Mercedez Benz Fashion Week Madrid September 2020 - Brand: Malne, Designers: Juanjo Mánez & Paloma Alvarez
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Alice Berry - French Fashion Designer
Recently, Riveting
Riffs Magazine sat down with fashion designer Alice Berry of Alice Berry
Atelier from Paris, France to talk about her timeless clothing designs
for women and the importance she places on her collections being
sustainable. “I think timeless dresses are a better choice,
because for example in ten years my customers can always wear them. On
the contrary if the dresses are on the cutting edge of fashion |
Lingerie & Swimwear from Spain
She explains, “The
name Dandylion was the name of my final collection at university. It
represented two sides, dandy and elegant and then the lion, more
alternative, powerful and a woman who can do whatever she wants. I want my designs
to make the woman (who wears them) feel powerful. In a way I am fighting
for women’s rights. I have talked to a lot of women and doctors who told
me there are plenty of women that when they arrive at home they take off
their bras and corsetes. The doctors also told me that wire bras cause
plenty of problems for women in (contributing to) breast cancer. Now
doctors recommend that bras without wire be used, because the pressure
caused by the wire on the breasts increasing the chances of cancer. I
didn’t know this until two years ago and I went wow! Women who have had
cancer can no longer wear wire bras, so that is why I designed a type of
bra that doesn’t have wire. People can ask for the wire bra, but it is not something I (regularly) produce. |
Andra Cora - Fashion Interview
Andra Cora talks
about the influences that are reflected in the women’s clothing that she
designs, “I like the romantic drama of the late 19 th and early 20 th
centuries and the structural silhouettes of the 1940s and ‘50s. The
silhouettes and construction lines inspire me, but also the social
(implications) within the historical context. I incorporate the past into the present to create
the future
Nowadays making an
impression is increasingly complicated, especially if your work is
focused more on handmade, as mine is and not focused on technology.” There is an elegant charm about Andra Cora’s clothing that appeals to the feminine side of women and yet the designs also have a boldness and strength about them. |
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Paloma del Pozo - Spanish Designer
My journey to
interview this warm, delightful woman began several months earlier when
I noticed a fabulous blouse that was worn by Spanish television, film
and stage actress Silvia Marso. When I commented on Ms. Marso’s
Instagram account about the blouse, she immediately without my asking
directed me to Paloma del Pozo. The interview was arranged by her
equally warm and personable assistant Sara. So here I found myself thousands of miles at home surrounded by blouses, skirts, dresses and slacks rich in texture and colorful and in the presence of two fabulous women.
“We don’t make a collection,” says Paloma del Pozo, “We make what we
want. We don’t have the same |
Charlott Axenström - Swedish Designer
“It was kind of
boring,” Charlott Axenström says chuckling, “I think that was the key
(to where this all began), you are so bored and it is so dark. I am a
skier and a swimmer and I was into clothes. I started sketching clothes
when I was five years of age. I think when you have so much time to
think about it you (become good at what you are doing). That is what I
tell my daughter you have to be bored (first) to be good. If you have
everything just in front of you there is no reason for your brain to
work.”
“I
grew up in the same village in northern Sweden as Ingemar Stenmark the
skier (Editor’s note: Ingemar
Stenmark won more international ski races than any other skier in
history, including eighty-six World Cup wins). I think with it being
dark for twenty-two hours every day (in the winter) that was part of the
creative process. Yes it is dark and you are out skiing, but you also
stay home a lot. In the summer I was outside all of the time. From April
until September you don’t sleep that much (Editor’s
note: there is almost continual daylight),” she says. |
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