FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HER EPONYMOUS LEATHER GOODS COLLECTION, JULES SAINTE ROSE’S INSPIRATIONS SPAN THE WORLD OF EQUESTRIANISM. A WORLD THAT SHE PARTICULARLY HIGHLIGHTS BY REINFORCING HER DESIGNS WITH IMMACULATE REINTERPRETATIONS OF SINGULAR DETAILS OF SADDLERY.
OFFBEAT DANDY OF THE PERFUME WORLD, ROMANO RICCI HAS QUITE A BACKGROUND. INITIATED TO FASHION BY HIS GRANDMATHER NINA AND TO PERFUMERY BY HIS GRANDFATHER ROBERT (CREATOR OF THE FAMOUS « L’AIR DU TEMPS »), ROMANO HAS BEEN SURROUNDED BY CREATION SINCE CHILDHOOD. GRATEFUL TO HIS FAMILY HERITAGE, ROMANO RICCI ALSO NEEDED TO SUCCEED BY HIMSELF AND EXPRESS HIS OWN UNIVERSE. FOR SIX YEARS, HE LEARNT AMONGST THE GREATEST TO APPRENTICE THE PERFUMERY WORLD, AND LAUNCHED HIS NEW PROJECT « JULIETTE HAS A GUN » AT THE AGE OF 28.
Lou Doillon for Juliette Has a Gun
POINTER + COLLAB + COMME DESPOINTER CONTINUES THEIR SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION WITH COMME DES GARÇONS FOR SPRING/SUMMER 2012 WITH THIS CLEAN AND SIMPLE CANVAS AND SUEDE UPPER MIXED WITH A CLASSIC TENNIS GUM SOLE. AS USUAL THEY KEEP THINGS VERY SUBLE AS PART OF THEIR COLLABORATION.
COMME DES GARÇONS EVOKES OLFACTIVE ATMOSPHERES OF 5 MAJOR CITIES IN THEIR INCENSE COLLECTION (SERIE3).
AVIGNON – Roman Camomile, Cistus Oil, Elomi, Incense, Vanilla, Patchouli, Palisander.
JAISALMER – Cardamom, Incense, Cinnamon, Amber, Benzoin, Pimento, Berries, Galac Wood, Ebony.
KYOTO – Incense, Cypress Oil, Coffee, Teak Wood, Vetiver, Patchouli, Amber, Everlasting Flower, Virginian Cedar.
OUARZAZATE – Incense, Pepper, Nutmeg, Clary Sage, Wenge, Musk, Vanilla, Labdnum, Absolute, Kashmir Wood.
ZAGORSK – White Incense, Pine, Pimento Berries, Violet, Cedar, Iris, Hinoki Wood, Birch Wood.
ORIGINAL DRAWING + T-SHIRT + MEMORIESNOSTALGIC AND WHIMSICAL AS MANY OF DISNEY’S STORIES, THE PATTERSON J. KINCAID’S COLLECTION BROUGHT TO LIFE CHERISHED CHILDHOOD MEMORIES.
Shirt NATALIE B COLEMAN + Necklace and Panty BY MALENE BIRGER
Shoes HOUSE OF HARLOW
GARETH PUGH BEGAN WORKING AT 14 AS A COSTUME DESIGNER FOR THE ENGLISH NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE. HE STARTED HIS FASHION EDUCATION AT CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE AND FINISHED HIS DEGREE IN FASHION DESIGN AT CENTRAL SAINT MARTIN IN 2003. HIS FINAL COLLECTION WHICH USED BALLOONS TO ACCENTUATE MODEL’S JOINTS AND LIMBS (A TECHNIQUE THAT WOULD BECOME ONE OF HIS TRADEMARKS), ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF DAZED & CONFUSED WHO PLACED ONE OF HIS DESIGNS ON THE MAGAZINE’S COVER SHORTLY THEREAFTER. PUGH’S SOLO PREMIERE WAS IN LONDON’S FALL 2006. AFTER YEARS HIS SHOWS HAVE CONTINUED TO DRAW CRITICAL PRAISE. PUGH’S COLLECTIONS ARE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RATHER THAN REFERENTIAL, AND DRAW INSPIRATION FROM BRITAIN’S EXTREME CLUB SCENE, HE USES NONSENSICALLY SHAPED WITH FORM AND VOLUME EXPERIMENTATION CREATING WEARABLE SCULPTURES AND DESCRIBES HIS DESIGN AS BEING « ABOUT THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN LIGHTNESS AND DARKNESS ». HE OFTEN COLLABORATES WITH ARTISTS AS BEYONCE, LADY GAGA AND KYLIE MINOGUE, CREATING COSTUMES FOR THEIR SHOW.
Spring Summer AD Video Campaign Featuring Kristen McMenamy
WITH HIS ATELIER BASED IN FLORENCE (ITALY), PAURIC SWEENEY, THE IRISH DESIGNER CONTINUES TO WORK CLOSELY WITH PRESTIGIOUS ITALIAN TANNERIES AND MASTER CRAFTSMEN, USING EXOTIC SKINS.
LAUNCHED IN FEBRUARY 2007, MONOCLE IS A PREMIUM MEDIA BRAND WITH MAGAZINE, WEB, BROADCAST AND RETAIL DIVISIONS, FOCUSING ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS, BUSINESS, CULTURE AND DESIGN. PRODUCED FOR MONOCLE BY COMME DES GARÇONS’PERFUMER, ANTOINE MAISONDIEU, HINOKI IS A CEDARY WOODY SCENT INSPIRED BY JAPANESE HOT-SPRING BATHS AND SCANDINAVIAN FORESTS.
AT FIRST GLANCE, THE HOH GOLDEN REPTIL SANDALS SEEM TO EMERGE FROM A PEPLUM REFLECTING AN ERA MARKED BY CLEOPATRA AND SPARTACUS. NO NEED TO CONTEMPLATE INSPIRATION SOURCES THAT DROVE NICOLE RITCHIE’S IMAGINATION IN ELABORATING THESE SANDALS IN ORDER TO APPRECIATE THEIR AUDACIOUS DESIGN.
THE POP CORE OF LA MAISON CASTELBAJAC IS WHAT MAKES IT A REFERENCE.
DESIGN + ART + ARCHITECTUREBORN IN LECCE, SOUTH OF ITALY. AFTER HAVING STUDIED AT THE BRERA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN MILAN, HE MOVED TO TOKYO WHERE HE BECOMES THE COLLABORATOR OF YOHJI YAMAMOTO FOR TWO YEARS. ON HIS RETURN TO ITALY, IN 1986 HE PRESENTED THE FIRST COSTUME NATIONAL WOMAN COLLECTION. DESIGNER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF COSTUME NATIONAL, CAPASA IS MULTI-FACETED AND A GREAT EXPLORER OF THE WHOLE WORLD OFAESTHETICS, FROMARCHITECTURE TO DESIGN, FROM MUSIC TO ART. ALSO RECOGNIZED AS A COSTUME DESIGNER, HIS WORK INCLUDES « LO SPECCHIO DI FRIDA », A PLAY BASED ON FRIDA KAHLO’S LIFE (1998) AND « THE RULES OFATTRACTION », A MISE EN ESPACE OF BRET EASTON ELLIS’S NOVEL (2002). IN 1999 HE DIRECTED « BRIGHT RED: BLOOD, TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSFIGURATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART », AN EXHIBITION FOR THE MILAN PAVILIONOF CONTEMPORARY ART. IN 2000 THE CITY OF ATRANTO COMMISSIONED HIM ‘PROGETTO OTRANTO » AN URBAN DESIGN PROJECT. IN 2007, ASSOULINE PUBLISHED « COSTUME NATIONAL21″, A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH CAPASA’S WORK FEATURING COLLABORATIONS WITH FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS LIKE PETER LINDBERG, TERRY RICHARDSON, JUEGEN TELLER AND CRAIG MCDEAN AND ICONIC CHARACTERS SUCH AS MICK JAGGER, DAVID BOWIE AND MADONNA.
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