Cinderella and shoes. It’s like siamese twins. And so is the connection between Christian Louboutin and his shoes. Net-a-porter made a funny video on how Christian became a famous shoe-designer. All wrapped up in a fairytale…
The very talented Greek designer Mary Katrantzou is collaborating on a collection for Topshop. Her designs are being well-kept for the moment, but they are expected to be available starting February 2012 in all Topshops and online. We hope that the -14 pieces-collection will contain some of Mary’s signatures; trompe…
Yesterday evening, one of our favourites of the Dutch fashion scene, Claes Iversen, presented his Spring/Summer ’12 collection in an empty office-building. The show started with a short black & white video, featuring the Dutch actress Liz Snoyink.
The theme of the collection is based on the lovestory of a woman and her meticulously composed wardrobe. But it also underlines that fame and wealth go hand in hand with loneliness and transciency. Claes took some famous 5th-Avenue-ladies as an example like Jacky Kennedy, Nan Kempner and Mona von Bismarck; rich, upper-class figureheads, that posessed impressive private couture-collections, and at the same time their lives were marked by loneliness and melancholia.
Dutch designer Antoine Peters created a stop-motion video to launch his latest collection GET DIZZY!. He collaborated with Droog, photographer Marc Deurloo and Krause & Jeroen Joosten. The last ones made the soundtrack.
Dutch designer Pauline van Dongen debuted at the Amsterdam International Fashion Week (AIFW) with her amazing collection Kinetic Landscapes. A collection that’s all about the effect of wind and water to nature. The Digitalistas spoke to her backstage after the show at the Westergas area in Amsterdam.
Nicholas Kirkwood designs phenomenal shoes. Not just for his own label, but also for designers like Chloé, Rodarte, Philip Lim, Erdem or Peter Pilotto. The Brit won the Best Accessory designer award in 2010, and could have easily been an architect or furniture designer. Jane Aldridge from Sea of Shoes…
You all know that Digitalista E is just back from New York city. And she was surrounded by her favourite designer Marc Jacobs every single day. Everywhere she went there was Marc! Even at Times Square where she found this fashion’s Walk of Fame at Fashion Avenue.
Marije de Haan got the G-star RAW Talent Award at Lichting 2010. This prize for the best academy graduates is part of the Amsterdam International Fashion Week. For the young designer this meant the beginning of a rollercoaster year. She got a € 10.000 grant and went to New York to assist G-star to do a catwalk show at the New York Fashion Week. She managed to design a second edition of her collection FLATLINERS. A collection that was shown at the 12th edition of the AIFW. Digitalista E did an interview with Marije about her fabulous job, her amazing trip to The Big Apple and – of course – all about her second collection FLATLINERS 2.0.
