Paris Fashion Week SS2015 - Womenwear ready-to-wear

23, September – 1, October 2014. Following New York, London and Milan, all eyes are on Paris this week! Around 90 shows will be presenting collections for next Spring/Summer 2015. Around 5.000 visitors are expected to attend the events by designers from 24 different countries.

Jean-Paul Gaultier says goodbye at the end of his fall-winter 2014-15 collection

The hottest show of the week will be expected on the last day by Jean Paul Gaultier and it will bet he very last ready-to wear collection of the brand after 38 years. In future the house Gauthier will focus on haute couture and perfume.

Among the week’s highlights: Dries Van Noten.

Dries Van Noten, the collection is inspired by the idea of John Everett Millais Ophelia (1852) and also by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both reconcile the mythical fairy world with golden illuminated colours and fabrics with the woodland’s forest mossy floor. Van Noten and his team asked the Buenos Aires artist Alexandra Kehayoglou to weave a rug in all those mossy colours for the runway. There were block-striped silk, pajama patterns in filmiest fabrics, patched brocade and shimmering combinations of jacquard and Lurex; some glinting with metallic stripes.
At the finale, all models took a rest on the wonderful carpet. Hippie stylish – languid sprawling on soft mossy grass! 

Anne Kurris - Kid's Fashion from Belgium!

Anne Kurris Winter 2012 © Photo by Ronald Stoops 

Die neue Winterkolelktion für Kinder ist spektakulär wie immer - und wie die Designerin selbst es ist! Anne Kurris ist 1959 in Antwerpen geboren. Schon während ihres Grafikdesign-Studiums an der Royal Academy und der St Lucas in Antwerpen lernte sie namhafte Designern persönlich kennen, wie Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck und einigen weitere belgische Künstlern, die zu der Gruppe ‘The Antwerp Six’ gehörten.
Nach ihrem Abschluss arbeitete Anne Kurris als Grafikdesignerin für Dries Van Noten, für den sie Kataloge und Einladungen entwarf. Anschließend war sie Art Direktor des Modemagazins BAM! Sie arbeitete für die wichtigsten belgischen Kulturinstitute wie der Flämischen Oper in Antwerpen und dem Museum der Schönen Künste in Brüssel. 1998 wurde dann die erste Anne Kurris Kinderkollektion launchiert, inspiriert von Pop-Art und Natur und unverkennbar bis heute mit eigenwilliger, knalligen Farbkombinationen und starken Einfluss des Grafik-Designs. Ihre Kollektion wird heute sehr erfolgreich weltweit vertrieben. 2009 wurde Anne Kurris mit ihren eingeladen ihre „paperdresses“ (Papierkleidern) in den MOMU (Mode Museum Antwerpen) zu präsentieren als ein Teil der Ausstellung PAPER FASHION. Neben Ihrer Tätigkeit als Designerin unterrichtet Anne Kurris Graphikdesign an dem berühmten „Fashion Department“ der „Royal Academy of Fine Arts“ in Antwerpen sowie an der „Sint-Lucas“ in Antwerpen. 

Anne Kurris Winter 2012 © Photos by Ronald Stoops

Anne Kurris Winter 2012 © Photos by Ronald Stoops

The new collection Winter 2012-2013 is - again - as spectacular as the designer herself. Anne Kurris was born in Antwerp in 1959. During her studies graphic design at the Royal Academy and St Lucas in Antwerp, she met Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck and the other Belgian designers who where part of ‘The Antwerp Six’.
After graduating, Anne Kurris worked as a graphic designer for Dries Van Noten, for whom she designed the catalogues and invitations. She became art director of the fashion magazine BAM! and worked for major Belgian cultural institutes like the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels. In 1998 the Anne Kurris children’s wear collection was launched, inspired by pop art and nature, and characterized by bright color combinations and a strong graphic design. Today the collection is distributed worldwide. In 2009 Anne Kurris was invited to show her paperdresses in MOMU (Mode Museum Antwerp), part of the exibition PAPER FASHION.
Anne Kurris also teaches graphic design at the famous Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and Sint-Lucas Antwerp.
www.annekurris.com

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