Eindhoven based designer Bart Hess has created this brilliant video introducing the graduate designers’ work of the Dutch Fashion Academy’s students for Modebelofte 2011, the fashion part of the Dutch Design Week. Re-shaping the human silhouette in a fluid slow motion exploring volumes, while only focusing on the garments. The video is an absolute work of art making him the winner of the MINI Young Designer Award.

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Endovanera collaborated with their good friends and contemporaries, POSSO The Spat for their FALL 08 fashion show at BOX Eight, during LA Fashion Week. Combining Endo’s fine tailoring, slim silhouettes and sleek yet disheveled gentleman style juxtaposed with the debonair polish of a spat was a killer touch! Handmade meticulously detailed metal sash necklaces made by ISHI 1451 using found treasures and metal scrap, added an intricate bygone-futurist look to the line.(...) Read More about Endovanera x Posso The Spat : LA Fashion Week (42 words)

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Thursday, January 31st I attended Catherine Holstein‘s Fall 08 Presentation Party. It was held at Thom Bar at The Thompson Hotel. The models were on display in two of the private cabanas. The Collection was well color blocked and very wearable. There was a strong sense of nostalgia in(...) Read More about Catherine Holstein’s Fall 08 Presentation (47 words)

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