Alessandra De Tomaso

Alessandra designs aggressive capsule collection for urban women; young ladies ready to party and not afraid to be sexy.

She mostly use pure and vivid color and her outfits get their strengthens by the use of tone on tone, shining taffeta combine with matt fabrics, and interesting decoration like studs or feather.
www.alessandradetomaso.com 

Shalini Ahuja

"Fashion is passion": the designer who goes by this phrase is a young Delhi based accessory maker Shalini Ahuja. 

Her label specializes in vivacious footwear, bags, belts, lap top covers, and I-pad covers.
Shalini designs the collections and Indian artisans produce them; it is an interesting combination between the traditional beauties of hand painted leather and contemporary design.

Kauro Kaneko

Kauro Kaneko is a Japanese designer who has his root in his culture; Kaneto design approach stands in developing and discovering new approach in the use of traditional object. His motto is: "Japanese traditional style for activity".

He mostly works with lather and the project "one piece" is a sample of his creativity. He approached the classic Italian moccasin shoe working with on peace of leather that can be stitched by the final consumer. The final user takes a part in the shoe creation to develop a unique design.
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Stathis Samantas, F/W 2012/13 collection.

Stathis Samantas, loyal to his nick name "the Greek Manolo Blahnik", for the coming fall/winter season developed a collection where the stiletto has an essential role.

Stathis mixes black leather with gold and deep blue purplish metal to empathize cuts and insertions details, like the gold stripes that cover the boot.   

Meeting L.Bozzato.

Lisa Bozzato is an Italia shoes designer.
She graduated at Politecnico di Milano, industrial design; however just during her last year of study, while she was developing her thesis and having and internship at Bally, she found her true passion: designing women shoes.

Her studio is full of book about shoes; on the floor there are prototypes of her design; the wall is cover by sketches and flat drawing; and here and there you can find leather samples.
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Meeting L.Loffreda

Last Saturday, at design library, I had a interesting chitchat with Ludovico Loffreda, who presented his collection during the past Milan Fashion Week.

We spoke about his last work, his new project for the coming Salone del Mobile, and his idea about fashion. Actually he is a really active and a versatile designer.
His interests do not cover just the fashion field, even if he has a deeply knowledge about it; but he loves to know and understand human being and the society where they are living.

JieQi Ren

JieQi Ren is a menswear fashion designer.

"I love everything about men fashion; my goal is to make a men look as sexy and sleek as possible […] and it is challenging because men are so picky at what they would and would not wear".

In the design field everyone can and does something different, and Ren chooses this field to discover, by making, what design means to him.

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Prabhat Kumar

Prabhat Kumar is a designer who can do magic with leather.
Mostly his inspiration comes from the beauty of nature, that he translates into floral patter and organic design. 

"I consider my designs as an extension of myself […] My inspiration can be simple or complex; and this simplicity or complexity can be translated into the products".
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