Cristina Chirila is a fashion stylist who grew up in Bucharest. In 2010, she decided to move to London to study fashion styling at St. Martins while working in sales. She quit her sales career in 2013. and have since moved to Berlin where she started to do fashion styling full time. Currently based there, Cristina’s works have…
Read More
The annual BLUEPRINT tradeshow is something that my team and I look forward to every year. Held on 15 to 18 May 2014 at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, this year’s edition of the BLUEPRINT tradeshow was curated to host 350 dedicated visiting press and buyers, showcasing a conglomerate of over 200 local and international womenswear,…
Read More
On Saturday May 17, 2014, Couture Troopers had the privilege to witness the works of the graduating fashion design degree students from LASALLE College of the Arts – one of Singapore’s top art college in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London.
Read More
Known for structured silhouettes and a subtle sense of avant garde, Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus presents another collection worthy to be called a marriage between fashion and architecture. This Spring/Summer 2014 sees the emergence of visual concepts that are influenced by the orthodox Christian iconographic canons, coded universally by characters and graphics in a spiritual…
Read More
A discreet simplicity in avant-garde style is the recipe for VIVACITA, a unique independent fashion label that was created by Taiwan fashion designer Chia-Jen Chang. Churning out stunning collections after collections since his debut in 2011, the brand has since come a long way and is known for its array of fluid and androgynous silhouettes that…
Read More
Text by Jessica Ye | Photography by Felly Loi LIE SANG BONG, a name that is undoubtedly synonymous for pioneering South Korean fashion to the next level. He has dressed his country’s first lady, collaborated with some of the top Korean companies, including LG and Samsung, and has since crafted an iconic style that…
Read More
Haute couture has always been one aspect in fashion that fascinates us to no end. How the theatrical, intricately detailed and somehow, full of grandeur interpretation of what a clothing can do, indeed takes our imagination and spirits to greater heights than we could ever imagine. It was undoubtedly the starting point of our love for…
Read More
RAD OR WHAT? I would never expect myself to be so head over heels in love with an illustration that has neither eyes nor mouth, but here I am, extremely obsessed over Australian illustrator Aaron Favaloro‘s lovely works. Using fashion as his focal point, he draws key inspirations from runway trends at times, and reinterpret…
Read More
It was by sheer luck that we were being introduced to London based designer and entrepreneur Vanessa Gouden. And it was also by sheer delight that we have found ourselves drawn to her artistic-yet-elegant styles in all her designs of her label VANESSA G, especially her newly-released Mining Landscapes collection for the season. Vanessa G has created…
Read More
Electrifying prints – check! Sleek and modernistic silhouettes – check! And chic-ness – check! Well, it seems that RI by Carrie’s brand new collection for the Autumn/Winter 2013 season is simply spot-on on the emerging and somewhat tantalizing trend for the season, with an absolutely right dose of prints. Titled ‘Tribes of the Future’, the…
Read More
COUTURE TROOPERS MAGAZINE 