Interview with Cascades Lotempro | Swinging Lady Collection

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Let’s have a chat with Cascades Lotempro, one of the winners of Swinging Lady contest.
Click here to buy her fantastic dress Dolly.

What does style mean to you?
Style is something with which you born, you can refine and educate it, but I think that behind it there must be refinement and good taste

When you draw your creations, what goes through your mind?
It depends on the moment in which I’m creating: many times I need to create to make explode the sensations I’m carring with me in that particular situation.
Sometimes it can be just the idea for a cute dress that has come into my mind.

Have you always wanted to be a designer?
I wanted to be a painter, my cultural education was made in this sense by my parents that wanted me to be an artist…well I think I’m an artist anyway! What is fashion if not an Art?

What is your educational and professional background?
I graduated in Accademia delle Belle Arti, then I’ve attendend a course for Fashion Designers…and here I am!

Is there anyone or a particular event that may have influenced you in becoming a fashion designer? And how?
It’s all my sister’s fault! She wanted to be a designer, so in my house there were always fashion magazines and sketches were in every corner !
Well…she is a programmer now…and I’m a fashion designer! Life is strange..

Who are the big designers or creative people that inspire you most?
I’m a sort of traditional fashion lover…Valentino, Salvatore Ferragamo, Dior.

How do you imagine the future fashion trends?
I think there will be a return to the classic forms: if you look at the actual trends you see a love for vintage above all and for elegance and lightness…or it’s just my desire?

What are you future plans?
Draw…and draw…and draw…

Interview with Stefania Schino | Swinging Lady Collection

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Let’s chat with Stefania Schino today, one of Swinging Lady contest winners, click here to buy her lovely blouse Old Song.

What does style mean to you?
Style, for me, is just our way to express ourself. Everyday. Style is not elegance, not beauty, not fabulous clothes. It is your daily project of creation made of simple steps: first you understand who you are today; then you choose your appearance. Fashion is the is the means by which you can express yourself.

When you draw your creations, what goes through your mind?
Well… I have a fanciful big world in my mind, with some strange creatures and very extravagant clothes. It could sound strange, I know, but sometimes when I’m in a store or in a place with a lot of people, I start imagining all dressed up how I would like them to do. So creations born in my head, and what I have to do is just draw.

Have you always wanted to be a designer?
No, when I was a child I wanted to become a scientist, an astronomer.

What is your educational and professional background?
I graduated in fashion design and I made a lot of practice working for some Chinese brands. I also work as fashion illustrator (I’m currently making illustrations for Diesel-Loverdose).

Is there anyone or a particular event that may have influenced you in becoming a fashion designer? And how?
I love art, I’ve always loved art. I need to be creative, and at the same time I want my creations to be lived, non only admired, that’s why I’ve decided to work into fashion world. The power of fashion is that you can create everyday yourself. You can look romantic, dramatic, professional. You can create a brand new self exactly like an illustrator create a sketch.

Who are the big designers or creative people that inspire you most?
One name: John Galliano.

How do you imagine the future fashion trends?
I think that in the next years we’ll understand how pleasant can be fashion experimentation, everyone will love wear dress always more eccentric and original.

What are you future plans?
I’m going to create the world that lives in my mind!

Interview with Cheshire Gengy | Swinging Lady Collection

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Let’s have a chat with Gennaro Corvo, alias Cheshire Gengy, a telented fashion designer attending Fashion Design at Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, Italy.
You can find his amazing creation Swing Rose on NextStyler online shop!

What does style mean to you?
Style for me is something innate, something dealed to a particular person and to her way of expessing herself

When you draw your creations, what goes through your mind?
When I draw I fall into a world in which I seek comfort since I was a child, a world which is very intimate and inexplicable.

Have you always wanted to be a designer?
I’ve always wanted to be a designer. I think drawing it’s like a part of me, I feel it as something physical. I could’nt live without it. My intention is to continue to drawing for the rest of my life.

What is your educational and professional background?
I had a training in art at the Art College, then I graduated in Fashion Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, and I attended two master at the Academy of Naples luxury of cool hunting and Fashion Graphic design. I currently work in the design department and production of a well-known brand of ceremonial clothing and as a web design collaborator with an important Brand Manager.

Is there anyone or a particular event that may have influenced you in becoming a fashion designer? And how?
I think that my strong personality, my instinct, and above all the love I feel and which is totally returned to me by my family, help me to transform my dream in to a concreet reality

Who are the big designers or creative people that inspire you most?
The designers I love and that influence my work are Alexander McQueen,Victor and Rolf, Roberto Cavalli, Giorgio Armani, Versace, Emilio Pucci, SalvatoreFerragamo, I really love their originality.

How do you imagine the future fashion trends?
Future fashion? Just one world: freedom.

What are you future plans?
My future plans and my dreams are just mine!

Interview with alessandrogaeta | Swinging Lady Collection

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Hi dear Fashionostas, let’s meet Alessandro Gaeta, one of NextStyler first contest’s winners.
He attended Swinging Lady contest and his sketch was among the best rated ones and so it has been manufactured.
Now it’s available on NextStyler online shop. Don’t miss it!

What does style mean to you?
Style means innate sensitivity. A combination of elements matched in an original way
that personalizes you.

When you draw your creations, what goes through your mind?
I loose myself ! Between a cigarette and a glass of Pernod, I realize only after reporting a new thought on a not more white drawing paper, that the music has stopped for a while and that the sun has dawned.

Have you always wanted to be a designer?
I think that I’ve unconsciously always wanted to be a designer. When I was a child I wanted to be a painter, but I began playing to draw ladies of ’700. So I Changed my mind, and I decided to continue playing.

What is your educational and professional background?
My personal background is made of small collaborations and an academic career that has formed me in traditional, humble and almost rough way.

Is there anyone or a particular event that may have influenced you in becoming a fashion designer? And how?
I think that the excitement that turned into my tears after having finished designing my first collection has convinced me that being a designer was my destiny.

Who are the big designers or creative people that inspire you most?
Yves Saint-Laurent, a visionary man, and Antonio Marras whose I love his unconventionality, his way of doing cross-sectional fashion and his way of writing poetry.

How do you imagine the future fashion trends?
I think that Being, Having, Emotion & Technology are the necessary bases to change future trends: I want to make man free and reach the peak of his ultimate expression, I cannot wait!

What are you future plans?
Travelling and telling stories through fashion.

Interview with Anne-Sophie Chhim | Argument

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Today we meet Anne-Sophie Chhim a young jewels designer from Paris. Her brand is Argument and her creations are all inspired by geometry, all Anne-Sophie’s collections have got linear and simple shape.

What is your definition of style?
Style is something invisible that leaves a feeling of daring and intelligence when you stumble upon it. It’s art to assemble things and loving to take risks.

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Interview with Marie-Eve Emond | Betina Lou

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Inspired by muses past and present, Betina Lou offers ready-to-wear pieces that are unique in their timelessness and femininity. The design and production are made in Quebec, Canada. After working within the fashion industry for almost 10 years, Marie-Eve Emond launched the Betina Lou line in 2009. Her experience as an assistant designer and production manager for a fashion house has developed her taste for fine fabrics and has sharpened her eye for fitted silhouettes.

What is your definition of style?
Style should be unique, personal and stay away from fast-changing trends. It should evolve over time, as our needs change, but still remain coherent with who we are.

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