Right in the front row at Costume National we ran into Yvan Rodic, the internationally renowned blogger whose yvanrodic.blogspot.com and facehunter.blogspot.com blogs have inspired millions of people around the globe.
His sharp eyes capture the personalities, looks and details of the main fashion events throughout the world; his blogs are now seen as points of reference within the fashion system. He tells about his blogging adventures and lists the cities that are now in vogue are soon will be. Yvan also tells us of his next pet project – his very own web-tv channel.
Backstage at Costume National in Paris the American actor Gary Dourdan, best known for his role as Warrick Brown in CSI Las Vegas comments on the fashion show a few moments after its completion and talks to us of his strong interest and link with the fashion world.
All the charge, emotion and tension of back stage. The catwalk trials, the lights, blacks and whites, the smiles, the manicures, make-up.
Warm air.
The final moments before the girls come out. The packed venue, friends, hugs and embraces and the final touches while the models are lined up ready to go.
Darkness.
Light.
Music.
They’re off!
The photographers, the TV cameras, the reporters.
The first models come back in. They change in a rush. Flashes and flurries of confusion.
Check out the batch of photos shot backstage at the Paris Costume National Fashion Show: the models being made up by their make-up artists, hair stylists on the job, the press office busy with last-minute problems and things to organize, the reporters as they make notes and then there’s Lyne Desnoyers – the well-known make-up artist who talks about the make-up choices for the parade.
Seated in the front row of Costume National’s fashion parade are the American actor Gary Dourdan, Stefania Rocca, Carolina Crescentini, the blogger il blogger Yvan Rodic and the acress Pom Klementieff.
“A new proposal of the concept of morphing. The juxtaposition of the man-made and the organic, fusing the most modern techniques of fabrication available with the most classic tailoring traditions. I extended this concept into the very fibres of the collection, incorporating a nanotechnology process that merges the matter. Each garment comes to life becoming an ever changing organism. Nature/future, Thoureau’s Walden/Asimov’s Android” Ennio Capasa, designer
MORPHING
Costume National FW 10-11: a rock’n’roll mood, couture yet essential: refined, comfortable, protective.
Everything is deconstructed.
Fabric, leather and fur merge with knits of all kind, from cloth to mohair, from dry to damp.
Dresses are created by matching materials of different weights, from washed cashmere cloth and felted wool gauze, to organza resembling nylon. The outwear is warm but very light.
The colours palette is natural and urban: ivory, almond, dark brown, black, silver, charcoal and concrete.
A unique “bark” embroidery: an organic and iridescent surface of hand-folded gold sequins covered one by one with black voile.
Dresses are short with deep V neck and pants – in leather or in lamé fabric – are slim and slightly flared.
The silhouette is clean, defined and wraps the body. A deconstructed couture where everything is laser cut.
Complete the look shoes with new squared high platforms and oversized, urban bags.
A round-up of pictures from Costume National’s showroom.
To discover the rest, do come along tomorrow! The venue is at ECOLE DE MEDECINE, 45 Rue Des Saints Peres, Paris at 2 pm and on our website from 7 pm onwards.
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