Picture courtesy of A.F.Vandevorst.
A.F.Vandevorst is an established international Fashion House and Brand, with its roots in the Antwerp Fashion Academy.
For almost 20 years the designer duo An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx have created a clear signature in their Women’s Ready to Wear collections, Shoe and Accesories line. For FW15 the A.F. men’s shoe collection will be launched.
On August 19th 2014 the first A.F.Vandevorst flagshipstore opened in the historical city center and fashion district of Antwerp.
Aganovich
From the first encounter between the globe-trotting writer [red]Brooke Taylor[/red] and the Central Saint Martins graduate [red]Nana Aganovich[/red] sprung an enduring desire to share all aspects of their lives, both private and professional, each one discovering in the other a living example of the world they would like to create. In November 2014 the work of Aganovich received official recognition from the French fashion industry when they were elected to join the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et Créateurs de Mode.
AIZOMÉ1
A brand with a clear vision, brand offers a range of fashion basics for men and women – including trenches, safari jackets, flared trousers, jacquard and jumpsuits – in its trademrk innovative denim.
[red]AIZOMÉ1[/red] explores the indigo fabric (Aizome in Japanese), deconstructing every aspect of production to return it to its environmentally aware age.
Founded in 2015 by David Millar, an entrepreneur based in Australia, and Alexandre Miel, former Senior Designer at Dior Homme Under Hedi Slimane, AIZOMÉ1 is the first brand in the world to exploit ENVIRODENIM, a procès that reduces by half the volume of water consumed in denim production.
AIZOMÉ1 is woven and handcrafted in Japan, following traditional manufacturing processes, is an illustrious house whose foundation dates back almost 2000 years.
Anne Willi
[red]Anne Willi[/red] is an independant brand. All Anne Willi designs are manufactured solely in Europe. We uses only the finest Italian, French and British fabrics. The Anne Willi label only produces in small runs, ensuring the highest quality at the fairest price. Every piece produced receives our personal attention and our finest craftsmanship. Anne Willi is an exclusive label registered at the INPI (Institut National de Propriété industrielle).
Cacharel
[red]Cacharel[/red] founded in 1958 by Jean Bousquet. The House remains close to its initial and successful fashion codes by offering some creative yet accessible collections. This positioning driven by a strong values give him early fame and success.
1963 sees the brand rewarded with its first true success when the iconic crepe blouse finds itself photographed on the cover of ELLE by Pater Knapp. The story only has to be carried through during the rise of young and talented designers such Emmanuelle Khan or Corinne Sarrut, hired to design the collections. In 1968, Sarah Moon, a young photographer unknown back then, meets Jean Bousquet and signs the beginning of a happy and long collaboration. Robert Deplore, publicist, soon joins the team and they all work together to create Cacharel’s romantic universe which will remain immortalized through poetical, dreamy and enchanting pictures.
In the late 60’s, the first Liberty blouses appeared which then became the signature of the brand around the world in the 70's.
Today the Studio Cacharel, consisting of designers and talented artists who are reinventing Cacharel everyday style.
Cacharel is a internationally oriented brand distributed in department stores, concept stores and selective multi-brand stores worldwide. For July 2016 Cacharel opens several boutiques in France: 1 in Paris, 1 in Lille, Nimes, Marseille.
Picture courtesy of Cacharel.
Campomaggi
A story that began over thirty years ago in Cesena, Romagna.
Bags created by experts and skilled hands, with a painstaking care of artisan processes, where quality and attention to detail characterize each collection.
During his adolescence, [red]Marco Campomaggi[/red] designed the first bag models using saddlery leather and studs and selling them to his schoolmates. A passion turned into a job.
Doctor bags, briefcases, shopping bags, shoulder bags, backpacks are made of prestigious leathers and eco-compatible fabrics, privileging the natural shades of the soil.
Campomaggi inaugurated on February 14th its first flagship store in Milan, in the prestigious location of via della Spiga, 5.
Carolina Herrera
Born and raised in Venezuela, [red]Carolina Herrera[/red] was exposed from early on to international culture and fashion. At age 13, her grandmother took her to Paris to see the Cristobal Balenciaga haute couture show. Since the launch of her eponymous label in 1981, Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera has won international acclaim for her signature sophistication. The established designer has dressed high profile personalities such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Michelle Obama and has also been featured on several best dressed lists in recognition of her inimitable personal style. Most known for her coveted ready-to-wear and bridal range, Herrera introduced diffusion line CH Carolina Herrera in 2001. Having launched her first boutique in Madison in New York in 2000, Herrera has since founded over 18 boutiques around the world, with a retail presence of over 280 individual stores.
Caterina Lucchi
[red]Caterina Lucchi[/red] brand was born in 1986 in Cesena, a town in the Romagna region in the northern Italy. A creative project that reminds to the past with a contemporary and modern spirit, ranging from shopping bags to satchel and shoulder bags, in addition to a line of small leather goods. In high-quality fabrics and characterized by continuous treatments on the leather, such as laser work, embroideries, curls, folds, quilting, drilling, “amanuensis” technique and patchwork.
Caterina Lucchi style is retro and Vintage, faithful to the passion of the designer for things created by masters and style of the past.
Starting from Spring Summer 2015 the brand has created a special capsule collection of alligator handbags in classic colours to the most strong and shiny shades.
Coach
[red]Coach[/red], Inc. is an American luxury fashion company based in New York City. The company is known for accessories and gifts for women and men, including handbags, men's bags, women's and men's small leather goods, footwear, outerwear, ready-to-wear, watches, travel accessories, scarves, sunwear, fragrance, jewelry, and other accessories.
Coach was founded in 1941 as a family run workshop in Manhattan. Coach products became renowned for their distinctive design, quality, function and durability.
Gabs Franco Gabbrielli
[red]Gabs Franco Gabbrielli[/red], the Florentine company specialized in leather goods and accessories, was founded in 2000 by Franco Gabbrielli who decided to take on a challenge of an unconventional project: ‘a concept of bag’, where the bag can be transformed, according to the consumer needs.
Each Gabs Franco Gabbrielli bag is produced in Italy and created with quality leather and technical and innovative materials. In addition to an elegant style and a functional design, with an explosion of vivid colours and fantasy combined to simple shapes. The G3 iconic model is the symbol of the brand and it’s famous for its easy shape transformation, just with a few simple steps.
Spring Summer 2016 instead sees the launch of Gabsille, a creative project of shopping bags in three dimensions.
GEYM
[red]GEYM[/red] (Go East Young Man) is a masculine wardrobe focusing on style and performance, based around sharp outdoor garments designed using high-end techniques and fabrics, for performing urban travellers who are perpetually on-the-go. Every detail has its importance. Functionality and technicity are at the heart of the garment.
GEYM’s SS16 collection designed by Nao Okawa includes technical fabrics sourced in Japan, Italy and Germany. Klein blue and coral red are the two central colours of the collection. Light, breathable and instantly recognisable, GEYM garments are designed as a second skin perfectly suited to the infinite playground of the city.
God's Masterful Children
[red]God's Masterful Children[/red] is a modern perpective on classic "Riding gear". The collection is derived from Italian motorcycle culture, fusing the timeless denim jean with leather accents, utilitarian hardware, and exacting construction. This melding of history and innovative design represents a new movement amongst the denim world.
Picture courtesy of God's Masterful Children.
Göran Horal
With backgrounds as graduates of ESMOD, Paris and Central Saint Martins, London the paris based designers Heidi Göran and Susanna Horal have come together to reinvent their foundations and push the boundaries between art, craft and design.
After years of collecting influences from various countries and fields, the duo that comes from a mixed heritage of swedish, czech and chilean cultures, reunited in paris, where they had first met age 18. It was a wish to redefine the conventional perception of elegance, taking their research further than trends, away from mass consumption and a will to form a product of artisan qualities, that lead them to launch their own label in 2012.
Honouring the traditions of the trade, creating handmade sculptural pieces with constructions that require truly skillful craftsmen.
HACHE
[red]HACHE[/red] is the contemporary Italian label launched by Manuela Arcari in 1995.
The modernist vision of the designer channels eclecticism and experimentalism without forsaking the quest for the purity of the lines. Each piece is characterized by a clean design, electrified for the intense and tactile textures, the abstract prints and the vibrant colours. A mix of metropolitan allure and an organic touch coexist in a style that is both compact and articulate.
Hache defines an assertive wardrobe adapting to the wearer’s personality. Shirts and outerwear are central to the offer. The collection is entirely made in Italy, painstaking attention to detail expresses both seasoned knowledge and skilled savoir-faire.
Haculla
[red]Haculla[/red] is designed by Tykoon Brand Holding’s owner and creative director [red]Jon Koon[/red], and the inaugural collection highlights Guzman’s 15 years of provocative street art. Guzman began tagging the streets of New York in the early-2000’s and became recognized for his work soon there after, gaining a celebrity following. They have since watched him transition from a street artist to contemporary painter. His street and contemporary art works have been exhibited internationally. However, he calls New York home as well as his favorite canvas and inspiration.
Haculla’s first collection is inspired by and references Guzman’s “Dark Ages” characters. The original series is an examination of the old masters in classical art, and within this series Guzman juxtaposes his signature street art characters with iconic styles often depicted in old master paintings.
Katharina Hovman
[red]Katharina Hovman[/red] was first presented with the spring summer collection 1992. In the following seasons the collection has grown and was presented to an international audience during Fashion Weeks in Berlin, Paris, New York and Düsseldorf.
Today Katharina Hovman is being sold in over 15 countries around the world. The brand look is based on her vision of the modern woman and her unmistakable feeling for exclusive colours and outstanding shapes. The look is both simple and feminine. It combines extravagance and understatement and dresses women in a unique and sophisticated way. A style for every day and every occasion.
The elegant simplicity of Katharina Hovman requires luxury fabrics and the highest level of craftsmanship to produce the typical soft, feminine and flattering fit – a high quality collection.
LD Tuttle
[red]LD Tuttle[/red] is a Los Angeles based, Italian made women’s shoe company founded in 2006 by husband and wife team Tiffany Tuttle and Richard Lidinsky.
Known for their directional styles in soft leathers, the designs focus on movement, letting the wearer make the shoe her own. The shoes grow from traditional shapes and morph into unique forms, combining rawness with a minimal framework. The result is an artisanal, modern aesthetic-sexy yet understated and marked with a downtown cool toughness.
Designer Tiffany Tuttle was born in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. Ballet was her passion and Tiffany danced professionally until the age of 20. Dance remains a continuous element in her designs. After attending FIT and design stints both at Givenchy in Paris and Rebecca Taylor in New York, Tiffany moved to Milan in 2004 to attend the acclaimed Ars Sutoria. While there she specialized in footwear design and patternmaking. LD Tuttle’s first collection was produced in Italy soon afterwards.
Picture courtesy of LD Tuttle.
Litkovskaya
[red]Litkovskaya[/red] is a minimalistic womenswear label with a notable urban twist. Collections are designed for a sophisticated dresser with strong individuality and meticulous attention to details. Known for her taste for bold shapes, refined tailoring and craft, Lilia Litkovskaya explores the idea of contemporary dressing in new unexpected ways. Resulting collections of graphic coats and smart dresses are always pure but dual; the design practice is about intertwining ideas and breaking stereotypes.
Lords&Fools
[red]Lords&Fools[/red] despite its name is a French label, designed in Paris. Lords&Fools offer complete masculine outfits to the spirited new dandy. Yoahm Baroukh, a young fancy Parisian from the «Marais» district, has launched his brand in 2012 with a lineage of tailors. The style and DNA are strong tailoring, rock and fresh spirit. The collections always include daily and evening silhouettes with a strong emphasis on the cut and the choice of fabrics.
Lotus Threads
The [red]Lotus Threads[/red] collections combine sophisticated and elegant styling with luxurious hand and beadwork. Each piece is meticulously stitched together to create exquisite gowns and cocktail dresses that flow beautifully around the body. The woman who wears Lotus Threads will be filled with confidence knowing her dress fits wonderfully and looks beautiful on her, thus naturally allowing her inner beauty to bloom like a Lotus Flower.
M/M ATTACHMENT
Japanese brand [red]ATTACHMENT[/red] presents new collection for women [red]M/M ATTACHMENT[/red].
This is world debut collection features comfort and an elegant with minimal design. Clothing with High-Quality fabrics, muted color palette of greyscale and earthy mustard. Heavy emphasis is placed on layering, the assortment of tops ranging transformed overcoat and zipper dress, tops with scarf. Wide bottoms with wool and cotton are included this collection.
Mantù
Born in 2008, [red]Mantù[/red] is the corporate brand of Castor Srl. Situated in Castellucchio, in the province of Mantova, and was established in 2003 by Angela Picozzi, her sister Elena and Francesca Agosta. A label which is 100% Made in Italy, it’s key connotations lie in the high quality of the product and in the absolute care taken to detail, the result of carefully studied workmanship, timeless yet at the same time technologically geared to the future. The Mantù concept began from an awareness of a significant gap in the market for a sophisticated product, faced with the lack of exclusive yet.
Picture courtesy of Mantù.
MOSTLY HEARD RARELY SEEN
[red]MOSTLY HEARD RARELY SEEN | MHRS[/red] is a high-street fashion label designed by [red]Thomas "Tomakira" Li[/red]. Originally born in Hong Kong and raised in Japan, Tomakira has developed his own unique style of eastern inspired street fashion. MHRS is essentially a reflection of the street culture that thrives in Tokyo and Hong Kong. The collection is highly detailed and focuses in design, quality, and innovation. Tomakira tends to live by his brand's motto and remains anonymous and mostly out of the public eye - while letting his designs and products speak on behalf of himself.
Overcome
[red]Overcome[/red] comes from the need to create collections that leverage is on the Made in Italy sartorial tradition without having to comply with constraints defined by rules and standards that can limit the artistic expression. The character shows a research for the essential, where few elements geometrically defined take shape through the structure of materials resulting in a high visual impact. The unconventional identity is addressed to those people who want to express themselves in a new way.
Paule Ka
[size=14][red]PAULE KA[/red][/size] was created by a man, [red]Serge Cajfinger[/red], an aesthete passionate about the Sixties, its icons and its early modernity, influenced by the vibrant colours of his childhood in Brazil, and inspired by the elegance of Parisian Couture.
Since the brand's first store opened on Rue Mahler in Paris in 1988, PAULE KA has established itself as a reference for sophisticated ready-to-wear clothing, offering a complete range of day/evening wear that creates a stunning silhouette.
PAULE KA has a unique positioning in ready-to-wear fashion: authentic affordable luxury. The brand offers beautiful products, fine fabrics, meticulous finishes and a chic and feminine look.
This unique positioning allowed the brand to quickly establish itself internationally: 60 stores and 300 points of sale all over the world, including in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Dubai.
PAULE KA is now lead by the female duo of Catherine Vautrin (CEO) and Alithia Spuri-Zampetti (Creative Director), both renowned Fashion and Luxury professionals who share the same passion for PAULE KA’s chic yet understated Parisian style.
Peter Non
Completely designed and manufactured in Italy. [red]Peter Non[/red] is the “non-shoe”.
They are not made for “this” or “that”, they transcend function. Something that you slip on as easily as you would unconsciously begin walking with your left foot.
The name “Peter”, from the greek “petros”, means “stone”: solid, durable and multifaceted in a word “eternal”. The surname, “Non”, is related to the concept of “non-shoe” and embodies the Venetian origins of the brand.
Picture courtesy of Peter Non.
Plantation
[red]Plantation[/red] launches a capsule collection built around the concept of coat. Focused on portability, these pieces are divided into various materials and techniques and cover all the needs that the client meets throughout the seasons.
Marked by a special attention on collars, the iconic element of the collection, it includes rain coats, wool sailor coats or down jackets.
Through a play on volumes and the combination of traditional codes of Japanese and Western clothes, this capsule offers a modern vision of women's outerwear.
Primordial is Primitive
[red]Primordial is Primitive[/red] was founded in 2014 with the idea and conviction to create a basic collection, but very sophisticated, a basic avant-garde.
Primordial is Primitive is completely made in Italy, carefully committed to the research of materials and fabrics, natural, primitive, primordial such as linen, cotton, silk, viscose, bamboo, wool, etc. Its lines and its fit are very sophisticated and avant-garde, the prices are fair, making "primordial is primitive" a collection easy to wear, but reserved for a competent customer, who chooses basic items an extra pinch of emotion.
PT Pantaloni Torino
[red]PT Pantaloni Torino[/red] create trousers made in Turin. The craft of the brand has three generations of history behind it and city and its creative impulse are at the heart of all inventions.
This is why brand chose this name: two words that link a craft and a special place, a trademark that links of the roots with the urge to create, drawing new horizons. This spirit has profoundly transformed the brand over the years, enabling to pass the boundaries of convention and bring about an authentic revolution in the trouser world, day after day: a classic item no one can do without, which becomes an icon of style, character and personality.
Today marque can be found in Italy’s best stores and in more than 400 stores in 39 nations around the world. On 7 March 2013 brand sold one millionth item.
REKISAMI
Chika Kisada established [red]REKISAMI[/red] in 2007. REKISAMI’s collection is caracterized by attractive handcraft work with intricate design detail.
Design philosophy centers on what she calls, affectionately as, « Unbalanced Beauty ». This philosophy is centered on the appreciation of slight change. Through the use of diverse fabrics, blends of casual clothing, and a bit of ones on originality thrown into the mix, ensuing ina unique fashion statement.
REVISED
As the brand name, [red]REVISED[/red] give a meaning to provide a new standard to replace the basic which focused on made in Japan with an emphasis on making things that do not allow compromise by original state of Japanese mind, plenty using special ordered fabric that made by premium manufacture in domestic Japan. We use the fabric which processed by the machine that is only one in Japan is adding company’s secret veil processing on the fabric surface to upgrade the quality. It feels like suede touch. It success to expression of sense of touch, you can see the difference when you are wearing it. Its sports taste to the axis and based on three colors that black, gray and white. Selection of fabrics are knit, fleece, and jersey which have a sense of relaxation material is also attractive.
REVISED may be existence of the bridge to mode, street and sports and androgynous new standard package brand.
Rochambeau
Joshua Cooper and Laurence Chandler formed [red]Rochambeau[/red] in 2007, fusing their similar vision of men's fashion and shared inspiration that drives them. Mythologically speaking, bodies of water have always symbolized passage to the afterlife, departed spirits, and the mysteries of death. The collections play off this dark flip side. The palette is composed largely of neutral tones while also containing punches of bright coral and pink, again to convey the contrast between historical and modern symbolism of bodies of water.
Sara Lanzi
Umbria-based [red]Sara Lanzi[/red] launched her eponymous womenswear line in 2005 and was soon after awarded first prize in a young talents competition hosted by Vogue Italia. Lanzi is inspired by raw materials, often envisioning and executing an entire collection from a single textile. She focuses on elevated basics with an emphasis on detail and the expression of a recurring theme, obsession, through what she describes as “tensed but feminine” silhouettes. For Lanzi, sharp pleats in silk chiffon represent the equilibrium between fluid and solid, continuous and intermittent. The collection skillfully reveals the complexities of Lanzi’s vision in a classic, understated manner.
Sean Suen
Mood is the solo drive that Chinese fashion designer [red]Sean Suen[/red] believes in. His menswear collection comes to realisation with his critical thinking process upon the haze weather and gloomy reality that the designer experiences every day in China. The eye catching digital prints is based on the dark clouds that hover around the busy urban life. However, Sean Suen does not struggle with the negativity. In fact, he regards fashion design as a way of psychological therapy. Delightful details, such as the way he finishes the breast pocket, add nothing depressing but only reveal his true innocence state of mind.
Sean Suen believes that the future of menswear design emphasizes on textile development and multi-textile manipulation. Therefore, in his collections, he takes a bold approach to the use of fabric and textile. For instance, he uses industrial textile in ready-to-wear pieces and he puts the most unexpected textile together in one look. Such approach can be also seen as his attempt to break free from the gloomy reality.
Simona Tagliaferri
A gemmologist with a passion for architecture. A life dedicated to the creation of accessories from jewels to bags. A maniacal deep-rooted interest in materials that finds new forms of expression in her exlusive couture garment collections. [red]Simona Tagliaferri[/red] is the living demonstration that design is the transversal outcome of creativity summed in technical andproduction knowledge. She calls herself "a cannibal who feeds on research and innovation; craving aesthetic purity.
Picture courtesy of Simona Tagliaferri.
Sprung Frères
After moving to Paris in the heart of the Roaring Twenties, Alexander Z. Sprung opened his first master furrier workshop. He passed on his passion and knowledge to his children who joined the company at the end of the Second World War. Five brothers who love beauty, women and style.
Together, they are dedicated to the manufacture of fur and all materials associated with it, such as leather, cashmere and shearling. Over the years, the family business grows and, in 1961, became the
[red]Sprung Frères[/red] company leader of the profession in France and with a prominent place in the international market.
In the 1980s, a new generation takes over and emphasized the dynamism and the innovation spirit. A new momentum was given to the company. Fur become lighter, metamorphoses itself : reversible, new coats are worn during the day or for an evening party, the uses are multiplying.
With a worldwide presence, Sprung Frères became a figure head of the French fur, mixing tradition with talent and innovation for the women’s greatest happiness.
Sutor Mantellassi
Italian handcrafted shoes since 1912 has presented the Autumn/Winter 2016-17 collection inspired by the Alpine architecture in Cortina D'Ampezzo and in the Cadore region designed by Edoardo Gellner during the years of the Dolce Vita. Clean ambiances, minimalist yet majestic lines, as if a tribute to nature and the surrounding mountains.
Alpine landscapes, autumnal colours, bright patches of sunlight on the imposing rock faces of the Dolomites, welcoming and luxurious interiors, are translated into sophisticated and exclusive products, true to the Sutor Mantellassi tradition.
Sylvie Schimmel
Using pure lines, unique skill, noble material and creative designs: specialised in leather and fur, [red]Sylvie Schimmel[/red] designs each collection as a creativity capsule, refletive of the period, continuously reinventing timeless designs. Women’s ready-to-wear, each season stands out with striking items: woolen leathers and fur piences of an unprecedented trend for the winter; ultra-light, second skin for the summer. By having perfected a demanding production line and model, Sylvie Schimmel turns clothing into emotion.
Syngman Cucala
[red]Syngman Cucala[/red] is a constant duality between the classical and the modern in search of the essential. Is finding a balance between rich and poor, to make clothes that don’t lack nor need anything to be added. Intention is to build the clothes with attitude and to give them a certain character, to turn the ordinary act of dressing up every morning into something exciting. Fabric and pattern design are the milestones of Syngman Cucala’s work. Fashion design is a way of expressing yourself!
Vittorio d’Ottavio
The project [red]“Vittorio d’Ottavio”[/red] is born from the experience in the artisan luxury leather industry of its founder with the same name.
Vittorio d’Ottavio was born in Piove di Sacco (Padua) in 1951. Since his adolescence he worked for the historical Leather shop "Galleani & Zanetti" in Padua specialized in Luxury Bags and Haute couture. The owners recognized in him technical and organizational abilities and decided to assign him the role of Technic and Productive Director of the whole structure.
Vittorio maintained this role until 1984 with exceptional results, then he decided to make his dream come true and found his own Artisan Leather Shop. In September 1984, with a partner, he found "KERIMA di d'Ottavio Vittorio & C. S.n.c". Once the role in the company were established, the family continued to collaborate with the Great Brands, while in the meantime, decided to start standing on their own legs creating a total independent project using all the artistic experience and productive organization assimilated in years. In this way they started to develop the project "Vittorio d'Ottavio".
Picture courtesy of Vittorio d’Ottavio.
Yoka Miyano © Modemonline
Picture 1 courtesy of A.F.Vandevorst.
Picture 2 courtesy of Cacharel.
Picture 3 courtesy of God's Masterful Children.
Picture 4 courtesy of LD Tuttle.
Picture 5 courtesy of Mantù.
Picture 6 courtesy of Peter Non.
Picture 7 courtesy of Simona Tagliaferri.
Picture 8 courtesy of Vittorio d’Ottavio.
