A Thread Reimagined

In the heart of the bustling city, where dreams adorned themselves in shimmering garments, lived Edgar Steele  (fake name co conceal the true identity) a fashion designer of prodigious talent. Edgar's hands possessed an extraordinary magic that spun fabrics into tales of elegance and sophistication. His workshop, tucked away in a quaint corner, was a sanctuary of creativity.

One fateful year, Edgar poured his heart and soul into a collection destined for the grandest stage: Fashion Week. He drew inspiration from nature's symphony, blending the vibrant hues of the seasons and the grace of falling leaves. His designs bore the essence of an autumnal kaleidoscope—rich, warm tones that danced with the wind.

Danielle Guizio Collaboration with Levi's

New York based designer Danielle Guizio has always had an affinity for Levi's®: "I'm usually always in vintage Levi's®," she stated "for me that comes natural." 

KARNIT AHARONI France - A shirt story

Karnit's designs are at once timeless and visionary.  Informed by elements of menswear, but always decidedly feminine and classically sexy.  The purposeful silhouettes wear easily and effortlessly.  Everything about the pieces say high-end, glamour-chic, timeless and very often season-less, adapted to contemporary life style on the go.

Kollar Clothing Fall/Winter 2020 Collection

Canadian based designer David Kollar of Kollar Clothing, debuted his Fall/Winter 2020 Collection during New York Fashion Week: Men's, February 5, 2020 at 393 Broadway, New York. 

Aleem Yusuf Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

ALEEM YUSUF

Couture Show

Collection SS 2020

during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

La Metamorphose Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Couture Show

Collection SS 2020

La Metamorphose during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

With Guest Vaimalama Chaves

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Adeline Ziliox Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

ADELINE ZILIOX

Couture Show

Collection SS 2020

during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

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February 2020 NYFW

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Philip Treacy London Fashion

Philip Treacy

Fred Perry Fashion Design

Fred Perry

Kevan Hall Fashion Design

Detroit-born Kevan Hall's fashion creativity emerged early.  By the age of seven, he knew he wanted to be a fashion designer.  Years later, while studying in California, he made a vision-enhancing trip to Europe where his lifelong love of luxury and haute couture was sparked.  

ELLI during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

SHOES-JEWELS COLLECTION FALL WINTER 2019 2020
HAUTE COUTURE PARIS FASHION WEEK

ELLI

Couture Show

FALL WINTER 2019 - 2020

during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Wednesday, July 3rd 2019

Elli Lyraraki. Walk… with her!

PATRICK PHAM Couture Show Fashion

PATRICK PHAM

Couture Show

FALL WINTER 2019 - 2020

during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Tuesday, July 2nd 2019

Whether it is in Indochine or in L’Amant, “Vien Dong” has been in the heart of France as a love. That loves inspired Patrick Pham. On his trip to the rural weaving villages, the young designer suddenly reminisce the distant memories. The luggage he brought back is filled masterpieces from the ivory-like hands of artisans from a country that is deeply in love with France. The old French sentiment for the Far East rises up again with another love story. Paris is just like to meet its old friend!

Coming to this Paris Fashion Week 2019, Patrick Pham presents 29 Couture dresses from handmade textile materials of Vietnam's most famous weaving villages, along with handmade accessories made by artisans from Hue – the Imperial city of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam.

“Lanh My A” is a silk weaving product dyed from Diospyros Mollis fruit, locally known as “mặc nưa”. “Lanh My A” has been used for costume of the royal families of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, or as a luxury gift for only rich families, landlords, and Indo-Chinese wealthy class. In the hands of Patrick Pham, Lanh My A seems to have been a classy material for luxury suit and soiree dress. The beauty of Lanh My A is dominated right from the care of silkworm cocoon so that each silkworm can pull out the best and healthiest silk threads. Especially, the woven silk is under a very unique dyeing technique. The dyeing process takes nearly 5 months to complete. Fabric must go through 2 dyeing cycles and sun drying in the wind. This is the secret know-how of the black, leather-like Lanh My A silk. Sadly, it is in danger of being lost. Nowadays, many local people turn to weave other normal fabrics since industrial textiles with high capacity can generate better income. The whole country now has only one artisan family whose have been trying to rebuild and implement this natural secret.

Once upon a time in the history of Vietnam, there had been a beautiful weaver who was chosen to marry to the Prince and become the Queen. People called her Queen Y Lan. Queen Y Lan is one of the most famous and beloved queens with a caring heart for her people. She was honored as the founding ancestor of silk weaving for teaching her people to plant mulberry, raise silkworm, and weave silk. As the tradition goes, every Vietnamese girl grows up knowing how to weave cloth, embroider, and sew. Fabrics seem to inherit their personalities and destiny from those ivory-like hands. The fabric and silk is indeed a cultural reflection of a multi-ethnic nation.

Brocade is a unique product that ethnic minorities in Vietnam pass down from generation to generation in such a way to reflect the characteristics of their culture. Brocade is a fabric made of cotton, linen or hemp yarn, all handwork. Fabrics are dyed from wild plants with variety of colors: gloomy sometimes, brilliant sometimes. There are patterns on the fabric that uniquely represent each ethnic group. These patterns are embossed during the weaving process, though those appear to be embroidered at first.

Brocade carries in itself the vibe of local live: rustic, but generous and wild. Encountering those characteristics of brocade, Patrick Pham did a bold thing: erasing the cultural boundaries of wild, liberal brocade. Brocade is mixed with other materials such as horse skin and cattle fur. In the hand of Patrick, Brocade has raised the wild rhythm of a “Tziganes” girl and the sexy look of a “Bohémien” girl. Brocade gets itself out of being a local material to romantically reunite in Paris.

Patrick Pham creates a wedding dress with new materials : silk from hyacinth flowers. Hyacinth flowers on wedding dress – gentle but elegant. Accessories from jackfruit wood, which is a cheap material for statue making and construction, suddenly became luxury material for fashionable and colorful handicraft boots.

Naming the collection “Pearl of Far East” for Couture dresses from handmade and environmentally friendly materials, Patrick Pham probably just started his new journey: the journey to promote Paris fashion lifestyle, but this time, it is somewhere outside of France!

You may also find interest in viewing our MADLEINE Couture Paris July 2019 post.

See more fashion from Patrick Pham.


You may also find interest in MADLEINE Couture Paris & BAROQCO Couture Show July 2019

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Karl Lagerfeld RIP

“I design like I breathe,” he says of his artistic process, “you don’t ask to breathe — it just happens.”

Similar to fashion trends, all great things must come to an end.

1938: Karl Lagerfeld was born in Hamburg, Germany.
2019: Karl Lagerfeld died at the age of 85.

He will always be watching...

Carolina Herrera Fashion 2018

We think you may like to review some of the Carolina Herrera fashion collection.  The challenge is that Saks Fifth Avenue has only a limited supply.  If you are interested in trying on any of these items, we suggest you visit Saks sooner rather than later.  They may be running low on some of these fashion pieces. 

Katrine K SS19 RTW

New Katrine K. SS 2019 collection presents you the spirit of sensuality. With its smooth lines, weightless forms, flowing fabrics and modest glow, “l'Esprit Sensuelle” strives to underline gracefulness of feminine forms and romantic summer vibes.

Credit Pictures : OLGA KUSHIK

Combining different textures, while keeping it laconic, each piece of the collection is carefully designed to bring the most ethereal experience to women wearing it. Feminine and airy fabrics, relaxing and uplifting, a unique and romantic mix of chiffon, handcrafted embroidery and jersey. Elegant perfectly fitting corsets made of silk and leather are the delicate and yet seductive signature pieces of the l’Esprit Sensuelle.

Smock Me Designed by Michael Howard

This week, Style Fashion Week visited the West Hollywood studio of emerging designer, Michael Howard—the creative mind behind Smock Me. 

Learn more about Michael and his collection and then view more at the Style Fashion Week—April 6, 2018 | Palm Springs Air Museum http://www.stylefashionweek.com

Anna Sui Spring Summer 2018

Comments from Ann Sui.

A Gathering of Tribes…my show begins in the dim blue light of dawn, with a mysterious procession of an enigmatic counterculture love cult emerging from the mist, on their way to some sort of ecstatic Be-In Festival…“bring photos of personal saints and incense, candles, banners, flags, feathers, flutes, drums, gongs, chimes, cymbals, symbols, costumes, joy…”

For Spring 2018, I was inspired by several noteworthy recent exhibitions. I saw “The Summer of Love Experience” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and “Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains”, plus “You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970” (both at the Victoria & Albert Museum), and the dazzling “Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity” show at the Leighton House, in London…

Maria Aristidou Paris Haute Couture

MARIA ARISTIDOU

Couture Show

SPRING SUMMER 2018 during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Monday, January 22, 2018 

MARIA ARISTIDOU SPRING SUMMER 2018 COLLECTION

Azzedine Alaïa Has Passed Away

Today November 18, 2017 it was announced that fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa had died in Paris.

Azzedine Alaia was a Tunisian-born couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful beginning in the 1980s.  After his graduation, Alaïa began working as a dressmaker's assistant. He soon began dressing private clients, and in 1957 he moved to Paris to work in fashion design. In Paris, he started to work at Christian Dior as a tailleur, but had to leave five days later as the Algerian war broke out, soon moved to work for Guy Laroche for two seasons, then for Thierry Mugler until he opened his first atelier in his little rue de Bellechasse apartment the late 1970s.  He produced his first ready-to-wear collection in 1980 and moved to larger premises on rue du Parc-Royal in the Marais district.

Alaia Paris

In his youth he gained an early appreciation for design.  His glamorous twin sister inspired his love for couture. A French friend of his mother fed Alaïa's instinctive creativity with copies of Vogue.  He lied about his age to get himself into the local École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis, where he gained valuable insights into the human form and began studying sculpture.

During the mid-1990s, following the death of his sister, Alaïa virtually vanished from the fashion scene; however, he continued to cater for a private clientele and enjoyed commercial success with his ready-to-wear lines.