FACTOTUM Fall/Winter 2014

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HOWL by María Glück Fall/Winter 2014

María Glück presented her Fall/Winter 2014 collection at EGO during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid.

Maria Glück founded H O W L in 2012. She studied Fine Arts at University of the Basque Country UPV / EHU in Bilbao,and moved to Berlin as exchange student to attend two semesters of Modedesign at HTW Berlin. Maria decides to establish her atelier in Berlin and continue with her artwork.
With a background on visual arts and sculpture, Maria Glück decided to deepen her relation with fabric and texture, hence with fashion. It became her main interest to create collections with great challenge on fusion of materials, with creative unique shapes and with sustainable fabrics and production.
Maria Glück´ first collection was selected at EGO showroom for young designers at MBFW Madrid in 2012, when she presented H O W L. That same year, Maria Glück was finalist at III Bilbao Art & Fashion contest award.
H O W L by Maria Glück second collection FW 13-14 We are the Woods, was shown in the runway at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid Feb 2013. H O W L by Maria Glück presented in Berlin Fashion Week, her SS14 collection.
Maria Glück is currently desigining her FW 14-15 collection as well as presenting H O W L's online store with an exclusive production of FW 13-14 collection.

H O W L by Maria Glück creates high-end fashion with characteristic minimal shapes and elaborated textures. Handmade techniques mixed with a continuous research on materials (branches, flowers, cork, raffia or technological bio fabrics).
H O W L's statement involves the use of ecological and organic fabrics, recycled materials and fabrics, as well as fabrics that come from small mills and traditional techniques. Sometimes traditional ways of producing fabrics tend to disappear, and Maria Glück aims to support these production methods by integrating these materials into her designs and helping small communities with traditional and unique weaving techniques. Often the challenge comes by the addition and combination of unconventional fabrics to more classic ones: wood or cork in fusion with organic silk.
Yet not all fabrics are organic, as recycled or mixed and synthetic fabrics (that may come from a sustainable production) may be part of the collection. Digital prints and organic dyeing when it comes to colours. Production is local or regional (EU) and sustainable, respecting all rights and labor standards.
H O W L by Maria Glück has great interest on supporting women's empowerment, as well as artist and art collaborations. Artists are a vulnearable collective, and the designer aims to support artistic collaborations and projects.

Heridadegato Fall/Winter 2014

Heridadegato presented its Fall/Winter 2014 collection at EGO during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid.

Aristides Vanis Fall/Winter 2014

Aristides Vanis presented his Fall/Winter 2014 collection during London Fashion Week. The collection represents the visual memories of his childhood.

Wen Tan Fall/Winter 2014

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Ana Locking Fall/Winter 2014

Ana Locking unveiled her Fall/Winter 2014 collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid.

Ana González have worked as a creative director for her first brand Locking Shocking (1996-2007), acclaimed by public and critic and awarded with the `L’Oreal Paris´ for the best young SS’03 collection in 2002 of the Madrid Fashion Week, and the `Gran Prix of Fashion Marie Claire´ for the Best National Designer in 2004.

In 2008 she founded her new label Ana Locking and with her first collection ‘Reentry’ FW08-09 won the `L’Oreal Paris Award´ for the Best Collection of the Madrid Fashion Week.
In September 2009 she presented her SS’10 collection (Clothes exhibition and video art) in New York’s Public Library during the NY Fashion Week with the project ‘4Eyes’ (four spanish designers).

In November 2009 she won the `Cosmopolitan Award for the Best Spanish Designer of the year.

Since 2011 Ana practices fashion teacher in the Polytechnic University of Madrid at the same time she continues working as creative director of her own brand Ana Locking.

Ana keeps herself updated of the new artistic disciplines, as she studied in the University of Fine Arts of Madrid. That’s the reason why she has also collaborated with different cultural institutions and artistic organizations through exhibitions, installations, video-art, photography, seminars, conferences, classes, etc.
MNCARS (National Museum of Art Reina Sofía de Madrid), MUSAC (Museum of Modern Art of Castilla-León), IVAM (Institute of Modern Art of Valencia), DA2 (Museum of Modern Art of Salamanca), Museum of the Costume, ‘Casa de America’, ‘Casa Encendida’ of Madrid, ‘Canal de Isabel II’ of Madrid, ‘INJUVE’ (Youth Institute of Madrid), ‘The Factory Gallery´ in Madrid. NY Public Library.

All this projects help her to grow and evolve through what she considers should be the grounds of every sensitivity related to creation.

SADAK Fall/Winter 2014 Lookbook

The most important message SADAK wants to communicate is: pride in individuality

The clothing is innovative and unique, while still incorporating distinctive elements from a variety of preceding periods and ethnic cultures. The various inspirations for the collections are essentially what makes them so superior in character. It’s not only the collection as a whole that comes with a motive, it’s the individual works themselves.
Always at the core of his universe (and as essential as the clothes themselves) are attitudes, moods and statements about individuality and independence. Equally important in SADAK’ s approach is the constant quest for innovation. The key elements stay the same: modern proportions, a constant research for fabrics and textures and above all the interplay of pure construction and new shapes with the body and psyche of the contemporary fashion and art.

 

DESIGNERS BIO:

Sasa Kovacevic is a Serbian-born fashion and stage/costume designer. He graduated in Fashion Design from Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin,Germany; he also studied Stage and Costume Design at the Academy of Art, Belgrade. In addition to designing for his own Fashion Label- SADAK, Sasa has also designed costumes and set design for several dance projects.

DRESSEDUNDRESSED Fall/Winter 2014

 DRESSEDUNDRESSED presented its Fall/Winter 2014 collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo...