Born in Chile, Ignacia Zordan has always rejected the “beginning” and “end” in fashion. While other designers rush to get collections on the market quickly, the Paris-based designer focuses on developing her clothes into one seamless collection, evolving from season to season with the addition of a few new or reworked pieces. While holding empowerment …
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FRENN: A Sophisticated Pair from Finland
FRENN was founded in 2013 by Helsinki-based fashion and textile designers Antti Laitinen and Jarkko Kallio. They decided to put their experience in fashion, PR, and menswear together and pair up with each other. They interviewed 20 men who are not related to the fashion industry. They asked them what they would like to have to …
Kit Woo: Androgynously Fancy
Kit Woo grew up in a small town in Malaysia without much exposure in fashion. He however has tremendous interest in the world of art and design. Deciding to dive headfirst into fashion design, Kit took a 2-year Advanced Diploma course majoring in apparel design and merchandising in First Media Design School, Singapore. During …
Andreea Castrase: A Master Romania Designer
She has previously won the final prize for UAD Gala 2013. The starting point for Andreea Castrase’s collection was the relativity of personal identity outlined in the novel One, none and a hundred thousand by Luigi Pirandello, called into a symbolic journey that has the ability to influence and shape the identity of the character. Thus, she …
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Les D’Arcs: A Scarf that Makes the Look
Les D’Arcs is a new fashion label from Berlin. It was founded by Anna Ingensand and Jess Kahlke, who started the label one and a half years ago by initially designing the first scarf for themselves. The feedback to their first scarf gave them the idea for the company. The reactions they recieved were so amazing that …
Alasdair: Being Wrapped by Silk
Enduring color palettes, the omission of pattern and posturing detail, bold shapes or angles that demand attention without distraction? It seems to be hard to decide the culminating factors that serve a classic piece of womenswear. Since the valiant birth of Alasdair, designer April Johnson’s work has embraced these traits with grace and manifested them …
Alessandro Trincone: Androgynous Identity Comes to Fashion
Alessandro Trincone graduated on December 2012 in Rome, Italy, at the “Universita’ La Sapienza di Roma” in Science of Fashion and costume before he went to”POLIMODA International Institute of Fashion Design & Marketing” in Fashion Design. With honors, his graduation design Kings and Queers, was selected to be the best of POLIMODA’s graduation works at …
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Omer Asim: the Mixer
The Mixer, I’m sure you are wondering where that name comes from. The reason I call him the mixer is because a designer with a background as thoroughly mixed as Omer Asim is quite unusual in the fashion industry. Born and raised in Sudan, he moved to London to enroll in the Bartlett School of …
CO-TE: Women’s Image of Self-representation
Given birth by Tomaso Anfossi and Francesco Ferrari, CO-TE was launched in 2012 in Milan, Italy and was formed to produce women’s RTW and accessories. CO-TE has the unique concept of using self-representation to create a simplified and romantic appearance for women who are never too serious and like to have fun. Graduating …
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Phuong My: Born in Vietnam, Beyond Vietnam
Tran Phuong My was born in 1988 at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Having studied and graduated with honors from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Phuong-My has pursued perfection in all aspects of her fashion career. From the design and production process through to client service, the smallest details are obsessively pursued. …
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