My name is Felipe Rojas.
I’m showing for the V&A Fashion in Motion ’08.
I’m doing a menswear collection.
My inspiration is all based on a book called The Little Prince.
I came about it because it’s one of my favourite books since I was a little kid.
I just wanted to have something personal in my collection that reflects to me
so I could bond with it a bit better during the stage of it.
I chose to re-do tailoring a little bit,
traditional menswear tailoring,
because I wanted to …
I just wanted to take …
like see it from another perspective.
So I chose to focus on womenswear
and reconstruct it into menswear.
Because I wanted to have a very luxurious collection,
so I chose a lot of fabrics with really interesting texture,
a lot of washed silks, washed wools,
silk paper, just a lot of interesting different textures
to make it a bit more crisp and a bit more luxurious to look at.
I wanted to have a really dark collection with a hint of colours
just to have a playfulness that contrasts it with the strict tailoring that is menswear.
So I chose to introduce a lot of colours
and it was all based on cheerleaders to be honest,
on their outfits because they’re very playful and like, flamboyant I guess.
So this is like, a look of my collection.
It’s all very dark and then you have a hint of colour
and the whole structure of the garment,
it’s all a kimono shape.
It’s all cut in one and then at the back you have a pleat
so it looks a bit like a cape.
It’s all very boyish but still very traditional.
And this is the whole kind of mood that I want to capture
which I kind of reference to the book.
My name’s Kinga.
I’m a Central Saint Martins graduate
and this is my collection which was inspired by Bauhaus and elements of voodoo.
So, quite a bit of a weird connection there
but basically it encapsules my ideas of structure
and real flow in the garment which is really important to me.
It’s a … it’s a very great fabric for movement.
I want to achieve a lot of … a lot of flow,
a lot of layers,
a lot of 3D effects that happen when she’s walking,
whilst she’s kind of interacting with the garment.
So a lot of the time the garments come alive,
most when she’s walking,
when she’s kind of … maybe putting her hands up and you can see …
you can see the layers,
you can see layers changing,
different lights, different effects on it.
And I think that’s my favourite sort of part about this,
sort of every time you put on a garment
it has this kind of new life to it because it will do
so many new different things while you’re wearing it.
My name is Alithia Spuri-Zampetti and I’m Italian.
The main inspiration has been Japanese Kimonos
especially the kind of Kimono called-------
because I like actually this fact that a part there is one colour
and one other is concentration of details.
So what I thought is I could translate this into a 50’s silhouette
and use the high-waisted skirt as the monochrome black
and have it all in plain colour
and then concentrate all the details of the top and,
you know, really exaggerate this thing also …
you know, in the last piece you will see that the details go away from the body.
First of all, I want to make sure that everybody knows that this is not paper,
it’s foam, and it’s hand-cut and hand-drawn
and because, you know, this is quite a cheap material …
you know I really like the fact that it is so worked on because,
you know, you don’t need a really expensive material
to make something that is really, eye-catching and desirable.
So, you know, this is obviously …
is the starting material then all the accessory materials
which are obviously the ones to make the garments,
are basic black and white denim
and also there is a bit of the colour in lycra, or in cotton,
but there’s really, like, nothing fancy at all.