“I wanted to create the image of a very feminine and free woman who is free to choose her own way of moving through life, susceptible to change but also still staying true to herself, and free to use romanticism to reflect her own feelings all seasons”

How many times have you heard a designer name-check Brigitte Bardot? Countless, probably. Serafini likes clothes that look like they had a previous life. Since he arrived at Philosophy, he has mined Brooke Shields’s ’80s and Jeanne Mas’80s.

This season he dialed the time machine back a decade and a half or so further. Bardot’s St-Tropez is beloved ground in fashion, so this collection felt familiar, but that didn’t stop it from looking sweet.

Serafini’s got a thing for Liberty print–style micro florals, and they turned up on many dresses here, the best of which was patchworked with fringes of lace and descended below the knee. Continue reading →

Vera Wang will not be presenting her collection at the New York Fashion Week next season ?

Vera Wang will be debuting her Autumn/Winter 2017 collection via a film instead. It would seem that the designer would prefer to unveil her collection online on February 28.

One potential reason for the change of strategy could be the fact that Wang is set to be awarded the French National Order of the Legion of Honour on the same date, which also happens to be the opening day of Paris Fashion Week.

On 6th December, the first Fashion Forum will be held at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.

Both the Minister of Culture and Communication and the Minister of Economy and Finance sponsor this Forum which will be opened to the professionals of this sector. The themes of the conference will be finance, know-how, production, retails and also the creators. The speakers will be soon confirmed.

This objective of this forum is meant to harmonise and share the experience of this sector to help the new generation of creators and entrepreneurs. Generation Z has significant influence over household purchases. Continue reading →

Today a photographer is an Artist. Christer Strömholm is one of the great personalities of Swedish photography. Born in Stockholm, he discovered photography via graphic art in the late 1940s. His photographs from this period are hard black-and-white compositions featuring walls, shadows and minimalist settings.

During his sejourns in Paris in the 1950s and 60s, he developed a style reminiscent of street photography, and this is also where he produced his famous portraits of transsexuals at Place Blanche. Strömholm also went on numerous photographic expeditions around the globe in the early 1960s, including Spain, Japan, India and the USA. Early in his career, he began teaching at Kursverksamheten in Stockholm, and his classes eventually became the legendary Fotoskolan, from which some 1,200 students graduated between 1962 and 1974. Continue reading →

Stella McCartney invited to talk at London College of Fashion. The designer, who last week unveiled her first men’s range at Abbey Road Studios, spoke at a talk hosted by Kering and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion on Monday.

She talked about sustainability, fast fashion and the use of viscose fabrics to a crowd of students and industry figures including Kering chief executive officer François-Henri Pinault, Salma Hayek, Twiggy and McCartney’s sister, Mary McCartney, and her husband Alasdhair Willis.

“People want to be more conscious in the way that they consume,” the designer said. “I feel that people are less intimidated by it, so that’s what’s changed, people have learned more and become more open. That comes into how you eat, what your lifestyle is, how you get from A to Z. Continue reading →

George Shaghahsvili established his own company and brand in both Georgia and Denmark. The brand has very fast established George Shaghashvili as one of Georgia’s best known and most distinctive contemporary Georgian Fashion Designers.

George Shaghashvili holds a BA and an MA degree from the State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, both degrees with high distinctions as well as he finished Tbilisi Medical University as a Medical Doctor in Preventive Medicine.

Previously, in 1999, before his formal design education, George Shaghashvili won a price at the International Advantage Fashion Assembly in Tbilisi for the best avantgarde idea and realization of a 17 costume collection. In 2000, George Shaghashvili was nominated as the best avantgarde designer of the year at the Tbilisi Fashion Festival (same collection as above). Continue reading →

Johann Peter Rupert (born 1 June 1950) is the eldest son of South African business tycoon Anton Rupert. He is the chairman of the Swiss-based luxury-goods company Richemont. Johann is not giving up on his old team. Alongside the changes and in the interest of continuity in the decision-making process and the “wealth of knowledge” among Richemont veterans, many former managers and current non-executive directors will join a new international advisory council.

They include Yves-André Istel, Simon Murray, Lord Renwick of Clifton, Professor Jürgen Schrempp and The Duke of Wellington. The council will act as a sounding board for the board of directors, drawing on the “significant expertise” of its members, according to Rupert. Continue reading →

Today the Lady Dior Bag has become the iconic bag of the House of Dior.

Since its creation it has several times reinterpreted. The brand has recently decided to ask to some of the most modern American and British artists to re-invent the Bag.

The #DiorLadyArt project began with a one-off bag designed by Marc Quinn for the opening of the Dior boutique in London and has now grown to six more famed names including Ian Davenport and Jason Martin. Each artist was given carte blanche to utilize their signature techniques to put their own spin on Lady Dior.

Born in Bandung, West Java, in 1968, Titarubi began producing art while studying ceramics at the Department of Fine Arts at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 1988.

She is known for her work across multiple media, such as sculpture, installations, performance art, happening art, painting and graphic design and for exploring the human body, identity, gender, memory and colonialism.

Titarubi has collaborated with musicians, theater artists, dancers and filmmakers, and many of her works is presented at events in Asia and Europe, such as the Singapore Biennale, the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Germany, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory of Australia, the Busan Biennale Sculpture Project in South Korea, the Museo d’€™Arte Contemporanea in Italy and the Singapore Art Museum. Continue reading →