The entire fashion show seen from behind the curtains: the final details being sorted, catwalk trials, last moments before the start, photographs and Ennio Capasa’s crew.

Pics from the Costume National Homme SS11 Backstage

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HOMME
SPRING SUMMER 2010

Ennio Capasa, designer

“This collection should be looked at closely. It’s full of inventions that take traditional Italian tailoring into the future. Laser cut natural fabrics and couture garments are uncut and without seams thanks to thermo welding tecniques, transforming traditional tailoring into techno-tailoring”.

EXPERIMENTAL TAILORING

 
Fabrics, knitwear, leather
A merger of structured and light fabrics,
fine wool and silk with a nylon effect, of materials typically used for menswear with an innovative treatment
The same natural and traditional fabrics are used throughout the collection in different weights, from trenches to shirts
Everything is soft, light and essential at the core: cotton/silk, denim, juta, thin wool, linen, raffia, grisaille, pin striped
Goat and lambskin

 
Colours
The traditional menswear palette is reinterpreted in a delicate but focused way with a precise sequence of hues
From cream to black through a multitude of well defined tones of grey and beige
Lime, the single burst of colour, underlines the futuristic side of the collection while rose and nude emphasize its classic, refined elements.

Jackets
Tailored and innovative, finely detailed with a nod to the Italian heritage
Entirely laser cut and thermo welded, without seams: constructed in a way that makes them perfectly structured, pure and beautifully simplistic
Cut in two different fabrics merged together: light delicate wool at the front and translucent silk on the back
Single or double-breasted, with a variation of lapels
Hidden buttons or zippers, with washed-silk linings and laser cut pockets rubber detailed
A white tuxedo jacket in couture double satin with burnt laser cut hems makes every jacket a unique piece

Coats and Trenches
The Macintosh and formal overcoats silhouette is neat, well defined and form fitting
Jackets and bombers are exquisitely detailed
Buttons, belts, buckles, zippers are discrete, technical and almost invisible
Welding techniques allow most structures to be uncut
Pockets with a graphic sign

Shirts and Knitwear
T-shirts arrive in organza and jersey and are worn under the jackets or with shirt and a tie, creating a unique wrap

Pants
Tapered cropped
5 pockets untreated denim
Shorts

Shoes and Bags
Stressed and deconstructed ankle boots with a vintage effect
Unlined bags are folded and held together with a single seam and come in suede or leather

Her sophisticated beauty springs from a cultural mix of Russia, France and Korea.
Pom Klementieff, one of French cinema’s newest faces, talks to us backstage at the Paris fashion show and describes the look she chose for the occasion – to be copied and purchased on our on-line store.
 

We caught up with Carolina Crescentini, certainly one of the prettiest and most promising new actresses in Italian cinema, behind the scenes at Costume National in the company of Stefania Rocca.
She recorded an interview in which she told us of her great passion for Ennio Capasa’s style, her deep love of fashion and hee relationship with the web which she uses all the time to stay in contact with her friends.

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.

Final exit

Applause

Charge, energy, emotion.

Wow – thanks Ennio!

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.

And all this while Ennio Capasa conducts a video conference on skype with one reporter who stayed behind in Milan.
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