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Japonism Forever Stylized Sculpture : Contemporary Japanese Fashion Exhibition @ Asian Art Museum - San Francisco Fashion as sculptural wearable form on view from five designers - Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto Junya Watanabe and Tao Kurihara - can also be seen as an experimental approach to contemporary art, which no longer has distinct genres. In recent years, the Kyoto Costume Institute has placed increasing emphasis on Japanese contemporary fashion and the role of its creativity within a global context. In the late 1970's a group of fashion designer ingeniously, and sometimes provocatively, began to tear into and remake the Western aesthetic paradigm that had dominated the fashion world up to that time. These designers played an important role not only in the de-Westernization but also in the popularization of contemporary fashion. The broad influence that Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Johji Yamamoto have had on other designers active today in Paris is huge. And under the tutelage of these Japanese artists has emerged a new generation of Japanese talent including such designers as Junya Watanabe and Tao Kurihara. Kimonos : Sophie Milenovitch @ Abrams - ISBN 0-8109-9450 / Seuil - ISBM 978-2-02-094027-6 These Japanese designers have made their mark on fashion with avant-garde shapes, stark color schemes and innovative textile technologies. To anyone familiar with traditional Japanese clothing, these radical contemporary garments resonate with the aesthetics of a culture more fascinated with silhouette, surface and cloth itself than with the delineation of the body - a culture known for its synthesis of artistry and technique. Sophie Milenovitch is a designer who lived in Tokyo for two years. Her passion for Yohji Yamamoto and textiles led her to explore the history of kimonos, raising questions on culture and influences on designers such as Madeleine Vionnet up to Martin Margiela. www.asianart.org ............................................................www.kci.or.jp .......................................www.lotusgreenfotos.blogspot.com
Summer Time & High Creativity in Fashion Don't you think it is the perfect timing to think about Summer? Brussels? Paris Maybe? or even both?
Don't you think it is an opportunity that you can not miss? It will be the first time that these 2 renowned highly selective public European traditional Applied Arts and Fashion Colleges will open their golden doors of knowledge and know-how for Summer classes, taught in English and by their fashion faculty. Academic credits from those schools as well as certificates will be given. Registration is open: www.arts-of-fashion.org
YKK -- A Company Zipped Up in Creativity-- on Board! The Arts of Fashion Foundation is thrilled and proud to announce that YKK Corporation of America and its zipper-making subsidiary YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. have decided to join the Arts of Fashion in supporting young talents. Worldwide, Japan-based YKK is the world's leading producer of apparel fasteners. Well known for melding advanced technology, high-quality and innovative design, YKK is already a partner of the most prestigious fashion competitions such as the International Talent Support in Italy and the YKK Fastening Awards in Japan. Now, by joining with the Arts of Fashion Foundation, YKK has again demonstrated the company's dedication and passion for creativity. Who else but YKK is more aware of the challenge of innovation and creativity? With a strong business ethic and its inseparable liaison with Fashion, since its inception in 1934, YKK has always been looking for tomorrow by encouraging and supporting cutting edge talent around the world. Its retentless search is constantly focused on those who have the sublime ability to translate technology in an innovative way. "Goodness cannot flourish if it is not shared, and this why the company works, and has always worked, with the basic values of quality of life, sharing goodness and the equality of all individuals as the founding principle of its business operations" . Tadao Yoschida -YKK Founder
"Lagerfeld Confidential"-- Premiere in Miami / Nov 1 and San Francisco / Nov 5 The Arts of Fashion - CineToile-Series - will present "Lagerfeld Confidential" by Director Rodolphe Marconi in Miami on Nov 1, for the opening of the Arts of Fashion Symposium, then in San Francisco on Nov 5. "Rodolphe Marconi, Cannes Festival Awarded French director, has been contemplating a documentary on Karl Lagerfeld over 10 years... This is the first time Karl Lagerfeld has agreed to let someone create an artwork on his life... The confrontation between the - image - hidden behind the glasses questions the modern media, elegantly oscillating between two extremes: the raw and sensational - reality image - on one hand, the artificial, supernatural fashion image on the other hand." The movie will be released in Paris on October 10 during the Fashion Week. www.lagerfeldconfidentiel.com/.................
Veronique Branquinho Takes Miami by Storm The Arts of Fashion Foundation is honored to announce that the international leading contemporary creative fashion designer from the Belgian scene - Veronique Branquinho - accepted our invitation to come and preside our 2007 Symposium and International Fashion Student Competition in Miami on November 2-3! Following the footsteps of iconic designers such as Martin Margiela, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, and Walter Van Beirendonck, Veronique Branquinho has been able to develop her own tailored sophisticated and contemporary identity and clean-cut and high-end design details which transpire femininity and elegance. Her collections have been presented in Paris and are sold around the world and 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of her label. She is the guest curator for the next issue of the A Magazine, a unique fashion magazine that emphasizes individuality against homogenisation. www.veroniquebranquinho.com..................................................................................
Brussels
- Jury & Shows 07 - Seven New Creative Fashion Designers!
BRUSSELS
: La Cambre Fashion Show 07
After this 5th year at the Fashion School La Cambre, seven fashion design students graduated on June 8, 2007 under the appreciation of an interesting jury including creative directors Raf Simons for Jil Sander and, Paolo Andersson from Chloe, Valeria from the famous Head Hunter Paris based office Floriane de Saint Pierre to name a few... From the seven impressive talented fashion students, all of them have already received awards and recognition : Emilie Beaumont (who was selected at Hyeres 2007) - Matthieu Blazy (who was a ITS 5 winner in 2006 - Maria Luisa Award and is international Lancome Laureate 2007 ) - Emilie Duval - Julien Dossena (who was the Hyeres International winner in 2006 and then presented his winning collection during the Arts of Fashion event in Texas) - Amandine Labidoire (who was selected at Hyeres in 2006) - Kim Stumpf (who was a former Vivienne Westwood intern) - Maia Van Daele (who was selected at ITS 6 in 2007). The Arts of Fashion Foundation has invited Matthieu Blazy to show his collection during the Arts of Fashion event in Miami on Nov 2-3, 2007. Matthieu has received the highest distinction from La Cambre Jury. www.lacambre.be.............................................................................................
Antwerp - Shows & Exhibition 07 - Homage to Linda Loppa!
ANTWERP : Royal Academy of Fine Arts Show 07 The Class of 2007 (14 fashion students) from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts -- 4 year program -- under the direction of icon fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck, assisted by rising stars such as Bruno Pieters and Christian Wijnants to name a few, produced and presented one more time an amazing work of research, creativity and full of poetry, without losing the pragmatic today component, on a huge circular runway/stage. Andrea Kranzlin - Marc-Philippe Coudeyre - Daniel Andresen - Gunhyo Kim - Filomena Saltarelli - Annette Kolling - Bele Bardenheuer - Lenny Leleu - Natalia Culebras Cruz - Jae Keun Hwang - Rani Bageria - Andrea Ayala - Taro Horiuchi - Raul Egloff Alcaide.
ANTWERP : De Collectie, Selectie II The Fashion Museum of Antwerp -- the MoMu -- has brought 8 exhibitions since it opened 4 years ago! Linda Loppa, former Director and Founder of the Museum as well as the Fashion School can be very proud of what she was able to accomplish, turning definitively Antwerp into another capitale of fashion. From the Museum to the exhibitions inside and through the annual fashion student show 2007, a vibrant homage was transpiring: Linda Loppa recently left Antwerp to manage the Italian Polimoda Fashion School in Florence.
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Belgium Shows 07 - Here we go!
Thanks to Tony Delcampe, Director of La Cambre Fashion Department, we will all have tickets and seats to attend the so expected student shows in these two Belgium fashion cities! Leanne Wierzba from San Francisco, Megan Stein and Jae Yoon Jeong from Philadelphia, Alfonso Radames Ramos from Miami, Marilia Vieira from New York, Mari Teresa Hidalgo from Dallas and Chi Kwan from Hong Kong will be there, while Shady Elias from Cairo and Charles Freeman from Tallahassee are still considering this new opportunity to appreciate one more time creativity "at Large" after their memorable experience to Hyeres and possibly a solution to their "post Hyeres depression syndrome"... www.lacambre.be.............................................................................................. www.antwerp-fashion.be
News from the Arts of Fashion 06 Winners A certain number of U.S. fashion students are in Europe or will be soon! Here are some News & Photos from them which they had emailed us... We would like to begin with Megan Stein, who was the first US student to win the Grand Prix in Paris at the former Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode in 2005! Megan was also the U.S. winner for the Arts of Fashion Competition 05 in San Francisco with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac as President of the jury. Dec 4 - ""Hello, I hope this mail finds you well. I am a few short weeks away from my vacances de noel, and I am definately looking forward to seeing my family and friends at home. All continues to go well at the Chambre Syndicale, and I am slowly but surely evolving with theirmethods" Dec 12 - "Crstof just wrote me back and agreed to meet with me and have a look at my potfolio and give me his thoughts on my work. He suggested I call him mid-march, as that will be the best time for him. I am also working for McQ at the end of Feb for their F/W 07/08 show..."
April 25 - Under Paris Bridges with Crstof Beaufays - Sketches of Megan's Collection at the Chambre Syndicale. Today: "the hunt is on" ! Megan plans to stay in Europe and she is looking for a creative design position! After a year in Paris, not only Megan speaks fluently French but here it is the way she begins her motivation letters: "Having won the grand prix for fashion at the Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode last year, I have had the opportunity this year to study in Paris with the 3rd year class at Chambre Syndicale de la Couture." Best Wishes Megan! Jessica Darwin / Moore College: The 6 week scholarship Award at La Cambre Fashion School - Brussels Oct 25 - "Thank you so much for the good news! I am very excited to have won the La Chambre Award. I can not wait to go to Brussels! Thank you again. I saw the website and it looks amazing. I can not wait to see pictures from the show once they are posted." Feb 4 - Bonjour from Brussels! I have been taking classes at La Cambre for 3 weeks and I love it! Everyone is sooo talented and I have been learning a lot. Europe is beautiful and the people are nice. In one class, we are making historic style corsets. In another, we made a pattern from wrapping a dressform in tape. Now we are embroidering it :) Soon I will begin a another project based on draping and mens shirts. I am so excited! Thank you Arts of Fashion for this amazing opportunity! Mar 1- "My last class at La Cambre is tomorrow and I leave to go home the next morning. I'm so sad to go. I love Brussels! I have had such a great time and learned so much!!! My camera isnt working right now, but I will post some pics when I get back home :) Thanks again AF!!! I<3 U!!
Jessica has just been graduated and she won the critics award for sportswear in her class and the Best In Show for Senior Collection! She is moving to L.A! Best Wishes Jessica! Jae Yoon Jeong / Drexel University: Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Internship Award - Paris April 2 - "Hello. Today, I begun my internship in Castelbajac House. I met him and I met all of Castelbajac's staff as well. He and all staff are very nice. I was just working in there one day but everything is fabulous! Today, I was helping their 08' s/s collection.....I think that my internship will be flying..." April 24 - "Hello, Nathalie! I'm enjoying my internship in Castelbajac House. I think that it is too short time about learning for his works because he has a huge his collection room, libraries and his energy..... I can understand why he is a great designer."
May 5 - "Even though I'm studying US, Paris is more fashion city than NY.^^ Anyway, I hope to go to there but I have to come back after internship because our summer term will be start at that time and my schedule is little crazy so I have to come back. Thank you for invited at Castelbajac's house and met with me" Jae Yoon will fly back to Philadelphia June 9 to finish his Master degree! Leanne Wierzba / California College of Arts: Anne Valerie Hash Internship Award- Paris May 10 - "So I am safely and soundly in Paris now. Everything is fine so far. My apartment: very small but well situated. I went to the atelier today. Anne Valerie was not there, but I worked with two others in the atelier. It was really great. Everyone was very welcoming. The space is really wonderful. I am eager to stay there and to learn all I can..." Leanne has just been graduated and left for Paris to begin her internship at Anne Valerie Hash House! She will be also one of the models at La Cambre Fashion show in June! Enjoy your time Leanne! More soon... Chelsea Snyder / Academy of Art University: Veronique Branquinho Internship - Antwerp
Chelsea has just been graduated (Senior collection above) and will leave for Antwerp mid July to begin her internship at Veronique Branquinho House! More later... Chi is polishing her French in Hong Kong and also registered for a summer intensive French class in Paris (12 weeks :early July to late September) at the Alliance Francaise to be ready to integrate the Schools of the Chambre Syndicale in September... More later... Kyoonhee Shin / School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Wendy & Jim Internship Award - Vienna Kyoonhee is preparing her departure for her Internship at Wendy & Jim in Vienna for the summer... More later...
Susan Scafidi - International Fashion & Textile Conference Alain Coblence, Attorney in Law, based in NY & Paris, representing the CFDA, was back to Hyeres International Fashion Festival to direct a new interesting conference linked to the copyright in fashion, during the International Fashion & Textile Conference, organised by the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode. The title was: Culture of the protection versus cultural protection - The founding principles of the protection of intellectual property and their confrontation with recent developments of society and of technology. Susan Scafidi, Associate Professor in Law - Fordham Law School, author of the passionate and insightful book: "Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law" (2005) as well as the dynamic writer of the tremendously informative blog www.counterfeitchic.com; was one of the guests of Alain Coblence's round table during Hyeres 07 Fashion Festival. Susan Scafidi was instrumental with Jeffrey Banks on July 27, 2006 when she testified in support of H.R. 5055 at the Congress.
Unbelievable but True... is the saying: on July 27, 2006 Susan was wearing an Narciso Rodriguez dress from his spring 06 collection to testify, a designer whose collections had been largely copied by different labels previously. Ironically that same dress was copied by Forth & Towne (one of the brand of clothing stores owned by Gap Inc.) in their collection for spring 07; to add to the irony moreover, the current financial backer for Narciso Rodriguez is another pillar of American fashion industry "Liz Claiborne".... More on Susan's blog... http://www.modeaparis.com/va/hyeres/index.html
Making Hyeres 2007, the time of a week-end, the International Capital of Creation! Thanks to Jean Pierre Blanc, Festival's Director and Didier Grumbach, President, the 22nd edition of the Festival was, one more time, a very qualitative, inventive and so unique fashion event under the jury presidency of Christian Lacroix! Contemporary Fashion and Photography Exhibitions @ the Villa de Noailles:
10 Fashion Collections Shows Presentations under the Patrick Bouchain's silver Tent @ the Ayguade Beach:
THE PHOTOGRAPHY WINNERS 2007: . Popel Coumou / Netherlands www.popelcoumou.nl
& Jessica Roberts / USA www.jessroberts.com
THE FASHION WINNERS 2007: . Sandra Backlund / Sweden
- Women Collection/Ink Blot Test: . Peter Bertsch
/ Belgium - Women Collection/Bionic: . Shiori
Suzuki & Emi Sekiguchi / United Kingdom - Women Collection/To
Reach the Unreachable: . Mathilde
Botfeldt / Denmark - Mixed Collection/Traces:
. Peter Wiesmann
/ Germany - Mens Collection/Underwear: Fashion & Photography Candidates Spaces @ the Villa de Noailles:
Small Great Times Hyeres 2007@ the Villa de Noailles:
http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com ...
Hyeres 2007 or Where Creativity is exhibited
From April 27 to 30, 2007 : For the 22nd consecutive year, emerging creatives are brought together with professionals and seasoned actors on the world's fashion and photography scene. Former contestants Christian Wijnants, Daniel Stier, Estelle Hanania, Jaap Scheeren as well as Anthony Vaccarello, will return to Hyères for the second, third or even fourth time: they have all been invited to exhibit their work. Each and every one of them has settled themselves throughout the beautiful Villa de Noailles. However Christian is in the dining room while the other Christian, Lacroix, is making himself comfortable in the pool area... 10 photographers will also compete in the basement: Jan Adriaans / Netherlands - Alexandra Catiere / Belarus - Popel Coumou / Netherlands - Louise Fago-Ruskin / United Kingdom / Janelle Lynch / USA - Christophe Maout / France - Jessica Roberts / USA - Benjamin Roi / France - Madoka Sakamoto / Japan - Rebecca Veit / USA
Exhibitions within the Villa de Noailles as well as Conferences organised by the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, in collaboration with the Institut Francais de la Mode will address the following issues: "Did you say profitable?", "What is the purpose of professional fabric shows in today's fashion world?", "Intellectual property rights in relationship to the history and culture of different countries: the necessity of legal harmonisation in a global economy", "Main paths towards cooperation between Europe and India" And 10 fashion designers will compete and present their work: Sandra Backlund / Sweden - Émilie Beaumont / Belgium - Peter Bertsch / Belgium - Mathilde Botfeldt / Denmark - Julia Krupp / Germany - Masataka Ohta / Japan - Karin Schoenenberger / Austria - Shiori Suzuki & Emi Sekiguchi / United-Kingdom - Two Tom / France - Peter Wiesmann / Germany http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com ... Program - Info - Contact - Accreditation - History Credit Photos: Jaap Scheeren Serie Magic World, 2007 / Exhibition Christian Lacroix - Villa Noailles Photo D. Dubois & C. Rizzo / Christian Wijnants / Marc Turlan - Chaînes, Serie Manque, 2007, Photo Erwan Frotin / Bless - Villa Noailles' Installation Simulation / Viviane Sassen - for Amica, Italy
The San Francisco's DE YOUNG Museum or the NEW place to showcase FASHION March 3- June 10, 2007: The British Queen of Fashion, Vivienne Westwood, has chosen San Francisco and the DE YOUNG Museum as her unique stop in the United States for her worldwide tour! "36 years in Fashion" showcases 150 pieces from her personal archive, illustrating her love for Fashion, Art, History and Independance. April
20, 2007: The San Francisco's DE YOUNG Museum will generously
host the First Round Selection of the International Fashion Student
Competition: AF-Competition 2007.
http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/ ................................................................................. . http://www.viviennewestwood.com The DE YOUNG Museum, is located at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
The Arts of Fashion Foundation is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to international cultural exchanges through a variety of events meant to facilitate critical thinking among artists, designers, scholars and students. Arts of Fashion Foundation 635 Tennessee Street Suite # 402 San Francisco CA 94107 (415) 252 0734
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