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Azzedine Alaïa, a romance with knitwear i-D Paris Editor Sarah Hay reports from the Azzedine Alaïa presentation held at his atelier in Paris Azzedine Alaïa has developed his relationship with the same knitwear company in Italy for over thirty years meaning that ideas have had the luxury to develop and deepen to the point where the Tunisian born designer is able to create fluid sculptures for the body with seamless designs. Literally seamless, as regardless of cinch, voluminous kick, tiny peepholes or intricately weaved patterns, clients can experience the flow of the same one continuous thread beginning from the top of any outfit all the way through to the bottom. It’s quite a feat of technology to examine up close. A rich and poised elegance was proposed for women of all generations, body size and cultural destination. Demure necklines with floor swishing skirts, little baby doll dresses with Peter Pan collars or figure boosting dresses matched with little leather bow belts were matched with boots in alligator, pony or leather or little lace-up flats. Much is happening in the house of Alaïa in 2013 with a store planned to open just off Les Champs Elysées around July, work on costumes for The Marriage of Figaro opera, plus a ballet, and a grand exhibition to celebrate the reopening of the Galiera museum (Paris Museum of Fashion) in the autumn. Everything is in full motion chez Monsieur Alaïa, he’s busier than he has ever been but the entire team are progressing at a balanced fast pace just like the gentle dip and flow of the gliding hem on any of his knitted skirts. Source: i-donline.com

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Ironic, bright, she caressingly approaches the other, sweet magnetic and sensual, that and much more than this is the jewelry designer Delfina Delettrez successfully joining genius, beauty and an unstoppable creativity, made concrete in the collection she made – exhibited at the Paris Louvre Museum – featuring new-pagan atmospheres: the skulls that made her celebrated and the latest creations, genuine sculptures embodying female hair, joined to metal, leather, precious gems, wrapped in resin that are part of “Love Is In The Air”, collection presented during Paris Fashion Week. The designer talked about herself with modesty and genuineness, telling about her suggestions and creativity, a nice afternoon conversation in Rome – city deeply binding the creative -, joyfully walking on the historical centre and visiting her store, placed in Via Del Governo Vecchio 67, in the area of Piazza Navona, the art of jewel small, great cathedral. What are the suggestions – New-Paganism, Surrealism – and channels of communications – film, art, music, literature - inspiring you? The art, the avantgardes of Surrealism, Futurism inspire me though I’m inspired by everything and my city especially, Rome, a city being to discover where I love loosing and finding myself. Basically it’s the personal taste inspiring me, when I create I don’t think about something or someone in particular, even if there are things acting as an input to start, but the item later is refined according to my taste, the most personal there is. Therefore every time I complete a creation I’m the first one who wears, holds that and understands what fits or doesn’t fit well . There is an age, a persona you are very bound? I very often like to imagine my jewels, worn by women, lived during the Thirties. Maybe they made a mistake from on high, as I should be born in the Thirties, time fascinating me. I read only biographies about women who lived during those times who are bringers of a strong personal story as Elsa Schiaparelli and the Marquise Luisa Casati-Stampa di Soncino, because they were more free to express themselves during those years. How much irony there is in yourself as creative and woman? There is much irony in myself as woman. I think irony is the most important thing in life. The irony is something I immediately feel in an individual, not the same irony I have, but a well structured irony. It is essential to take life with irony. I transmit the irony there is in myself by my jewels. Yes, it’s ok the idea of “memento mori”, but there is a skull smiling, joined to flowers, colors, frogs as a bracelet I’m very fond of, one of the first ones I made, featuring a skull between two frogs. I have chosen the frog as it gave me the idea of vitality, the frog, an animal living with the heart in throat. Source: fashionbeyondfashion.wordpress.com

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