Alexis Mabille Feature at Music & Men’s Fashion Week 2012

The French Couturier who showed for The Inaugural Women’s Fashion Week 2011 was the only designer for the event in October 2011 to return to Marina Bay Sands Singapore for Men’s Fashion Week 2012. Well received for his animal prints gowns, use of fur and feathers and cuts that brings out the women’s silhouette like figure, Mr Alexis Mabille showcased his view on what Menswear should be like.  The hall for Men’s Fashion Week 2012 on the fourth day had the ladies really excited as models strutted down the runway in Men’s Underwear and the Preta-porter Collection of the Frenchman’s design. The brand known as : L’HOM d’Alexis Mabille was one that had a easy on the eye gentlemanly charm while not missing out on the aspect of fun. The one time Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent designer has now gained international recognition with his gorgeous gowns, well cut suits and off course his trademark mega watt smile and bowtie.

Eymeric Francois Showcase at Women’s Fashion Week Haute Couture 2011

The charismatic French Couturier first got noticed after completing his Fashion Studies course in 1999 and participating in a Contest for Young French Designers in Dinard , Bretagne, France. During the competition in April 2000, a prize was created for him by LVMH’s Jean Jacques Picard in a competition where there was no Couture Prize. Eymeric Francois have also worked for design house like Thierry Mugler and Christian Lacroix, picking up valuable experience and skills along the way.

Viewing his models as his muse, the Frenchman often listens to Metal or Hard-Rock Music while he works, which does explain the explosive nature of his work. His couture style is not only elegant, Sensual with a tinge of Fetishism.
Gowns by Eymeric also tends to blow your mind as the designer seeks to make every woman a heroine and legend, inspired by mythical characters and legends, and creating breathtakingly ethereal outfits from the most unexpected materials. The models strutted the runway to goth-metal music that seem to fit the collection well and set an adventurous and dreamy , but yet edgy pace for his showcase in Women’s Fashion Week 2011 in Singapore. The friendly yet down to Earth designer is one who appreciates his clients, especially the first ones as they are the first to recognize his talents and believe in him.

View more of his collections @ www.eymericfrancois.org/

Gustavo Lins Collection @ Women’s Fashion Week Haute Couture Showcase 2011 Singapore

 

Gustavo Lins initially studied to be an architect in his native Brazil. He would be designing dwellings today if his professor hadn’t asked him to reconsider which materials he’d rather be working with – glass and steel or linen and silk?

Lins’ Fall/Winter collection of leather-piped wool shirts and jackets, paper-thin leather tunics, clean-lined drap de laine wool coats, and draped wool jersey dresses is his eighth. Roughly half of his 65-piece collection is destined for men, an “efficient” and “systematic” wardrobe of coat/jacket/shirt/knitwear/trousers like a uniform that he designs with himself and his needs in mind. Lins’ womenswear shares a similar slim, straight-shouldered silhouette but also has an almost medieval allure this season. “The collection is a blend of armure souple and drapé,” Lins says.

Fashioned from the most exclusive fabrics – cashmere, silk jersey, cool wool, wool crepe and softest lambskin – Gustavo Lins’ clothes are quietly luxurious. As a fledgling designer, he apprenticed with John Galliano, Lecoanet Hemant and Jean-Paul Gaultier Couture, and worked alongside a woman who used to be Cristobal Balenciaga’s chef d’atélier. These were experiences that taught Lins the rigors of cut, the importance of fit, and instilled in him a love of fine fabrics. In the early years of his label, he moonlighted as a modéliste for other big name brands, and his preoccupation with taking the two-dimensional design of a garment and making it a three-dimensional reality still informs his work. Lins is obsessed with the way clothes hang on a body, and fits all his pieces on a mannequin. His garments, many of them reversible and as beautiful on the inside as on the outside, are displayed on three-dimensional torsos, “so that people can see the garment’s inside as well as its outside.”

The men and women who wear Lins’ clothes are a select bande d’initiés . They recognize each other by the topstitching that articulates the “joints” of their jackets and trousers; the slim leather piping finishing the edges of a jacket lapel or detailing the drape of a dress collar. Another giveaway would be the Gustavo Lins label, but you’d have to really look for it. His name is there, certes, but completely hidden, under an architect’s triangle of smooth leather stitched at the back of the neck.

Gustavo Lins Collection can be viewed at his website @ http://www.gustavolins.com