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Fashion News for April 2013
The Topshop Colour Wheel photo : Agnese Sanvito
30 Apr - Topshop Store London - Colour Wheel is an installation currently located in Topshop’s Oxford Street flagship, designed by emerging London studio NEON as part of the RIBA’s Regents Street Window Project 2013. The latest creation from London based design studio NEON has come to life in the window of Topshop’s Oxford Street flagship. The installation forms part of the Regents Street Window Project 2013, an initiative by RIBA London in partnership with the Regent Street Association which links cutting edge architects with flagship brands.
Madonna Fashion Exhibition
23 Apr - An exhibition dedicated to the history of Madonna's fashion is coming to Macy's, USA. The pop-up exhibit will open for one day only at Macy's in Century City, California, featuring some of the singer's most famous costumes. The singer hand-picked her favourite eight pieces from her vast costume archive and her personal collection to feature in the installation - including that instantly-recognisable Jean Paul Gaultier conical corset, from the Blonde Ambition tour, and her Like A Virgin wedding dress that she wore to the MTV VMAs in 1984. The exhibition will sit alongside the latest collection from the Material Girl line that Madonna created for Macy's with her daughter Lourdes.
Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award
22 Apr - World-famous architect Zaha Hadid is the winner of the 2013 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award. The designer is known for her futuristic buildings such as the London Aquatics Centre and Guangzhou Opera House. She was presented the honour during a ceremony held at Claridge's tonight. The annual event celebrates the success of businesswomen worldwide, who share the same enterprising spirit of Madame Clicquot - who, after becoming widowed at the age of 27, took on her husband's wine business.
Christian Lacroix Fashion News
17 Apr - Christian Lacroix to design a couture collection for the house of Schiaparelli. According to L'Express, the designer will be collaborating with the storied label on a one-off line, a 15-piece collection honouring the legacy of designer Elsa Schiaparelli will be unveiled in July during the couture shows in Paris.
Fashion Design Of The Year Winner
11 Apr - A documentary about Diana Vreeland has been named Fashion Design of the Year by the Design Museum. 'Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel' documents the impressive career of the former US Vogue editor, and was directed by the wife of Vreeland's grandson, Lisa Immordino Vreeland. The film beat other contenders such as costumes from Anna Karenina, Louis Vuitton's collaboration with Yayoi Kusama, and Raf Simons' debut ready-to-wear collection for Christian Dior. The annual Design Museum awards celebrate the best of international design over the past 12 months.
UK Fashion & Textile Awards
3 Apr - UK Fashion & Textile Awards shortlist announced. The UKFT Awards ceremony on May 23 in London celebrates outstanding British fashion creativity, as well as commercial awareness and performance. Raeburn, Monroe and Karl Donoghue are nominated in the Designer Business of the Year category, while Tatty Devine, The Cambridge Satchel Company and Mark/Giusti are nominated for Accessories Business of the Year. Other categories include Outstanding Achievement Award, Retailer of the Year, UKFT Rise Newcomer Award and Brand of the Year. The event will feature a fashion show where shortlisted labels will have the chance to show off an edited selection from their collections.
Fashion News for March 2013
Marc Jacobs - Fashion Show Theatre
13 Mar - One of fashion's most influential and innovative designers, Marc Jacobs, discusses the pressure that comes with putting on some of fashion's most theatrical shows. His catwalk events for Louis Vuitton are consistently a fashion month highlight, having featured giant escalators, a full-scale steam train, and most recently a hotel stageset.
Lulu Kennedy Plots Label Expansion
13 Mar - Lulu Kennedy aspires to open a store to house her increasingly-popular Lulu & Co label. The Fashion East founder launched the label in 2010, finding future fashion stars to recruit upcoming designers to team up on seasonal collections. Now in its seventh collection, the brand's latest collaborator is menswear name Bobby Abley, who Kennedy supported at Fashion East's menswear installations in June 2012.
Roland Mouret Collaborates With CoutureLab
7 Mar - The French designer launches a line of couture dresses. The capsule collection "encapsulates the essence of modern couture". The range of dresses features four styles made using handmade, vintage French lace - so delicate and rare that only 12 editions (three of each style) could be produced. The dresses include floor-length and cocktail styles, priced between £4,625 and £7,795.
PPR Name Change
7 Mar - French luxury goods group PPR - behind major fashion labels including Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Balenciaga and Saint Laurent - is planning to change its name to 'Kering', the Indonesian word for dry or dried. The Paris company was established in 1963.
Fashion News - Jan 2013
BFC 2013 Fashion Forward, UK
BFC Names 2013 Fashion Forward Recipients
David Koma, Holly Fulton and Michael van der Ham have been awarded Fashion Forward sponsorship for 2013.
Each designer will receive a cash prize to assist with their forthcoming two collections and business support provided by the British Fashion Council.
John Galliano Returns to Fashion, NYC, USA
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana shown support for John Galliano (formerly of Dior) as he makes his fashion comeback at at Oscar de la Renta. John Galliano is to take a temporary residency at the Oscar de la Renta New York studio on 25 Jan. The designer will spend the next 3 weeks contributing ideas to their autumn/winter 2013-14 collection.
Monday 9th September - Thursday 12th September 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations
Fashion is a statement, a stylised form of expression, which displays and begins to define a person, a place, a class, a time, a religion, a culture, subcultures, and even a nation. This inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary conference seeks to explore the historical, social, economic, political, psychological and artistic phenomenon of fashion, a powerful component of contemporary culture. Fashion lies at the very heart of persons, their sense of identity and the communities in which they live. Individuals emerge as icons of beauty and style; cities are identified as centres of fashion; the business of fashion is a billions of dollar per annum global industry, employing millions of people. The project will assess the history and meanings of fashion; evaluate its expressions in politics, business, pop culture, the arts, consumer culture, and social media; determine its effect on gender, sexuality, class, race, age, nation and other sources of identity; and explore future directions and trends.
Building on the foundations of previous meetings, publications and collaborations, the conference will be structured around 5 main areas of focus. Each area will have the opportunity to enjoy specific as well as whole group sessions. Papers, presentations, demonstrations and workshops are invited.
René Gruau & Pampaloni along with OMEGA & Zinc Textile, Miami, USA
Pampaloni will host René Gruau from December 3rd, 2012 to February 15, 2013.
Like every year during Miami Art Basel, Pampaloni hosts an artist in its Miami showroom. This year, Pampaloni is thrilled to host René Gruau from December 3rd to February 15, 2013. Thanks to private collectors we were able to put together a vast selection of unprecedented oil on canvas, gouaches, lacquers and lithographs. Gruau admired Pampaloni’s collection and owned a number of their pieces. Gruau was Italian, like Pampaloni; he would express himself with simple lines, like Pampaloni and both were driven by aesthetic and sophistication more than anything else. Sylvie Nissen, worldwide exclusive agent of Gruau’s work, also fell in love with Pampaloni, which she represents at her Cannes gallery. The result of the Gruau and Pampaloni’ association is a harmonious world of Italian beauty where silver and art support and enhance each other to deliver the best of what Italian elegance can be; away from market trends. This exhibition is meaningful and obviously had to happen.
Among the original pieces will be the last work order of Gruau. Commissioned by OMEGA, the portrait of Cindy Crawford (OMEGA's ambassador) will be shown for the first time since being exhibited at the 1999 opening of the "Musée de la publicité" at the Louvre Museum in Paris. OMEGA naturally then wanted to be part of the event and support it.
In addition, Sylvie Nissen, co-author of "Gruau, Portraits of Men", recently published by Assouline, will also makes us the honor of being in Miami, co-hosting the exhibition, presenting and signing her new book during Miami Art Basel.
Finally, the Zinc Textile Company will also show its new fashion inspired fabric collection called "Runway", which consists of 12 exclusives images by legendary Gruau. This collection is intended to be revealed to the public during the next edition of Maison & Objets in Paris this coming January but it will be exceptionally previewed during our Miami event.
Venue: 91 NE 40 St, Miami, FL 33137, United States
www.pampaloni.com / (305) 695-9370
Fashion News - Nov 2012
Fashion Designers A-Z
Fashion masterpieces
Defining designers of the 20th and 21st centuries and their most remarkable works
photo courtesy publishers
29 Nov 2012 - From Azzedine Alaïa, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel, to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, a century's worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology are celebrated in this limited-edition volume. Photographs of over 500 garments selected from the Museum's permanent collection illuminate each of the featured designers, while texts by the curators explain why each designer is important in fashion history and what is special about the individual pieces featured. In her introductory essay, director and chief curator Valerie Steele writes about the rise of the fashion museum, and the emergence of the fashion exhibition as a popular and controversial phenomenon; and both Steele and contributor Suzy Menkes provide a history of this museum’s role in the world of fashion scholarship and preservation.
Fashion Designers A–Z is available as a series of six Designer Editions. Each edition (a total of 11,000 copies) is bound in a fabric created by one of six designers—Akris, Etro, Stella McCartney, Missoni, Prada, and Diane von Furstenberg—and comes in a Plexiglas box. Crafted by hand at a bindery in the heart of Italy, and stamped with a unique number, every copy is an instant classic, and an addition to your fashion library that is truly one-of-a-kind.
Akris
Albert Kriemler’s racecar motif pattern for the Akris Edition of 2,000 copies was created in the spirit of the devil-may-care elegance of John Frankenheimer’s 1966 movie Grand Prix.
Etro
Paisley is practically synonymous with the Etro name—and the Paisley motifs selected by Veronica Etro for the Etro Edition of 2,000 numbered copies are classic examples.
Stella McCartney
The Stella McCartney Edition of 2,000 numbered copies is adorned with a Neon Abstract Print on cotton satin from her Summer 2013 collection—available in two different palettes.
Missoni
For the covers of the Missoni Edition, limited to just 2,000 numbered copies, the Missoni family selected a colorful array of 20 different zigzag-striped knit from its vast archives. The fabrics exemplify the company's optimistic, playful approach to pattern since the 1970s.
Prada
For the Prada Edition of 2,000 numbered copies, Miuccia Prada selected four classic prints from previous collections and re-printed them on cotton: the feminine tiny “hearts,” the Baroque-inspired “bananas,” the abstract geometric “diamonds,” and a floral reissued for Prada from the 1960 Holliday & Brown archives.
Diane von Furstenberg
Printed on cotton canvas, the Signature Chain Link print selected by Diane von Furstenberg for the DVF Edition of 1,000 numbered copies epitomizes the designer's balance between retro glamour and modern chic.
The editor and author:
Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and founding editor of Fashion Theory. Described in The Washington Post as one of “fashion’s brainiest women,” Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph.D.) with a rare ability to communicate with general audiences. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies.
The contributing author:
Undisputed doyenne of the international fashion press, Suzy Menkes is head fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune. Among the world's most influential fashion critics, she is an officer of the Order of the British Empire as well as a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. She lives and works in Paris.
Fashion Designers A-Z
Valerie Steele, et al., Suzy Menkes
Hardcover in acrylic slipcase
10.3 x 13.2 in.
654 pages
each edition £ 250/
€ 275/DKK 2.750
Showroom for Fashion Designer Branka Donassy
Donassy Open Atelier, temporary exhibition space and shop, Zagreb, Croatia - 2012
photos : Miljenko Bernfest
The Donassy Open Atelier project created a temporary, flexible showroom whose purpose is to exhibit the work of the fashion designer Branka Donassy and other visiting artists. The existing storefront is in a historicist building, in a zone between Zagreb’s Upper and Lower Town. It has a barrel vault ceiling and is transformed with minimal budget and no building interventions. Architecture and fashion overlap, with the fashion design fabrication techniques completing the unique conceptual whole. The concept references exploration of avant-garde forms, construction and the meticulous nature of the artist’s work itself.
photos : Miljenko Bernfest
The basic element of spatial design here is an elastic translucent cloth tailored and sewn according to the principles of couture, with no additional construction, anchored into the existing structure just with bolts, in a dotted pattern, which in the end resulted in an autonomous voluminous structure. Thus the whole space is draped in an elastic membrane which is simultaneously a form making element as well as a system to accomplish a diffuse and uniformed lighting, thanks to fluorescent tubes installed between existing vaulted ceiling and the translucent membrane itself. The anchoring elements are at the same time hooks for exhibits. The clothes racks are flexible and mobile so as to ensure quick transformation of space when needed. The rectangular black rubber coated fabric surface on the façade frames the front glass door, covering the damaged existing façade and accentuating the entrance, being a clear link between two worlds, the interior and exterior one. The floor is finished in contrast with the translucent luminous interior membrane, using black painted OSB panels.
photos : Miljenko Bernfest
Title: Donassy open atelier
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Author: Vanja Ilić
Architectural office: Vanja Ilić Architecture
Client: Donassy open atelier, www.donassy.com
Net area: 35 m2
Project year: 2012
Completed year: 2012
Costs 2.600 eur
Photos: Miljenko Bernfest
Forma Architectural Studio - Fashion Show
'Vozianov s/s 2011'
Work for brand Vozianov over fashion show Nemo wich was shown in ArtArsenal, Kiyv. Nemo – that is what exists in each one of us, but not yet named. This is our internal capabilities, talents, desires and potency, dreams, let them see the light and find the name. This collection is for those who are on the way. Forma Architectural Studio - Fashion Show
Team: Oleksiy Petrov, Dmytro Prutkin, Alexander Kohanovsky (sound)
Client: Vozianov
Year: 2010
'Vozianov Lookbook'
Emptiness as an organizing element and the main idea in the work of collection lookbook by the brand Vozianov.The entire collection is sorted and cataloged in a simple understandable layouts. Forma Architectural Studio - Fashion Design
Fashion News - Oct 2012
Markus Lupfer Launches Whistles Collaboration Markus Lupfer has teamed up with Whistles to launch a one-off exclusive collection, reports Vogue. The seven-piece range arrives in stores on Monday, November 5. Unlike traditional high street-designer collaborations, this one isn't limited to solely apparel - expect make-up bags, silk heart-printed pyjamas, tote bags, iPhone holders and, just in time for this winter's cold spell, knit gloves, hats and scarves baring Lupfer's playful bold slogans. Pink mittens and a dog-patterned jumper come in the softest of cashmere. 30 Oct
Kylie Minogue Launches Fashion Book
From gold hotpants to a hooded white jumpsuit and Dolce & Gabbana galore - Kylie Minogue has treated us to a hoard of iconic fashion moments during her illustrious music career. Kylie is set to release book celebrating the key fashion moments from her 25 years in the business, reports Grazia. 30 Oct
Karl Lagerfeld : Retirement Is Death Karl Lagerfeld says he will never retire. The designer maintains that the consequences of retirement would be somewhat dire. 16 Oct
Keira Knightley's Fashion Nightmare
The Vogue cover girl said "I think skinny jeans and micro-miniskirts are very unfriendly," she said. "I've been known to wear both, but on some days it seems like they were invented to make you feel bad about yourself." 16 Oct
Helena Christensen causes Yummy-Mummy revolt Supermodel Helena Christensen has caused a minor insurrection among fans of Boden, the middle-class brand of choice for casual clothing, for being "too sultry and sexy". 15 Oct
Alexa Chung admits frustration over weight criticism
Model and TV presenter Alexa Chung says "it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect." 15 Oct
Louis Vuitton To Open A Stationery Boutique
Louis Vuitton to open an exclusive stationery boutique in the heart of the Saint Germain des Pres district of Paris in December, selling a variety of writing accoutrements. 15 Oct
Fashion News - Sep 2012
Nature Poems photo courtesy Patricia Meneses Nature Poems, The Alps
Nothing belongs more to an individual, nothing is closer to his knowledge, than his own body. 30 Sep
Milan Fashion Week Milan Fashion Week Prada spring / summer 2013 Skinny satin skirts, the origami folded satin tops and sock-boots: Miuccia Prada's spring/summer 2013 collection gave more than a nod to Japanese style, report the Daily Telegraph today. It takes a fiendish fashion genius to turn a metallic sock into a feminist cri de coeur, but Miuccia Prada has that kind of mind. After an eyeball challenging show that once more flipped fashion on its head, she explained how she'd taken all the elements women can't normally wear "without being laughed at, and tried to make them more acceptable". 20 Sep
London Fashion Week
London Fashion Week kicked off this morning for the spring/summer 2013 season, reports Marie Claire magazine.
Design duo Antoni & Alison kicked things off with a show at the official London Fashion Week showspace at Somerset House this morning, whilst tomorrow New York-based label Rag & Bone will make its LFW debut.
Founders of the brand, David Neville and Marcus Wainwright, are British and the London catwalk show follows on from the opening of the label's first European flagship store on Sloane Square in July. 14 Sep
New York Fashion Week Day 5
Collections by Victoria Beckham - catwalk show this afternoon, with husband David and baby Harper both in attendance.... hats designed by milinery master Stephen Jones. ...with Anna Wintour watching - http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/spring-summer-2013/ready-to-wear/victoria-beckham/full-length-photos/gallery/1. Also catwalk shows by Tommy Hilfiger, Y3, Diane von Furstenberg and Thakoon. 9 Sep
Rachel Zoe Fashion Line
Rachel Zoe, stylist turned designer, Fashion collection dropped from Selfridges amid rumours of failing sales. Zoe’s new collection is set to show at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday 12th September. 6 Sep
New York Fashion Week
The cream of the fashion world gathered in New York last night to see the Couture Council to celebrate the work of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Couturier Oscar de la Renta collected a lifetime achievement award from the Couture Council. 6 Sep
Fashion News - Aug 2012
Grace Coddington
Grace Coddington collaborates with Balenciaga US Vogue creative director Grace Coddington has created a capsule collection for Balenciaga named after her cat, Pumpkin, reports the Daily Telegraph today. Fashion's Night Out, the annual shopping extravaganza spearheaded by US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, is entering a whole new phase as designers and brands mark the occasion with specially commissioned, limited-edition pieces. 22 Aug
Tom Ford
Tom Ford has spoken out against overemphasis in the fashion industry on "materialism", reports Vogue. 22 Aug
Fashion Store Designs
Retail Designs from the Archive:
Arcade Boutique, USA Montalba Architects
image from CC Sullivan Arcade Boutique
Armani Fifth Avenue shop, USA Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
photo courtesy of Studio Fuksas Giorgio Armani New York
Fashion News - Jun 2012
São Paulo Fashion Week, Brazil
São Paulo Fashion Week - 'A Gente Transforma', led by the brazilian designer Marcelo Rosenbaum, is the theme of SPFW - Summer 2013
The project ‘A Gente Transforma’ - ‘We Transform’ is an initiative that uses design to show the Brazilian soul; in its 2nd edition, now in Piauí (Brasil), has as main goal to insert the artisanal work in the decorative market and introduce opportunities for a new social business.
This month, it is time for the 'fashion' highlight over the stories of the A Gente Transforma. The project, led by the Brazilian designer Marcelo Rosenbaum, is the theme of the 33rd edition of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW). The principal fashion week of the country intends to encourage the debate on the sustainability from the economical, social and cultural point of view. And also to reassure the commitment of the creativity and innovation as tools to stimulate the movement of transformation. That’s why the name SPFW VERÃO 2013, A GENTE TRANSFORMA: histórias que contam.
Cannes Film Festival 2012, France
Cannes Film Festival 2012 : Carine Roitfeld to stage fashion show Former Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld is curating the Cannes Film Festival's first fashion show, and it's set to be an all-black affair.
Also, supermodel Eva Herzigova is set to model an exquisite diamond necklace created by Chopard in honour of screen goddess Marilyn Monroe (the event's 'face'). 16 May
Fashion Store - Recent Designs
Marni Beijing Sanlitun, China Sybarite
photograph : Butsou Lai Marni Fashion Store Beijing - 18 Apr
Sybarite's design for the Marni flagship in Beijing marks a shift in the evolution of the concept, utilising strong geometry and giving familiar elements a new twist. Backlit fibreglass boxes remain a central feature but the form has been squared off and enlarged, accommodating both shelving and hanging displays. Stainless steel rails and freestanding pieces maintain their sculptural fluidness but the forms are chunkier and slightly exaggerated, with large flat display surfaces referencing early Marni shops.
And A Yokohama Clothing Store, Japan Design: MOMENT Inc. - Hisaaki Hirawata, Tomohiro Watabe photograph from MOMENT Inc. Yokohama Clothing Store - 12 Apr 2012
Recent store design in Japan by Hisaaki Hirawata and Tomohiro Watabe, who established MOMENT Inc. in 2005. Their projects are wide-ranging as graphic, product, interior, and architecture. And A has a wide selection of men's and ladies clothes, accessories, shoes, bags, and household goods. Therefore the shop design should be open to welcome various targets. The shop is divided into two areas, light space at front and dark space at a back.
Fashion News - Apr 2012
Raf Simons at Dior
The Belgian designer Raf Simons arrived in Paris today to begin work on his first Dior collection, set to be shown at Couture Week in July, report Vogue: Dior designer. 12 Apr
Design by Italian Fashion Brand
Italian fashion brand Missoni lends its design aesthetic to a residential tower in Manila, the Philippines. Each luxury condominium decorated in the luxury brand's signature prints, patterns, and bright colour clashes. 27 Mar
Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty
Volume 2 Numbers 1 & 2: special issue on fashion and ethics Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty focuses on issues of power, social positioning, ideologies and practices within the web of relationships between creators, producers, practitioners and end-users of fashion. This special double issue on fashion and ethics brings to the forefront some of the ethical controversies, raising the question of whether 'ethical fashion' is actually a contradiction in terms, as editor Efrat Tseëlon suggests in her editorial. Offering a critique of some of the fundamental assumptions, this issue seeks to expose the ideologies of ethical fashion, which often mask its status as a product that uses ethical credentials as a marketing ploy to relieve consumers' guilt. 22 Mar
Fashion Exhibition
IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA exhibition at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT).
Patricia Mears is both MFIT deputy director and IMPACT exhibition co-curator.
image courtesy of the Museum at FIT
Among the designers included in the exhibition are Halston, Norman Norell, Pauline Trigère, Geoffrey Beene, Bill Blass, Rudi Gernreich, Bob Mackie, James Galanos, Diane von Furstenberg, Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Tom Ford, Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger, Isabel Toledo, Rodarte, and Proenza Schouler. The exhibition is organized thematically to illuminate the broad spectrum of American creativity, from functional sportswear to couture-quality evening wear.
“American designers have always had impact on how people dress,” said CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg. “In honor of that creativity and in celebration of the CFDA’s 50th anniversary, we are proud to present, in partnership with The Museum at FIT, an exhibit that represents the tremendous work of our members for the last five decades. ‘Impact’ was the one word that came to mind immediately – it is so strong and defining of our individual and collective influence that we knew right away that our exhibit would be called IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA.”
American designer Thom Browne, will showcase his Fall/Winter 2012-13 collection as part of the upcoming American Program, organized by DEPESHA at Aurora Fashion Week April 2012 in St. Petersburg, Russia. 9 Mar
Mulberry Store Roll Out image from Capita Symonds
Capita Symonds has been appointed by leading British accessory and fashion retailer Mulberry to programme manage the next wave of new stores in its international store roll-out programme. The next three years will see Mulberry open approximately 30 new stores per year across the USA, Europe, (including several in Germany, Switzerland and Austria) and Asia. The concept design for the new stores is being developed by design consultants UDS : fashion store design - 6 Mar
Paris Fashion Week
Givenchy autumn/winter 2012
Riccardo Tisci's latest collection for Givenchy was 'Hermès meets Jilly Cooper': Paris Fashion Week - 5 Mar
Elegant Prosper Store, Hangzhou, China STUDIO David Thulstrup
photograph : Peter Krasilnikoff Chinese Fashion Store Design - 15 Feb
Together with global architect and interior designer STUDIO David Thulstrup, the high-end women’s brand, has transformed their former store into a world of elegance and simplicity. From 2012 customers are welcomed into a building where lights, special designed furniture, colors and patterns put the products in focus while leading the visitor through every room and level of the building. The result: An elegant and spacious experience!
Maison Moynat, The Revival of Historical Malletier Brand in Paris, France photograph : Jimmy Cohrssen Paris Store Design + Branding - 3 Feb
Gwenael Nicolas of Curiosity has been commissioned to direct the graphic and architectural design of Moynat, the illustrious French malletier (trunk maker) founded in Paris in 1849. One of the oldest malletiers, this historic brand was recently revived by Bernard Arnault and opened its new boutique.
Fashion News - Jan 2012
Maison Boutique Sybarite
photo : Sam Mohan, Yolk Studios Maison Boutique, Bengaluru, India - 13 Jan
Haute Couture Fashion
British fashion designers, Judy Clark and Katherine Hawkins have collaborated with Ford to design an haute couture dress and necklace. What do you think about it? Haute Couture Fashion - 3 Jan
Fashion Installation
Nuages : Architectural Performance Installation
New York City photo : Brandon Jacobs-Mills Nuages
Nuages is conceived of as a layered soft space that is intimate and evocative of mist and condensation. The cloud-like installation is materialized through hanging nylon string of varying densities and lengths that result in changing degrees of transparency.
Curator Suzan Russeler of the Audex Textile Museum in Tilburg, the Netherlands, has invited BCXSY (Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto) to design the space and graphics of her exhibition, i FABRIC. EUROPEAN TALENT. You can visit the exhibition until January 29th, 2012.
The last chance to see some of our projects in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2011 - FINALE at Galerie ZAND features their last exhibition for this year, including our Join screens, Balance rugs and Golden Glory #5 clock - 12 Dec
Karl Lagerfeld - Fashion Show
Chanel | Paris/Bombay | Pre-Fall 2011/2012 | Interview with Karl Lagerfeld - 11 Dec
Nature Materia
Series of poetic pieces in which elements of nature are integrated with the human body, pieces made along the years. photo courtesy Patricia Meneses Poetic Fashion Pieces - 2 Dec
Fashion News - Nov 2011
Fashion Showroom Barcelona
A temporary space made by ex.studio that dialogues with the pieces of the fashion Spanish designers El Delgado Buill, José Castro, Josep Abril y Gori de Palma. image courtesy Patricia Meneses Fashion Showroom Barcelona - 25 Nov
Fashion Showroom Portugal
A space inspired from the bright light of Portugal, a narrow luminescence passage inspired from a particular typology of a door with an elliptic geometry from the Barrio Alto of Lisbon (an area in central Lisbon). image courtesy Patricia Meneses Fashion Showroom Portugal - 25 Nov
Fashion Pavilion - John Lewis Installation
Fashion Pavilion
John Lewis and internationally renowned architectural company Grimshaw, the creators of the world famous Eden Project, have joined forces to create a stunning 'Fashion Pavilion', a touring architectural retail installation. Launching on the fashion floor in John Lewis Oxford Street, the bold installation will house new private label designer collaborations from a host of designers including Osman Yousefzada, Clements Ribeiro and Tracey Boyd.
New York Fashion Week
BOFFO Building Fashion image courtesy of Gage/Clemenceau Architects
DEPESHA joins as a media sponsor for the BOFFO Building Fashion Nicola Formichetti + Gage/Clemenceau Architects’ New Retail Concept at the Intersection of Architecture and Fashion in New York.
DEPESHA, a leading bilingual (English/Russian), limited edition global fashion and arts bookzine, joins world’s visionary forces in design and architecture as a media partner of BOFFO Building Fashion Nicola Formichetti + Gage/Clemenceau Architects’ New Retail Concept during New York Fashion Week in September 2011.
Denim Fashion - 11 Aug 2011 The summer is hotting up, especially in the denim stakes. Celebrities all over the globe have been sporting the latest fashion trend, brightly coloured denim. Red jeans seem to be the most popular choice among celebrities, with fans including Cheryl Cole, Sarah Jessica Parker, Twilight's Ashley Greene and Khloe Kardashian. Rumours also indicate that Kate Middleton has purchased a pair of coloured designer jeans. Katy Perry has also been seen sporting the trend, she however deviated from the crowd and wore a pair of light pink jeans.
Paris Fashion Event
The 18th century back in fashion
The Palace of Versailles and the Musée Galliera present an exhibition in the apartments of the Grand Trianon dedicated to the influence of the 18th century on modern fashion.
Vivienne Westwood, Karl Lagerfeld pour Chanel, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix, Olivier Theyskens pour Rochas, Martin Margiela, Azzedine Alaïa, Alexander McQueen pour Givenchy, Yohji Yamamoto, Thierry Mugler… all of them fantasised about the 18th century.
Between haute couture and ready-to-wear, fifty models by great designers of the 20th century dialogue with costumes and accessories from the 18th century and show how this century is quoted with constant interest. These pieces come from the archives of maisons de couture and from the Galliera’s collections.
Recent Issey Miyake Fashion Stores unveiled. Hisaaki Hirawata and Tomohiro Watabe established MOMENT Inc. in 2005. The projects are wide-ranging as graphic, product, interior, and architecture.
Hirawata and Watabe attempt to suggest strong design-message which is not compressed in a category.
On 6 - 9 Jul 2011 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin will stage its ninth season. The Spring/Summer 2012 collections will be presented in a tent on “Strasse des 17. Juni”, with its main entrance facing the city’s most famous landmark: Brandenburg Gate. „We are thrilled to confirm this very prestigious location for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin,“ said Peter Levy, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of IMG Fashion. „The return to Brandenburg Gate and the opportunity for growth is a great next step for fashion in Berlin. The support of the city of Berlin in providing such a premier location, shows that creativity and fashion as a cultural artifact play a big role for the German capital.“
Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010/11 took place on 2 - 6 May 2011 against the spectacular backdrop of Circular Quay, Sydney.
Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (RAFW) is Australia’s premier fashion industry event providing a platform for designers to showcase their wholesale collections to the world’s most influential buyers and media. RAFW is the Asia Pacific’s stop on the international fashion week circuit joining Paris, Milan, New York and London.
London Fashion Week - Pre-Wimbledon Party
On the occasion of the WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) annual pre-Wimbledon party and in honour of the 125th anniversary of Wimbledon, the WTA and the British Fashion Council, an organisation charged with promoting British fashion internationally, unveiled a unique partnership celebrating the strong connection between the stars of women’s tennis and the world of fashion.
Buenos Aires, April 2011 - On March 22, 2011 the Buenos Aires city government debuted Buenos Aires Runway at the Metropolitan Design Center (CMD) located in the traditional Barracas neighborhood. Designed to showcase local designers, last month’s inaugural edition put some of the finest Argentinean styles on display for the Fall-Winter 2011 collections. Buenos Aires Runway
Fashion World Live
Social Media Platform for Next Generation of Fashion Lovers
New York, February 2011 − Global publisher of interactive entertainment 505 Games, global fashion, entertainment, and media company IMG, and Funcom announced the pre-launch of Fashion World Live with Creative Director Pat McGrath at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Fashion World Live is the first interactive online entertainment platform for fashion lovers and the first to fully integrate fashion brands into social media. Fashion World Live
