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TL Speaks with Femke AgemaIn case you were worried about all the extreme climate changes facing the earth, enter the world of Dutch designer Femke Agema, who we have previously featured here. When her latest collection featuring Inuit-inspired snowsuits and anoraks for the impending Snowpocolypse hit our inbox, we couldn’t help but desire a closer look into the designer’s [...]
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Karla Spetic F/W 2012Karla Spetic‘s AW 2012 collection is full of colorful contrasts; from leopard pants paired with neon sweaters to fifties skirts covered in Lichtenstein pop art. The color palette is one of the collection’s
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Extraordinary Pigeon by Ho Man Stephanie WongHo Man Stephanie Wong graduated from LCF with her collection under the name of “Extraordinary Pigeon”. And at first glace it may seem a representative title, there’s more behind Wong’s inspiration as (besides photographs of pigeons and nature), the whimsical paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Long story short, Arcimboldo’s talent flourished during the Renaissance, when the [...]
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Coinonia CollectionCOINONIA 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 [...]
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Feathery creatures: James Hock ‘Harbinger’I t would not be an obvious conclusion to come to when looking at James Hock‘s designs, but the Malayasian born London based designer is an accountant by training. Unless you find that totally believable, in which case you must know something about accountants I don’t.
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Qiu Hao’s Fashion Designs” D on’t ask me about inspiration… image is a simple way of saying complicated things.” These are the first words you read on designer Qiu Hao‘s site, which, as it turns out is a beautifully stark presentation of the Chinese designer’s conceptual clothing line.
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Nhu Duong JPEG CollectionI just discovered the Swedish based fashion designer Nhu Duong and her JPEG collection. Using vivid digital prints on modular system of dresses, she manipulates images from amateur photographs found on the Web and digitally compresses them, to become pixelated, the
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Illusional Harmony F/W 2012 Collection by Ece GozenIt is always pleasant to find young designers with fresh visions and ideas, that is the case for Turkish fashion designer Ece Gozen and her Illusional Harmony collection. For her F/W 2012 she got heavily inspired by math and geometry and the art of M.C. Escher, specifically ‘tessellation’,
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Christopher Raeburn Fall/Winter 2012 CollectionFor his Fall/Winter 2012 menswear and womenswear collection Christopher Raeburn went workwear again, but this time more inspired by firemen with the Nomex fireproof textile. Working around the theme of ‘Urban protection’ he introduce a limited edition “Remade in England” with pieces constructed from
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Six Lee Fall/Winter 2012 CollectionAfter graduating from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpen in 2009, Hong Kong born designer Six Lee moved to London for a collaboration with the Alexander McQueen menswear team. The traditional British tailoring – translated in clean cuts and sharp lines – combined with soft colors and dreamy, boyish details result in unique silhouettes.
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Breaking ‘Fashion’ News: Slimane at YSLAfter last weeks news about Raf Simons leaving Jil Sanders and her second homecoming, here is some more breaking fashion news to keep the conversations following through this last part of the fashion weeks. Hedi Slimane returns to the drawing boards. If rumors are true, Slimane will succeed the (very) talented Stefano Pilati at the [...]
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Alba Prat’s Neon Old School CollectionFor her second collection Alba Prat got inspired by the cold war children going to school with their leather bags and knitted accessories handmade by their grandmothers. She sent us her ‘Neon Old School’ lookbook, where disciplined pupils are represented in three different outfits, in