Streetsyle at Casablanca Fashion Week day 1
November 9, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Casablanca, Events, People, Streetwear
What are they wearing during Casablanca Fashion Week? It looks different from what we saw in New York, Paris in Milan, but still people like to dress up here too.
Festimode Casablanca Fashion Week 2012, Day 1
November 9, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Backstage, beauty, Casablanca, Events, Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, General, make-up, models, People, Team, womenswear
The seventh edition of Festimode Casablanca Fashion Week (FCFW) 2012 started yesterday with two shows of Fadila el Gadi and Mehdi Khessouane.
Fadila el Gadi has been working as a fashion-designer since 1990, and she is probably one of the few people in the fashion-business who has been working with the legendary Yves St. Laurent. That experience opened some doors for her, but it is of course Gadi’s talent that made her design for Barbara Streisand and Beyoncé. You can find her work in boutiques in Paris, Madrid and Saint-Tropez, in Morocco she has her own boutiques in Tanger and Marrakech.
Mehdi Khessouane was always surrounded by art and design, since his father is a interior-architect and his mother has a passion for art. Besides that Khessouane also had a passion for science. No wonder he studied Biology at the university and Fashion at the l’Ecole superieure des Beaux Arts in Casablanca. He is not only fascinated by designer Amina Agueznay but he also stands up against global warming. In 2009 Khessouane joined the selection of young talented designers at FCFW. This year he returned with an avant-garde collection for men and women.
Please enjoy the pictures of the first day of FCFW, with a selection of back and frontstage and some atmosphere during the event.
Casablanca Fashion Week 2012 Preview: Said Mahrouf
November 8, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Casablanca, Events, Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, People, Preview, Team, womenswear
One of the designers who will show his collection at Casablanca Fashion Week is Said Mahrouf (40). He is the one who invited Team Peter Stigter to Casablanca. That’s no coincidence, since Mahrouf lived for more than 30 years in the Netherlands – he came to our country with his parents when he was 9 – and studied Fashion Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. This year in January he presented his collection for the first time at Amsterdam Fashion Week.
Mahrouf is fascinated by the interaction between human movements and space. He gradually focused his work on designing costumes for site-specific performances. His work has been displayed at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, both in New York, the Utrecht Central Museum, the Amsterdam Municipal Museum, Carriage Works Gallery in Sydney and in Casablanca’s Loft Gallery. In 2011 he was appointed artistic director of the 15th edition of Morocco’s main traditional fashion event, Caftan, which was broadcast live from Marrakech. Said Mahrouf presents a ready-to-wear collection at Festimode-Casablanca Fashion Week annually.
His fashion-collections are an ode to femininity and elegance. The soft, sensual lines of his designs truly come to life on a female body. And his clientele in Casablanca loves it. After years of living in Amsterdam and traveling the world, Said Mahrouf returned to Casablanca in 2010 definitely. In his atelier he designs and sells ready to wear de luxe. And it made him a celebrity in Morocco. Moroccan fashion is often traditional in spirit, what Mahrouf designs is considered avant-garde. And elite wants that.
Team Peter Stigter visited the designer in his atelier in Casablanca for a preview of his new collection, which is inspired by the colors of Marrakech.
More information about Said Mahrouf and Casablanca Fashion Week
Meanwhile, in Casablanca
Team Peter Stigter has arrived in Casablanca, Morocco. For the first time the Team is shooting the Fashionweek over there. And of course we will keep you posted on that. But first Peter and Jon want to share some pics they made during their first meeting with this modern city in the North of Africa, which is the biggest city of Morocco with the most important harbor. They visited the old town, the Hassan II mosque and some interesting shops and people. Please enjoy.
The Big Round Up Womenswear SS2013, part 2
This is part 2 of our list of inspiring directions the new ss2013 collections are taking us.
SHEER LAYERING
When there isn’t the urge to change shape and silhouette, when restraint and understatement reign, interest in intriguing and manipulative fabrics raises. Here the playfulness is not in the cut yet in the cloth. Translucent layers cover simple shapes. Not so much about sexy sensuality but all the more about moderation and adding a faint touch of magic. Stella McCartney, Dior, Sportmax, Lacoste and Givenchy.
JAPONISM
Yoga suits and kimonos inspire minimalist silhouettes. Layered and gently wrapped; reinventing the dress as well as the suit. Subtle origami folds in soft plains with sophisticated shimmer, polished sheen or simply matte surface looks. Padded aspects, square trims, knotted belts and obi’s. At Prada, Lanvin, Mugler, Gianfranco Ferré and Haider Ackermann.
GORGEOUS COLOR
Gucci, Costume National, Dior, Lanvin and Jil Sander show that intense and passionate colour is just part of the message. The silhouette is the big story. As sharp as its shades, these forms are bold, square and boxy. Form fierce symmetry as well as sensual, bare-shouldered asymmetry. Power dressing is not just reserved for suits.
Stylespot is a collaboration with Stijlinstituut Amsterdam
Dutch Fashion Here & Now India, part 6
October 9, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Dutch Fashion Here & Now, Events, Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, India, Media, People, Presentations, Team
The last day of their stay in New Dehli India, Dutch Fashion Here & Now organized a workshop catwalkphotography with Team Peter Stigter. Also the Indigo Embassy popped up hosted by James Veenhoff.
Dutch Fashion Here & Now India, On the Streets
October 8, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Dutch Fashion Here & Now, Events, Featured Items, India, People, Streetwear
What are they wearing during India Fashion Week in New Dehli? It looks all different from what we saw in New York, Paris in Milan, but even here people like to dress up. What we liked the most: the young men in skirts and tunics, they don’t look funny at all -actually, it’s very elegant.
Dutch Fashion Here & Now India, Frontrow & Afterparty
October 8, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Dutch Fashion Here & Now, Events, Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, Frontrow, Frontrow, India, People, Snapshots, Team
Who was sitting front row at the Dutch Fashion Here & Now India show last week-end? Plus, who attended the afterparty? Take a look for yourself.
Dutch Fashion Here & Now India, Backstage
October 8, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Backstage, beauty, Dutch Fashion Here & Now, Events, Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, India, make-up, models
Take a look backstage at the show of Dutch Fashion Here & Now that took place this week end in New Dehli, India. Make-up artist Ellis Faas demonstrated her creative skills.
Dutch Fashion Here & Now India, the Show
October 7, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under beauty, Dutch Fashion Here & Now, Events, Fashion, Featured Items, India, models, People, Presentations, Team, womenswear
Dutch Fashion Here & Now opened India Fashion Week yesterday with a show that celebrated fashion in all its parts: craftsmanship, fantasy, glamor, style. The Dutch label *DIED* presented their custom made shirts, Jan Taminiau and Suneet Varma collaborated on a glamorous and elaborated collection and Roheet Ghandi and Rahul Karma showed their contemporary pret a porter. Part of the production was the soundtrack made by Starstudded Studios, make-up by Ellis Faas and runway photography by Peter Stigter.
