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.
“Uniting both the organic and the inorganic, combining the traditions of Italian tailoring with cutting-edge research: I work to bring my approach to the very wefts of fabric. This new type of nanotechnology makes everything come alive – each piece of clothing is like an organism in continual transformation.”Ennio Capasa
Costume National’s man chooses classic tailoring: these are easy-to-wear items but also clothes whose intricate weaves and wefts enrich them. Fabrics meld into each other thanks to new workmanship techniques that allow the fusion of different materials: Cloth, flannel, wool-silk, mohair and knitwear, lamè weaves covered with opaque and wool-steel sequins celebrate a timeless rock and roll spirit.
Coat jackets are soft and structured: they are extremely detailed with livid cuts and knitted sleeves. Fabrics used are cloth, flannel, wool-silk and mohair. Wool-silk waistcoats are always worn even with pullovers and rollnecks.
Pants come tailored in two ways. Jogging style – wide on the leg and then narrowed in at the ankle with elastic – and straight to be worn with timeless army boots of crusty hide with laces and buckles.
“Fashion has to look forward and continue to experiment: our planet needs this.”Ennio Capasa talks about his latest CoSTUME NATIONAL HOMME menswear collection and his vision of organic tailoring with its unusual details. He mentions his passion for biotechnology and new applications and his green heart.
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