Adeline André est une créatrice de mode, grande couturière et membre de la Chambre syndicale de la Haute-couture.
Toujours en quête de la simplicité, le travail d'Adeline André se résume dans une recherche, expérimentation de nouvelles coupes de vêtements : « robe pantalon tourné », « robe jambe libre », « robe dos décapotable » notamment, en 1996 « une maille aux bords roulants » etc.
En 1987, elle arrête la diffusion de ses collections de prêt-à-porter pour se consacrer exclusivement au sur-mesure, lançant en 1992 le concept du « topofwear » présentations privées et itinérantes dans des galeries, ateliers ou salons de ses amis à Paris, Londres et New York
En mai 1997, Adeline André devient « Membre invité », et en janvier 2005 « Membre permanent » de la Chambre syndicale de la haute couture bénéficiant de l’appellation haute couture.
En 2012, Didier Grumbach lui remet les insignes de Chevalier dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur.
Having become a renowned designer in a few years, Alexandre Vauthier imposes himself with his precise, structured and rigorous cuts. Before founding his house in 2009, the Frenchman worked for Mugler and later for Jean-Paul Gaultier as Head Designer of the couture collections. Supported by the press and by the Fédération Française de la Couture, he dresses the greatest personalities.
Alexis Mabille est né le 30 novembre 1976 à Lyon. Il a étudié au lycée Saint-Marc, à Lyon.
Il est connu tant pour ses collections de « Couture » et de prêt-à-porter unisexes, que pour ses nœuds papillons, qui sont au fil du temps devenus sa signature. Avant de lancer ses propres collections, il a, entre autres, été le collaborateur d'Hedi Slimane, pour qui il concevait les bijoux de la ligne masculine Dior Homme.
En septembre 2010, il réalise pour Christophe de Quénetain une garniture de fauteuils exposée à la Biennale des antiquaires4. Il est également connu pour avoir habillé Dita von Teese. En 2012, le BHV lui confie la conception et la décoration de ses vitrines de Noël.
Célèbre pour sa modernisation du nœud papillon, Alexis Mabille créé sa propre maison après avoir collaboré avec des maisons comme Christian Dior et Yves Saint Laurent. Membre officiel de la Fédération française de la Couture depuis décembre 2012, le natif de Lyon offre un style élégant jouant entre les codes des vestiaires féminin et masculin.
Fascinated by craftsmanship, detail-oriented and passionate about life, designer Antonio Ortega has built his life and career around a dream: to enter the world of haute couture.
My vision of sewing evolves like a painting.
Born in Morelia, a Mexican cultural city known for his craft traditions, and the youngest of 15 children, his passion for fashion began at the age of 8 when he secretly sewed on a pattern found in a magazine, on his mother's machine. Seeing an exceptional and personal way of expressing himself, Antonio Ortega is naturally heading for fashion design studies in Mexico. He collaborates in 1994 with the Mexican House of Crafts and learns the ancestral techniques and know-how such as braiding, weaving, embroidery or ajour: practices "signatures" found in his current creations .
Curious and always ready to face challenges, the young man joined TV channel Télévisa S.A in 1996 where he excelled as a stylist and supervised a team of more than 35 people. To his artistic and creative predispositions, he then adds managerial talents, which gives him a broader vision of the creative profession. A universe he will leave, however, to pursue his dreams of greatness and become a fashion designer.
In 2001, curious to know the roots of Haute Couture, Antonio flies to Paris and integrates the school workshop Chardon Savard. He collaborates in parallel with the couturier Dominique Sirop in his Parisian haute couture studio. An experience that confirms the attention to detail of the young designer who benefits from it to feed, purify and refine his learning and his techniques. That same year, he launched his brand, marked by its cultural diversity and playing with contrasts of noble materials, technological and natural textiles. He experimented with tattoos on leather, unfinished finishes and twist skirts. It combines neoprene or raincoat with silk, cotton, cashmere or bamboo in a constant search for "what does not exist yet". Soon, his collections make a place during fashion week in New York, Montreal and Toronto.
In 2014, more determined and ambitious than ever, he decided to give a new impetus to his home by presenting his latest Fall Winter 2014-2015 collection, during the week of Haute Couture, in Paris. A philosophy of excellence and a quest for perfection that pays. His collection "Serpent, Myth and Reality" is punctuated with sensuality, elegance, refinement, colors and life. Fluid and skilfully structured tailors work alongside romantic-embroidered tops or, on the contrary, with a very contemporary and moving design. Pleated skirts moiré or with delicate and modern cuts are measured with dresses which play the superimpositions and which sometimes graze onirism. A style that promotes diversity, joy and self-assurance. A garment in which the woman feels free and advantaged. An assertive identity, dictated by passion, discipline and tenacity. A dream come true.
Based in Montreal today, Antonio Ortega continues to develop his Coutures Collection, presented every season during Haute Couture Week in Paris, and nurtures the idea of a line of ready-to-wear and accessories. Future projects in his image, playing with the confrontation of subjects and feelings.
The dream continues ...
« Je rêverais d’habiller Hale Berry », confie Christophe Guillarmé. Mais pour le moment, le créateur amoureux de la dentelle peut se contenter de faire venir des « stars françaises » pour son défilé printemps-été 2016 à l’atelier Renault, sur les Champs Elysées. « Il y a eu 45 minutes de défilé de personnalités ! », s’étonne t-il. Alors que Jada Pinkett (la femme de Will Smith) assistait au défilé Laroche, Christine Lemler, Karine Lima, Louisy Joseph dévoraient des yeux les robes de princesses made by leur ami Christophe. Assise au premier rang, ( le front row), Emmanuelle Boidron, alias la fille de Navaro, ne cache pas son enthousiasme à chaque passage. Plus discrète, la chanteuse Priscilla, future candidate à Danse avec les stars. Révélée en 2001 à l’âge de 12 ans avec son titre « Quand je serai jeune », Priscilla est aujourd’hui -un peu moins jeune- mais toujours aussi jolie. Sa beauté a attiré plus de photographes que les autres starlettes. De quoi faire pâlir de jalousie les copines… Mais la palme du glamour revient au couple Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Miss France 2007, et son footballeur de mari, Aurélien Capoue. Ce que l’on retiendra surtout, c’est la présence d’Aida Touhiri sur le podium. Une idée folle de créateur de 38 ans : « Aida est une grande amie à moi et elle voulait parler du défilé pour le Grand 8. Je lui ai proposé de jouer les mannequins et elle a immédiatement accepté. Bon… entre nous, elle était très angoissée. Et elle s’en est vraiment bien sortie ! » On n’arrive pas à un défilé comme on va acheter une ampoule LED au rayon bricolage du BHV Néanmoins, le plus intéressant dans les défilés, ce n’est pas la collection. Mais les fashion victim. Plus stars que les vraies stars. On n’arrive pas à un défilé comme on va acheter une ampoule LED au rayon bricolage du BHV. Tout est pensé. Au moindre détail. Et parfois, le détail vire au ridicule. Heureusement, il ne tue pas ! Mais nous, les gens normaux, sommes morts de rire. Ces squatteurs de la fashion week, ceux qui enchainent les collections de 9h à 21h, vivent dans l’illusion d’un potentiel moment de gloire. Souvent habillés en mode #JeNeMettraiMêmePasCaPourUnCarnaval, ils ont cette démarche assurée mais tellement épatante. Et ça commence devant l’hôtesse qui a pour mission de s’assurer que cette « créature » est bien sur la liste. Et gare à celle qui ne retrouvera pas le nom dans un délai respectable. ( Pas plus de dix secondes, sinon, tu passes pour un boloss). Pendant la Fashion week, le spectacle est partout. Surtout là où on ne s’y attend pas…
« Je rêverais d’habiller Hale Berry », confie Christophe Guillarmé. Mais pour le moment, le créateur amoureux de la dentelle peut se contenter de faire venir des « stars françaises » pour son défilé printemps-été 2016 à l’atelier Renault, sur les Champs Elysées. « Il y a eu 45 minutes de défilé de personnalités ! », s’étonne t-il. Alors que Jada Pinkett (la femme de Will Smith) assistait au défilé Laroche, Christine Lemler, Karine Lima, Louisy Joseph dévoraient des yeux les robes de princesses made by leur ami Christophe.
Assise au premier rang, ( le front row), Emmanuelle Boidron, alias la fille de Navaro, ne cache pas son enthousiasme à chaque passage. Plus discrète, la chanteuse Priscilla, future candidate à Danse avec les stars. Révélée en 2001 à l’âge de 12 ans avec son titre « Quand je serai jeune », Priscilla est aujourd’hui -un peu moins jeune- mais toujours aussi jolie. Sa beauté a attiré plus de photographes que les autres starlettes. De quoi faire pâlir de jalousie les copines… Mais la palme du glamour revient au couple Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Miss France 2007, et son footballeur de mari, Aurélien Capoue. Ce que l’on retiendra surtout, c’est la présence d’Aida Touhiri sur le podium. Une idée folle de créateur de 38 ans : « Aida est une grande amie à moi et elle voulait parler du défilé pour le Grand 8. Je lui ai proposé de jouer les mannequins et elle a immédiatement accepté. Bon… entre nous, elle était très angoissée. Et elle s’en est vraiment bien sortie ! »
On n’arrive pas à un défilé comme on va acheter une ampoule LED au rayon bricolage du BHV
Néanmoins, le plus intéressant dans les défilés, ce n’est pas la collection. Mais les fashion victim. Plus stars que les vraies stars. On n’arrive pas à un défilé comme on va acheter une ampoule LED au rayon bricolage du BHV. Tout est pensé. Au moindre détail. Et parfois, le détail vire au ridicule. Heureusement, il ne tue pas ! Mais nous, les gens normaux, sommes morts de rire. Ces squatteurs de la fashion week, ceux qui enchainent les collections de 9h à 21h, vivent dans l’illusion d’un potentiel moment de gloire. Souvent habillés en mode #JeNeMettraiMêmePasCaPourUnCarnaval, ils ont cette démarche assurée mais tellement épatante. Et ça commence devant l’hôtesse qui a pour mission de s’assurer que cette « créature » est bien sur la liste. Et gare à celle qui ne retrouvera pas le nom dans un délai respectable. ( Pas plus de dix secondes, sinon, tu passes pour un boloss).
Georges Chakra, born in Lebanon, is a haute couture designer based in Beirut.
Training:
2 years of studies in interior architecture
Fashion Design Diploma from the Canadian Fashion Academy
1985: Creation of the Georges Chakra brand.
During the 80s and 90s, Georges Chakra's workshop addressed a local, then regional clientele, to become an international haute couture house.
Since 2002 :
The Georges Chakra haute couture collections parade twice a year in Paris.
2006:
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada wears clothes from Georges Chakra's haute couture collection, as does Blake Lively and Leighton Meester in the television series Gossip Girl.
February 2009:
Launch at New York fashion week of the ready-to-wear line "Edition by Georges Chakra"
Famous clients:
Kelly Rowland, Blake Lively, Jennifer Lopez, Carrie Underwood, Zhang Ziyi, Li Bing Bing, Anna Kendrick, Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Marcia cross, Helen Mirren, Tyra banks.
GIAMBA
Giambattista Valli
Giamba, the ready-to-wear line from Giambattista Valli, made its debut in 2014 and was founded with the aim of offering Valli Girls everyday looks that are elegant, easy to wear and full of glamor.
The Paris-based Roman designer studied at the Art School of Rome and graduated from the Istituto Europeo di Design. After having held the position of Artistic Director in various Maisons, notably Emanuel Ungaro, Valli founded his own in 2005 and received the Haute Couture designation from the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture shortly after.
His followers include Victoria Beckam, Julianne Moore, Diane Kruger, Sara Jessica Parker and many others.
Guo Pei (Chinese: 郭培, Mandarin pronunciation: [ku̯ó pʰěɪ̯], born 1967) is a Chinese fashion designer.
Guo Pei is China’s most renowned couturier. For over 20 years, she has been dressing celebrities, distinguished ladies, royalty and political elite who turn to her for show-stopping, magnificent creations when they want to look beautiful and stand out from the crowd.
A modern messenger of her cultural heritage, Guo Pei has breathed new life into embroidery and painting traditions that date back thousands of years. Showcasing the finest of traditional Chinese craftsmanship while incorporating contemporary innovation and Western style, Guo Pei is a passionate artisan who wants to evoke people’s emotions and inspire people through her art.
In the world of Guo Pei, fabric, shape and texture resonate with meaning. Inspired by fairy tales, legends and even military history, every creation tells a story and is a canvas for artistic expression, bringing beauty, romance and the designer’s imagination to life. They tell the stories which paintings and embroidery have conveyed throughout the centuries.
ORIGINS OF A COUTURIER
Guo Pei’s lifelong passion for couture is deeply rooted in her childhood dream: an aspiration to perfection, born from the contemplation of beauty. Born in 1967, she started sewing when she was two years old, and quickly developed a passion for dressmaking. In 1986, she graduated at the top of her class from the Beijing School of Industrial Fashion Design, and spent the next 10 years designing for major manufacturers.
In 1997 she launched her own label and atelier, Rose Studio, where she has been passing on her savoir-faire to a new generation of embroiderers. Today, she employs nearly 500 skilled artisans dedicated to producing her stunning creations, some of which can take thousands of hours and up to two years to complete.
As Guo Pei’s reputation for high-quality, bespoke designs has grown, so has her influence. From daywear for successful businesswomen, to elegant gowns for the red carpet, to elaborate wedding gowns, or costumes for films, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the annual CCTV New Year’s gala, Guo Pei is one of China’s most prolific designers.
FROM BEIJING TO PARIS
2015 marked a major turning point for Guo Pei, when the pop singer Rihanna chose to wear one of her designs to the Met Gala, inaugurating the museum’s "China: Through the Looking Glass” exhibition, in which Guo’s works were shown. In July 2015, she held her first solo exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; she followed that with a sold-out collaborative makeup collection with MAC. Later that year, Guo was honored to become an invited member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, the chief governing body of the high-fashion industry, allowing her to show on the Paris Haute Couture Week calendar.
Guo made her Paris Haute Couture debut in January 2016, unveiling her “Courtyard” collection to wide critical acclaim. In the same year, she was also named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and one of the Business of Fashion's 500 most influential people shaping the global fashion industry.
With a new studio on the prestigious Rue Saint Honoré in Paris, and the launch of an eponymous brand, Guo Pei, the future holds exciting possibilities.
⭐️ Press release - May 1st 2021
Guo Pei decided to leave Paris and its fashion organization FHCM click here to read the news
Rose Studio head office :
C Schengen Int'l Building,No.5 Laiguangying.West Road,Chaoyang District,Beijing,China.
Tel: 400-670-2333
GuoMao Store:
3L-111 CHINA WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER 3, Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
Tel: 010-65895589
PR Office :
Jacques Babando Communication
Maison IRFE.
Russian Couture House founded in 1924 in Paris and re-launched by fashion model artist Olga Sorokina.
(updated april 2021)
FELIX AND IRINA YOUSOUPOFF
Among the European Fashion Houses you will hardly find a Fashion House with such Imperial credentials as the Maison IRFĒ, which was founded in 1924 in Paris by Yousoupoff the princely couple, who gave their initials to form the name of the House.
She was Princess Irina Romanova, a young dazzling beauty, niece of Imperor Nicolas and the favourite granddaughter of Tsar Alexander III.
He – Prince Felix Yousoupoff, Count Sumarokov-Elston was the descendant of an ancient tribe, one of the most handsome men of Russia. The heir of a fabulous fortune (the Yousoupoff were deemed to be wealthier than the Tsar himself), he was closely related to Russian and European aristocracy.
Felix Yousoupoff grew up in one of the most respectable families in Russia and its sumptuous palaces. Therefore, he possessed an immaculate taste formed by his family history and the beauty around him . Since early childhood he had admired his mother’s beauty and her perfect outfits, her legendary huge diamonds and rare pearls. Such a rarefied atmosphere would later on be his inspiration for the interiors he designed and the exotic Oriental furnishings that were characteristic of the Maison IRFĒ.
THE LAST WEDDING OF THE EMPIRE
The wedding of this legendary couple came down in history. It was the last wedding in the Emperor’s family before the beginning of the First World War, which reached the young couple during their honeymoon journey in Germany.
After the Revolution the Yousoupoff’s family immigrated to Europe. In Italy ,they had a large villa on Corsica – an estate, and Paris, a city they knew well, appeared as a romantic refuge to them. They bought a house near le Parc des Princes in Boulogne-sur-Seine. There, the Prince set up a charming little theatre where the Maison IRFĒ subsequently started.
Olga Sorokina
Olga Sorokina began her journey into the world of beauty and illusions with steps on the catwalk as a model.
- Now turning the pages of my life, I realized how important it is to flow from one form to another without losing your identity. I thank my lucky stars for invaluable experience and momentous meetings. I remember that moment when I felt cramped in one role. I learned about IRFE from the book “Beauty in Exile” by Alexander Vasilyev. This book is about Russian fashion House of the 20th century. When I was a child we have always been taught to read books and only this way you would learn about everything: books can change a persons. I never would have believed that this story will touch me after reading the book Beauty in Exile: my life has really changed. -Olga Sorokina
One of those life-changings meetings was Olga Sorokina’s meeting with Ksenia Sfiri - the granddaughter of the founders of the Fashion House IRFE. Their first encounter was in the family home of Yusupov in Paris and became a new turning point in the history of the legendary House.
Olga Sorokina’s debut show for the Maison IRFE was held at the Haute Couture Week in July 2008 in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo.
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Reconnue pour son univers excentrique, créatif et original, la Maison John Galliano fondée par l'homme du même nom est l'une des Maisons de couture des plus connues au monde. À la tête de la Direction Artistique depuis 2011, Bill Gaytten ex-bras droit du designer John Galliano s'attache à créer des collections qui s'inpirent de l'héritage et de l'histoire de la Maison. Marque des romantiques, des connaisseurs et des passionnés de mode, John Galliano vous donnera une allure assurément singulière.