Antoher Fashion World

French fashion king Yves Saint Laurent has died at the age of 71, hailed as a 20th century cultural icon who revolutionized the way women dressed. The reclusive Saint Laurent’s couture creations won global fine art status and he was widely considered to be one of an elite club of designers including Christian Dior and Coco Ch

anel who made Paris the fashion capital of the world.

From Princess Grace of Monaco to the actress Catherine Deneuve, Saint Laurent’s creations adorned many famous women but he was also the first designer to make luxury labels accessible to a wider audience through innovative read-to-wear collections. continue reading…

British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, whose provocative collections made him a global star, was found dead at his London home on Thursday in what media said appeared to be suicide. His Nicknamed the “hooligan” of British fashion for his close-cropped hair, trademark Doc Marten boots and shocking catwalk collections, McQueen rose from teenage trainee tailor to runway darling before the age of 30. He had been expected to unveil his new collection at Paris Fashion Week in March.

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Matalafria is to Barcelona based to knitwear brand. Their main concept is to manufactures durable knit garments with an emphasis on quality and craftmanship.
Is talked to Antonio Calderón, the man behind the brand, and there am explained to why there am loves to me to knitwear under much: “It gives me the chance to work with volume like not to other material “.

When there am started, there am used to knit everything by hand “is the best way to learn if you want to sees great knitwear to designer “. Later there am added to his skills computers (there are is also to programmer), to create his garments by machine too.

Matalafria

For The constant search volume and architecture in the garments, there are also to concept, usually inspired by the art world. Exhibitions, movies, books, everything helps to create unique pieces.

Detail Matalafria

Antonio not only designs the garments, but also creates the prototypes of them. There am hand-calibrates the machines and you supervise the whole process, not missing out on any details. The production is also based in Barcelona, using materials such Merino ace Alpaca or wool. Limited edition sweaters, dresses and accesories for man and woman of to their last collection dog sees found in their online shop.

Under, Antonio, could you tell for U.S. something small that is big you?
I would say the way I work.  I have my studio AT home. Is like the intimacy of the beginning of the design process, all the research I do, the music I list to… the moment when the little seed begins to grow, and that eventually, when the garment is finished, will reach people from around the world thanks to Internet.

Under his pace of quinquagénaire débonnaire, the designer max Azria knew to set up – in a score of years – a true empire of the textile. Not hesitating to make the wide variation between the New Yorkean fashion week and the collections ready-made clothes from Crossroads, this Tunisian immigrant managed to impose his style BCBG within the Hollywood gotha, without to give up making profit with élitistes projects. Account of one success-story to American…

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Set on spangles, whooping-cough of All-New York, oscillating between glamour with old and creativity, Zac Posen bubbles of energy and does not cease alluring the stars who since his early beginnings made their small Mozart of it.

They are rare the creators who at 21 years manage to present their work on the New-Yorkais podiums, but what is it still more, it is that these same creators achieve the unanimity near criticisms. It was however the case of the young person Zac Posen, who in addition to being parvenu to allure the influential sphere people and editor associations – such as Anna Wintour – fell under the duration. For soon seven years, the young wonder with typically New Yorkean the jet set mode has become in the spirit of the analysts the leader of the new generation of designers on the other side of the Atlantic, and worthy going down from Marc Jacobs…

Zac Posen was born with Soho, a district New Yorkean smart sore. As of the Sixties, this place was invested by a population arty, while the old hangars and other manufactures were transformed into loft. It is in one of these spaces at the same time avant-gardists and crested that Zac and its sisters grew, under the attentive glance their parents.

The latter had a great influence on the course of Zac. Indeed, the mother lawyer and the father painter knew to leave free course to the inspirations of their children. Thus, when Zac started to transform all that it unearthed (in particular algae or even kippas bated with the synagogue) in behaviours for the headstocks as of his sisters, his/her parents let it make.

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