Scabal Dali's collection

Scabal has a thing about art and has always broken new grounds in the field of fabric design with the independent and creative spirit of anartist. The link with Dali goes beyond a shared philosophy. Almost 40 years ago, Scabal asked Dali to draw 12 paintings representing his view of man and fashion in the 21st century.

Fabrics: "Dali's collection"

These paintings have inspired Scabal to create a unique collection of 24 fabrics. Scabal has been more extravagant and frivolous in its designs than normal. Above all, Scabal wanted to faithfully reproduce the innovative and colourful character of Dali’s style in this new fabric collection, called simply “Dali’s Collection”.

The fabrics are woven from pure wool in Scabal’s own mill in Huddersfield (England). The comfortable weight of the fabric (300 grams) is pleasant to wear. Every design is unique and reproduces the spirit of all of Dalí‘s pictures in an abstract manner, either in the form of the design or in the colour combination.
Each cut of fabric is delivered with a special “Dalí“ fabric label for the inside of the garment.
Scabal has created a luxury box in which to present these “art collection” fabrics. These boxes will be distributed among Scabal’s clients worldwide.

>> Discover the fabrics pictures in the Fabrics Catalogue

London College of Fashion

Scabal worked with the London College of Fashion on this exceptional project. Scabal asked second-year students to interpret Dalí‘s drawings during their “Bespoke Tailoring” course and to create actual garments. The twenty students and their tutors had total freedom to add other aspects to the traditional “Bespoke Tailoring”, such as theatrical elements and digital prints which allowed them to pleasantly combine contemporary high technology with the traditional tailor’s profession.

Dali video: interview with Alan-Cannon Jones, director of "Menswear and Bespoke tailoring" of the London College of Fashion and lots more info:

>> Watch the video (Dutch subtitles)

>> Watch the video (French subtitles)

>> Watch the video (no subtitles)

>> Download the videos in many different formats (IPhone, IPod, Computer, Blackberry etc)

Roadshow from London to Tokyo

The Dalí drawings, the new fabric collection and the fashion students’ creations are planned to be exhibited together with the Dalí suit line in a number of international locations including Yekaterinburg, Salzburg, Barcelona, Bucarest, London, Brussels, Moscow and Tokyo in the autumn of 2009.