COINONIA is a women’s luxury fashion label directed by duo designers, Momoko Hashigami from Japan and Kiho Kim from Korea. They established COINONIA in 2010, Milan and launched their first 2010F/W collection in Paris. They have since been showing their collections at TRANOI, Paris and in Seoul.

Momoko Hashigami majored in international studies at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, then studied fashion design and techniques at Tokyo Bunka Fashion College. She graduated from the women’s wear department of Central St Martin’s, London. While studying she gained work experiences at John Galliano and other Paris fashion houses. She participated in several international competitions including ITS4. After graduating she worked at Antonio Marras in Italy.

Kiho Kim graduated from Hangseung University in Seoul. Then he studied pattern making at Carlo Secoli in Milan and fashion design at Polimoda in Florence. During his study he participated in several international competitions including ITS3. After finishing his studies he worked at Antonio Marras in Italy. The name is inspired by the Greek concept of “Koinonia” – sharing, relationship, and communication. It is an idealized state of relationship, an idea of harmonized participation in a team. COINONIA is a label of two designers collaborating as a team while sharing their creativity, passion, and phylosophy for fashion and life. They wish to create COINONIA also among its associates and clients, and between the garment and the wearer giving new ideas to everyday life.

COINONIA’s universal theme is creating ‘Conceptual Contemporary’ garment and accessory for creative women. All the collection pieces are first created on the mannequins to be given a life and story by hand under a seasonal concept. Experimental and architectural shape, dynamic cutting, and sensitive details and colors are then introduced to define their characters. Narrative and conceptual mood is always there as the essence of their works. Feminine but masculine, still but dynamic, tender but hard… These contradictions and paradoxes are the source of their creations to give a birth to new designs.

More information at www.coinonia.com

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Here is the “Squaring the Square” by avantgarde fashion designer Lisa Shahno - Her structural elegance and futuristic touch make this collection great for editorial but probably hard to wear in street ! At least for 2010…

The whole collection is based on rectangular pieces of various length and width ranging from rectangles to squares sewn together and bonded in different order (there are only two models where several curved lines have been used)

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Ground-Zero’s Fall/Winter 09 collection is called ‘we need’ founded by two brother Eri and Philip Chu, the London based duo focus this collection on today’s consumerism : ” We Buy, We Spend, We Pick, We Wear. Simply because We Need ”

They created a parallel between the two everyday necessities ! Groceries and Fashion ! Available in the US @ Seven – New York & Welcome Hunters – Los Angeles
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Austrian designer Ali Zedtwitz has designer an autumn/winter collection for Weekday. The collection, which features 12 specially designed pieces, will hit stores this fall. Zedtwitz collection is primarily black with touches of cobalt blue and shades of pale sephia. Zedtwitz recently graduated from University of Applied Arts in Vienna. This beautiful lookbook has been shot by Martin Vallin

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