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Marloes ten Bhömer believes her shoes can change the world, one step at a time.
In the space between design disciplines, strangely beautiful objects live. And 26 year old Marloes ten Bhömer is making them.
Part fashion and part architecture, her startling shoes feature heels that cantilever and curtain-wall toes that obscure the foot's shape, defying their impossible profiles to actually function.
Ever since her undergrad years, studying product design at the Academy of Visual Arts and Design in the Dutch city of Arnhem, ten Bhömer has been fascinated by shoes as utilitarian structures, and their small scale meant she could fabricate them in her tiny home studio.
At the Royal College of Art in London, she began developing sculpted, folded footwear and contributing technical drawings and prototypes to fashion mavericks such as Alexander McQueen and Boudicca.
Ten Bhömer's concepts crystallized in a product-design class taught by architect Ron Arad, whose own products and buildings push the envelope of conceptual design.
"Why should things make themselves understood immediately?" she asks.
Her lucky break came when Arad recommended his star pupil for a summer internship at the Italian design office of Tod's-echoes of her sketches even showed up in a spring/summer 2003 leather shoe made for sister company
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When you enter designer Ron Mandelman's shop at 43 Sheinkin Street in Tel Aviv, Israeli jazz plays as a backdrop to the brightly colored, one-of-a-kind pieces featured along the walls.
"What's new this season are 1920s and 1930s dresses, with glamorous, draping fabrics, and deep, exposed backs," Mandelman says. "It's about a sense of escapism from an artistic perspective, but one that is suitable for all types of women's bodies."
While Israel's politicians are planning road maps for the future, Israel's fashion designers are looking for inspiration from the past, and finding it in the Jazz Age. This spring, women's clothing in Tel Aviv is taking cues from the roaring '20s, with pieces that comfortably drape the figure in light fabrics, tiered designs, and a combination of flapper and kibbutznik style.
At Razili stores, which offer clothing from dozens of Israeli designers, a 21st-century take on Charleston style dominates, with streamlined flapper fashion appropriate for both Israeli practicality and elegance. Short-sleeved shirts frill at mid-shoulder, and longer sleeves drift with graceful fabrics and angled cuts.
"Israeli designers understand Israeli bodies," said Shir, 27, a saleswoman. "Israeli designers understand Israeli summer. European designers don't have the answer for a heat wave in August."
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Singapore Fashion Week 2005 (SFW2005) will feature a series of international exhibitions catering to the COMPLETE modus operandi in the fashion, garment and textile industry. From raw materials to machinery, from the completed apparel to high-end fashion design, SFW offers a fully comprehensive scope of the various industries.
For the first time since its inauguration 18 years ago, SFW 2005 will cover the entire value chain of the fashion industry, where all events during that period complement and reinforce each other to present a multi-dimensional and comprehensive showcase.
SFW will attract a congregation of who's who from the industry and redefine the parameters of sourcing and distribution for international manufacturers, fashion designers, distributors, agents, importers, retailers, garment and textile designers, merchants and international buying houses.
Other programmes will continue to feature local and regional fashion businesses and designers at different stages of their development, offering important assistance and useful information to budding undergraduates, fledging new businesses and established designers looking towards overseas expansions.
Exhibitors, participants, designers and trade visitors can expect a diversified and interactive platform to maximize their exposure within and beyond their indu
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YAFA Asia 2005, an International Yarns, Fibres, Fabrics & Accessories Exhibition, is a specialised event in yarns, fibres and fabrics for all apparel and textile markets. Since the launch of the event, it has generated vast interest from the manufacturers in Europe , the USA , India, China, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Taiwan.
APPAREL Asia 2005, an International Apparel, Garment Machinery & Accessories Exhibition will invigorate manufacturers to showcase their quality garments and the latest in designs, styles and colours to the international brands and buying houses of Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia and Japan.
Since its introduction to the manufacturers, it has received very positive feedback from the various Garment Manufacturing & Export Associations in Asia. It will be a fantastic showcase for the manufacturers to promote their quality products in this exciting textile and garment world without quotas.
With such a rich spectrum at both shows, buyers should find a most comprehensive and interesting market place for sourcing of top-of-the-line products and designs.
International buyers from leading global brands and labels the likes of Banana Republic, Gap International, Kmart, JCPenney, Polo Ralph Lauren, Saks and Walmart Inc will find absolute buying havens right here under
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The Costume Institute's major spring exhibition-will be presented in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Special Exhibition Galleries from May 5 to August 7, 2005.
Nearly 34 years after the passing of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the spirit of the house of Chanel will be manifested this spring in an extraordinary presentation of iconic fashions from Coco Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld.
"The work of Gabrielle Chanel, with its acknowledgment of the realities of women in the 20th century, was an elegantly conceptualized modernism," said Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute.
In creating a wardrobe for herself, Chanel invented an idea of the modern woman. The bare facts of Chanel's life-deprived of the autobiographical embellishments she evolved over time and the conjecture of others-are dramatic, but spare.
Therefore it is her work, which transcended class barriers and revolutionized the ideals of dress, that is the ultimate testament to her life.
It is a great privilege for The Costume Institute to present this exhibition, CHANEL, a name that remains synonymous with uncompromising refinement and seductive flair."
As one of the most recognized designers and couturiers of the 20th century, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) has long been the subject of breathless mythologizing and hagiography.
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