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BERLIN FASHION WEEK SPECIAL

#  Editorial Dear readers, It is not only Paris, Milan, New York or London where you find great fashion. Some days ago the EUROPEAN YOUNG DESIGNERS PORTO FASHION SHOW attracted the fashion scene including us to see seventeen talented, emerging designers from six European countries - Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. From each of these countries one fashion design school selected three young designers to participate in the show and present three outfits each. The result was a colorful variety of outfits on a high level.

We took the opportunity to talk to each of the designers, to go backstage und of course to enjoy two days in the wonderful city of Porto.

Thanks a lot to Catalina Campos for the interview texts and Maria Meyer for the backstage photos.

Enjoy our PORTO FASHION SHOW Special ‌ Best, Tom, Marc and the whole SUPERIOR team

For the third time, European Young Designers Porto Fashion Show brought in seventeen talented, emerging designers from six European countries - Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The young designers were not only able to showcase their pristine collections, but were also given the opportunity to interact and network with established apparel and textile industries during Porto Fashion Week.

With past winners, such as France’s Bértille Goux working as a designer at Isabel Marant, the contest produces some of Europe’s fresh and innovative talent.

Organized by the Textile Intelligence Centre (CENIT), the Porto Fashion Show includes notable jury members from the participant’s respective country to decide the winner of the additional 5,000 Euro prize. Each participant already was awarded 3,000 Euros for their placement as the top three designers from their country. Included in the jury is CENIT president, Paulo Vaz, alongside these other members: Brigitte Nutz, Project

Manager Apparel Fabrics & Fashion, Messe Frankfurt (Germany), Jaime de la Figuera, Consultant at Momad Metrópolis (Spain), Catherine Toffaletti, Journalist at Le Fashion Post (France), Giovanni Maria Conti, Assistant Professor from the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Luís Buchinho, Fashion Designer (Portugal) and Julie Driscoll, Portfolio Director at Pure London (United Kingdom).

With the goal of promoting the Portuguese textile and apparel industries, the participants were exposed to five Portuguese companies that includes, A2 Asdrubal J.A., a manufacturer of clothes for brands such as Levi’s; Adalberto Estampados, a digital printer that produces fabrics for brands such as D&G, Jean Paul Gaultier, Burberry, Versace, and Cavalli; Crispim Abreu, a company that focuses on home textiles and the production of childrenswear; Pizarro, an innovative company known for its finishing processes such as Icelite and Ecoblast; and Polopique, a spinning, weaving, dyeing, and clothing manufacturer.

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As president of CENIT, Vaz stated, “It’s a unique opportunity for these European young designers to have contact with a creative, innovative, and dynamic industrial infrastructure, with a brilliant future ahead. At this time, as they are finishing their school training and beginning a professional career, it will certainly be an experience that they will keep for the rest of their lives.”

In honor of the fifth edition of Porto Fashion Week, Porto presented itself with five events, MODtissimo, iTechStyle Innovation Business Forum, 5 Continents, and 50 years of the ATP (Association of Textiles and Clothing of Portugal). Each of these five events present the participants and guests with knowledge on the

influence of technology, primarily with the iTechStyle Innovation Business Forum, and seminars and conferences regarding fashion retailers.

Integrated with the MODtissimo professional trade fair, the panel of judges was able to decide on the final winner after the final runway show that took place on February 25th at Alfândega do Porto and with much deliberation, the designer from UK’s Falmouth University was awarded as the winner of the competition. James White was awarded the title of European Young Designer of the year along with an additional 5,000 Euros. White states, “I’m going to invest the 8,000 Euros for the next one. I’m going to put it towards building another collection and probably more. It’s been a good year for me.”

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PORTUGAL – MODATEX

CARLA PONTES CARLA PONTES – Winner of the first prize to Portugal

# Did you also participate in the International Fashion Showcase (IFS)?

# Tell us about your collection.

Yes. I, along with other Portuguese designers, participated in IFS in which we were supported by Portugal Fashion. We presented our collection to Portugal Fashion and we did some trend shows around Europe and the world. We had this opportunity to market the brand internationally and take more stockists around the world. But in IFS we were presented in another way, as an exhibition and not a trend show. We eventually could contact potential buyers and take opportunity to have collections exhibition consecutively. The trend shows are really different.

This collection is called Orbit. Not the celestial orbit, but when you see a birds-eye view of our planet from the sky. A bird sees all the curves of the continents, the orbits in a dry lake, and they can see the rings around a volcano. I view the human body like the center of all these circles and the collection goes around the body like in nature. # Do you get your inspiration from nature?

Yes, natural things inspire me all the time. I develop the materials thinking that I would prefer to work with natural materials, such as wool and cotton. These kinds of materials are more comfortable and natural for the human body.

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# Do you have a label?

Yes, it’s my name Carla Pontes.

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PORTUGAL – MODATEX

MAFALDA FONSECA # Can you tell us a bit about your collection?

I did a menswear collection for spring/ summer 2015. It’s the latest collection that I presented in last October’s Portugal Fashion Week. This collection was inspired by a road trip I did last year with my friends and it’s all about the photographs that you take.

The colors from the water, sun, and rocks in the river are the main elements in my design and my inspiration.

In my collection, I used some shades of greys and blues and with fabrics that I always work, such as real leather and wool. I also added in some new fabrics with new materials, since new construction of fabrics was another theme in my collection. # Why did you choose to do menswear?

It’s a passion because my grandfather was a tailor. It was always my inspiration. # How do you see your future? Would you create your own label?

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I already have my own label but I hope to only live off of my label because at the moment I have to work in another company.

I would love to work only with my brand. # Is what we see now your label?

Yes, it’s not my greatest collection but I have presented with my own label since Portugal Fashion Week in 2012. # What’s the name of your label?

It’s my name, Mafalda Fonseca # Have you already presented outside of Portugal?

Yes, we have already presented an exposition in London both last year and this year in an international showcase. We did some trade shows in Europe including Paris where I was able to make a sale.

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PORTUGAL – MODATEX

CRISTINA REAL # What is your collection about?

My collection is based on details. The inspiration comes from architecture primarily that of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

I’m working with the architecture plans and his many work manuals. The collection has embroideries with colors such as white and metallic silver. The materials in the collection include leather, organza, and silk. # Do you have your own label?

I do, it’s currently my name, so Cristina Real. But I’m presenting this one for the fashion week. My label is brand new. # So it’s your first year with your label?

No, about two years.

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UNITED KINGDOM - FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY

JAMES WHITE JAMES WHITE – Winner of the first prize to United Kingdom and Best European Young Fashion Talent at Porto Fashion Show 2015

# Is that the way you would like to have your dresses worn or is it just for show, or the idea?

# Tell us a little bit about your collection.

It is kind of transitional, it’s not just for spring and summer or for autumn and winter. So you can wear two of the pieces, top and bottom in the summer and it would work. Then in the winter you can add more layers and it all works together. It’s not for a particular season.

My collection is a contemporary, very wearable menswear collection and it was inspired by the formations of ice and how varying thickness of ice changes the color of blue. There’s a lot of layering and putting different colors on top of each other with different blues and how that can turn into a different blue. It’s a lot of experimenting with color, texture, and proportion to create different layers. There are a lot of layers but with each layer you take off, it’s still a complete outfit. My aim was for each individual piece to work by itself, like it was a complete work of art in itself. So even if you have all the layers on, if you take a layer off, it’s still a complete outfit, rather than relying on five pieces to make it complete.

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# Do you already have your own label?

Not at the moment. I’m working for a spoke-shirt cutter in London as a cutter and I make all the patterns for her at the moment. # How do you see your career in the future?

Would you like to start your own label?

Yeah, definitely. I want to obviously hone my skill and learn as much as I can. Then I can transfer that into my own design and start my own business.

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UNITED KINGDOM - FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY

MILLY MELBOURNE # Could you tell us a little bit about your collection?

My collection is based on the idea of primitive, playful forms for the human body. I’m really inspired by how people put on clothes; take them off, and the ritual of getting changed in the morning, of wrapping these bits of fabric around your body, like these cloths and the body. I’m getting into sustainable materials, but I’m interested in the personal interaction and the attachment that people can have with clothing. I’m obsessed with this collection, these 2-D forms. I was determined that everything had to be 2-D and they had to be raised. A part in the end I did this noodle scarves, they are kind of these foam things, I called these the texture of home, something that is quite comforting, you can just have them lying around and play around with it. It’s a form, you can fold it and slot it in all different ways and sometimes you might not know how to put it on but you have to figure it out on your own and its finished off by the wearer.

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# How did you get the idea to do that?

It’s been a developing process. I’ve always been interested in trying to find some type of worth in clothing and what is fashion nowadays. I’m totally quite anti-fashion and I’m against the craft that it is. I wanted to find something honest that can suit the customers, the value seekers. I wanted to find the sense of place right now, something a bit more wholesome. I wanted to make some kind of fun products that have a lot more meaning and every time they can be passed around to different people and they’re interpreted different ways. For this collection, it’s been more of a concept, so it has bright colors. For the project’s research, I went backpacking around Holland and Belgium. Because I had these ideas, I had the aesthetics but I needed to get the context for it. I looked around at architecture and went to Dutch design week, and I got my colors and forms inspired by what I saw and the atmosphere around me. I lived at my local designers and that really inspired me. I’m also doing a knitwear design as well.

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# Would you like to have your own label?

Hopefully by the end of this year or start of next year, so if you see my collection it’s a bit silly, wacky, and fun. Now, I’ve been diluting that and I’m going to be making stuff that is desirable products that people really want whether it’s this 2-D art form or this flat piece that you put on your body.

I’m going to be making some of those and the underlying thing is the material is going to be from ethically sound resources but it’s not a main point. I don’t think “eco-friendly” it should reflect my collection. It shouldn’t be, “Oh! Look it’s all eco,” it should be an underlying statement in all fashion design.

It’s something that has to happen.

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UNITED KINGDOM - FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY

JACOB STEVENS # Tell us a little bit about your collection.

It’s more of a fine art thing than James’ collection. I come from more of a sculptural background and my collection is clothes that are live-in, living sculptures if that makes any sense. It’s exploring and challenging the idea of what clothes are, how much clothes need to be clothes, and how much you can deconstruct that and reduce it to clothes in the rawer sense, like minimal detailing.

So its kind of a shell on a person and these clothes become an extension of the body. I was inspired by how bizarre her body is in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. She is completely all slanted and if she were an actual person, she wouldn’t be able to stand up, its impossible. She’s still really beautiful but bizarre. But a lot of the clothes were cut to fit that weird s-band and afterwards putting that on a person who is obviously a real human being. I’m very interested in the kind of performative

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relationship between people and clothes.

You’ll see quite a mesh of very raw and gorgeous fabrics, like an organic denim and gold leather, and then kind of ugly fabrics like gray, pigskin leather, which isn’t normally used for fashion. I’m exploring what clothes can be. # Would you like to one day have your own label?

That would be amazing. I’m studying a Masters course at the moment in the UK near Falmouth. It’s all about interdisciplinary practice, so working alongside people doing different spans of creative work. Then in your own work you can explore different things, so it’s more of a conceptual fashion root, exploring the idea of clothes rather than necessarily making a commercial, fashion design. But, everything comes back to clothes.

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GERMANY – ESMOD BERLIN

MILLA LINTILÄ MILLA LINTILÄ – Winner of the first prize to Germany # Tell us a little bit about your collection.

My collection is a womenswear collection, all inspired by deviation wear and the story of Prussian artist Charles Dellschau.

My idea was reimagining his idea of a club that supposedly did early flight trials, called Sonora Aero club. My collection uses a lot of manipulated fabric; a lot of different textures, and its combining work wear with a lot more imaginative way. # Which materials do you use?

For this, I use a variety of materials and the most visible ones are fur, cotton, and wools for the coats. For the lighter pieces, I use a polyester-silk mixture. # What is your future plans? Do you have any plans to create your own label?

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Not yet, but right now I still want to work for other labels and learn by doing that. Right now it’s not the right moment where I should tie myself to a label, even though I’d like to do that one day. # Which label would you like to work for?

I would really like to work for Prada and go to Italy. I think what Prada does has always been great but at the moment it’s really fresh and good. What’s happening elsewhere is a bit boring for me but I really like Prada’s style right now. # Would you like to change or inspire Prada a bit?

No, with Prada I would humbly approach it. But in an ideal world of course I would like to be a part of the process and bring my own ideas to that because you like labels that somehow reflect your style or your ideal of a beautiful women.

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GERMANY – ESMOD BERLIN

JAN PHILIPP GERLACH # Tell me about your collection.

I started doing my collection last summer.

It was a menswear collection from ESMOD Berlin focusing on media theories regarding men. My collection deals with how men react on social media and how people research and affect the media’s input. It’s about how people deal with all the mass information with everything being a bit too much. It’s so piecey, it doesn’t focus that much on variability but on being excessive. # Did you get your inspiration from the media?

It’s much more about how the media affects me. When I research, I always have the feeling that all those pictures are telling so many different stories, but I have to find one continuous story. For this research I let it flow to see what happens when I have so many information, so much input, that in the end the input itself becomes the research.

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# The pieces you showed here are not the ones from your shooting?

Some of them were from the shooting here and some are new pieces. # So did you edit new pieces?

I edited some new pieces and I also did a womenswear collection right after. This is quite funny because in this collection I focused on menswear without gender as a major theme. When you adapt this collection to a womenswear collection, you suddenly realize how wearable everything is because it works so much better on a woman’s body.

The artistic message is translated better on a man’s body. # Do you like to create unisex pieces?

To be honest I don’t like the term unisex.

It’s usually bulky, very wide clothes that have

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no actual fit to the body because they have to fit both men and women. Men and women have very different bodies so the clothes itself can’t be precise. My collection is precise on a man’s body but plays with female aspects, like crop tops and wide trousers that are significant to women’s fashion. # What are your plans for your career in the future?

Right after ESMOD Berlin, I was working at J. W. Anderson in London as an intern. I was also working as a costume designer for films and as a graphic designer for a marketing company in Berlin. I’m trying to see where I actually fit in at right now. In the end I was concentrating on the graphic design job but I think it’s so different from making clothes.

It actually bores me so I’m going back to fashion and I’ll be concentrating on creating collections.

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GERMANY – ESMOD BERLIN

NATACHA AEDO DURÁN # Tell me about your collection.

# What will you do now?

My collection is a menswear collection with a really straight and pure concept integrating circle economy. So it holds a sustainable point of view about menswear fashion.

My future wish would be to consult different fashion houses in sustainability.

Maybe I can combine design and consultation because design and communication should go hand in hand. So having a design from a collection and communicating to the consumer to create more awareness about sustainability.

# Did you use sustainable materials?

Yes, I used only synthetic fibers and 100% polyester fibers that can be completely recyclable to integrate a close-looped system. # Did you do your bachelors or masters at ESMOD? I did the Masters program at ESMOD. I did a bachelor in Brussels and I graduated there in 2011. Afterwards, I traveled and worked freelance projects but I wanted to broaden my horizons so I got into sustainable fashion.

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# I think it’s really important that a designer is doing that. Do you think we have good sustainable designers in Germany Yes, we have good ones but unfortunately they are really small labels that aren’t growing much. I hope that big designers can learn from small designers and collaborate together. I think that’s how things will change.

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# I think it’s really important that a designer is doing that. Do you think we have good sustainable designers in Germany?

Yes, we have good ones but unfortunately they are really small labels that aren’t growing much. I hope that big designers can learn from small designers and collaborate together. I think that’s how things will change. # Would you like to stay in Germany or go abroad?

I would like to stay in Germany, especially in Berlin. At first, I’d like to integrate myself into small labels to get some experience, and then expand from that. # When you say consultation, would you like to open your own consulting company?

That would be in the far future, but I would say five or ten years from now. But I need more experience working in the fashion industry to build up a consulting firm. # And then you can work for Magdalena from Greenshowroom.

Exactly! I premiered at the ethical fashion show in January. I showed my Master’s project, a clean and Nordic menswear collection.

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SPAIN – IED MADRID

SILVIA SUAREZ ARRANZ SILVIA SUAREZ ARRANZ – Winner of the first prize to Spain # Tell us about your collection.

My collection is called Ethos and it’s about men’s identity using uniforms. My inspiration comes from Balenciaga’s usage of both male and feminine qualities. # When did you graduate and what is your future plan?

I graduated last year and I would like to work for a big fashion house. I’m still investigating the right way to do it because there is too much to do. I can’t just stop with uniforms and tailoring but I want to be able to explore more. # Would you like to create your own label or would you like to work for a company?

I would like to join a company and I’m open-minded about where it is.

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# Where would you ideally like to work at?

With their vision of construction, I feel very similar to Margiela. I’d also like to work for Scandinavian lines that have clothes with volume. The Scandinavian people look for certain elegance but retain the volume. # Why did you decide to create uniforms?

I wanted to get out of my own base. I wanted to change and I’m interested in how human beings emotionally view very classical types. I plan on doing it every other way, including the cut and construction, but still maintaining the volume of Balenciaga.

I like working on the uniforms but at the same time giving all the freedom that uniforms doesn’t allow you to have. I’m working with the duality of male and female and the authority but she gives all the freedom to the body. It’s a contradiction.

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SPAIN – IED MADRID

LUISA MARIA RODRIGUEZ CAMPOS # Could you tell us a little bit about your collection?

My collection very feminine and is called Dramatic Paradise. I draw inspiration from the light and colors of the sun using silk and neo-print fabrics. My collection is supposed to change the ideal sophisticated women. # So is it very colorful?

Yes. I dye the fabrics to look similar to the concept of a sunrise and sunset. My designs are very constructive but the principle idea remains to be the colors. # What do you plan to do when you graduate, will you get your own label?

In the future I would like to work as a designer in a famous factory such as Delpozo. Hopefully I would also be able to create my own brand using my own style.

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SPAIN – IED MADRID

LAURA CASANOVA COLVÉE # Could you tell us a little bit about your collection?

# What made you become a fashion designer?

My collection is called Merfoses and it’s about mutation that takes forms with geometric pieces around the body. Merfoses is trying to give a new representation of the women. These pieces wrap around the body, like fitting to the body. I try to work with duality of male and female, using nude color, and working with silicone. Other than silicone, I try to work with different materials such as cotton and silk.

As I said before I am an architect, but I think it was a dream. I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I have the opportunity right now to do it and it’s amazing. I really like it.

# Where do you get your inspiration from?

As a practicing architect and my inspiration comes from architecture. It comes from the topography, from rocks, and their landscape.

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# You will stay in fashion or return to architecture?

I think I will try to do something mixed.

I would like to put together fashion and architecture.

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ITALY – ACCADEMIA KOEFIA

GIUSEPPE PERRI GIUSEPPE PERRI – Winner of the first prize to Italy # Tell me a little bit about your collection.

The Romanticism movement, particularly the Italian Romanticism, inspires me.

The three main elements from this style that I use are movement, traditionalism, and most importantly, a person’s innate self. I wanted to use specific Indonesian fabrics to mix together the two eastern and western worlds. These two worlds hold two very different traditions and elements.

You can see in my collection the particular shades of 19th century Europe combined with the Indonesian decor using hand-made embroidery. The specific element that decorates one of the skirts, the ribbon, is also something I made by hand. I made it similar

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to a cage, which is supposed to represent the convention and tradition in which a woman is trapped.

The woman is able to free herself with this and you can see that this tradition represents the energy and force of women. Elegance, beauty, and intelligence, are important qualities for the innate self of a woman. # Do you plan on starting your own label soon?

Yes, this is a good question for us. Francesca and I are friends and we would like to construct a label together with another mutual friend, Marco. It seems casual but our director choose us and we would like to work together.

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ITALY – ACCADEMIA KOEFIA

FRANCESCA PALLA # Tell me a little bit about your collection.

I studied at an haute couture school. My clothes are hand-made but I tried to make a mixture of couture and ready to wear. So, some pieces are wearable but I think the interesting thing is that I paint the fabrics by hand. Everything is hand-made, all the embroidery with the same shape that i paint in one outfit. I cut around this shape with the and I make this embroidery with these elements. # Where do you get your inspiration?

My inspiration comes from stones. I paint in a minimal, graphic way the shape of some river stones.

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FRANCE – ATELIER CHARDON SAVARD

JULIA FRAILE JULIA FRAILE – Winner of the first prize to France

# Do you have any plans for the future, such as a label?

# Tell us a little bit about your collection.

Yes. I would like to, but now I have a oneyear internship for Volcom, a surfing brand.

So, I can enjoy myself, do what I want, and hopefully I continue to work in the future creating my own brand.

My collection is a women sportswear collection for the adventurous women. My inspiration is mountain sports and I incorporate technical fabrics and structured fabrics.

The collection begins with mountain sports and it goes into the streets. I play with the ropes and this is perfect for those who are in the extreme sports like mountain climbing, base-jumping, and etc. # Where do you get your inspiration?

I get my inspiration from the mountains because I do a lot of snowboarding. It’s a good thing for me to work on what I love.

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FRANCE – ATELIER CHARDON SAVARD

CHARLOTTE SEMERDIJIAN # Charlotte, what is your collection about?

# Which materials do you use?

My collection is about freaks, a freak show. My collection is about this because my grandparents made freak shows, worked in a freak show. I took these elements and along with my personality with cartoons and I decided to make my own family of freaks.

I use neoprene for the printing of my design and I use wood and resin for the accessories. I work with a carpenter with the process of creating the accessories.

# So is that also your inspiration for your collection?

I don’t know. There is a French designer I would love to work for, but other than that, I’m not sure yet.

Yes.

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FRANCE – ATELIER CHARDON SAVARD

SANDY THOMAS # What is your collection about?

My collection is about is the royal samurai wives. My collection is about these women because the contrast of their silk kimonos and big armor is interesting. The silk kimonos are very feminine very graceful while the big armor is big with metal. We worked armor with padding, large pants, and contrast sleeves while I added feminine shapes, graphics influenced by Japanese tattoos. I personally hand-painted all the silk. # So you’re collection is about Japan?

Yes, I’m very interested about Japan’s history.

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# Have you ever been to Japan?

Not yet, it’s a project. # Do you have any future plans?

I would like to travel to Japan and it’s the future, so I don’t know.

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coming out on March 27th 2015

DIGITAL

#APRIL 2015