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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

CALL THE TUNE - STEVEN TAI

steventai SS14 Accessories Project

Congratulations Steven!!

Steven Tai is a part of the showroom that I am working with since the last season.

For that reason I am more than happy to announce that he is one of the 5 deisgners that Vogue decided to feature for the call the tune project of Wowcracy in collaboration with Vogue Talents.

I really believe in his talent and except of his creativity he is also an A-mazing person.

CALL THE TUNE

THE ENDLESS FASHION WEEK

"After winning the first ever Chloé award at the Hyères festival last year, chosen by the head of jury Yohji Yamamoto. Following the award, Steven was invited by Mercedes Benz to present a full catwalk collection at SS13 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Berlin.

AW13 saw his first show back at his home country in Toronto, Canada where he developed innovative silicone textiles that reinterpreted the traditional masculinity of skiwear into modern feminine designs with voluminous tailoring and playful energy.

Building upon the success of last season, SS14 will see the launch of an unique collaboration that will bring to life a series of accessories. The project aims to present new opportunities to work with various creatives in different fields in bag and shoes designs. To maintain a top quality of work, this project will focus on working with graduates from the Royal Collage of Arts.

The project propose new creative opportunities but it also builds new industrial connections. The development and production of the bags will create a new relationship with Italia leather manufacturer, Linea Pelle, who produces the luxurious leather goods for brands such as Damir Doma.

As a strong believer that open and interdisciplinary collaborations will lead to new and unexpected synergies between creatives, Steven Tai is very excited to work with Call the Tunes and Vogue Talents to fund the project and have the chance to interact with the brand's supporters." -By Wowcracy

You can have your pre-orders here and make Steven's pieces yours.

What are you waiting for?!

Time is ticking....

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Nasha Mekraksavanich | Grazia Magazine

I've been working like crazy these past few days that's why the lack of new posts.. :( BUT I'll come back with a lot of new styles this week! Till then I want to share my happiness with you guys!!! I just found this article in Grazia magazine!

I had an interview this October during Paris fashion week with the bag designer Nasha Mekraksavanich in the showroom she was presenting her collection for Spring/Summer 2013! (you can find the interview here)
So..I found out that they've used a photo from my post!!! Which makes me suuuper happy not only for Nasha- she's an amazing bag designer, with must have items!!- but also for me!! :D
I am a huge fan of her and I can't wait to see her and also her new collection for Fall/Winter 2013-14 !!
Congratulation sweetheart wish you ALL the best!! Keep working like that and give us all these treasures that you're creating !! Lots of love!

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Histoire of Cafe de Flore

When I woke up in Florence and I saw the weather rainy and all grey I brushed my teeth I cleaned my face and I made a coffee. When I lightened my cigarette and looked outside it came to my mind "Paris". I looked the last pictures that I took and it was in Cafe de Flore. This vintage cafe in Saint Germain really inspires me.. If you think about this parisienne cafe it comes to your mind the black n white movies, writers, painters, photographers, the small tables with the French people with their cigarettes and the smoke lingering through the air....

But except of all this there is a history behind it...

The birth of surrealism (1887-1930)
Towards 1913 Apollinaire with Salmon transformed the first floor into a newspaper office : « les soirées de Paris » (Paris evenings), a review, was born.
The war didn’t change anything concerning the great poet’s habits, the Café was his office and he received people at fixed times. And, on a Spring day in 1917, he presented Philippe Soupault to André Breton. Later, by provoking the meeting between these two young poets with Aragon, Apollinaire laid the foundations of the dadaist movement.
In the same year, he coined the word « surrealism ». When Tristan Tzara arrived in Paris, his dadaist friends made him visit the Café because Apollinaire had lived and died there (in 1918).
In 1922, the editorial staff of the erudite review « Le Divan » regularly gathered on the Café’s benches. Malraux drank his iced Pernod there. - cafedeflore.fr

The Flore of Modern Times
In an article from the New York Times, 2006, Sofia Coppola was interviewed in regards to her relationship with Paris during the time she was filming Marie Antoinette. The screenwriter and director listed the Café de Flore as her place of choice for production meetings.From this you can understand the new clientele that frequent the Flore.
The assortment of people are varied, with groups of fashionable women toting their Birkin bags, the tourists, the youth, and the locals aged and nostalgic holding onto what the Flore used to be. Though comparing photos of the Flore decades ago to modern times, nothing really has changed except for the fashion. The atmosphere, the energetic flow of conversations, and the mythology of the Flore mark it as an institution of Parisian culture. -nyuflaneur

Let's talk about fashion
While I was searching about the clientele of Cafe de Flore I found an article from Vogue.com dedicated to Sonia Rykiel.

Photograph by Bertrand Marignac. Published in Vogue, October 1986.
Café de Flore has named a sandwich in her honor.
This queen of knits, who never learned how to actually work a pair of needles, is a self-taught designer who describes her method as off-the-cuff: “First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman,” Rykiel said in 2008, on the occasion of her company’s fortieth anniversary. “Then I made a sweater”—the popular poor boy—“because I wanted to have one that wasn’t like anyone else’s.” - Vogue.com

Clientele of "Cafe de Flore"
Karl Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren , Kate Moss, Johnny Depp, Steven Spielberg, Lauren Bacall, Gérard Philippe, Tina Turner, Jean-Loup Sieff, Jacques Prévert, Jean Edern Hallier, Catherine Deneuve, Francis Ford Coppola among others.