Sometimes inspiration can come from iconic people, those who transform into iconic everything they touch.
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Claudia Schiffer by Karl: expressing sexuality through austerity
As a clothes creator, a designer is a person who makes men’s and women’s lives more beautiful and pleasant. As sexuality is a basic, innate instinct, it is always there, no matter what we do. In the same time, if perceived wrong, it can harm us and people around us. And, if you ask me, there’s also a bit of psychology in the fashion creative process. Why? Because people choose their clothes with their souls.
So, what’s the thing? Sexuality is always there, but it has to be mysteriously prude in order to really excite and please. In the way Claudia Schiffer was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for the German Vogue I saw a perfectly inspiring way of expressing, in fashion, sexuality via austerity.
Posted August 30, 2010 at 2:05am in Karl Lagerfeld Claudia Schiffer Vogue Fashion design Chanel
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Paris Shanghai making of, or the diary of the collection
What will follow is magic. A collection of 12 videos. The making of the Chanel Paris Shanghai 2009/2010 collection. For me watching them was like sneaking in Karl Lagerfeld’s day to day life.
You’ll see a little bit of the entire process of making a fashion collection at Chanel: the atelier, the team, the drawing, the pattern making, the embroidery, the accessorizing, the inspiration and much more.
Episode 1: Maison Chanel
Episode 2: The first fittings
Episode 3: The ateliers
Episode 4: Coco Chanel’s apartment
Episode 5: Fittings la Suite
Episode 6: Maison d’arts
Episode 7: Shooting of the press kit
Episode 8: Departure
Episode 9: Shanghai
Episode 10: The accessorization
Episode 11: The fashion show
Episode 12: The interview
Posted July 29, 2010 at 5:57am in Karl Lagerfeld Chanel Haute couture fashion design inspiration learning Arts
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What is a collection?
“All creation is just recreation - a new way of seeing the same things and expressing them differently.” Yves Saint Laurent
A collection is a set of garments and accessories, designed and produced for sale to retailers or to direct customers, for a season or a particular occasion, and presented in a variety of forms, some of them being: catwalk shows, lookbooks, websites.
Chanel, Haute Couture Fall 2010.
A collection can be inspired by a particular trend, theme, cultural, historic or social setting.
For example, in its Fall 2010 Haute Couture collection, Chanel used as inspiration medieval costumes worn not only by princesses, but also by peasants. As a result, one have oversize silhouettes, jewel tones and highly adorned garments.
In further posts, we’ll talk about who and what is involved in the process of developing a collection, from sketching to its promotion.
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Posted July 14, 2010 at 2:37am in collection learning definition fashion design Yves Saint Laurent Karl Lagerfeld Haute couture Chanel
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As a fashion designer, you have several ways of presenting/promoting your creations: runway shows, static (photos) and moving (video) ads, product placement in movies, advertorials in print and online magazines, social networks and personal websites or blogs.
In a previous post we have talked about interesting alternative ways of promoting fashion: the short films.
Now, here’s another example of presenting fashion creations: a corner of beautifully illustrated Chanel models, an illustrated metaphor for the No.5 perfume and the portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, the multi-valent designer who successfully keeps the Chanel legend alive.
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Posted June 19, 2010 at 5:04am in inspiration fashion illustration chanel fashion design presentation
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