tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38732029364395761282024-03-28T21:03:00.136+00:00March & FightZ.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-43615737869275400532015-03-31T13:15:00.002+01:002015-03-31T14:04:25.372+01:00Interview with YC Ng, founder of Scarlett of Soho<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">YC Ng, founder of Scarlett of Soho</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- Tell us more about Scarlett of Soho and how it
differs from other eyewear brands?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We’re a British eyewear startup inspired by
British eyewear innovation. Our frames are wearable, bold
and vintage-inspired, but we pride ourselves on cutting out the middleman
to be able to offer an amazing experience to our customers. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- Recently you introduced new service that allows customers to rent
frames. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">H</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ow does it work & what was the feedback?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It’s the world’s first designer eyewear subscription service, which
allows subscribers to change their prescription eyewear anytime they want from
only £10 per month. When a subscriber wants to switch to another pair,
they let us know, and we’ll make up a pair with their prescription. They send
us the old pair once they’ve received their new pair. At the end of the
12-month contract, they keep their last pair, much like a mobile phone plan. If
they break or lose their glasses while on the plan, we replace them for a very
small excess fee. Feedback so far has been encouragingly positive! </span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- Almost year ago you started your business from
start-up campaign. What were the main challenges while raising money,
introducing your ideas & getting into fashion industry? Would you do
anything in a different way now?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As with all disruptive businesses, it was
challenging getting started without having contacts in the fashion
business, and being a new fashion tech brand is never easy either.
We straddle the line between fashion and being a digital business, a
line that we find is increasingly being blurred. When we started,
fashion tech as an area of interest in the UK was also on the cusp of gaining
interest, although the scene is very different today, of course. We would
probably have tried to be a bit more focused, and stayed true to our
convictions. Listen to everybody’s advice, but look out for patterns, as
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- How many direct employees do you have?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- It seems that recently more and more new
luxurious brands are starting to take all the control of their production
processes, while leaving all middlemen behind. Do you see this as the
successful future for new, quality oriented brands?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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undoubtedly be space for all kinds of brands - but for sure, brands that
emphasise quality and transparency will probably stand out from the rest as
consumers get savvier about how they’d like to spend their pounds. </span></div>
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final launch? Which part did you enjoyed most?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I’d say it’s an iterative process, because we
take lots of inspiration from the lean startup methodology. There’s never
a final launch, because we try to iterate as we get feedback from our consumers
as much as possible. I really love the process as a whole, because all the
small iterations really add up when you look at the big picture! </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- Before establishing Scarlett of Soho you
worked in finance. How did you apply your previous experience for fashion /
product design industries?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I’m very numbers-oriented, and a get-things-done
kind of guy. I suppose my finance background has groomed me to not be afraid of
spread sheets, keeping the business going from a numbers perspective. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- What was the inspiration behind brand’s name
and frames? </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We pay tribute to an 18th century royal
optician, Edward Scarlett, who actually had a store on Dean Street in Soho. He
was known as Edward Scarlett of Soho, and popularised the usage of temples on
frames, in a time when pince-nez and lorgnettes were all the rage. </span></div>
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the phrases came from & your favourite one?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The phrases on our frames are inspired by the
dedication and craftsmanship of the men and women that we name our frames
after. My favourite one has to be “Soldier on” from our Churchill, because
Winston Churchill achieved great things while fighting a lifelong battle
against depression. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">-</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Your frame range is based on 8 styles. Was there
any specific reason to keep this range quite small?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Because we’re a startup, we were working
with smaller amounts of capital than large brands, and therefore decided to
start with a small range just to gauge customer interest, before moving on.
It’s sort of our take on the lean startup method! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I wear the Churchill in Ice Grey. Other
best sellers include our Hammerstein, Hartnell and Novak. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- Describe your customers and their values.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Scarlett of Soho wearer identifies with the
finer things in life, but also knows that the finer things in life should
not necessarily come with designer price tags. He or she appreciates style, and
rocks their different Scarlett of Soho frames on a day-to-day basis. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- Best advice you ever got?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We were mentored by Richard Branson just a few
weeks ago, and he probably gave us the most memorable piece of advice we’ve
gotten to date - “Never turn down a sale.” </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- Place in London that illustrates your products.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Soho of course! It was London’s original
birthplace of crafters, style and creativity. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- How do you imagine future of Scarlett of Soho?
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working with more partners from all industries to celebrate
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Interview <span style="font-family: inherit;">by Zybartas Ciurlys</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Designer Henning Jurke</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Before I
decided to do fashion design I studied at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Köln International School of Design</i> in Cologne. It was very
conceptual and abstract and fashion design was no part of the curriculum. But during
that time I realised that I want to be a fashion designer. After my
intermediate examination I transferred to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Berlin University of Arts</i> to study fashion design.</span></div>
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fashion/creation?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- When I was in
Cologne I started to create simple accessories like handbags, belts or t-shirts.
I embroidered these pieces and gave them away to my friends and family. But the
moment when I was caught by the fashion world was when I found the fanzine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mode Depesche</i>. It was a very well
researched magazine with interviews and reports about Viktor & Rolf, Jean
Paul Gaultier, Hussein Chalayan, Peter Berlin and Stefano Pilati.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you have any special rituals before you start to
create?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Not really a
ritual, but I love fun fairs and to go there. The luminescent booths and rides,
the smell, the atmosphere and there is also the world behind the decorated back
boards. I guess this is the origin of my inspiration.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What is your favourite piece from collection? Do you
or your friends wear your designs?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I don't have a
favourite outfit but there is one “hate piece”. It is the pink foil coat. It
was so terrible and difficult to quilt the padded foil and to sew it. I had to
make the coat for two times because the first version was broken as a result of
the fragility.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Share the inspiration story/image behind your recent
collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do you seek for
inspiration?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- The menswear
collection “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration</i>” describes
the arc of suspense from anticipation to melancholia. An important inspiration
is the novel “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Party at Jack‘s</i>” by
Thomas Wolfe. He pictures a dinner party during the Roaring Twenties in New
York. It is his particular image of a party that my collection tells about. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration</i>” is inspired by festive
evening attire and also influenced by women’s wear of the 20th. The collection
characterizes the arc of suspense of a party: starting with anticipation and
daydreams, fading to the party evening and finally to the closure of the
celebration. What remains are memories, feelings of melancholy as well as of
aspiration and luck.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your graduate collection “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration</i>” was showcased during Berlin Fashion Week SS13 and
Hyeres 2013 festival. How was it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have
you got useful advice?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- The
presentation during Berlin Fashion Week in Spring Summer 2012 was part of the
fashion show of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Berlin University of
Arts</i>. It was a good stage to show my work in a very professional way. To be
selected for the Hyères festival was like a dream came true. It was a wonderful
experience. The people who organize the festival are so kind. They really want
to support you in your way as a fashion designer.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you have ideal customer‘s portrait before you
start to create the collection? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I want to
create images and stories with my collections. My work is more like an essence
of the inspiration I had. Of course I have a customer in my mind who could wear
the pieces. But until now there was no need to think about a specific customer
because the collections were too small and not very commercial.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Tell us more about fashion and art platforms in
Berlin. What does it mean to be young designer in Germany? Do you have any
difficulties while being young designer?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It is still a
problem that fashion is no part of culture in Germany like it is in France or
Italy. Maybe that is the matter why there is not so much high-quality support
and appreciation for a young designer in Germany.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your hopes and plans for near future?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I hope to find
a job as a designer in a fashion house.</span><br />
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<br />
<span lang="EN-GB">See more lookbook images <a href="http://marchandfight-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/henning-jurke-lookbook.html" target="_blank">here.</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-size: small;">Designer Xenia Laffely</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- When
was the first time you realised you are interested in fashion?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I’ve always been interested in fashion,
but to take it as my main thing I decided pretty late, after studying French
and history of art for </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3
years. To work in this field seemed just right.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Why
have you chosen menswear?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I love to dress men. I love the way they
walk too. I find it very moving. And also, most of my inspirations are
masculine.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Tell about the designing process. Does it
take long to move from primal idea to the last outcome?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It starts with an obsession - something
very personal and sincere. I start to build a story or a character, using
drawings, collages, images and thinking about it all the time. I always get
completely obsessed with the subject. For my bachelor collection it took 4
months.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What fabrics you like to work with the most?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- For my collection, I worked with shiny
and luxurious fabrics and played with them to make them stiffer. I fused
everything and also used classical tailoring techniques.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your
work includes visual experimentations (illustrations, collages, pictures, etc.). What is your relation with contemporary illustration?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I'm more into graphic novels. But I am
curious about illustration, graphic design, everything that involves images,
even if I don't have a good theoretical knowledge.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do
you consider yourself as an artist?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I consider myself as a creative person.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do
you like collaborations or you prefer to work individually?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I like to work by myself.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Could
you share the inspirational stories/characters behind the latest collection?
What things inspire you in general?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- The story of my collection starts with
two figures that have always haunted me; the father in classical tailored suit
and the religious figure in his ceremonial outfit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">My idea was not to make an homage to these
male archetypes but to build a third figure in their ashes; the rebellious son.
I created this character as a drawing that I would have done.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell us about struggles and happiness while
being a young creator.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I didn't have a lot of expectations so
for now it has been mostly happiness about making very personal things, being
very sincere and passionate about my work while having good feedback. I think
the hardest part is still to come.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do
you feel that you need to march and fight to get everyone’s attention?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Until now, it didn't seem like a fight. I
was really honoured that people get interested about my work. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Back in April you had your first
international showcase at </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB">Hyères</span> 2013 festival. How was it?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It was great and intense. Hyères is a
very special festival, I met fantastic people and it was such a unique
experience to have all these professional people working with you to show your
work as best as possible.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">-
What are your plans for near future?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- For now I am in New York, interning at
3.1 Phillip Lim. After that, we'll see... I have ideas, dreams, doubts but not
plans.</span></div>
Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-7609795954430742752012-10-29T13:40:00.001+00:002012-10-29T13:40:19.882+00:00Sportswear inspired femininity by Claudia Ligari<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-size: small;">Designer Claudia Ligari</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Describe yourself as a
designer and as a person. What are the differences between both descriptions?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I’m the same person but when I’m working on a collection I tend to
be more dreamy or scatty and I don’t give any space or time for the person to
be. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s difficult to say where the person
finishes and the designer starts. I have a strong personality and I’m very independent
and those two things are perfect for the designer but not so good for the
person! Once the designer start it’s difficult to stop and most of the time it
causes pain to the person and makes you wonder on which side you really want to
be. It’s a very fine line; the game is to learn how to balance the two.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Have you always wanted
to create clothes? What is the most fascinating thing about womenswear for you?
</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Yes, as long as I can remember I always wanted to do clothes,
which is really weird, as I don’t come from a background where people were even
remotely interested in fashion!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Clothes can be very powerful. They can be a great way to express and
represent you to the world, to make a first impression. They say something
about the person, and the most fascinating thing is how they can change us!!
Don’t we all use different outfits for different occasions? </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Where do you seek for
inspiration? Maybe you have any interesting or even strange inspiring sources?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Inspiration can’t be explained. Mine is always very random, it can
be anything! It can be a situation, a person or an object.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I don’t really like to have a particular story in my collections;
“no references” has become my slogan. Of course each garment reminds of
something but what I’m trying to achieve is “timeless pieces”, garments that
can be worn through many years and always look new.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- For the latest Spring
Summer 2013 collection you were inspired by London Olympic Games. Share more
concrete details. Have you been to any of the games? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Oh god no!! But I live near the stadium! And also I did gymnastic
for many years when I was younger, this is probably why I have a thing for sportswear
garments!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you pay attention you will notice that they always have the
newest cut/shape or the newest high tech fabrications and so I find them an
endless source for inspiration, very “avant-garde”. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I would have to say that my SS12 was more Olympics inspired - a girl
comes from the future. With my SS13 I kept things more simple and wearable as I
wanted more comfortable and grown up look, but yes - the sportswear still
resonate throughout the boxing short, baggy trousers or the sateen sweatshirt…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your clothes emphasize
the sensuality of femininity. What femininity clichés you could name nowadays?
Does it influence your creation and collection voice?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I want people to start thinking that wearing tight things doesn’t
always mean sexy or buying expensive stuff doesn’t always mean nice! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Clothes are helping us to give voice to our body language, but if we
are not comfortable with whatever we are wearing, then the garments are
instantly loosing their power. My aesthetic is androgynous and unisex as I try
to show a different way to perceive beauty and femininity and I guess this goes
against the cliché of what women should wear to look beautiful and elegant, or
sexy and feminine.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Which item is the most
important/favourite for you? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- If you mean in general then believe it or not my answer is shoes!!
Shoes can change a whole outfit! If you wear a pair of great shoes your outfit
can only benefit from it.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Best advice you ever
received?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Never do sales or returns!!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are based in London.
Does it influence your creativity directly? Does it hard to be young designer
in London or Italy? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Of course London influences my creativity. It is the city that
moulded me into what I am now. It helped me to establish my aesthetic.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It’s really hard to be a young designer. In Italy there isn’t such a
great support as in London but on the other side here, in London, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is too much of competition and money in
everywhere which is never enough to achieve 100% what you want in terms of
product. We never come first and have to battle through getting the right fabrics,
prints or even space for production!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What are your biggest
achievements so far? Do you still need to march and fight to get the attention?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I always said I wanted to have my own label and if I look back to
three years ago I can’t even believe how far I have come. I have my own label,
people supporting me from all over the world and I am selling in cities like
London, New York and Milan. Obviously this is just the beginning and there is
still need to march and fight, now even more then before! Once you get some
attention you must keep up with the demand, people tend to get bored of things
really quickly those days so it’s a very hard job to keep your foot in there!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Advice for someone who
wants to break into fashion business?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- First of all get some financial advice as soon as possible and secondly
(I know this is going to sound really cheesy but…) you must always follow your
hearth even when people tell you are mad and should or shouldn’t do something.
Be brave because there isn’t better thing then learning from your mistakes, it
will only make you smarter and stronger.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your plans and goals for
near future?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I’m working on a new project but it’s a surprise! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I will be working really hard to establish the label throughout Europe
and hopefully I will be able to move somewhere else by the end of next year, as
I feel I’m now ready for a new experience… I’m thinking Antwerp or Berlin but
haven’t made a decision yet. Will see!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-size: small;">Designer Julian Zigerli</span></span></b></div>
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designer and as a person. What is the main difference between both
descriptions?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- My job is my
life and the other way around. I don’t have the luxury to split in two. But
that is okay since my work is very personal. It goes hand in hand with who I
am. But there is still a main difference. One Julian Zigerli is a real person
who cares about the good things in life. The other one is still “just” work.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Have you always wanted to create clothes? What is
the most fascinating thing about menswear for you?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Always is a
very wide word. No, I didn’t always wanted to create cloth. When I was a child
I wanted to become a circus artist. But luckily I discovered my love for
fashion and the handicraft of creating garments and beautiful pieces.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I believe that
menswear still has boarders who can be cracked. Even in these days where men
definitely became more playful and fashionable than back in the days. Inspiring
those guys who usually don’t care about what to slip on in the morning - I find
very interesting.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What do you think about masculinity and its
stereotypes nowadays? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I love how
there are so many different facets to masculinity. Obviously there are
stereotypes, which pop up in everyone’s mind. But there are also a lot of
underdogs, who turn out to be very masculine for a lot of people even though
the book doesn’t say so. Being masculine is not anymore just based on body
structure or facial hair. There’s much more to it also from the intellectual
side.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What is the ideal portrait of your customer? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- He is going
for a run in the morning before he feeds his cat at home. He eats Nutella bread
with loads of butter on it. He sometimes doesn’t care about getting dressed
properly but still likes a good and smart piece of clothing. He loves his
couch. He is self-secure. He is single, he is married, hi is gay, he is
straight. He is happy. He is you, he is me - he is everyone who loves life.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Share the inspirations/meanings behind the latest
collection named <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Daddy was a Military
Pilot</i>.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Theinhardt-Heavy;">- "My Daddy Was A Military Pilot" isn't just
the title of the collection. It is also the truth. My daddy really was a
military pilot. He was the base for the collection. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Theinhardt-Heavy;">It is homage to a shark of the sky, built out of
stories, memories and feelings.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Theinhardt-Heavy;">It is not about the military but the rush associated
with being a jet pilot.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Theinhardt-Heavy;">It is an idea of an incredible power released within
you by the thought of flying with supersonic speed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Theinhardt-Heavy;">The feeling full of longing, solitude, power and
dignity. Supersonic sound waves, incredible heights, supernatural speed. Life
at the edge and between the elements.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- For your latest collection’s prints you have
collaborated with Berlin
based artist Fabian Fobbe. How did you met and what you learned while working
as a duo?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- We met already
years ago through a good friend of mine. He is her fiancé now. Congratulations
again! We always got along very well and after that collaboration where we
actually had to put our creative brains together, I realized that the reason
why I always loved his work is because we really are on the same page when it
comes to ideas, moods, colours and emotions. Sharing is caring, that’s the most
important thing when you work with someone. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- It seems that you always represent your clothes
surrounded by nature or deeply involved in motion and movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that becoming your signature brand’s
style?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It must be,
because nature plays a big part in the collection inspiration, motion and
movement. It is just more fun than a still life. But I am always open for new
things and new ideas. If a collection needs to be shot in a clear white room
without anything in it but the clothes, then that’s what the collection needs
and that is what I will give for it. It is important not just to stick with the
rules you build up for yourself and for your creations. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Define your own style. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I like cute
things as much as I like weird things as much as I like regular things as much
as I like pretty things. It is a mix of them all put together so I feel
convenient, safe, sexy, pretty, cosy and easy all the time.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are based in Zurich. Does it influence your
creativity directly? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I think in
Zürich I am a bit less intruded by fashion forecasts and the fashion world in
general, which makes my working here very comfortable and gives me a lot of
peace and freedom. I believe that the country itself gives me a lot of
inspiration with the beauty and the nature of it. Ever since I’m back here I
enjoyed being outside even more than I did before. Although, I am a city boy
and I need the busyness, noise, craziness etc. just as much as I need nature.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But the best
thing about Switzerland or Europe in general is that if you want to you could be in
the other city just in one hour anyway. So you can have it all!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Name your biggest
achievement so far?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Working on my 5<sup>th</sup> season with constantly growing season
by season and still be happy with everything I’m doing is the greatest
achievement of them all.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you still feel that you need to march and fight
to get public attention?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Of course! I’m
a tiny little fish in the big sea. I already get a lot of incredible attention
but unfortunately that doesn’t pay my rent yet. To point it out a bit more
clear: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Pinky</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gee, Brain, what do you want to do
tonight?</i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Brain</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The same thing we do every night, Pinky -
try to take over the world!</i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Plans for the near future: what will be your next
career steps?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I think I
should go with the Pinky and Brain quote here once again.</span></div>
Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-78889326356452727382012-08-15T11:09:00.001+01:002012-08-15T11:09:29.345+01:00Chris & Tibor - luxurious accessories inspired by London<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"> Designers Tibor Matyas and Chris Liu</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Describe your brand and yourself individually. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Both
individually and as designers we believe in fierce attention to detail and
quality. We are guilty of designing for ourselves as well as our customer and
so you see a lot of us reflected in the collection. Chris & Tibor is a
brand for the modern man who’s fast paced lifestyle demands practicality and
distinctive yet understated style. We have created the guys perfect accessory.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your first
made item that you were proud of?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- When you study
design you really begin to understand the precision and craft that is required
in the creation of anything of true quality, it was during this time that I
really started to develop my designs into something to be really proud of.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- When did you choose to become accessory designers?
Have you always wanted to create bags?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- The original
impetus behind the movement into accessories design was our dissatisfaction
with the bags that were available. Failing in the quest to find the perfect gym
bag, Chris decided to simply design and make his own. The continued creation of
bags was then inevitable, as a team we just knew that accessories were the way
to go.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are working in duo. How did you met? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- We met working
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Burberry Prorsum</i> as design
consultants in 2004.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Is there enough space for both ideas? How do you
work?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- In terms of
the design process Chris takes the lead however it is always a collaboration.
Of course we fight for our ideas, but that’s because we care so much about each
product. There is no detail left unconsidered, we deliberate over every aspect
of each design. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your brand is based in London and the bags are named after the
street/place names. Maybe you could tell short stories for some of your items?
Why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dalston bag</i> has Dalston name,
etc.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- We have been
based in London,
individually and then as a design team for about a decade now and can’t imagine
being anywhere else. There is a life and spirit to London that you don’t find anywhere else,
this of course applies to the fashion industry but equally is evident just
walking down the street. Specifically the Dalston bag was named after the area
that our studio is based in.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What things inspire you? Maybe you have unusual
inspirational sources?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Though it
sounds like a cliché, we try to take inspiration from everything. The need for
practicality in our creations is inspired by our day-to-day lives; those
moments when you find yourself struggling with something that should be simple.
We try to apply that in our design process. The Strong Holdall Collection is
built on this principle. As an example, there’s the waterproof inner pocket for
an umbrella, everyone has experienced the need for that first hand.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- The process from primal idea to final outcome – how
long does it take, do you make research, etc.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- As with all
businesses there are many outside elements that contribute to the successful
creation of a product. The most recent collection took as much as 7 months to
complete, however this was largely due to difficulty with production and
retaining our specific requirements in terms of quality and detail. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Our products
are aimed at dynamic, professional men who put excellent quality above all
else, quality of design and quality of materials. The Chris & Tibor and brand
is based on this ethos. Someone who is looking to buy our bags is confident and
stylish with a strong fashion conscience, they are however unwilling to
sacrifice their need for practicality.</span></div>
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how the fashion consumers have changed since then?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Fashion is of
course always evolving and we are constantly striving to design at the cutting
edge for our customer. However there are certain key ideals that never change:
the desire for functional, quality items. When people invest in a bag they want
it to last, this is even truer now than it was 6 years ago and this is how our
brand has stayed relevant.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- As designers
and businessmen we are always looking forward and trying to outdo ourselves,
trying to better any of our biggest achievements but we are obviously very
proud of what we have created with the Chris & Tibor brand. Also our
collaborations with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Walter Van
Beirendonck</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Romain Kremer</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Juun J</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Veronique Branquiho</i> are some of proudest achievements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><b>Collaboration with Walter Van Beirendonck</b></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You had great worldwide collaborations with others creative.
Have you gain any new skills while collaborating? Do you still need to march
and fight to get the attention?<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3873202936439576128" name="_GoBack"></a></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Working with
other designers is always an amazing learning experience. Everything we make is
a product of our experiences. When we are collaborating it is important to
strike a balance between everyone’s ideas, you risk sacrificing the concept if
you do not remember this. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- The new Golden Lanes women’s collection
launches in Paris
this September and we’re very excited about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> Behind the label: </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">sales manager Francesco </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">and </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">designer Antonio</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- What is the story behind the brand’s name and does it have a special
personal meaning for you?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- We didn’t need long meetings to
decide a name for our project: it was very natural and spontaneous. Breakfast
is a very important moment in our day, a moment we share with the ones we love
the most, friends and co-workers. The meal we mostly love to eat. It is the
moment we enjoy but at the same time the moment we take important decisions in
our brand’s organization. We met and decided to build our brand during one of these
long business breakfasts and so we decided to match our passion for fashion and
our passion for breakfast.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Describe yourself as a brand and individually. What are the main
differences?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- There is no difference between
what we are and what we do. The Comeforbreakfast collection is thought and
designed for a small niche of customers, not for the masses. We just transfer
what we are to what we love and therefore to what we create. Being spontaneous
is what matters the most: with that in mind we know that people will understand
the men behind the designers through the items. There is no difference. We are
our brand.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - You are working together in a duo. How do you connect different
ideas? Is there enough space for both?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - We work together but take
care of different aspect of the brand. I (Antonio is speaking) deal with the
creative part, while Francesco is the sales manager. At the beginning it has
been very hard to combine the two sides of the same job but that was due to the
different approaches we had to fashion. At the end this proved to be a winning
combination. Our roles in the brand are diverse and the interaction between
these two aspects is very important to reach the fixed goals season after
season.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What was the first created item that you were proud?</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- I did so many items when I was a
child I would spend hours telling stories on how I destroyed my mum’s sewing
machine. I still recall one day when I designed a carnival costume for my
little cousin. The outfit turned out not so well but I was very proud to make
something for someone I loved. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- I always loved fashion, but feared
it at the same time. When I was a child I dreamt at least 17 different jobs!
The moment I decided to be a fashion designer for good was when I started
fashion school. It has been a mature choice and I have always given all of me
to get to design my own brand.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Where do you seek for inspiration? Share the inspiration behind the
last collection.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Everything inspires us: a journey,
a book, a painting. Everything we see and live every day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The theme of the FW12-13 collection
is about an urban trip, along the streets, across the city. The graphic research
to provide original prints takes on the colours of street billboards.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The collection has it all: overalls,
spider web lightweight knitwear pieces in super soft natural materials, printed
t-shirts, streamlined dresses, double wool crêpe jackets, fleece sweaters with
structured sleeves. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Material that you like the most.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Materials have a “nature vs
techno” feeling with a cotton and jersey base and an enzyme treated overprinted
organza. The whole wardrobe turns out from a mix match of classic formal
fabrics and easy going urban pieces. Materials are a starting point in
designing our collections: research for new fabrics is a crucial part in the
creative process.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></div>
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did you decided to start menswear line?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- While we started as a menswear
line now we design both men’s and women’s collection and from next season
accessories line too. As an independent brand we are lucky enough to be free to
create. Now the brand has grown, is more mature but we have the same fresh
approach to it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- The customer buying
Comeforbreakfast is dynamic, curious and passionate for culture and life in
general. The collection refers to a wide audience, but we are only worried to
create beautiful stuff, original garments, that represent well the brand style.
We feel free to create never referring to an icon or a muse. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Trends nowadays. What should adopt both male and female?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- We love spontaneous stylish
people, we do not like fake or built up people. The trend has always been “be
simple”. A fresh approach to style is what matters to us. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- You are based in Milan, Italy. How does it reflect at your creations?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- In Milan everything is fashion,
design, architecture. You live fashion, you breathe fashion. Everyone is style
obsessed and crave for the latest trend and the newest collection fresh off the
runaway. It’s very stressful but at the end this is not fashionable. The
artistic and cultural scene it is not so alive and you get trapped in a full
business trap. We are lucky to travel a lot for our job and can experience
different cities and get inspiration from that. We always manage to mix all
business Milanese spirit to a more creative one.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Do you still feel that you need to march & fight for attention?
Biggest achievement so far.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - We believe in fate so what
has to happen happens. At the same time we are very stubborn and follow a project,
a dream until it becomes a reality. The fashion biz is undergoing a hard time
but we try to get the best from every collection and every sale campaign. We
like to not take something for granted and risk a bit every time. That is why
we are planning a new accessories collection to complement our lines.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Plans, dreams, projects for near future?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- As Italians we think that is
better not to unveil too much, better to keep something secret but we are very
proud of the accessories collection and the capsule knitwear collection that we
are currently designing. Fingers crossed!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Ragne Kikas</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">- Introduce yourself shortly.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- My name is
Ragne Kikas. I am a knitwear designer from Estonia, but I live and work in
Hamburg, Germany. I graduated a month ago from Hamburg University of Applied
Sciences (aka. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HAW Hamburg; Master’s
degree in fashion design</i>).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You and you as a designer – what is
connected and what is different?</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- There is no
difference; I am as I am… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Have you been surrounded by creative people at your
childhood? Maybe someone inspired you to start arts/design? (Also you can name
the first steps to get into industry.)</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I have been
surrounded by hardworking and tradition-conscious people at my childhood.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In my home
country (Estonia) handcraft has always been an important part of life. I
learned my first knitting techniques at the age of five. We even had regular
handcraft lessons at school.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was a natural
consequence to become a (knitwear) designer.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What was the first knitted item that you were proud
of? When did you realized that you want to design using only knitting technique?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- A lilac mohair
scarf. It was the first time I used the cable-knit technique and realized, that
I can knit as well as my mother does. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">During my
fashion studies at HAW Hamburg and after several sewing/draping projects I just
wanted to meet the challenge to hand knit my next collection. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was the ‘love
at first sight’. I paired my knitting skills I had learned in Estonia with my
creativity I formed in Hamburg while studying at HAW.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What is the main inspirational source for creating
sculptural shapes? Where do you seek for inspiration? Your aesthetics.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- The source of
inspiration is always different: it could be an interesting book, an artist, a
museum… For my last collection called ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dress
Code Defensive</i>’ I took my inspirations from the 15th and 16th Century suits
of armour. However, it is only the starting point to narrow down the possible
tonal palette and material range.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The next and
more essential step is technical research. I flick through my handcraft books
and experiment on my domestic knitting machines. I love to transform
traditional techniques and translate them into my knitted silhouettes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is like doing
a jigsaw puzzle: I am permanently searching for the perfect combination of
shapes, materials and knitted details. My garments just ‘happen’ while
experimenting/knitting. I have learned to be flexible and do not plan too much
beforehand.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you have any special rituals before you start to
create?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I must be
bored for couple of weeks. I must miss my knitting needles and my handcraft
books. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are creating for women. Do you have concrete
ideals? Femininity nowadays from your perspective.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I design my
collections for a body conscious, smart and independent woman. My clothes
should underline her strong personality.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I can't define
'femininity', I can only feel it. For example my current collection feels
feminine.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What was the best advice you ever had?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- ‘It doesn’t
matter, how long it takes.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have realized,
that it is not always possible to get immediate results. Sometimes we have to
wait or work over a long term on a good project.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Knitwear and fashion trends – can you name any? Your
recommendations for perfect knitted item?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I think there
is a difference between industrial fashion trends and the art of garment
making. I don’t care about the fashion trends.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The perfect
knitted garment should become a favoured item in somebody’s wardrobe.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You had presentation at Hyeres 2012 festival; also
you won the Premiere Vision and festival‘s public prize. Tell more about this
experience and what changed after all/hope to change.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It was a great
honour to be one of the ten finalists of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Festival
Hyères 2012</i> and present my newest collection called ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dress Code Defensive</i>’ to such a wonderful audience and jury. It
makes me happy and proud.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To win the
Fashion Public Award of the City of Hyères and the Première Vision Award feels
like a dream come true. I think I am on the right way and I will just continue
with my work. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you feel that you need to march and fight to get
everyone’s attention? Biggest achievement so far?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It is more a
march (in terms of diligence and purposefulness) as a fight - I just try to
present my work in the best possible way. My biggest achievement so far was the
nomination for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hyères 2012</i> and the
two awards I won there.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What are your values/ future dreams and hopes?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- To stay true
to myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Credits: Catwalk pictures by Etienne Tordoir</span></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-3320756123411892662012-05-15T14:17:00.003+01:002012-05-15T14:17:45.546+01:00Daniel Hurlin - manga, art and new masculinity<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Daniel Hurlin</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">- Introduce yourself shortly. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">29. Elegant things</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A white
coat worn over a violet waist coat.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Duck eggs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Shaved ice
mixed with liana syrup and put in a new silver bowl.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A rosary
of rock crystal.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Wisteria
blossoms. Plum blossoms covered with snow.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A pretty
child eating strawberries.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">― <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sei Shōnagon</i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- You as a person and you as a designer. Are they different or
connected and how?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- The
designer in me selects relevant experiences in my life and links them to
design, patterns, materials, colours, etc… I try not to be too autobiographical
in my work. However as I usually fit on myself at some stage I am very physically
involved too. I think its strength for your designs if you can convince by
demonstrating the attitude that goes with it, for example by wearing your own
pieces.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- What was your favourite activity while you were a child? Your
earliest memory related with fashion or clothes.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- There
were two: reading manga/books and playing video games; I would do it for hours
on end. Somehow I always related this to garments because I lived in a small
city in the French Pyrenees and people dressed very boringly. However in mangas
or games like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Final Fantasy</i> the
characters had crazy clothes, kick ass attitude and that amazing life.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- You are creating for men. Do you have any concrete ideals when
you start to create? How do you choose the models for your shows? Masculinity concept
from your angle.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- Once I
saw a video of Rei Kawakubo, where she says that when she designs for men, she
always thinks about the personality of the man to inspire her. I do kind of the
same, I always have a story, a narrative coming from a manga or anime, usually
some murder or lust related story which I base my character upon. I love my
models to reflect sensuality and masculinity in different ways, that’s why I
make it a point to have diverse models black/asian/latino, and also because
sometimes colours can look much better offset by darker skin. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Regarding
masculinity in fashion design, I think menswear can sometimes be very boring,
repetitive and referential. In my opinion people always feel compelled to
borrow the codes of a culture/subculture, and just not add much to it because
they feel that menswear still needs to be somehow “wearable”. I try to approach
different concepts that I feel are being left out of the usual menswear range:
sexuality, seduction, femininity, extravagance but not carnival. Eventually the
aim of my clothes is that it should be empowering, comfortable, bold but never
meaningless with a touch of luxury in materials/finish.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- Your last collection “Perfect Blue Tamara” was inspired by art
deco artist Tamara de Lempicka’s works. Where else are you looking for
inspiration and what makes the Lempicka’s art perfectly suitable for your
collection? Does it have personal meanings for you?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- Well,
actually there’re two inspirations: Tamara de Lempicka and Satoshi Kon’s
PERFECT BLUE. It’s an anime, a dark of story of obsession that revolves around
a young signer turned actress, Mima, who been followed, almost killed and raped
and eventually will overcome. It’s a story of desire, lust, revealing and
hiding, transparencies, voyeurism, illusion and reality. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This was
my narrative and driving force behind the collection, however the most visible
influence is Tamara de Lempicka, because I found her painting echoed the same
themes : desire, lust, cold, sharp, angular, fetishized body parts, smoothness
in her technique that reminded of computer graphics and I used it extensively
for print and colour technique. And for the actual garments and proportions it
really varies from piece to piece: from 19th century Japanese clothes to
contemporary sportswear.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For me
it’s a way to explore intense emotions, this fuels me as I create and it allows
me to live a life through them, just like video games did.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have any special
rituals before you start to create?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- Not
really, but I work so much on computers because I love them. So maybe playing
Sid Meier’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Civilization</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alpha Centauri</i> before I start is always
a nice intro.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- You are based in Paris. How does it reflect into your design?
Maybe you can name new fashion capitals?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- I think
Paris brings something more serene to my design, also because unlike London for
example, people aren’t obsessed by youth culture or new designers. I don’t feel
compelled to prove anything and I just get onto it and design. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I love
computers and internet, and I think new fashion capitals are on the web. But
nothing beats a well-oiled infrastructure and industry; I’ve experienced it
before ;-). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, aside
from the usual ones, maybe Beijing?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- While you have been studying at CSM, London, you worked at Tesco
and at Raf Simons. Is there any connection between high fashion and non-fashion
fields? What is the story and meaning behind it? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- I’m just
trying to find a path that’s my own. Whenever I find something interesting, I
get driven to it. And also, I know so many people who just graduate from good
schools and then go on to work at a luxury brands, or if they’re wealthy
enough, do their own brand. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No life
experience, how can you bring anything else? I liked that I went to Tesco,
which an amazingly cool and interesting work environment, and to a more
creative and high-end brand who’s in my opinion the real leader in menswear.
Then I took two and half months off to go and work on organic farms in Japan.
All I did every time was make the decision, phone calls, emails, and then just
go. I had nothing to lose, so I just tried.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- Menswear trends. Name if you have any recommendations for new
clothing, aesthetics, etc.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- I
couldn’t tell, because these days everything moves so fast. I personally only
dress second hand (except for underwear :) ) and I developed an obsession for
sporty diffusion lines that designers did in the 90s, like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prada</i> sport, etc… Simple designer clothes with a sporty edge.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- What are your values (both life and creation)?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- I think
it’s important, as much as possible, to act with integrity. Also I believe you
should always try to do something new and exciting, outdo yourself. And enjoy
life.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- You had presentation at Hyeres 2012 festival. Tell more about
this experience and what changed after all/hope that will change.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- I
realized that not everyone understood my work, but when they did, the reaction
was extremely positive. Especially from a certain type of people, who I think
would become a clients. Also that my womenswear pieces is much more
approachable than my menswear, and maybe I should consider designing for both.
I hope it will bring more professional opportunities, but even if doesn’t I
made a collection that I’m quite satisfied about, and that’s already good.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- Do you work in a big team? Do you get the support? Do you feel that you need to march and fight for public’s attention?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- No, I
don’t at the moment, but I have a big supporting group of friends/family/people
who believed in me and they’ve invested time, money, etc… I usually find myself
in design teams of two or three people, and I think that’s the easiest. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I actually
believe that whenever you do something different and personal, you always have
to go on a lonely crusade, but I know for a fact that things feel more daunting
than they actually are.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- Your dreams, thoughts and hopes? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- I hope I
get some kind of professional success in my own name someday, in fashion or
elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My dream
is to own an ancient Japanese country house, big, complete with a thermal rock
bath and garden where I can live with my boyfriend, and also get a few tattoos
from Shige at <i>Yellow blaze</i> tattoo studio.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Silvio Betterelli</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">- Shortly introduce yourself.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I am an
Italian designer from Sardinia, a beautiful island located in the Mediterranean
Sea; I believe that my culture and history are very important part of my
attitude and way of making research and drawing.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- D<span style="font-family: inherit;">escribe yourself as a person and as a designer. How
it is connected and how it is different?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- I believe that
the two worlds are strongly connected. I usually wake up in the morning
thinking about what ca</span>n happen during my day. From the first coffee up to the
last thoughts at night every experience is part of my research. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- When have you realized that you want to relate your
life with creativity? What was your first made item that you were proud of? Do
you still have it?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- When I was
very young I was always creating things and drawings everywhere… then I started
to print t-shirts and I created a small metallic cage-bag for a friend of mine
who had a small white mouse. I am sure she still has it! The world of fashion
was just a coincidence: I started to study art in a class that I could attend
with some places left… Textiles design and the rest of my career was, let’s
say, fate</span><span lang="EN-US">!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What things inspire you? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Everyday
things… I love art and design, especially in the last few years. It’s all based
on emotion and poetry more than in functionality.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You grew up in Sardinia. Does it reflect in your
creation somehow?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Off course
yes. The kind of old style women I grew up with, with their strong characters
from the typically mood of the south and islands of Italy, but also the
textures I always work with or the colours, are all parts of my DNA.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Why womenswear? What new or different you are giving
through your design?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- The fact that
I’m working with womenswear is also a simple coincidence, because during my
studies we were more focused on the women part. In the future I’ll probably
work on menswear in fact I’ve already made a small capsule collection of
special shirts for man that we presented during the menswear fashion week of
Milan.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At the moment my
research is moving towards the shape of the body and the use of experimental
fabrics or prints that have been part of my background since I was student.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- If you could change or skip one part in the whole
process from idea to final outcomes, what it would be?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Of course I
would change the timing. Comparing my work to other jobs I believe the timing
of fashion sometimes is the limit of the research for a designer who could go
further if he would have more time. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What are your femininity ideals? How do you choose
models for your shows, photo shoots, etc? Do you have an ideal of women or its
concept, when you are designing?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I imagine my
ideal woman as a mixture of different elements that coexist; together ancient
values, passions and ethereal mood. It’s a very interesting to say that I can
recognize facial features, somatic particularities and similarities in people
from Sardinia even if they are living abroad.
Usually it happens to me travelling to find a typical face that reminds old pictures,
values and atmosphere of Sardinia.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you have big team around you?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I am very
lucky because my collection is produced by a partner that have decided to
invest in: it’s a big staff and I really like to work with all my staff,
composed by people that in these years have become a strong presence on which I can count on.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your values (both life and design).</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Try and
repeat. Always try to follow your feelings and instincts which is the only one
that can tell you the truth. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Name your biggest achievement. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Mm, my best
achievement… to “exist on the scene” because to find your own space despite how
big is this space, and have the opportunity of express yourself, it’s very
difficult. Sometimes more complicated that anyone can expect.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you still need to march and fight to get public’s
attention?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> - Yes, even if I already have some kind of,
let say, audience, I always have to do my best to keep people and the market
interested in my work.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Future plans, hopes and dreams?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Concerning my
short term plan, I’m going to open a space in Milan, kind of atelier boutique
where I want to meet my customers, design for them, make customized clothes for
them and organize events. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Usually I like
to collaborate and work with other artists and I’ll keep on doing this
organizing shows and events. I’ve also co-founded a group called “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’s.m.o.g.”.</i> It’s very exciting to work
with different materials as glass, ceramics or wood. I hope I’ll have time in
the future to escape in different territories of art.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hopes and dreams...
well, I think for now, we just need to carry on with what we are doing and
increase the success that can help us to develop and make always new
researches. </span></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-76617684824827621352012-05-04T11:55:00.000+01:002012-05-05T10:32:52.752+01:00Raffaele Ascione - pop culture and ornamental garments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">- Introduce yourself shortly (it could be few words,
quotation, sentence, etc.)</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Hi</span><span lang="EN-US">! </span><span lang="EN-GB">I am
Raffaele Ascione, a young Fashion Designer, who wants to make women beautiful.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I am Italian,
born and raised in Germany and have the thickest Irish accent ever... so a
little mongrel I suppose.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I went to CSM
(Central Saint Martins) to do my MA, and I am completely obsessed with Beverly
Hills 90210 (the original), Britney Spears and Hip Hop Culture.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Have you been creative as a child? What was your
favourite activity/game/story?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Yes, I
remember that I was always drawing and dancing. I used to draw and scribble on
top of everything. Everytime I used to be on the phone to my friends I used to
draw on top of whatever was lying beside the phone... like bills and other stuff.
My mum used to kill me over it!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And I always
danced... I suppose dancing and making up choreographies to Janet Jackson,
Brandy and Destiny's Child was my biggest hobby.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What was your first ever made item that you were
proud of? Do you still keep it?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It was this
plaster brooch, which was pink and had chains stuck to it with little blobs of
glitter. I must have been six years old... oh God, I loved it so much!!! And
yes, my mum still keeps it safe, so everytime I go back to Germany I always
want to see it!!! (Nostalgia)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What are the main differences between you as a
person and you as a designer?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Simple... I am
a person, totally drawn to urban scenery, pop culture and the world of hip hop
music. Sometimes I love some tacky stuff and I am a person who is satisfied
with simple things. But when it comes to my work, I am like a germinator - very
organized, super focused German who loves to work. Even though my private
passions inspire me for my work, you are never instantly able to tell it’s my
work. My work is always super feminine and very decorative, so there is a nice
healthy controversy regarding my work! Keep it fresh!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I don’t know,
if it’s unseen. I am a big believer in the saying "Everything has been
done before", but just go and make it your own and try to make it
better!!! You will always see things that remind you of something else, but
that's not bad in any way. I will just keep going with my aesthetic and make
sure it’s always Raffaele Ascione.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Life, my
friends, all the strong and amazing Women I am surrounded with at all times, my
mother, experiences, Hip Hop culture, old magazines, music and telly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- No, not
really, I like starting with creating textiles, decor ideas and then fabric
research... The rest comes naturally!!! No set process through!</span></div>
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in London. How does it influence you?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">-Lots, it’s such
a vibrant city that is always developing. I have been here for a while, went to
Milan for a year and came back for my Masters, and honestly I wouldn’t really
want to move!!! My friends, opportunities, reality, creativity and the energy
are the things which will keep influencing me.</span></div>
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worked at Max Mara and Gareth Pugh. Tell more about this experience and how do
you connect gained skills into your work?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It was a little
surreal at the start, as Max Mara is a huge company with everything you could
wish for. We were spoilt with opportunities, facilities and technical teams. I
adapted quite quickly as I had to do a good job. The commerciality killed me at
first, but quickly got used to it and focus on that. I learned so much there
about the business, the entire process and working in team and alone. I owe
them a lot, and Gareth, the nicest guy in the world. I learned so much there
too. It was so different, obviously he has his own process of working, and it’s
very different to most companies, but yet really special. I worked with him for
three seasons on and off, and he really taught me about creating some very
logical and straightforward techniques. He is a very clever guy, so I am really
grateful for my time there. It was very carefree and super creative. Sometimes
I felt like I was working more with an artist than fashion designer.</span></div>
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outcome? What part is the hardest?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Well, no set
process, but I like creating fabrics and textiles first. Then I start
designing, researching at the same time, when decided on what design, I go and
make toiles. After fittings it goes into sample production. The hardest thing
is to make the fabrics behave the same way as your drawings, especially if you
want a fabric to be stiff or move in a certain way!!! Other than that, no
fears... it’s all about solving problems!!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You showcased your clothes at LFW. What does it mean
for you and what have changed since then?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It meant a lot
to me, I was so glad Vauxhall Fashion scout offered me a spot, after receiving
that and the moral support, I was ready to go!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I had so much
creative freedom regarding the presentation, models, music etc. I was super busy
and it was hard work to be playing 3 roles at once, but I learned loads, and
had all my amazing friends helping me on that. The feedback has been amazing, I
am drowned in private orders, the press is going really well and the profile is
rising a little bit. You know, I take a step at a time so we will see what the
future will bring!!</span></div>
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public’s attention?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Yes of course,
every young designer who is serious about his work should march and fight. Take
on any exciting opportunity and keep a nice relationship with all the people
who believe in your work!!! And honestly I enjoy this part as well. Eventually
if you will pass this type of work on someone else, you will know that no one
can fool you.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Dream... I really
want to showcase my next collection with a catwalk show, and secure some
exciting stockists. And obviously have all the women and hopefully men eventually
wearing my clothes! We will see!!!</span></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-89392090753335509932012-04-27T12:00:00.000+01:002012-05-15T14:18:30.071+01:00Helen Bullock - splash of optimism and scribbles that works<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Designer/printer/illustrator I
guess!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Name if there is any difference between you as a designer and you as a
person.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- One is a little more frustrated
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What kind of role art and design plays in your life?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- A BIG PART. It’s what keeps me
moving.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Why so many people, including you, are interested in fashion and
everything what is related with it?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Whether you like it or not it’s an
unavoidable entity. Whether you see it or not it’s an external expression of
who you are.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What inspires you the most?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Every day finds. Marks on the
ground, angles and juxtapositions. Natural colour compositions that happen by
chance – a door with a car parked outside and mixed with some blossom. That was
yesterdays find. But also art, books, movies. I’m slowly educating myself with
films. I’m VERY behind and am frequently shocking people by what I’ve not seen.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I found these trousers the other
day when I was at my parent’s house, that I had cut down to shorts and embroidered
all over them. God knows why I’ve kept them as they’re bloody awful. In fact is
my mom reads this she’ll go up in the attic and remove them immediately.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What is the process from idea to final outcome? What part is hardest
and why?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- It often involves going round and
round in circles, until eventually I come up with some illustrations, that
often have nothing to do with the final outcome, but somehow open the door for
me to the next step. I guess the hardest part is when you loose the faith and
the even the Rescue Remedy won’t help you!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Maybe you have special rituals before you start to create?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- ACCUPUNCTURE.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your clothes are rich in colours and illustrations. Do you think that
illustration is starting to be more popular nowadays?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I feel like I’m noticing a revival…but that might just be optimism, as I’m trying to get mine out there.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What are your values (both creativity and life)?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- To be true to yourself. Follow
what feels right. But to find that and commit to it is the battle.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- My Foundation tutor commented that
I had good mark making skills, and had I considered Print. I had definitely not
even been aware of it as an option. SO yes. That was rather helpful!! Life
changing in fact! Another fabulous person told me, at a time when I really
didn’t think I could, that I could do better.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OH! And another not so fabulous
person told me that ‘I can’t draw, I scribble’. That’s, probably my favourite.
They meant it as an insult, but I rather liked it. Scribbling is always my fall
back mark, but always so enjoyable. Anyway, by being told that I couldn’t draw
really made me move to make it work for me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- There’s a rawness that is
appealing. It’s also a city full of contrasts, and diversity, which is definitely
influential. There’s room for whatever you’re planning to do. Creatively…
perhaps not literally!!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you still feel that you need to march and fight to get public
attention?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- OH. I love that phrase. I’m
keeping that as my motto. Thank you! But yes. I have to make a bit of noise to
be heard. But, I’m naturally loud!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- To be able to maintain the
standard of creativity that I felt I had when I was on the MA. I was so
immersed in my work and was in this seemingly exclusive creative bubble, and I
really felt like I was doing something that I truly believed in. It’s difficult
when you’re not surrounded by all these amazingly creative people (both tutors
and friends) to get back in to that zone, with that same determination and
focus. You weren’t thinking about whether it was practical, whether it could be
reproduced, or the fact that you had to go to another job the next day. It was
an amazing feeling, and something I strive for.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">ALSO… I need a permanent studio
space… which is kind of hard when you have a lot of printing equipment
requirements. But yes. My dream would be some kind of communal space, large,
concrete floors, friends near by, and a lot of room to make a mess.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Shortly introduce yourself.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Sartorial Nonchalance.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Name the difference
between you and you as a designer.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB">- Hmm… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You</i> comes with 3
letters, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You as a designer</i> comes with
14. You can pronounce<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> you</i> quite
simply, though <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you as a designer</i> will
require a deeper breath.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For me, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you as a designer</i> are the same!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your earliest memory
related with fashion and clothing. Have your surrounding influenced your
creativity? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- My earliest memories come from my time in Jordan on my Father’s
pink couch, my Mother’s dazzling dresses, and the crystal chandeliers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">My surroundings now in London influence me greatly! London is like
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Have you always wanted to
become menswear designer? What would you do if you would not be designing? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- To be honest I have always wanted to design for as long as I can
remember, it was ingrained in me at the birth. Naturally I followed a path of
womenswear in my earlier days, but now I love designing for men. The male body
fascinates me and I hold a very strong male ideal in my mind.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have a fantasy to have a flower shop one day. I’m sure that if I
wasn’t designing now this is what I would be doing. I would sell scones and jam
and cream too.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What things inspire you? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Masculinity, literature, film, colour, things which stir my
emotions.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you have special
rituals before you start to create? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Oh yes, I have a very complicated process!!...It is like setting
the stage for show: many things are put into place before I am able to begin
design.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Tell about the process
from first idea to the final fashion presentation.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Hmm! That is cheeky… It is a secret!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Material that you like
the most. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- Wool /cashmere flannels! Love love love</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Before you established
your own label in 2008,<span style="color: red;"> </span>you were working for
other creators. How did you decided to start everything on your own? Do you
have big team around you?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">- I won an award in NY and with it financial support and
subsequently approached by a sales agent. We have an extremely efficient yet
small set up that works well with our presentations and distribution networks.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-83113193848330295562012-04-04T11:49:00.000+01:002012-04-04T11:49:42.202+01:00Peculiar femininity by Phoebe English<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>19</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>LT</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XjH0RTEXdUA/T3wg0Z92EJI/AAAAAAAABA4/GrCD7-fVSZg/s1600/Phoebe+English.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XjH0RTEXdUA/T3wg0Z92EJI/AAAAAAAABA4/GrCD7-fVSZg/s640/Phoebe+English.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Phoebe English</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">- Describe yourself as a person and as a designer. Is there any visible difference between both?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- No, not really. They are both pensive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- What have you enjoyed doing in your childhood the most?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Being in gardens and obsessively making dens out of anything I could find.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Have you always wanted to become a womenswear designer?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- There has always been a myriad of things I have wanted to be, fashion is just what I have ended up doing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Why so many people are interested in fashion?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Fashion is heavily visual and humans are driven by images a far greater deal than most people perceive, this to me explains the high levels of interest in it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Do you have rituals before you start to create?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- I carefully think about the next collection before I start anything, and in order to get the best ideas I try to ignore the fact that I am trying to get an idea in the first place, this seems to work best for me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Materials you like to work the most.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- This changes all the time, I am always trying to develop my interests and move on from where I have been before.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- What is the hardest part in whole process of creation?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- All of the process I think, it can be both frighteningly straightforward but excruciatingly difficult at times. I am often very attached to the purity of my original idea, so I can feel bitterly disappointed when I feel I have not reached that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Tell us more about your aesthetics.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- It‘s a play on the balance of a peculiar femininity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- What are your rules (both creativity and life)?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Don‘t make work if it does not make you feel high.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- You are based in London. Do you think city can influence creator‘s expression?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Yes, of course that is true. Anyone who makes work anywhere, geography is always a key part of a creator’s thinking and perspective of their work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Name the biggest achievement in your young career.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Being on the Fashion MA at Central Saint Martins.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Future plans, hopes and dreams?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- I want to keep making my work and meeting and working with new exiting people.</span></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-56668751251966332332012-03-12T11:01:00.001+00:002012-03-12T11:07:58.572+00:00Clothes for man who dares to be himself by Jean-Phillip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshjGlBA20o4o5vg6qa9p1j55oVzs00JcuyOx3zdlECB9GuG-mzWQctgb-GbpuwIX_F4aUMhS99s90FcdGcrXvl4VQuJ2fIZegFbLqvzfEui9-VtTnIfSw7_tfIoaDww2SwrkxYk93GT0/s1600/Jean-Phillip+portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshjGlBA20o4o5vg6qa9p1j55oVzs00JcuyOx3zdlECB9GuG-mzWQctgb-GbpuwIX_F4aUMhS99s90FcdGcrXvl4VQuJ2fIZegFbLqvzfEui9-VtTnIfSw7_tfIoaDww2SwrkxYk93GT0/s640/Jean-Phillip+portrait.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Jean-Phillip</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
<b><span lang="EN-GB">- Describe yourself as a designer and as a person. Can you see difference between both descriptions?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Me and me as the designer is a person melted into one. I never stop designing: there is always something creative going on in my head, a thing I cannot help.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">I interact very calm with people and my surroundings, and the only time you will see me unbalanced is the 8mins Runway show on every season.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What was the first item that you were proud of?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- A sweatshirt covered in 50.000 hand-sewn black sequins.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Inspiration. Do you have concrete sources for it?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Never, it comes from the world around me, it can be a piece of beautiful music, people on the street, or a great movie, but mostly a lot of the references in my work comes from Japanese & Chinese heritage, mixed with sex and biker equipment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Material that you like the most?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Hard one… will have to choose linen, because of its ability to mould and look personal when worn and washed.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Any rituals before you start to create?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"> No – it comes natural.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What are your biggest values (both life and creativity)?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- My Love, Music and Creating.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your brand is dedicated only for men. How would you describe menswear in general? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- It’s dedicated to men, as we need something special to wear as well. As the possibilities are few, the boundaries for menswear are being pushed these days which is fantastic, but there is still a long way to go with it. Though the dedication for men, a lot of women is wearing the garments as well, it feels good that they want a piece of the cake too. Sometimes I hear that people are sharing my clothing with their significant other, which is fun.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You created easily recognizable and aesthetical silhouettes. Is there any space for mistakes and experiments?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - There would be no space if there wasn´t be a room for mistakes and experimenting, that is what creating is all about. When you create and experiment sometimes you will make mistakes, if not - your work loses its nerve and becomes predictable.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What could you name as a real masculinity nowadays?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Masculine is the man who dares to be himself – no matter what he wears or how he looks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Do you think it influence your expression?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 300.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Maybe when it comes to designing in the minimal way, but not the look and how it represent itself, which is more personal and influenced by what goes on around the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Biggest achievement in your career?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- To have a brand I can call my own.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Future plans, dream collaborations and hopes?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- If I would told you it would stop being a dream.; )</span></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-88484353205684771192012-03-02T15:48:00.000+00:002012-03-02T15:48:56.160+00:00Understated personal signature by Avelon<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> <o:PixelsPerInch>72</o:PixelsPerInch> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>19</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>LT</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVCBVj8FuQP1stwIClSEGwW0_m9wPJr82YjFx9EmL96_AsjeNVPeqdUhp8wjwJa9k4hoj2Z-Te8oTKHsDDGx1M-abWxlDCSYHXH1nI84Ig-EDKZsXymYUqiznNHHztcpOevSdfBDOKpw/s1600/Erik+Frenken.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVCBVj8FuQP1stwIClSEGwW0_m9wPJr82YjFx9EmL96_AsjeNVPeqdUhp8wjwJa9k4hoj2Z-Te8oTKHsDDGx1M-abWxlDCSYHXH1nI84Ig-EDKZsXymYUqiznNHHztcpOevSdfBDOKpw/s640/Erik+Frenken.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Erik Frenken</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">- Describe yourself as a designer/label and as a person. What is the main difference between both descriptions?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- After years of experience at great designer brands like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alberta Ferretti</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Viktor&Rolf</i> I decided to launch Avelon. Avelon enables me to create what I like and express my view of the world. So there isn’t really any difference between me as a designer or as a person. Whether I’m a father or get inspiration and energy from everything around me it is what makes me Erik Frenken but also what makes me the designer that I am.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- First created item that you were proud of? Do you still have it?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- The first item that I’m most proud of was the starter item for my St. Martins graduation show. It was an aqua green dress with tons of metal copper pallet’s making at a 16 kilo weighing garment. When I had finished it I knew I was on the right track with my graduation collection. I still have it and actually it was part of the inspiration for AW12.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- What were your very first steps to get into fashion world? Do you always wanted to be a designer?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- When I was 7 or 8 year old I had a favourite sweater. It was a burgundy red heavy knit sweater and the feeling that sweater gave me when I wore it, that special feeling that makes you feel lager then life, is my first fashion memory I have. With time this sense of fashion progressed and at teenager age it manifested in a much more profound way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I can always remember the essential feeling of that burgundy red sweater. I’ve always wanted to be an actor because the only thing you need is your body – it’s your product and your way of expression… I still fantasise about it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Where do you seek for inspiration? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Everything around me gives me energy and inspires me. But especially people and the way they interact or carry themselves. I love how some people can walk in to a room and have this cool and comfortable aura about them without being smug. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Do you have special rituals before you start to create?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- There is no special ritual just a mind-set. This mind-set can start at any point, this is that click when you know your on the right track with a collection. Sometimes it’s something that inspires me or the visualisation of a design that’s been in my head for a while. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- That everything I make fits the duct tape cocktail dress: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">luxury garments with rough edges and delicate elements. An affordable brand, which is always special, distinguished and creates a directional and season-less look for every occasion!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Your beauty ideal. Do you have concrete inspirational portrait of person who wears your clothes?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">- Avelon is designed for people who are aware of their sense of style and want to be recognized for showing an understated personal signature. The person how embodies this right now is Kate Moss. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- If your clothes could talk, what would they say?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- They would speak and never shout, but they would be able to grab the attention even in a room full of people. That would open people’s mind for a different view on the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Fashion nowadays. What things should be mentioned and what should be ignored?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uggs</i> should be ignored! What should be mentioned and recognised is the amount of creativity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- You are based in Amsterdam. Is the concrete location important for your expression or label’s difference?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Off course this is important. Even though the Dutch fashion identity isn’t very clearly defined. I think that Avelon is formed by my Dutch heritage and the Amsterdam surroundings, so maybe it’s a visualisation of the Dutch fashion identity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Do you need to march and fight to get everyone’s attention?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Yes, as </span>I always say that we’re only a few centimetres down the two kilometre line. My ambition is to build a strong, recognisable international brand that would be globally appreciated by professionals and consumers. We’re getting there but there is a long way to go. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your young career?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Being able to start Avelon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Future plans for your brand?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- We hope to open our first Avelon flagship store soon so that’s what we are focussing on right now. </div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-78115891393802933542012-02-16T14:31:00.001+00:002012-02-16T15:53:45.057+00:00Inspired by traditions and ethnic - Jan-Jan Van Essche<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCzMtSNrL4SRt2Fk1rr5OivQ1loK_Kp3gQhrG7p47X5A9Snq5n7Ro4e69_tL-_gUIzil30WcKxKbJccXC7Za6kMRkM-_sDxV-iqlgcOuq4uYf4pz_NOjpWhWQ-0vM4qWIEAVWLB8964II/s1600/Portrait_Jan-JanVE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCzMtSNrL4SRt2Fk1rr5OivQ1loK_Kp3gQhrG7p47X5A9Snq5n7Ro4e69_tL-_gUIzil30WcKxKbJccXC7Za6kMRkM-_sDxV-iqlgcOuq4uYf4pz_NOjpWhWQ-0vM4qWIEAVWLB8964II/s640/Portrait_Jan-JanVE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Jan-Jan van Essche </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><b>- Describe yourself as a designer and as a person. What is the main difference between both descriptions?</b><br />
- I’m not sure if I am the right person to describe myself, maybe it’s better to ask someone that is close to me. But if I must describe myself anyway I can say that my zodiac is Gemini - not that I am strong believer of astrology - also I have two identical first names and I have a twin brother as well. I always see the good side and the bad side of things, people or situations. I always try to unify opposites.<br />
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And I don’t think there is a difference between me as a designer and me as a person: after all it’s me as a person who designs clothes that carry my own name. These are not two different people.<br />
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- I don’t know how exactly I realized that. There was no one single thing or event that brought me to that point.<br />
But I do know I’ve had the feeling I wanted to become a designer since I was really young. Not that I’ve been extremely busy with it – didn’t plan it or anything- it was more of a subconscious feeling I had, like I knew this was what I would eventually end up doing.<br />
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<b>- First made item you were proud of? Do you still have it?</b><br />
- One of the first things I’ve made and still remember was kind of an oriental style jacket. I made it when I was 16 or 17. It was something of a mix between a kimono and a denim jacket. I really liked it and wore it a lot. It must still be somewhere in my parent’s house. I must look for it. I wonder if I would still be proud about it though.<br />
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<b>- What things inspire you?</b><br />
- People around me - friends as well as passers-by - conversations I have with them, how they move and the way they carry themselves. Music and musicians are always a big influence too. Art and creativity in general can motivate me a lot to continue and go deeper into what I’m doing. And of course traditional and ethnical clothing are a very big influence in my designs. All these things can trigger ideas that lead to new work. But sometimes the best idea comes when you least expect it, so I always try to keep my eyes open for anything that might inspire me.<br />
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<b>- Do you have special rituals before you start to create?</b><br />
- No not really. Except putting on some music that matches my mood at that time. But I wouldn’t consider that as a ritual.<br />
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<b>- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</b><br />
- I think respect and comfort are important values in my work. Respect for the people who wear my clothes, respect for the craft of making clothes, respect for the people who work with me on creating the collection.<br />
Comfort is an important feeling I try to put into all of my clothes. I hope this could help giving a self-conscious and relaxed feeling to the person who wears it.<br />
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<b>- What was the reason to create just a one collection per year?</b><br />
- It has to do with the fact that it gives me the opportunity to learn wile growing into this. It gives me the chance to reflect on all the facets of the collection a bit more: on the design part and on its business part.<br />
But it also has something to do with my trying to find ways of making fashion that fit with my personal views and believes. For example, I think fashion would not get worse if it all slowed down a little bit, if the turnover between the seasons would be less abrupt.<br />
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<b>- You are creating unisex, shapeless and oversized silhouettes. Do you have the ideal before you start to design?</b><br />
- Of course I have an image in front of me that I want to create. But mostly it is not a very clear image. It’s quite a vague shape; like a kind of shadow that gets clearer and clearer as I’m in the process of creating.<br />
And although quite some of my designs are indeed very loose and oversized, to me they are very clear volumes that are very deliberate and thought true. The fact that a lot of my clothes can be worn by both men and women is a result of those shapes. I like the concept that the body shapes the garment, rather than the other way around. So everybody will appear different in my clothes.<br />
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<b>- You are based in Antwerp, Belgium. Does it influence your expression and creativity?</b><br />
- I guess it must influence me for sure. But I’m not really aware of how or when... It is my hometown, so it will always be a part of who I am. It’s the city that I live and work in, so probably it will leave some trace in what I do. Antwerp does have a very specific atmosphere to it, and I’m sure that you can feel that in my work.<br />
I grew up knowing the Antwerp fashion designers, so I’m sure some of that Antwerp style must have influenced my work. Especially I was inspired by the individuality and unique approach.<br />
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<b>- Do you need to march and fight to get everyone’s attention?</b><br />
- No, I don’t have that feeling. It is a lot of work to get the collection ready and out there. And we’ve been quite lucky with the response it has got so far. But it doesn’t feel like a fight, I wouldn’t know who I would have to be fighting anyway. It is not an easy road, but that doesn’t mean it’s a fight.<br />
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<b>- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your young career?</b><br />
- That’s difficult to say, I have the feeling it has just started.<br />
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<b>- Future plans, dream collaborations and hopes?</b><br />
- I wish and hope the collections will keep on growing slowly but surely, as it has done so far. Also I want to build a solid base that can continue producing beautiful clothing.<br />
The future plan is getting collection #3 ready, due June 2012.Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-90045071360457011332012-01-26T22:24:00.004+00:002012-03-04T22:29:31.154+00:00Simple but still effective Patrick Mohr<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0M4AFhkflVI6np0apJQLMJlRx-DFbistrzSkBK2kXD13lPPdHJsSSaKYipCQ1vmKpXF_hcW-hbep-7mJHiJ63O_VXQn3hGaEF5E_9Zb-WWLHMRQEw05XFwXLQfiAzi8MkORvU__WLZI/s1600/patrick+mohr-portrait.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0M4AFhkflVI6np0apJQLMJlRx-DFbistrzSkBK2kXD13lPPdHJsSSaKYipCQ1vmKpXF_hcW-hbep-7mJHiJ63O_VXQn3hGaEF5E_9Zb-WWLHMRQEw05XFwXLQfiAzi8MkORvU__WLZI/s640/patrick+mohr-portrait.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Patrick Mohr</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- Describe yourself as a designer/label and as a person. What is the main difference between both descriptions?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- My clothes are quite simple but have some characteristic features which make them unique. I don‘t necessarily distinguish between men and women because I think we are all just human beings, simple as that. My thoughts, my perspective of the world and people I meet on the way, that all influences me in what I do and of course this is shown in my clothes as well. So I guess you can‘t really split my personality and my clothes apart, because in a way they mirror my inner self.<br />
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<b>- Before you started to design your own clothes you worked as a model at various fashion shows. Tell more about your modeling experience and how did you realized that you want to get into the fashion world as a creator.</b><br />
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- The fashion-industry is a world of its own and its rules. In my modeling days I learned what you can and can‘t do. I‘m very grateful for all experiences, good and bad, during that time. Of course it helped me a lot to fulfill my dream to become a designer because I already knew how it all works.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>- What things inspire you?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- What inspires me most are the people on the streets. I‘m fascinated by how people try to express their personality through their style, for the world to see. Even when you dress as if you don‘t care about fashion at all, it says something about you and how you might see the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>- Do you have special rituals before you start to create?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- I don‘t decide when I get creative. It‘s not like „Oh, in 2 hours I‘m going to have the most wonderful idea ever and then I‘m going to sit down at my kitchen table and draw it“. It all just happens naturally; sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and have this amazing inspiration, seemingly out of nowhere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
- The process from idea to the final product.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- At first I try to get as many inspirational input as possible, from ordinary people I see when I randomly walk through Munich or from various Fashion Blogs, and of course my own deep feelings. When I feel to have enough to start a new line I try to put my invisible visions in visible designs and ideally no one‘s more surprised than I am with the outcome.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR54uSxDUoW1dQXhZdtQBzVyI-yhyphenhyphenAj2wzv9e_6UljTpV-rkUGGOWfJwcTzvY29qThzMOrjfBiYyNNXFR2B8FwDl1i3GnrldgmqIpNLiO2EPHWenCFqBxexKZlfwL31I8QqkIdTP-W0Oo/s1600/photos+Barbara+Maurer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR54uSxDUoW1dQXhZdtQBzVyI-yhyphenhyphenAj2wzv9e_6UljTpV-rkUGGOWfJwcTzvY29qThzMOrjfBiYyNNXFR2B8FwDl1i3GnrldgmqIpNLiO2EPHWenCFqBxexKZlfwL31I8QqkIdTP-W0Oo/s640/photos+Barbara+Maurer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- I think the most important thing is to stay yourself and to have the strength not to be talked into things you don‘t really believe in, even if that means that people like you and what you‘re doing less. I‘m also a fan of understatement rather than unnecessary abundance, as in I don‘t really like when people are wearing too much make-up, too much clothes or talk too much about unimportant stuff nobody even cares about.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>- If your clothes could talk, what would they say?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- Be clean, chic and simple yet special. That‘s all you need.<b><br />
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- Fashion boundaries nowadays. Is that easy to break old and create new rules?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- These days it seems that you always have to be more eccentric, more shocking than others to get attention. I like to think that anything is possible. Nowadays it seems that one can be able to try out how far he/she can go without being judged immediately. I think that if you want to do something, just go ahead and do it, no matter what others might say. I think people who are brave enough to break boundaries are key to keep the (fashion-)world in motion and inspiring.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>- You are based in Germany. Is the concrete location important for your expression?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- I live and work in Munich which for me is the best city to be creative. I love that in this city you can get everything but it‘s not overwhelming like New York for example, where sometimes you don‘t even know what to do or buy anymore because there‘s just too much to choose from. I also like that it‘s close to nature, the Alps for example, where I can recharge my batteries and get new ideas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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- You don‘t get attention when you do what everyone else does because that bores people. I wouldn‘t say I have to fight for it and I don‘t necessarily try to, it all just happens because I do what I like, which I guess makes me and my label authentic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your career?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
- When I‘m able to inspire people to break free from stereotypical gender-roles, I‘m happy. In a more materialistic sense, I‘m very glad and grateful that I was able to launch my own label Patrick Mohr where I get to realize my visions with every new collection and get to show it to the international fashion world at Berlin Fashion Week twice a year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>- Future plans, dream collaborations and hopes?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
- I don‘t really have a dream-collaboration partner. I enjoy working with anyone that has fresh ideas and his/her own imagination. That‘s what I hope for: to find someone I can create things with I haven‘t even thought about myself yet, things that are still out in the universe.Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-46741253443353796752012-01-20T00:01:00.002+00:002012-01-20T00:03:31.066+00:00Experimantal shoe design by Marloes ten Bhomer<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><br />
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- Stubborn and righteous.<br />
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<b>- What are the main differences between both descriptions?</b><br />
- Counts for both.<br />
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<b>- What was your first created item you where proud of?</b><br />
- The first time that I made something that was ready for real use; it was a porcelain cup in my BA and it opened a desire to make things that are both fantastical and real.<br />
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<b>- How did you decided to design shoes?</b><br />
- While studying 3D (product) design at the <i>ArtEz</i>, the Netherlands, I was introduced to footwear design by one of my tutors, <i>Marijke Bruggink</i>, founder of the very successful shoe label <i>Lola Pagola</i>.<br />
Within my role as product designer, I find shoes a very interesting and complex subject matter. It combines a full spectrum of design concerns from material knowledge to engineering and highly intuitive aspects. Next to my own agenda I have regarding design, which deals with designing objects that ignore or criticise conventions in order to make the product-world less generic. Shoes need to be structurally sound. Making shoes in a non-conventional way and still making them technically accurate is a real challenge.<br />
In addition to these challenges I am very drawn to the fact that shoes, by being very close to the body, have a strong influence on the person wearing them, both physically and emotionally.<br />
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<b>- Your shoe concept. What are the main message you are trying to send using your design?</b><br />
- My work consistently aims to challenge generic typologies of women’s shoes through experiments with non-traditional technologies and material techniques. By reinventing the process by which footwear is made, the resulting shoes serve as unique examples of new aesthetic and structural possibilities, while also serving to criticise the conventional status of women’s shoes as cultural objects.<br />
My research into feet and footwear has resulted in a variety of experimental conceptual pieces, some of which have been developed into technically sound (wearable) shoes, others which are produced solely as sculptural pieces. The existence of both directions within my practice generates a layer to the work that comments on the perception of functionality, and the context within which they sit (in galleries, museums, or in boutiques) challenges the audiences’ preconceptions about the shoe.<br />
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<b>- When did you first get the idea to use new technologies and other materials which is not common in fashion industry?</b><br />
- My background is in product design and that is where my interest for and knowledge of different materials and technologies come form. My main aim with my work is to get away from conventional style clichés and codes, such as sporty, girly, feminin etc. Rather than designing shoes based on customer profiling, which I think mostly leads to stereo typed footwear, my approach to footwear is to use materials and technologies to discover the shoe anew.<br />
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- What were your very first steps to get into fashion industry?</b><br />
- Although I design shoes, I wouldn’t necessarily say that my work field is the fashion industry. Context of my work varies from fashion, design, crafts, art and sometimes technology. I mainly work towards exhibitions, by applying for grants, self-initiating new work and responding to open calls. This has also lead to several commissions.<br />
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<b>- Where do you seek for inspiration?</b><br />
- Abstraction, materials and technology are my inspirations. The inherent logic and mystery in machines and their highly specific language of efficiency are a major influence on my work. This language has as much to do with concealing as it has with revealing and within this contradiction lays a multitude of opportunities for interpretation. My work explores this void.<br />
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- Do you have some special rituals before you start to create?</b><br />
- I always like my workspace to be very organised before I start a new project, but I guess that is more a way of procrastinating and clearing my head than a ritual.<br />
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- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</b><br />
- I think that it is very important to understand the context in which you operate and not all contexts have a platform yet. You might need to create it yourself.<br />
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- If you can name it what is your biggest achievement in your career? Do you feel that you need to march and fight to get public attention?</b><br />
- I think a great turning point in my career was the commission for a solo exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum Illinois from <i>Ginger Gregg Duggan</i> and <i>Judy Hoos Fox</i>. This exhibition provided me with the opportunity to contextualise my work within an installation and writings. Since then, my work has been received in a larger context that deals with making, manufacturing, technology, industry and DIY production. I am currently a Stanley Picker Fellow and am looking forward to broaden the context of my work here as well.<br />
Ever since I graduated I have received a lot of press attention. I always enjoy the mix of reactions I receive about my work, ranging from the sepsis to unquestioned trust in the feasibility of wear and production.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b>- Now you are based in London. How it influences your expression and ideas?</b><br />
- I have been based in London ever since I started my studies in Product Design at<i> the Royal Collage of Art</i>. I haven’t had a practice elsewhere. I do think that living and working in London forces a decision early on in your career to make your practice self-sufficient in some way.<br />
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<b>- Future plans, dream collaborations and hopes?</b><br />
- My future plans have always focussed on broadening the variety of contexts in which the work sits, ranging from art/design exhibitions, industry consultancy and academic positioning to private and public commissions.<br />
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Al the moment I am focussing on the Stanley Picker Fellowship in Design 2011, which will provide me with a more academic approach.<br />
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Ultimately I would like to produce a piece of footwear that is positioned completely outside the footwear industry, manufacturing, sales etc. I think that the fashion and footwear industry model of seasonality, bulk orders, the catwalk etc. is ready for an update.Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-28470438260821809712012-01-04T23:29:00.009+00:002012-02-03T23:42:02.688+00:00Oversized and mixed Olivia Deane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yFtK16lPLrs/TwTcyfQ2LRI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/9TZPUUZ1DJE/s1600/Olivia+Deane+Portrait.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yFtK16lPLrs/TwTcyfQ2LRI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/9TZPUUZ1DJE/s640/Olivia+Deane+Portrait.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Olivia Deane</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Describe yourself as a designer and as a person. Do you see main differences between these descriptions?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- As far as I can see there aren’t any differences between the two. If I wasn’t the person I am, I wouldn’t be a designer. I’m conscientious, determined and enthusiastic, with occasional hints of insecurity that I hide by being stubborn. As a designer I’m the same, except I’m not stubborn… I know how much I have to learn from those around me.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- If you remember what was your first made item you were proud of?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- The way you feel proud of something you’ve made changes drastically with age. I was into a lot of textiles when I was younger, so I was proud because I was learning new things like weaving, tie dye, batik and knitting. As you grow up, things get a little more serious – your constantly look at the mistakes you’ve made. I guess that questions like these remind you some kind of joy you felt when you were a kid.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- When did you realize that you want to get into fashion industry?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- It would be amazing to pinpoint a ‘moment’ but the truth is that I was born with this passion, a fire inside of me. I have no idea if it’s genetic or made, but it’s always been there and it’s that passion that lead me into fashion, and ultimately the industry.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Why did you choose to create womenswear?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- When your starting out it’s best to go with what feels most comfortable and what you already know. The designs I create are for someone with a similar aesthetic to mine and I understand womenswear because I have experienced it through life. I have no doubt in my mind that eventually I will design menswear… I actually find menswear much more exciting in so many ways - there’s so much to learn from it. I’ve still got a long way to go before I take that on too.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- What is the best thing about being a designer?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- The feeling of translation is incredible: to see something manifest in your mind, then to see it on a body, moving in a real environment as you had imagined it… that’s possibly the best feeling in the world.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- What story could be told, if your clothes could speak?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- My clothes wouldn’t tell a story, they’d seduce you. They’d tell you to touch them, to smell them, to play, to grab, and to climb inside them and feel incredible.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- The silhouettes from your graduate collection are oversized and mixed. Do you imagine a real person/ideal who wears it? What is the story behind these shapes?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- When I’m creating a collection, I’m creating a vision. I’m sharing myself with so many people. So whilst visually the garments together are oversized and mixed, I‘m creating a vision as a whole. My intention was to create a collection that could be taken apart, piece by piece, and worn as separates. So the vision is that the ideal, my muse, wears the entire collection. Whereas a real person wears individual pieces and winds them into their everyday.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Where do you seek for inspiration?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- Everywhere. When you are creative you take the inspiration subliminally. I already have my own sensibilities so everything is translated through my own eyes. I’m also phenomenally fortunate to be surrounded by creative’s who are constantly influencing and pushing me. My brothers, an architect and a blacksmith, are incredibly talented and I am inspired not only by their work, but their attitude, creativity and intelligent designing. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Do you have some special rituals before you start to create?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- No. All I know is that some days you can’t think of anything, nothing comes into your mind and you exasperate all your creative juice. So the best thing to do is step back, take a break and do something completely unrelated. I’d spend some time in the bath or maybe do some yoga. If this doesn’t work I’d go back home to the countryside. The minute you stop thinking about designing, you start creating…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- To listen everything what everyone has to say to you, the positive and the negative. Learn from those around you. Keep it all in perspective. Do something everyday that is so far removed from fashion, giving yourself air and space. Most importantly, keep laughing whatever happens.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- You are new talent in fashion world. Do you feel that you need to mach and fight to get everyone’s attention?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- No, not at all. I’m not like that as a person anyway. I’m creating because I’m passionate and love what I do. If people are interested then that’s a bonus. I’m here to enjoy myself and that’s the most important thing to me. I have a lot of incredible people around me who keep my feet steadily on the ground and they always remind me of how important it is to laugh at yourself. They all know who they are and I’d be lost without them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your young career?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- All of this. The response I’ve had since graduating has been incredible. It all hit me one day over the summer, I’d had an incredible day surfing in Cornwall with friends, and when I came home that evening I heard that I’d be featured in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">i-D</i>… needless to say - that day was the best of my life so far. It was perfect.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Future plans, hopes and dream collaborations?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I want to continue with my label, and work hard. I want to take some time to travel and see the world to open my mind, develop and mature. I hope to have the same support a few years down the line as I do now, to make the people who have supported and believed in me, proud. I want to do what I love, and enjoy it, taking the highs with the lows. Without the lows we couldn’t appreciate the highs. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">As far as collaborations are concerned, I would eventually like to explore the parallels between fashion and architecture a little further with my brother, once he will graduate. We both know there are some exciting possibilities there.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">But ultimately, to work hard, fall in love and laugh through it all…</div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-92085926806309328902011-12-14T08:40:00.001+00:002012-02-03T23:42:12.370+00:00Louise Sigvardt and new minimal luxury<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyy4nBz2oawl0cIDZpJni8ayvZjQHOjpHATLVJ549XzrcC0b3ZcjtTFID7JmzNTw3_Z8SR1reYSA_cPfTNM6IP_2Q0_8K9i28zFTwwWo71i4Hl394MVWOCedUn00QZjqbFi-gUWv8apxo/s1600/portrait+louise+sigvardt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyy4nBz2oawl0cIDZpJni8ayvZjQHOjpHATLVJ549XzrcC0b3ZcjtTFID7JmzNTw3_Z8SR1reYSA_cPfTNM6IP_2Q0_8K9i28zFTwwWo71i4Hl394MVWOCedUn00QZjqbFi-gUWv8apxo/s640/portrait+louise+sigvardt.jpg" width="490" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Louise Sigvardt</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Describe yourself as a designer and as a person. Do you see big difference between both describtions?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- As a designer I am minimalist. I have used many references to minimalism in my collection, first of all because luxury term use a lot of minimalistic rules when it comes to the compostion of the clothes. And what I like about the minimalistic design is the tight dogmas, which dictates the outcome of material. I like the way every detail has a something practical or logical, so design reminds me almost the mathematical equation. As a person I enjoy simple things in life. So in that way my approach to both design and life is quite similar.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b>- If you remember, what was your first made item you were proud of? </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I think sometimes it could change. That would be some of the latest projects I have done, because I make a progress in my style language. My latest project is my graduation project, which I am very proud of, because I feel that my expectations and skills where connected. I had the time and ablity to get the result I wanted.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- How did you realised that you want to become a designer?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- As long as I remember myself I was always interested in fashion. At the beginning I wasn‘t aware so much about fashion, but I was always aware about how other people and I looked and dressed. Later I began to notice the "works" of fashion, how and why people choose their clothes and the way their outfits becomes a reflection of their personality. That is what makes fashion interesting and makes me want do more and better designs.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Why did you choose to create womenswear?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I was always inspired by menswear, but I used the look and expression to design womenswear. At some point I would like to design menswear as well.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- The shapes of your clothes are aesthetically minimalistic and graceful. Maybe you can expand and tell more about your relationship to minimalism and vision for new kind of luxury concept?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I was inspired by "new luxury" term. It means that the term of luxury has been divided in two parts, where "old luxury" is defined by the "good old" values in high quality products, such as classic and expensive materials. When the "new luxury" completely distorts the old definition by using unconventional materials in a new way. For example by elevating a pair of jeans to a very exclusive and expensive piece of clothing. So my collection is the clash between Christian Dior 1950´s "new look" and the 1980´s sports/grunge crazyness.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- What are your main inspirational sources? </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I am very inspired by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Phoebe Phelow</i>, she is one of the first "new era" female fashion designers. She took the design philosophy from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coco Chanel</i> and made it into her own expression. She focus on simple approach to design, which cuts away all unnessesary details.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Do you have some special rituals before you start to create?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I usually work very conventional and I actually use most of the skills I have got from my eduction at Kolding design school. First of all I define a story/concept, after that I do research and gather inspirational images. But one thing I really enjoy is to go travel before a big project. This is a great way to get a new perspective and prevent yourself from doing the same design over and over.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I would like to think that I don‘t have one style, but at the moment my style is very inspired by a combination between european and japan minimalistic design, where the materials and construction is in main focus.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Tell me more about the photoshoot. Had you had the clear vision before the photoshoot? If you had, what was the reason to shoot in the street? Maybe there are some hidden symbols or messages beyond these images?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I found most of inspiration for the clothes: I wanted to make the photos have with a connection to my collection. My main inspiration for the "scene" was few drawings from the german design school Bauhaus designers, where the composition and the color combinations was the most important part of the image.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- You are based in Denmark. Had it influenced your expression somehow?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- Yes, fashion is very influenced by the geographic location. The first designer that I noticed was someone from our danish designers, and later it spred out to other european designers too. Scandinavia especially Denmark has always been known for simple, minimalistic design, and I see it as a part of my herritage. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Do you feel that you need to mach and fight to get everyone’s attention?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- Recently I have been very lucky with attention for my graduation collection. My pictures have been featured in a lot of magazines, videos and blogs. All of this was because of my graduation show in Copenhagen.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your young career?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- After all attention for my last collection, most of the items are being produced by companies in Denmark. For example I did some amber jewelery in collaboration with a company called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House of Amber</i>, which later decided to produce some items for sale at worldwide shops. The same was with the leather bags, they where made for show, but the company chose to make a very limited number for sale.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Future plans, hopes and dream collaborations?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- Currently I work for a new design studio in Copenhagen, Denmark, called "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">femmes regionales</i>", where we are designing for all aspects of fashion design, from the identity to grapichs of fashion brands. Also I would like to be head of design at a major fashion design brand.</div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-84258835465490991242011-09-17T10:16:00.004+01:002012-02-03T23:42:27.519+00:00Honest image by Michael Flores<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Gh2sjLfREq2LXQhgw0F_4SBhUb-yiRl871xhFDb6GRVSWBWVQKOt2TEn9l0B4KgZVnzoI18TTNr63vsE0oqXGjznGxNMw_JNofvym_nrPI2PrQjhHSrow-u5jxMqPClffuC2ZOlVWXE/s1600/Michael+Flores+portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Gh2sjLfREq2LXQhgw0F_4SBhUb-yiRl871xhFDb6GRVSWBWVQKOt2TEn9l0B4KgZVnzoI18TTNr63vsE0oqXGjznGxNMw_JNofvym_nrPI2PrQjhHSrow-u5jxMqPClffuC2ZOlVWXE/s640/Michael+Flores+portrait.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> Michael Flores</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span lang="EN-US">- Describe yourself as a person and as a photographer.<br />
What is the main difference between both descriptions?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">- I would say the two are closely intertwined. First and foremost I am an image maker, I cannot live without making images - the process is an extension of my being. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">- In my early teens I was involved in theatre and became interested in taking photos of myself in character. I wanted to create narratives through images and found the medium to be more of a challenge. Once I started I could not stop, although the subjects became other people than me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Where do you seek for inspiration?</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">- I find inspiration in many places; from old magazines and films to taking a walk through the city. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">- Best thing being a photographer?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">- The best part of being a photographer is being able to show how I see the world, to really grab on to a viewer through the viscera and leave my images engrained in their mind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">- What are the basic values for you as for photographer?</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">- Creating an honest image is perhaps the most important value for me as a photographer. What I mean by an honest image is capturing a moment that feels real for the viewer and myself. The place, clothing, hair, and make-up may be a façade but the moment captured conveys some sense of reality through emotion, expression, and light.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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- The “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Voodoo Child</i>” shoot, it is a perfect mix of reportage and fashion synthesizing to create a story. While the girls are models, there is a very real quality to the photos.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>- Do you have some special rituals or rules before you start to shoot/create?</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">- A good stretch and some music are always key for me. I need to be limber in order to get the shots I want; often times you will find me rolling on the ground or contorting my body in some odd way so stretching is important for me. Music just sets the mood for everyone on set; it creates a rhythm or heartbeat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">- Currently you are based at New York. How this city did influence your visual expression?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">- I just moved to NY a few days ago, but already the energy of the city is inspiring me. I’m especially inspired by the diversity of people here; there are so many different cultures, styles, body shapes, etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Do you still need to march and fight to get everyone’s attention?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">- I think working in any creative field you have to hustle. While the quality of your work is important, it’s equally important to connect with people. I don’t think I’ll ever stop working, connecting, hustling. You have to fight for what you want!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- If you can name it, what is the biggest achievement in your career?</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">- Shooting the only advertorial for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dior Cosmetics</i> “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dior Addict</i>” lipstick.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Future plans, hopes and dream collaborations?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">- I’m getting ready to embark on the moving image side of my career, which is really exciting. It’s funny how life comes full circle. I’m excited to re-visit my skills from theatre but from a new perspective. I feel that moving into film and video is a natural progression for myself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Describe yourself as a designer and as a person.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are the main differences between these descriptions?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- The aesthetic of my design is androgynous, euphoric and chic. Graphic, composition and silhouette are the essential elements of my design. As a person I am a perfectionist and an optimist, easy-going and I like everything to be fair this is probably because I am a Libra. I can convey my creativity and vision as a womenswear designer; my personality says more about me as a person as apposed to who I am as a designer.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- If you remember what was your first made item you were proud of?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I remember this purple denim dress I made in my BA first year, I couldn’t stitch through the thick layers and decided to use staples instead… I was quite proud of it at the time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- What were your very first steps to get into fashion industry?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- Going through 7 years of Art and Fashion education were my very first steps to get into fashion industry. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Why did you choose to create womenswear? </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maybe you have plans to create something for guys too?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I feel that there is more space to imagine, experiment and explore in womenswear. Whereas, in menswear I would probably take a more practical approach and design something that I could see myself in. I am interested in menswear and will definitely give it a go in the near future. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- How did you first get the idea to make multi layered cuts? What does it symbolize for you?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- It was from a series of installation work by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Matthew Monahan</i> and a photograph ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rock of Ages</i>’ by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Edward Burtynsky</i>. I wanted to create obsessive lines with the multi coloured Organza layers then cut into them to create sculptural shapes. It symbolizes a sense of zing and refinement for me. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Do you have some special rituals before you start to create?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I always have a cigarette and a cup of tea. I find it comforting and can clear my thoughts before designing. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- Where do you seek for inspiration? </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- Library, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">V&A</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tate Modern</i> and the internet, I like to look at visuals and get an instinctive response then start from there. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- Vision, creativity, use of materials and quality these are the essentials for me as a designer.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are based in London. How it influences your expression and ideas? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- There’s this ‘break the mould’ attitude in fashion in London. I think it’s the open-mindedness and diversity that give London the edge. Nothing is too much or too whacky, you could go with ‘Less is more’ and ‘More is more’, there are no boundaries and rules. It has certainly influenced the way I think and finding my own voice in design. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you feel that you need to mach and fight to get everyone’s attention?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- There are times when I have uncertainty and doubts, but I believe that as long as you stay true to who you are as a designer the right audience and attention will always be there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your young career?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">- I don’t feel that I have achieved anything big in my career yet, fortunately and unfortunately it’s yet to come! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b>- Plans and visions for future, dream collaborations and hopes?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;">- I have been given the opportunity to join </span><i style="color: #666666;">Vauxhall Fashion Scout</i><span style="color: #666666;"> for a graduate showcase event during </span><i style="color: #666666;">LFW</i><span style="color: #666666;"> in September, and would like to show during </span><i style="color: #666666;">LFW</i><span style="color: #666666;"> in the near future. My dream collaborations would be creating some installation work with artists like </span><i style="color: #666666;">Mathew Monahan</i><span style="color: #666666;"> and </span><i style="color: #666666;">Aaron Curry</i><span style="color: #666666;">.</span> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"></span></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-2611403748500956222011-08-23T09:39:00.008+01:002012-02-03T23:42:49.803+00:00Interdisciplinary bridges by Hussein Chalayan<div style="color: #666666;"><br />
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<div style="color: #666666;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bB8O8htv8boqLfLLflGGZ6i4M0vjGxf7xJa98UihU89w_RiY1HHesHfwirTanz8sRspTa_3QaqCsn5j2FVIY0U5R7Q0fXdJY2B7u0hVfyccZlflP-qN-68X9752zJx_ThU2oEKbHePE/s1600/Hussein+Chalayan+portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bB8O8htv8boqLfLLflGGZ6i4M0vjGxf7xJa98UihU89w_RiY1HHesHfwirTanz8sRspTa_3QaqCsn5j2FVIY0U5R7Q0fXdJY2B7u0hVfyccZlflP-qN-68X9752zJx_ThU2oEKbHePE/s640/Hussein+Chalayan+portrait.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Hussein Chalayan (picture by Chris Moore)</b></span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">- Describe yourself as a designer/label, artist and person. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">What are the main differences between these descriptions?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I think I have finally come round to thinking of myself as an artist who happens to use clothes as my main medium. But using other mediums can create a platform for these ideas such as video, film, photography and sculpture. I don’t think clothes are limiting, I have a process which helps me to design which usually involves an idea or tells a story but ultimately this needs to lead to a product which a woman can wear – she doesn’t need to know the process, she can just enjoy the garment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are creating since 1993. What were your very first steps to get into fashion industry?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- As a child, I developed an independent fascination for the body – I was so exited about anything to do with it, I was also brought up mainly by women who probably helped to fuel this, I started to create narratives around the body. I guess fashion for me was the closet thing which celebrated the body and that’s why I chose to study it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- At the same time you are creating fashion and art installations/happenings.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Are these both fields of expression are equal? How do you find the connection between your ideas?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I feel that the best ideas work on all levels in terms of function, aesthetic, make, originality, etc. Whether it is called art or not is not always so important.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">I would describe my work as cross disciplinary, with my idea to create bridges between design and other aspects of life. I generally instigate the presentations in relation to what has been designed as I always envisage a scenario with the clothes in them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEiMMP4cGahNtKeFXXHhXhveGaPfWhHcs8Dc8HInxeqbYKP-S803842Nteq6yY44c3k5LcFvdogxexwlEMAZrF7XPKl5-fhVSYB75zrO1jxrcr_xUxvCDPpus7XM8H1OkzPqb4rqREls/s1600/SS+2000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEiMMP4cGahNtKeFXXHhXhveGaPfWhHcs8Dc8HInxeqbYKP-S803842Nteq6yY44c3k5LcFvdogxexwlEMAZrF7XPKl5-fhVSYB75zrO1jxrcr_xUxvCDPpus7XM8H1OkzPqb4rqREls/s640/SS+2000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(picture by Chris Moore)</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you have some special rituals before you start to create?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I am a curious person and an ideas person, everything I do is imbued with my curiosity and love of exploring ideas. If I had to define my philosophy in a just few words, it would be an exploration, a journey, storytelling – it is a combination of these things with suggestions and proposals at the same time. It’s a quest into certain areas and proposing a way of looking at something.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Where do you seek for inspiration?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I am inspired by anthropology, migration, history, social prejudice, politics, displacement, science fiction and my own cultural background.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Why did you choose to create womenswear? Do you have the ideal portrait of woman/client when you create?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Someone whose style means they can dress like a tomboy by day and transform into a sexy goddess by night.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your whole career?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Biggest achievement is that my company is still around.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Future plans, dream collaborations and hopes?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- My new collection to be shown in Paris, my partnership with puma and also want to take projects a lot further, reaching more people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYZFym94tQqxuysNYUrdNUGqLgkIkMmUMKEqbGG1B7hedH6dXrLAWAn7bbR2M4gyUjPR59ZmSVigGfncJTUn-h_H2bMtn7sj7AMi7Qzsqe68dbCrPfmFlFPbedOZ8cHiB7UTCC7Q5e8Y/s1600/Airmail+dresses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYZFym94tQqxuysNYUrdNUGqLgkIkMmUMKEqbGG1B7hedH6dXrLAWAn7bbR2M4gyUjPR59ZmSVigGfncJTUn-h_H2bMtn7sj7AMi7Qzsqe68dbCrPfmFlFPbedOZ8cHiB7UTCC7Q5e8Y/s640/Airmail+dresses.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">See more <a href="http://www.husseinchalayan.com/">www.husseinchalayan.com</a></span></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873202936439576128.post-31496843546008220252011-08-14T11:47:00.004+01:002012-02-03T23:43:01.068+00:00Industrial dreams by Geraldine van Riesenbeck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj63ArWhqd9ewR3asMS_l4f5ILhd9A0peWJgbV-RfubRQbEp8BJT4JzVIhFLQJeBE4NJiQIEwnfzPhZ0VZxWHO6lRlB_duC-SMZN9zTyrjBx3WEYzQFXUdSKiAwRk0XgwlUN0kC96yuE0/s1600/Geraldine+van+Riesenbeck+portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj63ArWhqd9ewR3asMS_l4f5ILhd9A0peWJgbV-RfubRQbEp8BJT4JzVIhFLQJeBE4NJiQIEwnfzPhZ0VZxWHO6lRlB_duC-SMZN9zTyrjBx3WEYzQFXUdSKiAwRk0XgwlUN0kC96yuE0/s640/Geraldine+van+Riesenbeck+portrait.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Geraldine van Riesenbeck </span></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Describe yourself as a designer and as a person.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Do you see big difference between these both descriptions?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I don’t really see a difference between me as a designer and as a person – I think the one is related to the other, the one results out of the other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What was your first created item you where proud of?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- The very first item I created and was proud of was a dress I did when I was actually about 8 years old, a summer in the early nineties. My mom and my aunt used to cut off their jeans to make shorts out of them. I took two jeans legs and two pieces of pink fabric: One leg was the front, one the back and the pink fabric became straps to hold the ‘dress’ on my shoulders. I sewed it by hand with some really thick thread. I was so proud when I tried it on for the first time so of course I wanted to wear the dress in school the next day. My mom gently tried to talked me out of that idea but as she didn’t want to tell her daughter that her fancy dress wasn’t that fancy at all, she did let me wear it for school. Some pupils really were a little confused. I got compliments from my friends and my art teacher though who did help me sewing on one of the straps that fell apart after being in school for only 2 hours.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Why did you choose to be a designer?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Actually I can’t really tell why I did choose to become a designer. It somehow always has been quite clear to me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What were your very first steps to get into fashion industry?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- My first experience with the fashion industry was my six months internship with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Joop! Jeans men</i>. That was also the first time for me to work in menswear. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Joop!</i> is a huge company where I did learn a lot about the industry and about product development – from the first sketch to the final garment that hangs in the stores.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What is the best thing about being a designer?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- To me being a designer is more than only a job I do, it characterizes the way of living. I guess one of the best things is, that you express yourself constantly and it results into something that you can actually hold in your hands – a sketch, a garment, a piece of furniture, a painting, a photo, a video.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6GF08azvTmAhElBAcq57qbXZzans4LarD6YHbyS-7U_AYEzzyG6a0bSDeUwSQ4wCl4TzEfpQwNndqPlg4MGL7N1HwmFX0DOuJlskWLLwWGUkNrBPFIp8BmVXthb7ETyy31ZIoRBK7o18/s1600/geraldine_van_riesenbeck_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6GF08azvTmAhElBAcq57qbXZzans4LarD6YHbyS-7U_AYEzzyG6a0bSDeUwSQ4wCl4TzEfpQwNndqPlg4MGL7N1HwmFX0DOuJlskWLLwWGUkNrBPFIp8BmVXthb7ETyy31ZIoRBK7o18/s640/geraldine_van_riesenbeck_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Where do you seek for inspiration?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Inspiration is basically everywhere – people you meet, music you listened to, places and cities you visit, exhibitions you go to, experiences in life, your emotions – hopes, fears…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- In your last collection you are asking existential/subsistence questions. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">How does it reflect in your concept of creation and all surrounding?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- My latest collection, my Graduation collection, is based on a self-reflection – asking myself: Who am I? Where do I come from? What made me the person I am? I focused on two different key aspects: My habit of intense dreaming and my fascination for the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ruhrgebiet</i>’, a part of Germany known for its industry and industrial culture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">To transport these inspirations into my designs I did not only sew my garments but worked with different handcraft techniques such as knitting and different kinds of weaving – weaving a whole piece of pattern out of wool threads and weaving leather straps into each other. These techniques are an important component to the collection as a garment’s shape depends on whether it’s sewn, knitted or weaved, made out of fabric, wool or leather. I also used innovative techniques such as digital print: based on the idea of the inkblot test I developed a print using base colours that stand for the spontaneity and non-control about our dreams.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">The industrial aspect also appears</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="letter-spacing: 1pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">in the shoes: I created solid, formal shoes with a slight copper-plateau and casual, airy, sewn leather sandals.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 1pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- If your clothes could speak, what would they tell?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Be authentic, feel comfortable, feel good, feel free - maybe? Probably that varies depending on the observer, on expectations, on a certain state of mind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Do you have some special rituals before you start to create?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I don’t have a specific ritual before I start to design. To me designing is more or less the result of something - something I’ve experienced, something that has happened, people I’ve met, places I’ve been to, music I’ve heard…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3UFJdPQpXGTFVq45DsHZPWoukN_DI6qIAEUEZtV422lXDJC-PECctpDNtghBI1Es21dUOVKlVeJdRAkFruSmP0EwyCoPhP4vZThS1LIfTUvsD86sXX1teEnKmaA0KN5WQ7CFP-uzbQI/s1600/geraldine_van_riesenbeck_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3UFJdPQpXGTFVq45DsHZPWoukN_DI6qIAEUEZtV422lXDJC-PECctpDNtghBI1Es21dUOVKlVeJdRAkFruSmP0EwyCoPhP4vZThS1LIfTUvsD86sXX1teEnKmaA0KN5WQ7CFP-uzbQI/s640/geraldine_van_riesenbeck_2.jpg" width="440" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- What are the basic values for you as for designer?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I guess as a designer it’s important to be authentic, to have passion for what you do, to constantly work on yourself, to challenge yourself. And at the end to just do what you believe in and to always believe in what you do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- You are quite new talent in fashion business. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Do you feel that you need to march and fight to get everyone’s attention?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- I wouldn’t put it that way. To me it’s more about paying attention to yourself, to your work – if you do that, others will do so too.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- If you can name it what is the biggest achievement in your whole career?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Is it my graduation collection? But also to have had the possibility to live in NY and Stockholm and to work with great designers (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tim Hamilton</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Acne</i>) who I did learn a lot from and who inspired me. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Future plans, dream collaborations and hopes?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- There are too many to tell.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDy6bpjjDnmMwkVWHolhUmjGp7AlqewLlC99qZ8EGrLaQ0-A_thh7nf6ONSGtIYyMEdTmwOYYtQmp-gP6xY3H_yegnQOVb5pDhcuTEef11bDpJnUYKShefLRdpV3pjtPp6JjDRMZkcnE8/s1600/geraldine_van_riesenbeck_show.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDy6bpjjDnmMwkVWHolhUmjGp7AlqewLlC99qZ8EGrLaQ0-A_thh7nf6ONSGtIYyMEdTmwOYYtQmp-gP6xY3H_yegnQOVb5pDhcuTEef11bDpJnUYKShefLRdpV3pjtPp6JjDRMZkcnE8/s640/geraldine_van_riesenbeck_show.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB"> See more at</span><a href="http://www.geraldinevanriesenbeck.de/"> www.geraldinevanriesenbeck.de</a></div>Z.Ciurlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349785713355938286noreply@blogger.com0