FASHION FARM FOUNDATION//SHOW
"Fashion Farm Foundation (FFF) is a non-profit organization established in 2012, founded by a group of enthusiastic fashion entrepreneurs and fashion educators in Hong Kong.
Aiming to build a synergy among Hong Kong-based fashion designers, cultural practitioners, industry experts and retailers, FFF pledges to promote Hong Kong’s fashion design by encouraging and fostering collaborations between the business, lifestyle, educational and cultural sectors"
CYNTHIA & XIAO
FFIXXED STUDIOS is a collaborative art and design project initiated by Australian artist/designers Kain Picken and Fiona Lau in Berlin, February 2008.
Their main focus is to create clothing for men and women, which adapt to the society and environment around us.
Kain and Fiona met in Melbourne, where he attended the Victorian College of the Arts, while Fiona studied Fashion Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Afterwards they moved to Berlin where they launched FFIXXED and six years later, the label is stocked internationally and present at New York, Tokyo, Paris and Shanghai Fashion Week.
In 2010 the brand moved their studio to Shenzhen in China.
FFIXXED STUDIOS are known for their high-quality natural fibres and highly personalized production techniques.
FFIXXED STUDIOS
With a room crowded with all sorts of fashionistas from all over the world, the show seemed like a success. You could really feel the passion for fashion while entering the room based on the atmosphere.
People were talking in every corner about the designers, and the upcoming show. Then the show started, and the room went silent.
The music made the collections come alive, and drew attention to the audience. The designers seemed satisfied with the shows, and happily talked about it afterwards.
Over all it was a fantastic show with a group of very talented designers.
OUR REVIEW OF THE FFF SHOW
Cynthia & Xiao is a chinese brand, which is lanced in 2014. The brand is consisting of Cynthia Mak and Xiao Xiao.
Cynthia Mak is from Hong Kong. She is educated in graphic design and have participated curses at CSM. During her graduation show she got a lot of good reviews from Italian Vogue and got on the list of “new talents”. Before they started Cythia & Xiao she has been working for Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Preen by Thornton and Roksandra Illincic.
Xiao Xiao - she is born in Bejing and later she moved to UK. She has been studyed Fine Arts and Textiles in High School and later she has been specialised in knitwear at CSM. After working for some different fashion companies in UK she moved back to China, because she would get to know the chinese fashion market before she made her own brand. In China she worked for at local company called WO square.
In Cynthia & Xiao they cooperate in making a collection, which combine Cynthias background in fashion and graphic design and Xioas expertise in knitwear.
ID
The designers behind the brand ID is Julio and Cyrus and is from established in Hong Kong. The brand is created by the inspiration designers’ chemistry and relationship, furthermore it is inspired by the contrasts of romanticism and realism. There is a contrast in their personalities, styles and aesthetics, which they use to create the concept of their brand. To get out their message and their love for harmony despite differences they built up a story but not only about how to dress the woman but also to emphasize on emotions.Their mission is also to portray the woman they love in their work. Julio is inspired by the beauty and fragility in women, which he shows in the smallest details. Cyrus is inspired by more spontaneous and ever-changing features, which he shows in most of the pieces that is created to transform.
GUY LAROCHE
"GAUCHÈRE, a high-end young designer brand based in Paris. The brand is ambivalent, but it is all about a natural duality. It is the ability to make all contrasting elements merge with each other that create the authentic and strong design of the brand and the collection. GAUCHÈRE has always two sides, the apparent and the hidden. GAUCHÈRE plays with contrasts by using unique techniques and high quality fabrics as surface of a new three-dimensional garment. Oversized and large shapes meet fitted pieces, and classic menswear tailoring appears in a next context by the simultaneous use of masculine and feminine aspects of a garment. The collections are not about symmetry, harmony or sameness, they are about a complex architecture of different shapes and forms that creates a totality of displaced dimensions."
GAUCHÈRE
