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Looking at Yona van Mansfeld’s latest collection I was reminded of Matisse’s paintings for its strong colour blocks, the blue, the red, the sharp outilnes, the round hips. But Yona’s inspiration in the ‘Elusive Clashing’ collection is Krijn de Koning, an artist who works with bright colors in modern objects and puts them in a classical environment; and she hasn’t got a design method that starts from the drawing and the graphical part but the most important part for her is draping. Maybe the bending point between Yona and Henry Matisse could be the fascination for a strong, trained feminine body. Muscles, curves, skin and lines. She “puts the attention on these bodylines, to accentuate the beautiful feminine silhouette and ads some estranging, body-reforming elements, tension is building up between the designs and the body, and gives the silhouette strength.”
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ince the beginning, my company has been about progression. I have not necessarily had one specific goal in
mind, only to work as hard as I can – the result being a steady increase in production, intensity, etc. I am happy
with what I am doing (creating things), but as most artists I am also very critical and quick to move onto new
projects. Luckily for me, the fashion industry is an incredibly fast-moving machine, which is a constantly creates
the challenges of deadlines and innovation.
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Erik and I met on LinkedIn although we studied in the same city, Florence; I don’t really have worked out with that social media yet, but the lesson is always the same: surprise hide everywhere, even behind cold business messaging.
And from northern Europe, Sweden, is where this shoe designer comes from to make his collection with the great artisanal help of tuscan refined high quality leather and entirely handcratfted production in the same region very well known for beeing the cradle and birthplace of all the high quality leather products of the biggest heavy weights in the International Fashion industry.
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Asian Designer Duo COINONIA composed by Kiho Kim and Momoko Hashigami guide us to their ethereal world of fantasy. Transparencies and weightless silhouettes combined with neutral colors, blacks and whites or acid colors in contrast, to create eclectic and volatile garments, easy and discreet like a whisper, elegant and fragile like butteflies. Built up over the mannequin, searching for modern architectural lines, well defined but still delicate. Graduated in Central Saint Martins Momoko from Japan met Kiho from Korea a graduate in Hangseung University in Seoul, and both joined forces to give birth to COINONIA. in Milan in 2010, where they launched their first collection 2010/2011 F/W in Paris.
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Manuel Bolaño, transforms his childhood memories, his heartbreaks and nostalgias into pieces of fine art meticulously created.
He gets attached to every garment like a a child. He knits, embroiders, makes the patters, sews, cuts. He challenges himself with every collection; he goes against the machines and technology and constructs as an artisan with his own hands and works in every detail. He makes sure that every piece has a little bit of him, something he gives away, yet something that deeply inside he´ll never let go.
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In 2008 Pauline Van Dongen graduated with a BA in Fashion Design from the renowned Artez, Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands. It was there that she first met with the French method of pattern drafting called “moulage” (mold) Later she began printing silk jersey with puff ink applying heat to the fabric. During this process, she discovered that the ink expanded and pulled the fabric into a resilient and flexible plissé.
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extraordinary news: the next ASVOFF Film festival will be held here, at the Caixa Forum Center in January 2012. his avant-garde Fashion guru created the first film festival who s core theme was Fashion in 2008, giving a completely different perspective to Fashion film, photography and advertisement. Since then, the festival has been held in internationally well known cities for fashion, art and design such as Paris, Milan,Tokyo, Mexico City, Moscow and London, having Barcelona to join them as the next host.
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Firangi Rang Barangi is the name of a series of paintings that celebrate the bold, unapologetic and creative personal style of people who cross vast cultural borders. “Firangi Rang Barangi” is Hindi for “colourful foreigner” and speaks to the perpetual sense of “otherness” or “outsiderness” that marks immigrant and diasporic communities.
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I was very busy working in Bombay but one thing my friend and designer Sara Bardotti told me I could not miss, is the shop Bombay Electric. This funky place right behind the Taj Mahal and the Taj Hotel (where I saw beautiful women in rich embroidered saris, creating an ancient and truly Indian atmosphere) was described by Paper Mag as “the spot for the hippest Indian designers” and by Superfuture as “India’s answer to progressive hybrid design and fashion”.
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Aurelie Dellasanta is e french swiss jewellery designer. She studied at the Royal college of Art. I love her themes, which are all to be discovered on her website: “Light my fire is an independent project which aim to respond to the question where is the ‘sacred’ in our modern reality? I wanted to question the reminiscence of the ancient ‘sacred’ in our contemporary reality, confronted with the new objects of adoration, as technology, massive consumption, image body etc.
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Do you fight or love fashion? How do you use Symbols?
different points of view in the Reportage by Vanni Bassetti, the Posterism project by Spiros Halaris, Sandy Kim in a world of young people who never fight and Anthony Maule great fashion photographer that works on destroying and liberate his perfect and constructed images (both discovered at Camera16).
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Fiona Paxton is a London-based designer creating striking hand-beaded necklaces, earrings and cuffs in geometric patterns and launched her own label in 2008 after 15 years of experience as a textile designer. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1992 specializing in Textiles Design. As a globetrotter Fiona has fused her love for Indian craftsmanship with the iconography of the British punk era (…)
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Kevin Kramp is a men’s knitwear designer I met in the Marais area during the Paris Fashion Week, an event organized by RA that dedicates a separate edition to menswear, using its Paris location to explore different facets of masculinity. His work is astonishing, sophisticated and incredibly experimental. He combines new shapes with luxury fibres of angora, mohair, cashmere, wool, cotton, textured silks and nylons, in a wide range of colours, sewing techniques and jacquard patterns.
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When italians do it, they do it well…That’s what you say when you see and wear one of these hats by Luca della Lama, the brand created by Facopel in 2002, which inherited all the values of the four generations hats label, born in 1908, first of them the research of pure fabrics, sustainable and biocompatible materials and leathers.
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LeCù Creative Lab are Claudia Mannelli Ortiz and Alice Lou Tanzarella from Prato, Italy. Prato is famous for its great tradition in producing regenerated wool and other fabrics, for knitwear, for the chinese community, for its cake shops and the confectionery fair, for producing many deisgner’s collections, for its “cenci” (second hand clothes which have been collected since after war), and for its contemporary art collections and gallerists: Now I think it’s time for working together with Florence and gain its name also for the upcoming fashion scene: I am personally working for this purpose ’cause I believe in it.
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“Professional Suicides”
The idea of making it came to me from the attitude between human and nature. Nowadays people disrespect gifts that nature gives them, they take everything they want in enormous amounts and never give back. They are consumers from the very beginning of their life and even don’t realise it. Truly speaking they are killing themselves with such behaviour. If they are against forces of nature they are suicides.
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Inspired by “fashion as function” and “transformation”, the designer of the label Resurrection by Ju Young Lee created this brand, which stands out of Korean Fashion week. As music is considered undinieble part of fashion, among the vip followers are Lady Gaga, Marilyn Manson, Black Eyed Peas and last Spring/Summer 2011 collection was presented with a live band showcase.
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Underground, urban, art inspired and sophisticated, Natacha Talay launches her second collection for S/S 2011, “Pierrot lost in future”, where she mixes black and white in pied de poule and peculiar graphic fabrics with labyrinths of trees.
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Lamberto Petri.
I started showing outside White, on the sidewalk. when I started having some press, people who passed over before, stopped. I don’t like this attitude. I believe in what I do. Why don’t do buyers the same? they have no taste education, it’s a massified behaviour. Only the real talent scouts are good buyers…
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I don’t know if I would have thought about jellyfishes at a first glance to Mandy Coon’s SS11 collection. When I first saw it I loved the bright colours, the dark yet aethereal feel, the layered and deconstructed silohuettes. But you know, it’s like when you read an art critic and you think “would really the artist mean the solitude of the human condition by painting a banana?” …
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Sasha Kanevski is one of the most appreciated designers in Ukrain. While waiting for his interview take a look to the collection and backstage of Kiev Fashion Days; and get an idea of his world looking for him on facebook, if you can find him, or to some of his friends, who have a blog I love, and famous model Alla Kostromicheva, that also FaceHunter couldn’t resist picturing.
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She describes herself laughing as the “mother of new ukrainian fashion”; she is really proud of her country and of the new projects going on; She wants her country to grow in fashion: she shared and shares her experience had in the late ‘90 in Paris, enocurages new designers and is not afraid of sharing the stage.
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If you’re tired of wearing always the same sunglasses, the same brands and you want to have something similar to a tailored piece of clothing, with a personal design, durable and reparable, then you should try a pair of Adrian Mustelin Spectacles. This finnish designer based in Barcelona says just one thing about himself: “he designs eyewear”, but …
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A strong and short name for a clearminded designer-illustrator-artist. can you tell a creative process?
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The influence of that great period of experimentation and pure mixture of music and fashion, is the peculiarity of Discipline, young italian brand, record label and booking agency.
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is fashion @Barthel
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(rien ne vas plus)
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great deSIGN by the duo Sandrina Fasoli
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“I deserve a gift” right moment
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crazy for birds in blue
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Californian Designer
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This exhibition was really a discovery
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New intense brand discovered at white basement: vozianov
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Vivetta and friends
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Milan based label Synthagma
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Flowers, tatoos, aliens and textures,
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I met Maiden Art at Pitti Uomo, and I was amazed by the simple beauty of their creations.
Ariko
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The powerful images of the young and talented Italian photographer Francesca Marcaccio, aka Franka M.
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A bright present and a brighter future for the fashion duo of Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein
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Math+Fashion+Zombies=Fashematics
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A new star in the bloggers universe.
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Fashion editor of Vogue L’Uomo, effortlessly perfect.
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Anna Dello Russo, style icon
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Tavi is an amazing 13 year old and already a fashion guru.
Ariko
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Lily Allen has been chosen as the cover model of Elle UK October 2009 Issue,
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Emil Kozak
Morethanlove
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Andrea Crews
Morethanlove
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