Posts Tagged ‘paris’
Institute of Chicago the exhibition titled “Fashioning the Object” explores these fiercely independent and far-reaching young designers from Berlin, London, Paris, and Stockholm that are producing fashion objects that straddle the line between traditional craft and cutting-edge technique, both in their use of materials and in the promotion of their brands. Contemporary fashion over the last 50 years has become increasingly tied to issues surrounding everyday life, fuelled by agendas as diverse as politics, the environment, pop culture, and social reform. Fashion designers, moving beyond traditional presentation methods such as the catwalk show or window displays, have embraced a diversity of methods to push their practice into new arenas. As these themes and experimentation are the ones the mostly affect my research I highly reccomend to visit this exhibition.
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If you write about menswear is very common to take for granted many details. Unfortunately, unlike the women catwalks, the menswear dare not so much on creating new structures of dressing. While most fashion shows are just showcasing beautiful but somehow classic lines, with parades of collections that remind me something I’ve just seen in years, there are also few stunning surprises.
I’m going to introduce to you one of my favorite menswear brand, it’s likewise a refreshing to see a designer like: JUUN.J. A graduate of Esmod Seoul in 1992 he has started his career as a designer for Chiffons. In his own collection, the designer likes to create new silhouettes and garments with an overlapping of pieces creating a spectacular tension between them.
I really love the whole collection, I find JUUN.J closer to an artist than a fashion designer. His work is defined by a layering process that makes his pieces similar to sculptures; every garment is built with unusual volumes, furthermore his graphics solutions create gorgeous geometric shapes made of leather and wool’s patches.
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C.A.2 is a creative project coming from the collaboration of two young designers who in life are separated by seven hours of time lag: Catia di Carlo, momentarily living in China and Andrea Bonfini, living in Italy. A long distance project which made them win the international fashion design competition Who’s Next 2011 in Paris, where they showcased their first collection of leather accessories during the ‘Premiere Classe’ tradeshow.
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Raun Larose met Narcissus for his Autumn Winter 2011 collection creating chic and luminous designs.
Raun decided to go into menswear design because at 24 he was not satisfied with what the menswear market had to offer to him. So he started designing clothes that he, himself would wear. His mother, being a seamstress used to design high-end designs and would take him to fabric stores and let him watch while she worked.This was a great influence on Raun as a designer and he first sewing at the age of 16. He studied at the Art Institute of NYC where he majored in women’s wear designs but later realized that menswear was his calling.
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Speaking about the world of fashion there are sometimes things I do not entirely understand. I wonder how some fashion magazines still propose poses so artificial in their editorial work, models often do faces and stay in still poses that a normal person would never dream of doing, ever. It is likely that in order to be a model you need to be trained in aerobics or in an advanced hatha yoga session. When I was younger I used to live with some friends of mine who are now well known fashion designers and sometimes we used to animate boring evenings by mimic poses from “notorious” magazines (one among my favorite magazines).
Some of these poses were so weird that if people, in their everyday life, would have ever tried to stay in those positions for more than five minutes, they would have certainly risked a paralysis (but it was sooo funny for us). Of course not all the photographers are the same (alleluia), I’m lucky, I used to work with very talented professionals, (one of them is directing a famous fashion magazine) they used to fix in their work the soul and not just outfits and awkward stunts. In this post I want to highlight some gorgeous pics of the fashion photographer Angelo Pennetta, a very talented guy who’s able to portray the inner side of the models through smiles and stolen moments.
This is what a photographer is called to do, the pics needs to communicate something more than a body and a brand. We need to see moments of life and dream trough fashion fairy tales, magazines are in my opinion the books we left in our childhood that we now want bring back.
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Reality Studio is back with a brand new collection for the Spring Summer 2011. The project, I would rather say, is called “Open To The Public” showcasing the collection in an unconventional way. On bicycles!
Eight women are selected to stroll through the streets of Berlin during the Berlin Fashion week in July, modeling the pieces for the current season. The idea behind this collection is rather than limiting the viewing to a selected audience, the Reality Studio have let lose and presents the collection to the public. The starting point of the project was an inspiration from the Californian music performer ‘Flying Lotus’.
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Young bloggers in the sun/ From order to chaos/ Try walking in my shoes/ Lovely smile/ Glittery Giovanna/ Bright stripes in a grey room/ Creative braids/ Terèse of 5preview; we spent the whole day together and had a great time, after Steffie Christiaens show. I’ll publish photos of it in the next post!
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.. Oh, yes, I’m going to bore you with all the faboulous brands I saw in Paris during the fashion week for many, many other posts! But “bore” is a word that can’t be linked in any case to the work of Howitzweissbach! I met the designers, Eva Howitz and Frieder Weissbach, at their stand in Rendez-Vous Showroom. They are a young, international fashion label from Leipzig/Germany (…)
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Among the many things I saw at Tranoi in Paris, there were two bag manufacturers that I loved… and both of them were Italian!
Massimo Palomba is a small brand of handmade leather bags based in Sestri Levante (Genova). He explained to me that to make these incredibly intricate bags he had started from the study of the weaving of the straw used to make Thonet chairs (…)
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What I don’t like about fashion fairs is the fact that sometimes there are brands that look like a pure exhibition of “I studied at St Martins and I am oh-so-creative (but have no practical sense)”. That’s why when I see a brand which bring brilliant and creative ideas, which say something new and at the same time make something useful, I feel fine!
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I was in Paris during the fashion week, but I’m not going to bore you talking about shows you can easily see by yourself on Style.com. What I tried to do in those fabulous days was to visit as many fairs I could, and go to emerging designers’ showrooms and events, to show you something different and fresh. That’s what I found at Rendez Vous Show Room in Rue Richelieu 60: a selection of new designers, some of them really interesting, which you will probably hear about in the future.
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“For me fashion is an expression of art that is very close related to me and to my body. I see it as my expression of identity combined with desire, moods and cultural setting.” says the brilliant talent Iris van Herpen. Born in the Netherlands she started her eponymous brand in 2007 after studying Fashion Design at ARTEZ and finishing her internship with beloved Alexander McQueen. She won many awards in the Dutch media besides her showcases in London, Amsterdam, Spain and finally, received the appreciation she deserves with her show “Escapism” in 2011 Paris Couture Week. To her, fashion is a contrast between beauty and regeneration, by which she means; reevaluating reality and underlining individuality.
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After a full Spring Summer fashion shows in Europe and New York, it is Istanbul turning the spot light. New to the fashion world, Istanbul is growing greater by the minute especially with the collaboration of the emerging designers and ITKIB ( Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporter Associations), forming Istanbul Fashion Week.Istanbul Fashion Week, a.k.a. , IFW has swept through fashion lovers in Istanbul.
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A saturday night has passed at Building Galata in Istanbul. Yes, this new concept brought to us by TUXEDO may not be as Vintage as the songs of Billie Holiday below in the video. However, that is exactly why Tuxedo comes up with a better concept; the New Vintage. Building housed an important event, that is crucial especially for Istanbul, by bringing Vintage to the people.
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(rien ne vas plus)
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A shooting and a short movie by Karl Lagerfeld
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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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Cristophe Maout is a Parisian photographer who made a very particular report of the last Paris fashion week.
Cristophe Maout è un fotografo parigino che ha realizzato scatti molto particolari per l’ultima settimana della moda di Parigi.
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