The theme to the Usedom Baltic Fashion Catwalk held at Berlin Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011 was from the Bath Tub for the Berliners to the Fashion Island of the Baltic Sea. The show has been a platform for designers from the Baltic region for more than 10 years. The show featured: Marita Huurinainen (Finland) – Wave and Poems; Agnese Narnicka (Latvia) – Coming Soon; Grosser Heinrich (Germany) – Blue – the foxes of August 2nd; Zanete Auzina (Latvia) – The Dream. Show”; and Sandra Straukaite (Lithuania). Check out our favourite top ten looks from the show below…
Romanian Designers at Berlin Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011 to showcase fashion, interior, graphic and web designers’ talent. Irina Schrotter, Lucian Broscatean, Andreea Musat and Alina Botea all showed their autumn/winter collections on the Berlin catwalk. Check out our top ten looks below…
Today sees Romania’s Fashion Week kick off in Cluj. This season’s shows are dedicated to the late Alexander McQueen.
And here is what you really need to know… this season’s timetable:
13 April
Welcoming International Guests
14 April
18:00 Models Casting, Napoca Hotel
23:00 CFW PARTY 01, Midi Club
15 April
13:00 OPENING Art Exhibition”Living Art”, Casa Matei
15:00 Workshop 1 – Reality and Imagination Lifestyle, Fashion and Film DIANE PERNET, West City Hotel
17:00 OPENING Photo Exhibition, “Lifestyle XXI”, Turnul Croitorilor
18:00 TIFF Film Screening, Rade Couture, Cinema Arta
20:00 CFW FASHION SHOWS: 10 designers, Napoca Hotel
23:00 CFW Party, Midi Club
16 April
10:00 Openning Interactive Exhibition “Complementary Esthetics”, Polus Mall
12:00 OPENNING Expo Alexander McQueen Romania/Danemarca,
14:00 Workshop 2″21st Century Fashion”, Hotel Paradis
16:00 OPENNING “1-100” Installation plus Photo Exhibition Miquel Villalobos,Graham Tabor, Turnul Croitorilor
18:00 TIFF FILM Screening, Valentino, the last empire, Cinema Arta
20:00 CFW Fashion Shows: 11 Designers, Napoca Hotel
23:00 CFW Party, Midi Club
17 April
11:00 OPENING Photo Exhibition – “The Stylist Fashion Week”, Napoca Hotel
15:00 THEATRE “HELL” by Cris Simion, Napoca Hotel
17:00 DIANE PERNET presents A Shaded View on Fashion and Film ASVOFF 02 CLUJ Screening, National Theatre
20:00 CFW Fashion Shows: 9 designers, Napoca Hotel
23:00 CFW Fashion and Film on the Catwalk Party, Hotel Napoca
18 April
16:00 CLOSING Exhibitions
17:00 OPENING CFW 02
It’s that time of year again when the elite of the fashion world head to Moscow to see what we should all be wearing next winter. Check out all the latest trend news straight from the catwalk in Moscow here
On April 1-7, 2010 Russian Fashion Week, the biggest fashion event in Eastern Europe, is celebrating its 20th season/10 years in Moscow’s Congress-Hall of World Trade Center, turning the Russian capital into the world’s hottest fashion destination for this period.
RFW FW2010/11 schedule includes over 50 shows of cutting-edge designers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, UK, Italy and more. This season RFW will host British Day under the support of the British Council with participation of Clare Lopeman, Osman Yousefzada, Eley Kishimoto and PPQ. The international flavour will also be added by MAION by Maria Prevolsek (Croatia) and KT Brown (Sri Lanka). Both shows will be held within the frameworks of RFW international cooperation with Fashion Week Zagreb and Colombo Fashion Week respectively. Italy will be represented by a debut collection by a young Italian brand, DISMO, and by a traditional N-U-DE (New Upcoming Designers) collective fashion show of 3 young designers (N-U-DE showcase is organized in cooperation with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana).
Russian Fashion Week’s program includes “Extending the Runway: Tatiana Sorokko Style” exhibition by famous Russian top model Tatiana Sorokko and “A Shaded View on Fashion Film” selection by famous fashion blogger and visionary Diane Pernet. Karim Rashid, the legendary industrial designer, will become a special guest of RFW Opening.
RFW attracts over 45,000 people and over 1000 accredited journalists and buyers seasonally. RFW is held under support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, Russian Fashion Foundation and Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. RFW is produced by Artefact Communications Agency. In past seasons, Russian Fashion Week staged shows by Vivienne Westwood, Julien Macdonald, La Perla, Catherine Malandrino, Jeremy Scott, Costume National, Francesco Smalto, JC de Castelbajac and other prominent international designers along with established and up-and-coming Russian brands, as Slava Zaitsev, Parfionova, Julia Nikolaeva, Lena Karnauhova, Chistova&Endourova, St. Bessarion, Egor Zaitsev, Masha Kravtsova, Tegin, Biryukov and others.
Russian label, Chapurin’s Autumn/Winter 2010-11 collection was shown at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday. The inspiration behind the collection was Siberia, the Russian terror incognita, thrown in the north to the icy embrace of the permafrost, confined in the south to a vast snowy taiga. The region serves the world as an historic metaphor of Russia, a symbol of a power of a civilisation battling the mighty force of nature. This land’s wild beauty, interwoven mixture of Slavic culture and the Siberian folk’s aged-old traditions have inspired Igor Chapurin to create his new collection. Its character is a personified essence of the northern land combining natural energy and depth, ardor and unbending will, powerful charisma and femininity.
The Autumn/Winter 2010-11 collection sees loose lines and clear-cut geometry. Soft cocoons of coats and jackets wrap architectural forms of dresses and body-suits. Traces of traditional Siberian garments are used in the design of the coats with fur-trimmed hoods. Large voluminous collars resembling those worn by the Siberians in the old ages give women a strong and powerful silhouette.
