Geometrics, skyscrapers, constructivism, and simple lines are essential components that elevate the characteristics of the collection. Rafikova and Talalay idea of advocating for an intelligent wardrobe selection and timeless staples instantly connect with many contemporary women.
Read MoreConceptually revolutionizing design characteristics without sacrificing elegance and femininity. Andrea Jiapei Li is one of New York’s womenswear designers who are revolutionizing modern techniques, creative textiles, and unique silhouettes.
Read MoreFor a few years, the variety of womenswear has become endless. Between option of fast fashion and independent labels surfacing, it makes it difficult finding the right option. Lately, there has been a movement for longevity and timeless pieces.
Read MoreInfluenced by Japanese art & culture, designer Natalia Alaverdian utilizes subtle and expressive components.
Read MoreAfter generating positive reactions for their cultural driven designs. LRNCE inventive style completely transformed the perspective of traditional tribe rituals and cults. Pieces only seen as souvenir items, and trendy designs accented on garments for a season, eventually received much needed praise for the significance behind the traditional expertise.
Read MoreThere was a time when insignificant items gave us excitement. Magazines and television advertised having more was better. Somehow the desire for more is dying. The eagerness for minimal style and living exhilarates.
Read MoreThe vivid portrait of designer Chenghui Zhang’s grandmother’s tale is very sentimental. The designer develops a liberating contemporary vision constructing garments that hold great symbolism of a moment and place. Zhang’s powerful conceptual design communicates with the viewer and wearer, linking lineage to fashion without theatrics.
Read MoreDesigners are forging a new image for the accessories we wear, encouraging buyers to recognize the reshaped direction of jewelry design. Incorporating complex angles, minimalism and unusual materials, their designs accentuate pieces that are highly transitional and sustainable.
Read MoreWe’re emotionally linked to the clothing we wear. Beyond staple items and trends, the garments we select express our emotions and personalities. Through garments you can gather several characteristics of the person wearing them. For emerging label KALAURIE, the designer utilizes creativity as therapy, achieving a clear awareness about herself.
Read MoreArt and fashion are always together and today fashion and technology. What if we added art between the worlds of fashion and technology it could be explosive, but when it comes together it produces something pretty cool. Katya Dobryakova, contemporary Russian fashion designer who has something to say, designs with satire and ironic messages.
Read MoreMAX.TAN expressive approach generates a unique identity through a variety of delicate techniques that targets a modern appeal. Designing with an elaborate style of cut, balanced with uncomplicated ideas to accentuate the brand’s distinguished identity.
Read MoreIt started with "HANNIBAL", a fall-winter 15/16 collection based on avant-garde aesthetics and minimalism, my first introduction to the Ukraine-based designer LARA QUINT. Approaching a composition with somewhat strict concepts.
Read MoreThe era of individuality is hastily expanding; people are seeking items that express their personalities. Throughout time, accessories have developed into vital staple pieces that speak for the wearer; even more so, they’ve become artistic items that add an extra pop. Aside from their materialistic qualities, items in particular such as handbags and wallets, are mainly designed for multifunctional purposes.
Read MoreInternationally acclaimed Montreal-based fashion designer Ying Gao is known for her keen eye for detail and multimedia approach to garment construction. Using statistics and social criticism, programming and philosophy, along with traditional tailoring and dressmaking techniques, she creates some of the world’s most conceptual and artistic clothing pieces.
Read MoreBevza is a Ukrainian womenswear line that started in 2006 under direction of Svetlana Bevza. Since then it successfully emerged as a smart, sophisticated, minimalist clothing collection for independent women that appreciate quality and craftsmanship. The line is currently sold in select stores and boutiques around the world.
Read MoreWe take delicate steps before the arrival, through creation we’re able to manipulate, manifest and manufacture. The fundamental of garment design is the ability to develop structures that reflect the wearer. For any ensemble, accessories walk hand in hand with the perfect jacket or dress. When placed together, you create a statement look.
Read MoreAn architect by training, New York-based Tania Ursomarzo created an accessories line, TRIPTYCH, with an idea that a comfortable shoe can also be stylish. Her wondrous designs in predominantly neutral palette are subtle yet extremely sexy. Intricate cutouts in unconventional places that expose toe and ankle cleavage, sumptuous textures, and a shoe-within-a-shoe.
Read MoreBecoming completely bare doesn’t only exemplify rawness, being nude is to expose a concealed element that defines an inner beauty. Ideally, the fundamentals of design begin with a raw palette and the ability to transition traditional elements into contemporary concepts, strategically discovering perfection from what most would consider imperfections.
Read MoreFinding the right element within menswear, while positioning a new perception on how men could express their masculinity and personality, without losing their personal finesse. Designer Julian Woodhouse has transitioned the way we view menswear through structure, minimalism, expression, masculinity, femininity and style all wrapped into the brand WOOD HOUSE.
Read MoreLoose, feminine looks stood modeled against a pseudo-suburban backdrop of stark white walls and scattered furniture. At the debut presentation of Pamplemousse, a new womenswear brand by designer Danica Zheng, the audience pushed forward to look closer. Though it isn’t apparent upon first glance, the collection was inspired by bondage scenes that appear throughout the extensive work of Japanese photographer and artist Nobuyoshi Araki.
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