Revista Metal

publicity

Barcelona 2010 / 02 / 06

080 BARCELONA
THE PEOPLE

Text: Ona Poveda
Photo: Rodrigo Manzano

In the last post we presented the best designers we saw during the last 080 Barcelona Fashion edition. Many people came to see the shows. Our photographer Rodrigo Manzano took some pictures to the friends, models, designers and journalists who shared three fashion days in the city.

Read more
Comments (2)
Barcelona 2010 / 02 / 02

080 BARCELONA
NORMALITY WITH
SMART SPARKLES

Text: Dodi Espinosa
Photo: Rodrigo Manzano

Catalan pro-independent fashion platform ends once again, this edition with the winners multiplied by three. Karlota Laspalas and Jan Iú Més duo were selected by the international jury as the best menswear proposals, meanwhile Miriam Ponsa won the best womenswear collection award with a complete, mature and studied collection presented for the fall/winter 2010-11 season.
 The event took three days and eighteen fashion shows, but just a few are in the worth to highlight next to the remarkable visit of two important young brands, Tim Hamilton (New York) and Songzio (Seoul), both with their latest collections recently presented at the Paris fashion week some days ago.

Karlota Laspalas, Jan Iú Més and Miram Ponsa, the winners


Jan Iú Més opened with a collection in a dusty line, remarkable for the great use of prints, grey  squares, lines and textures gave strength to the wool qualities. A battered silhouette coming from the beginning of the twentieth century full of masculine garments with beautiful oversize sweaters, all in brown, closing the show. Later, Yiorgos Eleftheriades showed his Urban Hunters, “Inspired by the idea of amazonian hunters with an urban futuristic twist” with an evident evolution, the feminine well defined shapes were covered and combined with voluminous leather coats full of strategically positioned slits that transformed a sharp woman in to a nomad one with great quality raw materials as ever, and then, Montse Liarte showed her strong desire to fly inspiration, an aerodynamic well done collection between birds an aeroplanes with structured shapes on black, blue, beige and grey accompanied with nice accessories.

Jan Iú Més

Yiorgos Eleftheriades

Montse Liarte

Read more
Comments (5)
Copenhagen 2010 / 01 / 20

GALLERY
THE PULSE
BY THE NORTH

Text: Victor Moreno

The Copenhagen Fashion Week is expecting 50.000 visitors around all its different fairs at the forthcoming edition this February 10th to the 13th. METAL will be there.

More than 40 shows and about 3.000 brands will exhibit during these days. Gallery International Fashion Fair Copenhagen  is a perfect occasion not just to testify the current pulse of the Scandinavian design-driven brands but also it's main access gate to the Nordic market. Between such a massive offer it is important be at the right place in the right moment. Gallery already presents profiles such as Dior, Lagerfeld, Malene Birger, NOIR, Tiger of Sweden, Carin Wester, Peter Jensen, Wood Wood, Paul and Joe and Stella McCartney and manages interrelations within Danish, Swedish, Finish and Norwegian designers as a hub.

For this edition three of the most awaited shows will be hosted by Gallery; the Copenhagen based-designer Stine Goya, Stockholm-based Minimarket and the Finish designer Ivana Helsinki. METAL will be there and we promise to come back with some gems and exciting stuff from the experience. Otherwise come along! To open the appetite of all of you we were in contact with CEO and founder, Christian Gregersen.

About Gallery?
Started in my PR showroom with 10 designers where more asked to join... Now Gallery is 200 designers of the most leading in the world.

What is the prior aim?
To present and promote the leading Scandinavian designers outside the region. That is the goal.

Is Scandinavian design-driven brands at the forefront?
That Gallery presents the best Scandinavian is the goal and advantage. In the beginning I had to say no to many designers that did not fit that profile. To say NO is very important creating something strong and precise.

Which is the role for the Scandinavians at Gallery?
Gallery present 200 brands,  Copenhagen present 3000 in all. The Scandinavian are the core and what made Gallery strong in the beginning.

Shows from the Scandinavian ones at this edition?
Catwalks: IvanaHelsinki, Stine Goya, FIN, Ivan Grundahl, Karen Simonsen, TinaH, Louise Amstrup, Barbara iGongini, KEA.

Read more
Comments (0)
Copenhagen 2010 / 01 / 18

BIBI GHOST
THE BLACK SHEEP

Text: Sara Överengen

We got a chance to talk to Bibi Vogelia the woman behind Copenhagen, based brand Bibi GHOST. She sees herself as a black sheep in fashion, as not really a part of it all, but still happy she is not alone and that there are other designers like her. She does not feel competition between her and other designers, quite the opposite they have a great time together and feel a bond between them as creative souls. She describes the fashion scene in Copenhagen as divided in two scenes: the established grown up one and the fun scene with smaller more innovative brands.

She thinks contrasts are good and the two scenes just have different aims and interests. To her it is important not to be put in a box and to be able to create whatever she feels like within her brand. I ask her how she sees herself as a part of Danish design: “Hmmm, maybe I’m a bit of an anarchist with this whole fashion-thing I’m not really a part of it. I’m just there,  I make a show because I think it’s fun and maybe because I’m something else, the press and people come”. This season SS 10 soon aviable in stores with her forth collection Secret Garden. To prepare for the the season and to create a loop hole, to get some fresh air she went to St. Petersburg in Russia and was struck by the greatness and at the same time the decay of the city. The book The master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov accompanied her on the trip and she totally fell in love with the city and its contrasts and it all came together and made sense. From this Secret Garden was created with musketeers uniforms with feminine collars, masculine uniform belts and big soft powder colored dresses. It was shown in an old garden in Copenhagen never opened to the public before. Talking to Bibi she explains that to get inspiration and to prepare for a new season she usually takes some time off to go somewhere. This time she went on an all-inclusive package charter trip. She went to a destination in the middle of nowhere built up entirely for tourists. In her own words “crrrrazy stuff, never tried it before….. totally ding dong, but then again I like ding dong, so it was perfect”.
This what sounds like a somewhat freaky experience resulted in After Tea. “Where the SS 10 was more a feeling of something hidden under the surface the AW 10 collection is a bit more wacky, like the mad hatter in Alice in Wonderland. More wired and more out of place”, according to Bibi. She continues to explain the collection as a tea party gone wrong –pieces that people would wear to a tea party– some dressed up nice, some awkward and some guests just tired. The plan was originally not to show at Copenhagen Fashion Week at all, but then Bibi got an irresistible offer so now she is busy planning a show and party with the venue Pumpehuset. And to follow the theme it will all be after tea.

Bibi Ghost started her career with wanting to work with art, but found it too intimidating so she went for clothes instead. She tells me sewing has always been close to her in her childhood and she always made her own clothes but she could never expect to work as a designer and run her own label. During school she went on an internship at Danish designer Henrik Vibskov and also became assistant designer for a costume-project. She got the possibility to sell a piece from her graduation collection in the by then just opened Vibskov shop in Copenhagen. The piece was a hit and Bibi Ghost continued as an assistant designer at another Danish brand to see and learn how to run a small label. In February 2008 she showed her first collection The Diamond Collection AW08. What it all revolves around for Bibi Ghost is to have fun: “it has to be fun for me, to be a part of it. When it isn’t fun any longer I’ll have to do something else”. I ask Bibi what is in her mind and world: “My world is filled with fun, circus, no rules, big balloons and tiny animals… and funny sounds. But sometimes it can also be very dark and quiet, but in a good way”. What sets her mind off is awkward contrasts: “I always look for contrasts and things that kind of doesn’t fit in. I like contrasts,  and I love very tiny tiny things and very big big things together. So I try to keep my world full of things that are kind of “off”, you know, the things that you just can’t put your finger on. So at first you don’t like it, but because it keeps you thinking, you end up loving it”.

We will be seeing Bibi Ghost attending Copenhagen Fashion Week in Gallery with After Tea at Copenhagen Fashion Week this February. The show and the following party will be held at Pumpehuset. Why she is attending Gallery in her own words: “Gallery it the fair that fits the best with our label... it´s central and all our buyers go there, so it's easy for them... We exhibited my SS 09 collection at Gallery and got a few new shops, so I was happy”. She has now decided to show at Gallery again after a few seasons out of the fair and thinks that showing here is a step in the right direction. Her opinion about how Gallery is helping for the development of Scandinavian design-driven brands is to attract the attention from interntional buyers to come to Copenhagen Fashion Week. “They are beginning to understand that the smaller brands are good PR, so that's fine, but things could always be better....”. In Denmark it is tricky to get governmental funds for brands wich seems a little bit ironic when Denmark is very proud of its high profile as home to many good designers. “I'm just counting on Survival of the fittest, and hope that I'm one of them, and hey, creative things should never be done for the money”. Besides showing at Copenhagen Fashion Week in February we will be seeing Bibi Ghost doing a collaboration with a Danish shoe label planned to be released SS 11.

Read more
Comments (4)
Stockholm 2010 / 01 / 15

IT'S ALL ABOUT
STOCKHOLM

Photo: Lena Modigh

Art Director/Editor: Victor Moreno
Stylist: Nike Fröhling Felldin
Make up: Igna Alonso @ BAUER
Models: Rosanna & Mikaela @ Mikas Stockholm

Jacket Carin Wester, cardigan and scarf vintage

Jacket Carin Wester, cardigan vintage, skirt burfitt, necklace Cornelia, shoes vintage

Coat Rodebjer, top Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, bra stockings and scarf vintage, skirt Rika

Scarf vintage

Jacket Carin Wester, cardigan vintage, skirt burfitt, necklace Cornelia, shoes vintage

Coat Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, hat Barbro Scott, dress Acne

Coat Rodebjer, top Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, bra stockings and scarf vintage, skirt Rika

Read more
Comments (1)
Barcelona 2010 / 01 / 14

ALEX DUNSTAN
BY FERRATER STUDIO

Text: Yolanda Muelas

Ha desfilado para firmas como Lanvin, Paul Smith o Miharayasuhiro, y protagonizado editoriales para revistas como Dazed & Confused, Vogue Hommes Japan, Another Man Magazine o 10 Men Magazine. En nuestro número de septiembre, Leon Mark le fotografiaba en Londres con estilismo de Santi Rodríguez; y en el actual, lo hizo JM Ferrater con estilismo de Ana de Gregorio. Junto a la editorial filmaron también el vídeo que ahora os presentamos, una mezcla de Super 8 y digital con un Alex Dunstan que se sale. Toda la ropa de Diesel.

Read more
Comments (2)
Barcelona 2010 / 01 / 12

G-STAR
SILHOUETTES
ARE THE KEY

Text: Ona Poveda
Photo: Jojlin Snijders

Few hours before last G-Star’s fashion show in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom we talked to Rebekka Bach, the responsible for the women’s denim collection, and Patrick Kraaijeveld, from Sales Department. Both agree that working with silhouettes is basic for G-Star.

Just a few hours before the show and the clothes look nice at the backstage. Patrick explains: “From the whole collection you can see here, we make a selection of ten pieces for men and ten pieces for women and that’s what we sell later at the stores, so not the whole range”. What’s the most important thing for G-Star? , I ask Rebekka. “To push the boundaries and to explore new key silhouettes, new techniques, new fabric developments”. Rebekka is not only the responsible for women’s denim but also coordinates fabrics and silhouettes for the entire women’s collection. She talks about how important prints are in the next Spring-Summer 2010 collection and shows me the main print you can see at jackets, dresses and trousers, it looks like kind of fishes in dark blue, weird but beautiful. Going back to the first question Patrick adds: “We’re a brand, and as this brand we have to change the market, not run behind the market. For us, silhouettes are very important, I think slowly we found a system to work and assuming we can make a women’s collection that has it’s own look, its own field, it’s doing well”.

G-Star is not a usual denim company, as Patrick says, “normally in a denim label you don’t get the chance to make collections like these”. How do you plan the fashion shows? “What we want is to use the show to make a collection in-house, and the things we learn as a company from making all this garments is what we want to put back into the normal collection, so the thought behind this collection is that we learn so much that we show the capability of what we want, making tomorrow aesthetics.” Rebekka, in this research process the women became more feminine, do you agree with this? “Absolutely, what we aim for is to make a women’s collection more feminine but still denim, very denim related in fact, and we’ve been working very hard on pushing it into modern and very feminine. What we’re about to show today at the fashion show is what we call RAW elegant”. Is G-Star focused in the young market or not really? “We don’t believe in age”, says Patrick, “that’s underestimating your consumer, age is something… for me is like, who is 20?, or 30? or 50?, and this is how we look at clothes, so everybody can buy it and feel it, also if you see our pictures, you don’t see an age girl, if you see our advertising for example, it’s very wide range, and we feel confident with that”.

***

Styling: Jordy Huinder @ Eric Elenbaas
Make up & Hair: Dennis Michael @ Angelique Hoorn
Models: Willemijn Koppelman @ SPS Models
& David Viersen @ A Models Amsterdam
All the clothes from the G-Star Spring-Summer 2010 collection

Read more
Comments (0)
Stockholm 2010 / 01 / 11

METAL #18
STOCKHOLM LAUNCH:
THE VIDEO

Text: Víctor Moreno

A few days ago, we posted the pictures of the METAL launch in Stockholm, at the Papercut store. For those could not be there and for those who actually were here is a bite of reality of what really happened. We got Absolut Rock, we got The Touch and we turned Papercut  into the best club in town for a night. We got fun indeed.
 
***

METAL would like to thank PEOPLE magazine for their support and the contest of a one year subscription of our magazine among their readers. PEOPLE is a respected free distribution publishing in Sweden spreading away highlights from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö every month.

Read more
Comments (2)
New York 2010 / 01 / 11

METAL #18
LAUNCH PARTY
AT NEW YORK

Text: Félix Carrizo
Photo: Christopher Sauvé, Zahara & Sam Sammons

Con las navidades de por medio, no colgamos las fotos de la fiesta que hicimos en Nueva York para presentar el número 18. Aquí las tenéis. La sala Cabanas acogió de nuevo la fiesta de METAL en colaboración con BLAT Vodka, American Apparel y PAVON by luz & victoria. Fumi Nagasaka y Aingeru Zorita hicieron bailar a los cientos de cool kids que se acercaron a celebrar la salida del número 18 de la revista. Alexander Wang,  el equipo de V Magazine, Pablo Olea, Alexandra Agoston, Ali Hilfiger, Sophia Lamar, Joan Pedrola y Elisabeth Mas fueron algunas de las caras conocidas que brindaron con nosotros.

Read more
Comments (1)
Barcelona 2009 / 12 / 23

MERRY CHRISTMAS
BY METAL
AND FERRATER STUDIO

Text: Yolanda Muelas

Christmas are coming and we want to celebrate it and wish the best for 2010 to everybody with this amazing video. Filmed by Ferrater Studio with stylism by Ana de Gregorio, this is our way to say HAPPY NEW YEAR! Enjoy.

Read more
Comments (0)

Essentials