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| BRUSSELS Laurent
Edmond |
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Date 12/22/2006 |
1234567891011121314151617181920: La Cambre-Mode(s) 1986-2006
An
impressive single, art directed volume of 20 years of images,
as well as interviews with multiple speakers including current
and former students, professors, designers, juries of the
diplomas, journalists, photographers, writers, choreographers,
godfathers and supporters!
La
Cambre-Mode(s) has taken on a book project to condense its
20 years of experiments that will be an assessment of the
accomplished course work and a reflection on the school's
objectives, but will also offer an engaging look at the
meetings and compentencies involved in the education.
  
  
The
book, produced and published by B.O.M. (Books On the Move:
a joint venture Base Design & Edition Actar) will be
distributed in art bookshops, museums, and concept stores
in 60 countries, all over the world. By December 22, 2006
/ Price 46 Euros / 512 pages / + 600 pictures / ISBN 84-934879-4-5
/ Actar D: Roca i Batlle 2, 08023 Barcelona Spain /..........
http://www.actar-d.com
http://www.lacambre.be
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| CALI-COLUMBIA Nathalie
Doucet |
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Date 11/01/2006 |
Presence of Design
and Fashion in a Globalized World
The "Fundacion Academia
de Dibujo Profesional" organized a very first international
conference on October 12-13-14, 2006 in Colombia under the
initiative and direction of the talented Felipe Velasquez
Irragorri, former national Coordinator for Columbia for
the former "Concours International des Jeunes Createurs
de Mode' - Paris.
Colombian students and
faculty as well as international guest speakers get together
to Cali to attend the 3 day conference and the many fashion
festivities around the event.
• Jose Maria Doldan
- Palermo / Argentina / Universidad de Palermo
Architect and Urban planner - Author and Professor.
Topic: Teaching Design within the controversial: Global
- Local
• Nathalie Doucet - San Francisco
/ USA / Arts of Fashion Foundation
Former fashion professor in the U.S., Founder and President
of the Arts of Fashion Foundation.
Topic: Education & Fashion - International Perspective
• Christopher New - London / Great
Britain / Central Saint Martins
Professor and Coordinator of the Menswear department CSM
and Consultant.
Topic: Fashion Laboratory - Fashion Investigation
• Francine Pairon - Paris / France
/ Institut Francais de la Mode (IFM)
Founder of La Cambre Mode(s)- Brussels and Director of the
International Master in Design at IFM
Topic: Design & Fashion - Between Freedom and Constraint
• Mara Rubia Sant' Anna - Florianopolis
/ Brazil / University of Santa Catalina
Professor of History and Author of fashion history publications.
Topic: Fashion Desire and Death - Conceptual Metaphors
http://www.fadp.edu.co
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| VIENNA Leanne Wierzba
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Date
08/20/2006 |
News
from Leanne's Summer Internship at
Wendy & Jim in Vienna! : I
am also an advocate of what Arts of
Fashion do to help American students
gain exposure to European design...
Last
fall, as a participant in the Masterclass-Series
workshop with Tony Delcampe and Crstof
Beaufays, I became very much involved
in many of the events surrounding
the Arts & Fashion Competition
here in San Francisco. It was during
this time that I had the pleasure
of meeting Helga Schania and Hermann
Frankhauser, the creative minds behind
the Wendy & Jim label. We kept
in touch throughout the year, which
culminated in a two-month internship
with them this summer at their atelier
in Vienna, Austria.
It was a wonderful experience, to
work for a small European fashion
house. I was able to experience the
total design process, seeing ideas
and concepts evolve through various
stages into finished garments and
complete looks on a runway in Paris.
I developed many new skills and refined
others, working in close relationship
with the designers.
For me, being a young designer is
about pushing your boundaries and
exploring new contexts. In this sense,
both the Masterclass workshop and
the internship with Wendy & Jim
were absolutely invaluable.
Leanne Wierzba (CCA)
  
Registration
Online
Open for the 2 new MasterClasses in
October.
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| SAN
FRANCISCO Nathalie Doucet |
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Date
08/04/2006 |
Diane
Pernet & Dino Dinco In San Francisco:
You Wear it Well !
The
second projection of the “You
Wear It Well” world tour, gathered
in San Francisco fashion addicts.
After LA last week and before Antwerp
and Copenhagen, the selection of fashion
short video was screened.
Diane
Pernet, famous fashion blogger with
"a Shaded View on Fashion",
also revealed her video talents.
Dino Dinco, photographer,was featured
in Surface Magazine’s first
annual “Avant Guardians”
portfolio and traveling exhibition
http://www.ashadedviewonfashion.com
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| BRUSSELS Nathalie
Doucet |
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Date
06/18//2006 |
La
Cambre-Mode(s) / Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Arts Visuels / Brussels / Fashion
Show Graduation June 9-10, 2006
In
Brussels, 2006 has been named “The
Year of Fashion & Design”!
but for La Cambre-Mode(s), actually
it is 20 years of Fashion and Talents
: a week ago, Olivier Theysken was
the recipient of the International
Designer of the Year at the 2006 Council
of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
Fashion Awards!
Each year, financially supported with
long term partnerships such as La
Libre Essentielle, newspaper,
Dior, perfume and cosmetic
and Jean-Claude Biguine,
hairdresser, La Cambre-Mode(s) offers
on stage a three hour long beautiful
dreamy fashion show. The fashion department,
a five year program, showcases around
50 fashion student works under Caroline
Mierop, Dean for the Visual Arts,
Tony Delcampe, Director, and with
professors such as the creative duo
fashion designers Thierry Rondenet
- Herve Yvrenogeau (the label Own),
Marianne Bernecker, Sandrine Rombaux,
Billie Mertens...
Each year, professional jurors coming
from different spheres and background
are invited. Alumni such Laetitia
Crahay (Chanel), Crstof Beaufays (Jean-Paul
Gaultier) and Sami Tillouche (Lanvin),
were at the rendez-vous for the 2006
graduates as well as Jean-Charles
de Castelbajac, Elisabeth Paillie
journalist, Etienne Russo scenograph,
to name only a few...
http://www.lacambre.be..............................................................La
Libre Essentielle June 2006 # 28
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| ANTWERP
Nathalie Doucet |
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Date
06/17/2006 |
Antwerp
in June with Yohji Yamamoto
After
Florence and Paris, Antwerp is the
third installment of a series / retrospective
of Yohji Yamamoto amazing work. 80
silhouettes are displayed from the
late 1980's to today up to August
13,2006 at the Momu - Fashion Museum...
A true dream where you even can try
on yourself dresses from the Japanese
Master : Dreamshop
http://www.momu.be/
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http://
www.modenatie.com
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| PARIS Camille Doucet
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Date 05/27//2006 |
The Unmissable
Rendez- Vous : Hyeres 2006!
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Small Times with Exhibitions
& Meetings & Debates & Contestants@ the Villa
Noailles :
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Show Times under the Patrick
Bouchain’s chapiteau @ the Ayguade Beach :
The Fashion Winners 2006
• Anthony Vaccarello : Hyeres Fashion "Grand
Prix" Award & L'Oreal Award : Second Skin
• Julien Dossena : Hyeres Fashion Special Award &
1.2.3 Award : Surf & Rock_California
• Tuomas & Anna Laitinen : Special Mention from
the Jury : Twist & Mixt
• Aurore Thibout : Hyeres Public Award : Emboss &
Pastel_ Memory Clothe
The Photo Winners 2006
• Estelle Hanania
• Jaap Scheeren
http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/
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| PARIS
Nathalie Doucet |
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Date 05/27/2006 |
Ukuyéyé
By Mareva : a concept-album with French pop sixties! Fashion
lovers will ador it!
Exactly as the Nouvelle
Vague was revisiting the Anglo-Saxon new wave with the yéyés
in the sixties, Mareva, with a bit of Jane Birkin, proposes
to revisit the Nouvelle Vague with Ukuyéyé
: Francoise Hardy! France Gall! Brigitte Bardot! to name
only a few... Fashion lovers will ador it!
http://www.myspace.com/ukuyeye
Then, watch the beautiful
video clip of Regis Roinsard and the 6 scopitones ! inside
the Pierre Cardin’s famous 'Villa Palais Bulles' by
Antti Lovag!
http://www.ukuyeye.com
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| CHICAGO
Nick Cave |
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Date
04/10/2006 |
| Nick Cave Soundsuits
Nick Cave is
a Chicago-based multimedia and performance
artist, fashion designer, professor and currently
the department Chair of the fashion design
departmentat the School of the Art Institute,
Cave has degrees from the Kansas City Art
Institute and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Inspired by
tribal African ceremonial costumes, Cave¹s
Soundsuits are sculpted, full-body garments
that are layered and textured in metal, plastic,
fabric, hair, and found objects and designed
to make sounds as the wearer moves. The exhibition
will include a performance by local dancers
wearing the Soundsuits.
April
22-July 9 @ Chicago Cultural Center, Yates
Gallery 4th Floor 78 East Washington Street,
Chicago, Il
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| NEW
YORK Times |
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Date
03/30/2006 |
After "Night
of 1000 Knockoffs", here is today:
"OK., Knockoffs, This is War"
From reading The New York Times
March articles from Ruth La Ferla first
and then today from Eric Wilson, actions against
"acts of piracy" are taken...
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The Council of Fashion Designers of America is asking lawmakers to support a proposed fashion design anti-piracy act. Rather than calling imitation the sincerest form of flattery, as they have done for decades, leading designers are acknowledging that inexpensive copies — which they label acts of piracy — have negatively affected the luxury business.
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Copyright law protects a creator of original material — like a songwriter or screenwriter — for her life plus 70 years. But clothing is not protected. In 1998 Representative Howard Coble, a Republican from North Carolina, introduced a revision to the copyright law that classified boat hulls as a design protected for 10 years. Citing the boat hull statute, fashion designers are asking for similar protection for clothing designs for three years.
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The reason clothing design is not protected under copyright or trademark law in the United States is that it is considered foremost as a utilitarian item, not an artistic expression or scientific invention. (Logos, however, and some design signatures — like the three stripes on Adidas track suits — are protected from copying under trademark statutes.) But the designers' trade group argues that the legal principle exempting fashion from copyright protection — a 200-year-old idea that useful objects should be unregulated to encourage the growth of industry — is outdated in this era of sophisticated mass copying.
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"The whole underpinning of that 200-year-old law of functionality was to promote creativity and innovation," said Alain Coblence, a lawyer hired by the Council of Fashion Designers and by fashion trade groups in Paris and Milan, which also promote the legislation. "Yet the situation is exactly the reverse because designers now must ask what is the incentive to innovate if you know your creation is going to be stolen within days and your designs are going to be used before you have a chance to use them for yourself?"
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Copying has been embedded in American fashion since the beginning of mass production of ready-to-wear designs. From the 1930's to the 60's, buyers from American department stores would attend haute-couture shows in Paris and purchase original patterns, taking them home to be mass-produced. Regular couture clients like Babe Paley and Nan Kempner used to arrive in limousines, along with women who took the subway, at Orbach's on West 34th Street to see its twice annual "couture adaptation" shows. But Mr. Coblence and American designers argue that the globalization of fashion needs a different perspective on copycats from their glamorized portrayal in the 1963 movie "A New Kind of Love," in which Joanne Woodward went to Paris on such a buying trip.
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Gela Taylor, one of the designers of Juicy Couture, whose luxury sweat suits have been much knocked off, said she planned to visit Washington from Los Angeles next month to push for the bill."I don't think anybody's naïve about this," Ms. Taylor said. "Fashion is a strange and ephemeral thing. But this proposal is for people who are not inspired by anything but looking for an easy way to make money."
More information on the subject
: http://www.counterfeitchic.com/
...
http://www.fashionlaw.net
Articles from The New York
Times :..
Ruth
La Ferla - 03/09/06 .....
Eric Wilson - 03/30/06
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| SAN
FRANCISCO Nathalie Doucet |
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Date
03/27/2006 |
Hyeres
2006! with
Ann Demeulemeester! April 28-30 @
Villa de Noailles
Contests
& Conferences: April 28-30,
2006
- Fashion competition
with 11 selected young designers
coming from Viet-Nam, Finland,
Germany, Belgium and France.
- Photo competition
with 10 selected young photographers
coming from Great Britain, Spain,
the Netherland, the United States,
Germany, Switzerland and France.
- Conferences :
Fashion and Accessories
/ The Made in / The Euro- Mediterranean
zone / Intellectual property :
evolutions of copy right protection
/ New technologies: innovative
distribution
Exhibitions: April
29 to June 5, 2006
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| SAN FRANCISCO Nathalie Doucet |
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Date
3/19/2006 |
Air France or all about Megan Stein!
A Bachelor of Arts in Literature
(Purchase College, SUNY), and a soon (Spring
2006) Master of Science in Fashion Design
(Drexel University, PA), Megan Stein is
quite busy right now polishing her portfolio
and her French. Last December, Megan has
been the very first American young fashion
designer to win this prestigious international
contest in Paris: "Concours International
des Jeunes Createurs de Mode" and
among them, got a tremendous scholarship
allowing her to attend for a year the
Schools of the Chambre Syndicale de la
Couture Parisienne! http://www.modeaparis.com/va/ecoles/index.html
  
Here is her
first fashion illustration Megan submitted
and some recent photographies from Internet:
http://misatojaganshi.livejournal.com/434469.html#cutid1
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| NEW YORK Maria Teresa Hidalgo |
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Date
01/15/2006 |
The moment I found the MasterClass Series offered, I jumped, WITHOUT hesitation. Why?…I don’t know, something inside me resounded so closely to having such progressive and innovative fashion design methods shared with me. I knew this experience would allow me freedom. Freedom from traditional tactics and exposure to design minds I never knew I’d have the opportunity to meet, much less create alongside.
Fantastically enough I have my dear friend Leanne Wierzba here with me. Ironically enough, she and I met in the workshop. On a whim she came to New York for a visit with some friends and I invited her over to the Kai Kuhne studio where she’s temporarily joined the team until our Fall Collection walks, then she will return to her classes at the California College of Arts.
In brief, here’s what we had to say in regards to the experience:
As repeatedly suggested, one would never have thought to draw what materialized in that room!
For four explorative days two European, avant-garde designers infected, propelled and intrigued a group of temporary students at the San Francisco Volumolding MasterClass Series. Tony Delcampe and Crstof Beaufay’s dedication was ever present and appreciated by the twenty of us. It was understood that all who enrolled intended to commit themselves to the process, as did our “instructors”.
The series began with them choosing one white, authentic-American garment from the five we were instructed to bring. We were divided into two groups based on tops vs. bottoms, each group receiving the direct instruction of Tony or Crstof. Under Tony’s supervision, the authentic-American piece was woven using the principle of volume manipulation to reflect a personal artistic vision. Time-consuming in preparation, but rewarding when inconceivable dimension was fabricated out of pallid garments. As an aside, Tony begins exercising his first year students at La Cambre-Mode(s), Fashion School-Brussels using this technique. The only difference, they get one year, we had two days. Then switch: we worked with Crstof’s Volumolding technique to develop the second half of our outfit. Exploring volumes and shapes using unorthodox techniques, we were encouraged to walk the road-less-traveled to discover one-of-a-kind patterns and formations.
Thank you Tony and Crstof, you’ve left a lasting impact on our creative approach and all the possibilities there within.
Maria Teresa Hidalgo (Parsons School of Design-New York) & Leanne Wierzba (California College of Arts-San Francisco).
Volumolding- MasterClass Series 2005- San Francisco-
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| SAN FRANCISCO Nathalie Doucet |
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Date 01/01/2006 |
Missed Fashion events? Fear not, as exhibitions will also be shown from Winter to Spring 2006!
If you have missed in 2004 in England @ Victoria & Albert Museum - London and then in Australia @ National Gallery of Australia - Canberra, the Vivienne Westwood’s exhibition about her career, you can still fly to Tokyo through January 15 to visit Vivienne Westwood, 35 years in Fashion @ Tokyo’s Mori Arts Center Gallery Museum
http://www.roppongihills.com/jp/events/vivienne-westwood.html
If you have missed in 2004 in England @ Gallery Deluxe - London, the curated Bradley Quinn’s exhibition about the Fashion of Architecture, you can still fly to New York through March 11 to visit The Fashion of Architecture: Contructing the Fashion of Architecture @ Center for Architecture
http://www.aiany.org/centerforarchitecture/exhibitions.php
If you have missed in 2004 in Japan @ Kyoto Museum of Modern Art in Higashiyama and then @ Tokyo’s Mori Arts Center Gallery, the Viktor & Rolf’s & Kyoto Costume Institute exhibition’s about Colors, you can still fly to New York through March 26 to visit Fashion in Colors @ Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
http://ndm.si.edu/EXHIBITIONS/fashion_in_colors/
If you have missed in 2005 in the U.S. @ Arts of Fashion 2005 - San Francisco, the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s lecture, you can still fly to London through May 1st to visit Pop-aganda: The Fashion and Style of JC de Castelbajac @ Victoria & Albert Museum
http://www.jc-de-castelbajac.com/
Can’t make them? You can still check out the books!
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cultural exchanges through a variety of events meant to
facilitate critical thinking among artists, designers,
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