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Sunday, 17 June 2007 | Levent OZLER
New Arrivals: Starring Finnish Fashion
Product: OMRA dress
Designer: Samu-Jussi Koski, Pattern: Maija Louekari, Pisaroi
Year of Design: 2007
Producer: Marimekko
Specify: silk/viscose
Photo: Aleksi Niemelä
Fashion - forever attracting with novelties. Fashion follows the pulse of the times and its changes reflect changes in society. Fashion designers need not only a sense of form and material but also the ability to anticipate things to come. New Arrivals, Design Forum Finland's summer exhibition, presents the young designers and visionaries of Finnish fashion along with main developments in this field. The exhibition tells what is today's luxury design or street fashion. How does creative design differ from luxury design? What is essential in Finnish fashion - uniqueness, boldness, originality or something completely different?
Product: jarmusch tshirt
Designer: freeman
Year of Design: fall 07
Producer: CTRL
Specify: 100% cotton
Photo: Mikko Ryhänen
New Arrivals addresses the nature and ideology of fashion, and gives voice to the designer. The designers tell of their own starting points and ways of working. What is their inspiration? What stories are to be found behind the designs? This exhibition gathers an important group of young Finnish fashion designers, most of whom work for the international market. They will display fresh aspects of their output. Participants include Aki Choklat, CTRL, Samu-Jussi Koski/Marimekko, IVANAhelsinki, LAITINEN, Daniel Palillo, Minna Parikka, Rinne Niinikoski, Hanna Sarén, Saint Vacant Footwear, Anssi Tuupainen/Turo Red Label, Tiia Vanhatapio and Jarno Viitala/Nanso.
Product: Medieval shoe
Designer: Aki Choklat
Year of Design: 2007
Producer: Anrea Traina
Specify: vegetable tanned leather, natural rubber sole, cotton thread and metal studs 100 % handmade, without electricity
Photo: Christian Trippe
"We were asked to curate an exhibition on Finnish fashion design. A complex task, how to approach it?. Fashion manufactures perpetual newness. But every new thing comes from somewhere, has a history, a context, an origin. We wanted to make an exhibition that reveals these sources, investigates the processes, introduces the people behind the designs, and lets the visitor finally interact with the products in the most natural and exciting way - with their wallets.
Product: Betty cocktail dress
Designer: Tiia Vanhatapio
Year of Design: Tiia Vanhatapio A/W 07/08
Producer: Dark Creations Oy
Specify: Material: bridal satin
Photo: Nina Merikallio
"In the following months, we met 15 designers, discussed their work, made them fill out questionnaires, interviewed them on video; visited their homes, factories, offices, shops and studios; emailed, faxed, phoneconferenced, fedexed and started to call them by their first names. We asked them to tell stories, to fill boxes with things from their world, to take us behind the scenes, further than glossy pages, photoshoots, runways, clothes racks, and to show something beyond spring-summer and autumn-winter.
Product: Jacket Adrien 3236, jacket Kevin 3211, pants Ethan 3211, shirt Adam 3732
Designer: Anssi Tuupainen
Year of Design: 2007
Producer: Turo Tailor Oy
Photo: Jonas Lundqvist
"Welcome to New Arrivals exhibition, into this incredibly dynamic field where art, industry, craft and commerce overlap. Buy the catalogue, see the exhibition, visit the temporary boutique and walk out with a bagful of New Arrivals", Tuomas Toivonen, exhibition architect.
New Arrivals - Starring Finnish Fashion
15.6.-2.9.2007
Design Forum Finland
Erottajankatu 7, Helsinki
Mon. -Fri. 10-19, Sat. 10-18, Sun. 12-18.
Design Forum Finland: http://www.dexigner.com/directory/detail/7652.html
Product: Kruunu dress
Designer: Jarno Viitala
Year of Design: 2007
Producer: Nanso
Specify: Material: modal, lyocell, elasthane
Photo: Nanso/Lempivaate
Designer: Daniel Palillo
Specify: cotton
Photo: Chris Vidal
Product: Raquel shoe, Priscilla shoe, Maxine bag
Designer: Minna Parikka
Year of Design: 2007-2008
Photo: Nina Merikallio
Product: sketch
Designer: Anna & Tuomas Laitinen
Product: Alpaca dress
Designer: Anna & Tuomas Laitinen
Specify: Material: Alpaca wool and videotape
Photo: Shoji Fujii
Product: ST4, 38 Brown Suede
Designer: Janne Lax
Year of Design: 2007
Producer: Lax Creation
Specify: Material: upper suede, lining calfskin, leather sole Made: hand-crafted in small series
Photo: Janne Lax
Product: wooldress Nio
Designer: Paola Suhonen
Year of Design: 2007
Producer: IVANAhelsinki
Specify: 100 % wool
Photo: Paola Suhonen
Designer: Rinne Niinikoski
Year of Design: 2007
Specify: 100 % cotton Model: Noora Pitkänen Hair and makeup: Noora Pitkänen
Photo: Christian Yakowleff
Product: Hanna Sarén shop in Fredrikinkatu, Helsinki
Photo: Joanna Moorhouse
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