of the inaugural Fashion Fringe award, in the same year Vogue championed them as ones to watch in their annual ‘Vogue List’.
2005 - Nominated for Best New Designer at the British Fashion Awards.
2006 - Recipients of 'Best New Designer' award at the Elle Style Awards.
2007 - Exhibited at Arnhem Fashion Biennale.
2008 - Nominated for 'Fashion Contribution to Interiors' award at the Elle Decoration/British Design Awards.
2009 - London’s Design Museum short-listed their SS09 Collection for ‘Designs Of The Year'.
2010 - Selected as members of the highly regarded Walpole ‘Brands of Tomorrow’ program, a unique alliance of Britain’s finest luxury brands.
2011 - Started Basso & Brooke menswear.
2012 - Launched own brand e-store.
2013 - Showcased key pieces at the Phoenix Art Museum exhibition 'Digital Print Fashion'.
2014 - Curated and designed the Brazilian governmental-backed project 'Cores do Brasil' at OCA museum, Sao Paulo.
2014 - Founded The Artwork Club.
Basso & Brooke have shown their collections on the official schedule of London Fashion Week for several years, as well showcasing their work in the USA, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, China, Korea, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Italy & France. They are widely renowned for their pioneering use of digital printing in textiles and are the first designers to employ this technique in a full catwalk collection, since 2004.
They have an outfit archived at the Metropolitan Museum of New York’s Costume Institute – the first digitally printed piece in their permanent collection.
Celebrity clientele
Michelle Obama, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Kylie Minogue, Florence Welch, La Roux, Paris Hilton, Kanye West, Iris Apfel, Chris Brown, Kelly Rowland, Claudia Schiffer, Jourdan Dunn, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Lara Stone and many others.
A good print design should encompass originality and beauty along with flawless technical execution for it to make perfect sense. This is what we strive to give to our clients at The Artwork Club.
The thought process to achieve the perfect print for your brand or product, should be a straight forward and inspiring experience with a friendly relationship formed along the way.
Discover > Define > Design > Deliver - These methods are not rigid protocols to be followed unthinkingly, but frameworks that can and should be adapted for each project we undertake.
DISCOVER
25%
DEFINE
50%
DEVELOP
75%
DELIVER
100%
DISCOVER - initial contact, general observations, creating a project space. > DEFINE - brainstorming, discuss and defining ideas to be developed, initial fast visualisation. > DEVELOP - Designing process, reviews and alterations, physical or digital prototyping. > DELIVER - final approval, deliver of files, quality control.
Florals, geometrics, animal prints, conversationals, ethinics, textures, abstracts, checks, stripes, camouflages, paisleys, traditional or hyperreal, frugal or frivolous, simple or intricate, engineered or allover, delicate or bold, hand painted or computer generated, monochromatic or the full spectrum of 16 million colours at once - and everything in between. If you can imagine it, it's real.
We believe every textile has its own story to tell, that print design can be the most powerful way to tell it, and that above all, if you going to print any kind of surface it should deserve an incredible print.
