Textile Print Design for Chicxs Indumentaria by Ornella GastaldonTextile Print Design for Chicxs Indumentaria by Ornella Gastaldon

Textile Print Design for Chicxs Indumentaria

Ornella Gastaldon

Ornella Gastaldon

Textile Print Design, Open Call Winner 2026
Chicxs Indumentaria is an independent Buenos Aires clothing brand with a strong visual identity rooted in local culture and illustration. In 2026, they opened a public design call for original positional print with a coordinated seamless pattern to be produced as garments.
The challenge wasn't just designing something visually strong, it was designing something that could survive production. A positional print lives or dies in the gap between the screen and the fabric: scale, line weight, color separation, file structure. Getting that gap wrong means a reprint, a delay, or a design that loses everything it was.
I built the illustration in Procreate with production in mind from the first stroke. Line weight calibrated for sublimation. Color palette chosen for saturation retention on dark fabric. Final composition was designed in Photoshop for the specific placement on the garment, accounting for seams, body movement, and the way the eye travels across a worn piece. 
The concept stems from an attempt to portray a passion for the feline, that soft, enigmatic, and magnetic presence. It is a presence that bridges distant and recent memories within a universe where the sacred becomes vibrant, and life, much like bioluminescence, finds its own light in the darkness. It was a process of syncretism, juxtaposing the feline deity with Latin American idiosyncrasy.
Positional Print
Positional Print
The design was selected as the winning entry. It went from file to finished garment exactly as conceived
Coordinated seamless pattern
Coordinated seamless pattern
Submitted Proposal
Submitted Proposal
This project is proof of what I work toward every time: the moment a client holds the piece and it looks exactly like what they imagined.
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Posted Apr 21, 2026

Designed a winning textile print for Chicxs Indumentaria in 2026.