International catwalk producer Jessica Minh Anh defies expectations once again by staging her breathtaking floating couture runway at the Seine River in Paris, France, and having her models ‘walk on water’.
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ONES TO WATCH: EXOCET Paris Merges Savoir-faire and Avant-garde with Innovative Leather Bags
For the final leg of our ‘Hybridity’ issue, we look to EXOCET whose brand ethos transcends a sense of merger between the innovative and the traditional. Based in Paris, EXOCET is a bag label responsible for creating sensational hybrid animal and vegetal figure designs – fictitious creatures – on its convertible box-shaped genuine European leather handbags (even…
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Louis Vuitton Series 3 Exhibition: The Spirit of Travelling in the Space of Time
The Maison’s touring showcase makes its last – and Southeast-Asia exclusive – stop in Singapore, inviting us to a sensorial journey between its heritage and vision for the fashion future. Louis Vuitton has been a byword for travel and excellence in craftsmanship since time immemorial, when the luxury house first started by making attentively designed trunks…
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More than just a musical: The costumes behind ‘A Singaporean in Paris’
It is true that staged show offer us the pleasures of clothing not simply as a material garments but a mode of dream. It fosters a feeling of expectancy, awakens the imagination, and maintains an incessantly renewed sense of novelty” (Diana Festa-McCormick in 1984 in Fashion in Fiction), and Sing’theatre Production’s latest offering, ‘A Singaporean in Paris’…
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JAPANESE COUTURIER YUMI KATSURA DAZZLES AT FIDE FASHION WEEKS 2013
Text: Xinlin | Photography: Felly Loi The model sweeps in, a vision of ruffles and frock. At the ready the audience sit with their cameras, eyeing her movements with hawk-like scrutiny. The air is tense, but electrifying. Bird-like, she throws her arms open. The garment spills out from beneath her: ruffles blowing out into a…
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Interview: French Couturier Stephane Rolland Goes Spanish with Shades of Black at FIDé Fashion Weeks 2013
Known widely as the Prince of Couture, the French couturier Stephane Rolland is a stickler for details but does not fancy overly-embellished details. His span of designing career is one that is admirable and inspirational, and his grand vision for fashion is crystal clear; directional and revolutionary. You see his Haute Couture dresses at some…
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Highly-anticipated revelation in the lineup for FIDé Fashion Weeks 2013 in Singapore!
Nothing quite makes our hearts flutter as much as FIDé Fashion Weeks does, as we recall down memory lane to our first-ever experience to this remarkable fashion week, at last year’s instalment of Men’s Fashion Week 2012, followed by dynamic presentations of female pret-a-porter at Women’s Fashion Week 2012, and lastly, and an immersive and…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Behind the scenes video of Maxime Simoens AW 2013 at Paris Fashion Week
French designer Maxime Simoens presented his Ready-to-Wear collection for the first time ever at Paris Fashion Week during the Autumn Winter 2013 season, after his long stretch of doing solely couture in his designing career.
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INTERVIEW: Epitome of Glam-Rock with On Aura Tout Vu at French Couture Week 2012
Helmed as the Grand Finale show at Fidé Couture Week 2012, Parisian Haute Couturier On Aura Tout Vu impressed and surprised with a big bang. With an inclination to spur surprises on the fashion runway, the couture label by head designers Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samoilov are well-known for creating runways that are almost akin to a…
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ASIAN COUTURE EVENING TO BE PART OF HAUTE COUTURE WEEK 2012 SINGAPORE
This late-November, there is simply no doubt that you will be tremendously impressed and entertained not only once, but thrice at the HAUTE COUTURE WEEK 2012 SINGAPORE! With full-fledged showcases of couture in the lineup, from the French Couture Week to Japan Couture Evening and to the latest addition of the phenomenal Asian Couture Evening 2012,…
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THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED HAUTE COUTURE WEEK 2012 SINGAPORE IS BACK STRONGER THAN BEFORE
When November comes, the glamourous Parisian Haute Couture will be reenacted into a fabulous four-day fashion-filled Haute Couture Week 2012 Singapore, from 29 November till 2 December 2012 at the Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Here in Singapore for the second time running, the Haute Couture Week 2012 Singapore, organised by Fide Productions, will be…
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A prints wonderland in British fashion label Lucy Jay’s ‘The Kreitzman’ collection
It was simply love at first sight when I first chanced on British accessories label, Lucy Jay and her magnificent digital-printed silk scarves a couple of months ago. As a scarves and art lover, Lucy’s designs truly excites me in a way that no label has done so. Known for bejewelled symmetry and vigourous patterns…
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Floral, origami world in Designer of the Month, Palasak’s S/S 2013 Collection!
We seriously have no qualms in proclaiming our love for the talented wave of Thai designers in our midst, with their earnest, keen effort in presenting nothing but the most intriguing creative design. And while we are presented with a mix of styles from the land of Siam, we are undoubtedly thrilled and knocked-over by…
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We love Mary Katrantzou for Longchamp!
Not long ago, we have raved about the splendid graphically-intriguing all-over prints of the dresses in print designer, Mary Katrantzou’s collection; a terrific representation of how art is fashion, but is afraid of dressing head-to-toe in prints? Well, fret not because now we have a capsule collection for Spring/Summer 2012, between the ingenious Mary Katrantzou…
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COUTURE TROOPERS MAGAZINE 