The reputed fashion school MOD'ART INTERNATIONAL and the leader of real time fashion photography NOWFASHION have teamed up to discover and provide an incredible experience to the talented designers of tomorrow. The plan is simple, a web-based fashion contest powered by NOWFASHION's loyal readers. The prize? A one year scholarship to attend a prestigious fashion school in Paris.
Learn your métier from the best fashion professionals in the City of Lights and feature your work on one of the most hyped fashion websites today. The dream of many up-and-coming designers, can become a reality now, thanks to Mod'Art International and NOWFASHION's common designer contest initiative - it is no longer a utopia, but a true opportunity to discover and promote a promising fashion talent in Paris. This contest will be focused on an avant-garde take on creation, imagination, and fashion professionalism.
The contest is open to anyone aiming to become a designer, studying in Paris, regardless of his/her nationality or status. You must be at least 18 years of age by January 1, 2013, and fluent in English to compete in this contest.
Step 1 – NOWFASHION's readers will select the top 50 designers
Applicants can submit their work via a dedicated link, from the 15th April to the 15th July 2013, and our readers will be able to vote and select the top 50 fashion designs directly on www.nowfashion.com and its social networks’ pages.
Step 2 – A Jury of professionals will narrow down to 20 top designers
The jury will consist of the key players in the fashion industry, including designers, consultants, journalists, entrepreneurs and experts alike. The lucky few must provide an image of their design and a short video of less than two minutes, explaining their creative thoughts and motivation.
As worthy Heir to a Norse Mythology of tales of deities, heroes and the fantasy genre, the Icelandic artist Mundi Vondi transcended his new collection* “post-post-apocalypse” AW 2013 in a surreal fable called SNOW BLIND.
What a strange hallucination that befell the guests of Sasha Kanevski's after-party, as the biggest snowfall in a hundred years smothered the Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days' second day in tons of pristine snow. At 1AM on March 24th, and despite the fact that transportation was virtually nonexistent, guests filed into a pocket-sized and decrepit opera house that will soon be torn down to give way to a brand new development. Stepping into the once-grandiose hall, there was the definite impression of falling through Wonderland's rabbit hole into a Nineties clandestine party. The walls were peeling, the clothes had yet to make an appearance but Kiev's fashionable scene was already enjoying this "after-party", agreeably throbbing music imparting a cool clubby vibe. On the former scene, some reclined in battered sofas, happy to escape the chill for a few hours.
Given fashion's self-avowed obsession with the past and the future, an ouroboros quest that leads yesterday's garb to become tomorrow's must-haves, Yasya Minochkina drew the wardrobe for the trifecta of the Thirties's decadent belles, the Sixties naughty heroines and the Seventies glamorous divas, by pulling together the drama, sensuality and class of these three periods into a fall collection that withstood the test of a last-minute show rescheduled twice due to bad weather.
Anton Belinski presented twice during the Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days, one teamed with the presentation to the fashionable crowd of the Mercedes CLA, Anton Belinski presented a vision of dystopian urbanity, complete with leather mouth masks, obscuring the chin. A veiled mound, ostensibly the new model, occupied the end of the runway made the photographic riser completely useless, making for a last minute scramble of all the photographers to take up other positions to capture images of the show. Hooded figures sat disquietingly among the audience, a modern version of Poe's Masque of the Red Death. As they set foot on the runway, this cover-up was thrown back to reveal Belinskiy's dark creatures. Unfortunately, the garments did not live up to the anticipation, and failed to outshine the veiled shape of the car, even in the light of the CLA's xenon headlights.
There was a frisson of the "Big Four" weeks as supermodel Alla Kostromichova opened and closed the show of fellow Ukrainian label Paskal, who only last year caught the eye of Luisa Via Roma's Andrea Panconesi. For fall, the black and lamé proposal put forth by Yulia Paskal for her collection could have been too risqué if she had not gone with some well thought-out classics gilded with graphic applications of metallic leather.
"Let's talk about the present", says Anna October, lifting a corner on the meanings assigned to this palimpsest of a word. As both 'gift' and 'time', the present doesn't spring fully formed out of a void, and it is from that unsuspected richness that the designer drew the inspiration of her sweetly modern fall. From the pretty midi-length A-line skirts mixing black-on-black jacquard with holographic trim, to the gold 3/4 sleeve tee paired with sharply tailored slacks, to the sportswear vibe of a deluxe shell suit jacket, there was plenty of playfulness shining through the austerely elegant shapes. Even the shaved stripes of shining lurex fluff were more elegant than they were quirky in October's hands. What the young Ukrainian struck here is an excellent balance between timeless feminine tailoring and pop-tastic modern materials. In short, pairings that could have gone so wrong. But turning tacky into temptation is a skill October has, if the shimmery black belted, knee-length "fur" coat is anything to go by.
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