孔子愚 - Conte

Conte is a young Chinese fashion designer passionate about sketching diva clothes for his inspiring muse: Lady Gaga.

REPORT #4

Coco Chanel designed the first petit noir in 1926; and, later that year, it was shot on Vogue America. Since then, every woman has her little black dress, and black became a must have for all seasons.
Why black color is always fashionable? So fashionable that we often say, in reference to the latest color trend, "is the new black."
In ancient western culture, black was the color for mourning; however, after Mademoiselle Coco introduce it as an evening dress color for the new dynamic women of the '20, it become stylish, elegant and powerful. 

It is used during formal occasion; by subculture like Punk or Goth fashion; like a passe-partout during the fashion week. Look in your closet: you have something black.
Is black a color? If we take a careful look at the color wheels, black (and white as well) is not there. We cannot see pure black, but we use it for having shades. 

The challenge of "Draw Black" competition is to express your self by shades; you can use any media you like, as long as the drawing is made by hand.
All works should be submitted by June 15th.

Form globalization to individuality, by Allisa Vallentine.

Natural catastrophes have a global influence on our world, however each individual react in his own way.

In Asia, tsunami left behind horror, pain, and sufferer. In contrary to those awful results, see water out-pour is powerful, dangerous, and beautiful.

Form globalization to individuality, by Snow Lee.

Once upon a time, our world was halcyon.
Each individual had connection with nature, and all the creatures were friends. Then, as a dark cape, globalization destroyed this harmony; and it brought pollution, diseases, and unhappiness.
However globalization brought as well a worldwide network that allow people from all over the word to communicate to each other to fight the pollution by using recycled materials an create unique accessory. There is still hope.

Snow Lee developed a collection of accessories decorated with garbage. Material like plastic, metals, ribbon take new life to decorate her collection.

Snow Lee is from China, and globalization created a high environmental pollution issue in this Country. 

Form globalization to individuality, by Francesca Paolin.

Francesca has been working on the concept of "double side" for a while, and the duality of globalization and individuality was a variety on the theme of juxtaposition. 

 

She was fascinated about how different ethnic groups develop similar, but at the same time different, solution to the same problem. About the different interpretation of what is exotic if you live in America or in Asia. About the cultural substrate of history, that layer after layer, makes the personality of a country. About the meaning of colors. 

Form globalization to individuality, by Maria Saguinsis.

Every city has its own rush hour, from America to Asia, our society has an obsession with speed and instant things: a constant marathon with time. 

"During the morning rush hour you see career-driven individuals with coffee-filled paper cups in one hand, a smart phone in the other. People have suddenly become so busy that they have forgotten the beauty of sitting down on meals."

Form globalization to individuality, by Julija Moroz.

Globalization is living in a big metropolis, a city where people work, meet each other, do some activity, find a way to entertain themselves.
Julija inspiration for her cosmopolitan collection has its root in playing with texture and decoration to create unique outfits.

A mix of different fabrics, shape and decoration: form fine silk to thick leather; from clean straight line to the perfection of circle; from delicate embroidery to hard beads. She defines a woman out of convention and feminine, comfortable in wearing unique clothes. A woman that lives in a globalize metropolis, but she expresses her personality and unicity.

Form globalization to individuality, by Stathis Samantas.

Dear readers, let me tell you a story.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl, and her name was Greece. The wind was soft on her blond hair, like the corn in summer; the blue sea could see itself inside her innocent eyes; her skin was soft and smelled of laurel. She used to run into nature with Artemis, wearing leather sandals. During that time she was happy.

From Globalization to Individuality

Few weeks back, through this blog, we launched a competition.
The theme was "from globalization to individuality".

A brunch of designers challenged themselves in this contest. Starting from today, while we are waiting for the final exhibition in Milan, their projects are going to be featured on this blog.
So you can see the way they develop the theme, what they designed, get new inspiration for yourself, or just be critique.

Laura Unruh

Laura Unruh is a shoe designer.
She grew up surrounded by fashion as her mother was in the fashion business and as a young girl used to decorate her pink converse with puff paints and sharpies. 

Apparel design however, was not enough challenging for her talent, so she chose to design shoes, where "a millimeter is important to the last".
Portfolio.