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Vivienne Westwood / Chivas Regal limited Edition
Vivienne Westwood teamed up with Chivas to produce a contemporary limited edition design for Chivas Regal 18.
For this project Vivienne has focused on using her extensive knowledge of fabrics and tailoring to create a unique covering for the renowned whiskey bottle.
Inspiration
One of the world's most acclaimed fashion designers, Vivienne Westwood's creation for Chivas Regal clearly illustrates Westwood's unparalleled reputation for design excellence and pattern cutting know how.
With the current design of the Union Jack flag dating back to 101 and Chivas Brothers roots also being traced back to this year, the distinctive bottle quite audaciously and proudly appears cloaked in Vivienne Westwood's Union Jack print, as first seen in a Gold Label collection in Paris. Westwood uses her expertise in tailoring and cutting, re-imagining the bottle as a figure to be adorned, to create a luxurious and unique four-piece coat in true Westwood style.
Layers and textures, Chivas Regal 18 by Vivienne Westwood reflects the rich flavours of Chivas' luxury whisky blend and Vivienne Westwood's exceptional ability to dress and design for any form. The design represents Chivas' brand, embodying:
Britishness
Creativity and independence
Boldness and audacity
Authenticity and heritage
...and above all luxury
The Bottle
The product is a combination of the following elements
The Coat
Vivienne Westwood's Union Jack has been digitally printed on woven tie silk twill to create a coat for the bottle. Using traditional craftsmanship, each coat is made from four hand cut pattern pieces and finished with delicate gold embroidery. All silk panels are fully lined and finished with silk binding.
The design of the coat has been carefully moulded to fit the shape of the bottle and is held together with white gold, orb embossed press-studs. Each coat displays the bottle's unique limited edition number on the bottom as a sign of authenticity.
With small gold embroidered orb and ornate satin detailing, each coat emphasis Vivienne Westwood's talent for overcoming the restrictions of designing for a difficult medium and shape.
The Flash
Recreating the detail used on all Vivienne Westwood accessories, each jacket is decorated with a complementing blue and gold flash, inspired by flashes worn with full Scottish Attire, and bearing the iconic Vivienne Westwood orb.
The Gift Box
Simple and luxurious, the gift box is matt finished with a discrete textured Vivienne Westwood Union Jack Chivas Regal 18 Year old blue. The discrete design hints at the bold design within.
Hussein Chalayan book now available online
Hussein Chalayan new book is out now
Edited by Robert Violette, Contribution by Judith Clark, Susannah Frankel, Emily King and Sarah Mower
About This Book
The comprehensive book on the visionary Hussein Chalayan, one of the most innovative, experimental, and conceptual fashion designers working today. Internationally acclaimed, Hussein Chalayan is known for his inventive use of materials and integration of new technology into his designs. He is also celebrated for putting the creative process itself on view. Some of his best-known designs include a paper dress that can be folded into an envelope and airmailed, armchair covers that transform into dresses, and a coffee table that reveals itself to be a wooden skirt. Original and groundbreaking, his designs are also pretty and modern, and this book explores that continuum. Featuring Chalayan’s complete body of fashion and creative work—including his installations, videos, and photographs—this unique and beautiful volume is as thought-provoking as it is stunning and is sure to be coveted by fashion, art, and design connoisseurs.
About the Author
Hussein Chalayan lives in London and shows his collections in Paris. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including "Radical Fashion," at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, "Fashion‚" at the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, "Airmail Clothing" at the Musée de la Mode Palais du Louvre in Paris, and "Goddess: The Classical Mode" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has twice been named the British Designer of the Year and in 2006 was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire). Judith Clark is a fashion writer and curated "Radical Fashion" at the V&A and "The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions" at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum. Susannah Frankel is a fashion writer and the fashion editor of The Independent in London. Emily King is an author, curator, and design historian. She is a design editor for Frieze magazine and a regular contributor to Print and Fantastic Man. Robert Violette is an editor and publisher in London. He edited You Can Find Inspiration in Everything by Paul Smith, as well as the first major books on Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and Sophie Calle.
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New Fogal fall fashion collection in store now
Fall Fashion Collection by Fogal is in store now,
A little history of Fogal
The beginnings
Léon Fogal, the son of a stocking weaver, created the FOGAL brand in 1921 and in 1923 he opened the first stocking store under the family name at Limmatquai in Zurich. Already shortly thereafter, other retail shops opened in Switzerland.
The Fogal logo
The 90-year history of the FOGAL brand is reflected most remarkably in the incisive brand logo. It was developed from the handwriting of campany founder Léon Fogal. The FOGAL logo has become a distinct symbol of high-quality, innovative hosiery and knitwear and will continue to signify these brand values in the future.
Some history
The invention of Nylon stockings (1938) ushered in a boom time at FOGAL. As the first importer of this revolutionary legwear, Léon Fogal once again proved his fine-tuned sense of innovation and elegance.
Women often queued up in long lines in front of FOGAL shops to get their own pair of the new ‘Nylons’. The faces expressed that much more disappointment when after just a few hours the stock was sold and the shop had to close for business.
Artists design for FOGAL
The successful co-work with artist Allen Jones in 1974 sparked subsequent collaborations, with an international array of renowned artists engaged by FOGAL to design tote/shopping bags and advertising materials. Among them were Donald Baechler, Erté, C.O. Paeffgen, Nicola de Maria, Sandra Chia, Mimmo Rotella, George Condo and Malcom Morley.
FOGAL -
yesterday, today, tomorrow
After the death of Léon Fogal the company came into the possession of the Zurich banker family Walter Meier in 1968. Balthasar Meier turned the six Swiss branches into an international enterprise. In 1982 he opened a store in New York and soon afterwards in Paris, London and Tokyo, to name just a few.
2009 was the dawn of a new era for FOGAL. Swiss entrepreneur Philippe Gaydoul and his Gaydoul Group secured the luxury brand with a cult character. Thanks to his commitment, Philippe Gaydoul has strengthened the brand for a promising future.
Materials that arouse desire
It is accomplished with the use of soft exquisite materials such as cashmere, silk, alpaca and baby camelhair – sometimes for a smooth and silky effect, sometimes to lend a cooling elegance. FOGAL has mastered the art of maintaining the unique identity of these materials, using subtle, delicate manufacturing precision to transform them into modern, highly feminine products.
FOGAL products bring a new dimension to seeing and feeling, allowing materials and design to meld harmoniously to form an individual, unusual, exceptional whole. Lightweight protection, longings and emotions meet in these unique garments. To wear FOGAL is to underscore one’s natural self-confidence and to give expression to one’s individual character – you can’t have too much of that.
A brand that moves
When the shape of a stocking lends perfection to a woman’s leg, shaping it advantageously and embracing it with sensuous materials and textures, therein lies the total FOGAL statement.
The FOGAL brand stands for unparalleled expertise in the hosiery sector, a reputation earned by over ninety years of experience in the business. From the very beginning, FOGAL focused on its customers’ demands for a reliable product. The skill and knowledge in the manufacture of its products – hosiery and legwear – represent the extraordinary potential the brand possesses. FOGAL has also used its unique expertise to establish exceptional renown in the areas of knitwear and bodywear. Emotionality and perfection: the result of the stance the FOGAL brand takes towards its product.
FOGAL – Where Emotion meets Perfection
For inquiries about Fogal please e-mail info@sien-antwerp.com
Hussein Chalayan at The Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Must See
Hussein Chalayan, récits de mode
5 July–13 November 2011
The Arts Décoratifs has given ‘carte blanche’ to one of the most innovative and creative fashion designers of our time: Hussein Chalayan.
Born in Nicosia in 1970, he moved to London as a child traveling back and forth between Cyprus and England until he went to university. He earned his degree from Central Saint Martins College in 1993.
Following his own unique approach to design for seventeen years, he stands on the frontier of fashion, architecture and design. His work is characterized by an intellectual rigor and a quest for technical perfection that often defies fashion stereotypes. Chalayan stood out from the start of his career through his highly inventive exploration of various mediums, including sculpture, furniture, video and special effects, which he uses in his fashion shows, drawing inspiration directly from the political, social and economic realities of his era.
The exhibition showcases this rich, complex world, in which clothing, installations, fashion shows, projections and research are shown by side to illustrate Chalayan’s distinctive process.
Beautiful Iris van Herpen couture show
Last night Iris van Herpen showed her Couture Fashion in Paris, a fashionista`s dream!
