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Nolcha Presents designer Alberto Parada nominated for Eco Chic Award
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Monday, April 05, 2010
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“His pieces are modern day heirlooms that will inspire both the wearer and future generations to really consider what they are buying when acquiring jewelry. We have had consistent amazing response with Alberto at the Nolcha Fashion Week events,” stated Lynn Furge, Creative Director of Nolcha Fashion Business Services.
The Ethical Fashion Preview is an event hosted in New York by Nolcha Fashion Business Services to place independent and emerging designers in the eco/sustainable arena into the eyes and hands of press, stylists and buyers. Now Alberto is taking his accolades closer to home with this current honor.
The Fashion Group International® of Greater Washington D.C., Inc. in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran College of Art + Design presents Eco Chic: Night of Stars and Rising Stars. The awards evening will recognize pioneers of the Eco Chic movement for their ecological and ethical design in fashion, art, beauty, architecture, and interior design.
The event will be held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 on the eve of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. The Eco Chic gala is an officially registered Earth Day recognition event.
The cocktail reception will feature a fashion presentation produced by Aba Bonney Kwawu featuring fashions by Monique Pean, Calamarie, Alberto Parada, and TranquiliT. Celebrity designer Jeff Garner of Prophetik will also be featured. Following the reception, theEco Chic awards ceremony will take place in the Corcoran auditorium.
Proceeds from the Eco Chic awards gala will benefit the Eleni Epstein Scholarship given by The Fashion Group International® of Greater Washington D.C., Inc. Scholarship Foundation to a student pursuing a fashion career.
Tickets: FGI and Corcoran Members $120. Non-members $150. Tickets are available at http://www.washingtondcfgi.tix.com/.
Carlotta Gherzi for Sado and Sample New York partner after Nolcha Presents Fall 2010
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Friday, April 02, 2010
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After success at Nolcha Presents Fall 2010 event at BoConcept this February, Designer Carlotta Gherzi for Sado is coming back to the Big Apple to unveil her Spring Summer 2010 Collection at Sample New York.
“Nolcha gave me the opportunity to meet Sample Studio at the February fashion week event and our partnership began. I am always so thankful to the extent Nolcha takes to find and promote their designers,” says Carlotta.
A key to Carlotta’s inspiration this season is a single water drop, which splashes and flows into the geometric trademark twirl, one that is incorporated into the labels signature print for 2010. Sado’ collection for Spring/Summer 2010 is all about softness, sensuality and layers & is a combination of the earth’s natural elements. The color palette is gold of the sunset in Goa, blue of the Mediterranean sea, green lush of a golf course grass in California, flame red of burning log embers from a Cape Town barbeque and a glimpse of soft grey formed by the passing cloud in the sky after a tropical rain fall over Tobago.
“It is so great to see a young designer really spread her wings. Season after season Carlotta’s pieces get more creative and functional at the same time. The focus on is a specific jet-setting clientele that has really turned into how real on-the-go women want to dress. She dazzles at every event she participates in, so I am not surprised New York Retailers want to pick her up,” explains Lynn Furge, Creative Director of Nolcha: Fashion Business Services.
Sample is located at 268 Elizabeth Street between Houston and Prince. To make an appointment RSVP to samplenewyork@gmail.com
Style solutions for the harsh Canadian winter, looks eschewed trends preferring to embrace timeless and classic simplicity.
photo by: George Pimentel
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
Image courtesy of Nikki Ormerod Photography
http://www.nikkiormerod.com/
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
Lynn Furge: What is your inspiration for the season?
Amy Smilovic: Napoleon and Josephine. It is all about opposites, masculine meets feminine with a military event to it. Very strict tailoring with a lot of draping, ruffles mixed with some very straight lines, the idea of subtle neutrals with pops of bolder colors. And really in terms of the customer this season is about not wearing one look head to toe but having an entire look from head to toe if that makes sense.
AS: It’s been really big and I love it but I don’t like to go there all the way.
LF: This brings me to my next question. We journalists have to ask about the “inspiration” season after season, but so many designers this season have answered with “I want beautiful saleable clothes for the women I dress who love to by them” can you elaborate on that in terms of Tibi?
AS: The inspiration was really driven by the retail environment and us having a flagship store. I need a head-to-toe look that I can sell in the store, not just a dress. It helps when my customer can have an entire look to get into. So many of my friends are asking for something they can wear during the day instead of a cocktail dress. This season is very much about sportswear and it isn’t price point driven but really more looking at the lifestyle of the customer and understanding how I can sell them an entire look.
LF: With other moments in fashion happening, everyone Facebooking, tweeting, blogging… how does Tibi fit into this technology and social media craze?
AS: We are definitely all over Facebook; my team makes me go on twitter a couple of times a day. I do go to blogs every day now. They are very influential as to what I buy. It’s absolutely out there and definitely part of the process. It is what [the industry] is now.
LF: Almost a part of customer service now don’t you think?
AS: It’s more about the fans and people following “you.” They want to know what a real runway is, what goes into the creation, not Project Runway or the America’s next top model version of the industry. They really are intrigued by the actual people that really work daily in the industry. What is the real scoop.
LF: Form fit or function, what do you usually think of first when designing a collection?
AS: Form first, function next, and then fit I know someone will take care of that and make that happen for me on my team.
Lynn Furge: What is your Spring Summer 2010 collection based off of?
Silvia Tcherassi: I developed this collection and the Tcherassi Hotel at the same time. When I was selecting different plants for a vertical garden, the main attraction of the hotel, I was very impressed with the beautiful colors and shapes of the plants from the vibrant Caribbean. This process was a kind of rediscovery... You don’t need to be an expert on Botanic to see the references in the palette of colors, the silhouettes, and the shapes in a subtle, non obvious way.
LF: You are a humanitarian… how does the work with Unicef inspire your design work?
ST: I am part of the campaign More Art Less Mines to create awareness about the victims of personal landmines in Colombia. My support to this campaign and many others is genuine. I totally believe in the power of sharing and trying to use my work as creator, and designer to bring awareness to different causes or take advantage of my role to help different charities. Last year I participated with other 40 international designers in a project to benefit different charities in Colombia. BeLive, the organizers, asked us to invent an indigenous bag and I was so happy with the results that I incorporated the concept for my Fall 2010 Accessories Collection. This is a good sample of humanitarian inspiration!
LF: You wrote a book titled “Effortless Elegance.” What do you consider that to be in one simple sentence?
ST: An honest and individual approach to style.
LF: What five things are incorporated into a Tcherassi project, from ready-to-wear, to jewelry, to the hotel and even bridal?
ST: Innovative approach, High quality materials, Caribbean heritage with an international reach, Transparency, Honesty
LF: What do you consider first when designing? Color? Print? Textile?
ST: Fabrics. I don’t sketch. My creative process is very experimental and fabrics are the starting point of this process.
LF: Who is your muse?
ST: Strong and unique young women as Lauren Santodomingo and Anna Dello Russo.
LF: What is next on the horizon for Silvia Tcherassi designs?
ST: The expansion of the Tcherassi fashion and hotel brands and the development of a home and a children collections.
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
Images courtesy of NIKKI ORMEROD PHOTOGRAPHY
http://www.nikkiormerod.com/
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
- Laura Connell is a freelance fashion writer for the Fashion Entrepreneur Report delivered by Nolcha: Fashion Business Services who reports on shows and events from around the globe. She loves the stories designers tell through their collections. You can read more on forthoseabouttoshop.onsugar.com
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