Elsa Poux loves to write, to bring ideas and shapes to life through poetry. To provoke imagination and thought. When she decided to create her collection of scarves and accessories, she approached the textile like a blank page on which she sought to compose with colours and lines. The fabrics are fragmented like chapters used [...]
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Mar 13
Mar 13
MA POESIE @ PREMIERE CLASSE
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When Caroline Najman began to create her own jewellery, she did it almost timidly, for a small audience in the United States. That was in 2006. Then she moved to Paris. If clothes are a door into a woman’s personality, Caroline Najman’s jewellery is the lock. “Not only does jewellery set off clothing and enhance [...]
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Mar 13
Mar 13
FIL DE JOIE @ PREMIERE CLASSE
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Fil de joie is a collection of socks, leggings, tights and knee-length socks which restore an element of fantasy to the female leg. “Those compasses that circle the globe, giving it its balance and harmony,” as Truffaut said. Behind Fil de Joie lies Desmazieres Drino, a company specialising in socks for the past 150 years. [...]
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Mar 13
Mar 13
POEME DE CORINA VLADESCU @ PARIS SUR MODE
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When designer Corina Vladescu created the Poeme line, she chose to begin a new chapter in 21st-century female fashion design. Perfect cuts and silhouettes embodying the lavishness of the finish and the accessories. Each creation is designed to carry its wearer through from morning to evening, from the strength of its personality to the elegance [...]
Read the rest of this entryA graduate of the Studio Berçot in Paris, Jenny Wing worked for eight years as a women’s fashion designer for Lacoste before launching her own brand. The designer now finds her inspiration in hand-made objects. A bold combination of materials and weaving and crocheting techniques. Her jewellery is very imaginative, combining modern luxury and craft [...]
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Feb 13
Feb 13
SOUS LES PAVES – PARIS @ PREMIERE CLASSE
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Sophie Lagreula has had a convoluted journey. Passionate about drawing, she transposed her creations onto crockery, winning her prestigious collaborations and a new shop in the gardens of the Palais Royal. Then, in the late 1990s, she gave it all up to move south. There she designed product lines for Pierre Frey and Fragonard, while [...]
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Feb 13
Feb 13
JOLIE JOLIE PAR PETITE MENDIGOTE @ PARIS SUR MODE
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Petite Mendigote defines herself as a little girl who “adores fashion, Marilyn Monroe and Hello Kitty”. But initially this little girl studied to become a lawyer. And she succeeded. But just as she was about to embark on her career, she turned her back on it to tackle her frustration as a consumer at never [...]
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Jan 13
Jan 13
Bijoux LauClem, designers of the year 2013
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In the ‘Fashion’ category, the Bijorhca trade show is celebrating Bijoux LauClem. It was during a trip to Chile in 2009 that Laurentine Périlhou and Clément Smolinski met a jeweller who taught them an ancient craftsmanship. Returning to France, they created the brand LauClem. Using the technique of macramé, these two designers have been able [...]
Read the rest of this entryWhile we await the Salon de la Lingerie in January 2013, Interfilière is already sharing its trends for 2014. With bodywear increasingly designed as a completely separate wardrobe, lingerie is set to blur the boundaries. Comfort will be combined with colours and patterns borrowed from other arts and traditions. This trend can be broken down [...]
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Jan 13
Jan 13
O Fée, Bijorhca designer of the year 2013
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A fashion starburst – Bijorhca celebrates several jewellery designers for its Parisian trade show. In the ‘Precious Jewels’ category, it is Anne Bougon-Scélo, founder of O fée, who is heralded as the Designer of the Year 2013. During the six years of its existence, the brand has maintained the same ambition: democratising jewellery. An aim [...]
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