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It has been a while coming, but getting back to our feature series, our latest addition is a piece on Yang Li. A graduate of Central St. Martins, Li is currently at work under Raf Simons, but that does not stop him from continuing to develop his own vision. Click here to read more about Li and his capsule collection entitled “Cover”.
The latest feature is a brief Q&A with William Anzevino of Los Angeles based label, Anzevino & Florence (AZFN). The feature covers everything from AZFN’s new store to Anzevino’s design philosophy and views on menswear in general. View the feature here. View the lookbook images that did not make the feature after the cut.
As promised in this past Friday’s feature post, here is the remaining portion of the Q&A with Berlin based designer, Chris Holzinger:
The Fashionisto: If your label was a person, what would they be like?
Chris Holzinger: Working on collections, I don’t relate to special human characteristics or particular target groups. I rather attach certain attributes to my design pieces like wearability, quality, reliability, function, dispassion and eternalness. It is important to design clothes which are always wearable and which are easy to recombine with diverse fashion style movements and colors. It’s really important to me that my clothes guarantee mobility and flexibility in different situations during daily routine.
The latest feature is a piece on emerging Berlin designer Chris Holzinger. Click here to view the story, Q & A, and featured looks from Holzinger’s fall 2009 collection, “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back”. Check back Monday for the remaining part of the Q&A that did not make the feature. To view the two previous posts of lookbook images from Chris Holzinger, click here.
Recently featured in February’s Surface Magazine as one of the top ten designers to watch and already in stores like Oak, New York based label Rochambeau’s future looks bright. The team behind Rochambeau consists of Michael Venker, Joshua Cooper, and Laurence Chandler. Meeting at the 2007 Parsons senior thesis show, where Venker had been the recipient of the prestigious Golden Thimble award, the trio realized that they shared a love for the same design aesthetic. Forming Rochambeau, which is Egyptian for the game rock-paper-scissors, each of the trio brings their own strength to the label. With a family background in the print industry, Cooper and Chandler, both 24 bring experience and relationships within the fashion industry. Serving as creative director, Minnesota native Venker, 26 is responsible for the design portion. Venker is a seasoned designer having interned at Marc Jacobs and Helmut Lang as well as working at the Ermenegildo Zegna showroom.
Rochambeau’s debut collection is inspired by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. Clean lines and silhouettes are livened with unexpected details that allow each piece to be worn in a unique fashion. Effortlessly draped, fabrics like cotton twill, knits, silk wools, and Pima cottons are used to “create structured and malleable looks that seem to fall into place organically.”
Potipot is a remote island getaway located near Metro Manila. The small island was the inspiration for potipoti’s spring line. The collection captures the exoticism of the tropics. This season’s color palette is aquatic, yet the collection still remains quite graphic. Bearing in mind that potipoti’s design duo, Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo have a background in Fine Arts, it is not a surprise. The studio-label, created in 2005 combines the best of “fashion, graphic design, visual arts, and product design.” It is this sense of interrelated arts, that make potipoti so compelling as a clothing label. Instead of mere clothes, a story is sure to accompany each collection. Nando Cornejo was gracious enough to share this season’s story.
How did your interest in fashion begin?
We actually both studied fine arts, but we have always been attracted to fashion, particularly to textile design and stamping, so we’ve been gradually taking steps to reach the current situation by designing collections every 6 months.
What is your fashion background?
We are self-taught, we like the philosophy of do it yourself. At the end of 2005, we began to exhibit our drawings in empty premises in Berlin. We held parties. People didn’t buy pictures, but they did buy skirts and shirts. That’s how it all began.
Personally, what are your own shopping habits?
We really like buy in small shops with character and we don’t like shopping malls. We usually buy through internet too.
What designers do you like?
Walter Van Beirendonck, El Delgado Buil, Henrik Vibskov, Peter Jensen, Bjork & McElligott…
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