Portfolio: Triptiekshow

BY: CHRISTIAN M. PHOTOS: AYF ER (SHOW) & LEONIE (SHOOT)

A few weeks ago there was a show organized by all the 2nd year students of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, including me. We started with groups of 20 students and in every group there were managers, branders and designer students.

In my group there were 5 design students and you can see on the photo's our collection we've worked on it. Our inspiration was Friesland and our goal was to reach the youth of this Dutch province by making comfortable, but stylish and special clothing. We did a great job on it, we even had a high note for it! right under this post you can see the pictures of the shoot with me as the model and from the show.

Please send a comment here and give me your opinion about the colection. What would you like to buy from this. I heard alot of compliments about the beautiful sweater made by my group-mate Anouk!

Meet Jonathan Christopher

BY: CHRISTIAN M.

Hey little fashion soldiers,

Yes, It has been a long time ago…. Again! But I will try to post more! But I’m so busy with my school, but I definately don’t want to give up my blog. And I want to post only good work!

So a few months I went to the Modefabriek, a big event at the Amsterdam RAI where you’ll see all the trends coming this season. There was a special places whit stands of different young design talent. And there was one collection that stole my fashionheart. It was the collection of Jonathan Christopher Hofwegen.

Hofwegen graduated at the Willem de Kooning Academie (in Rotterdam). In that study, he did an internship at Dutch designer Francisco van Benthum. After that he did a master at ArtEZ in Arhem, one of the most artistic designschool in The Netherlands. He has been nominated for a few good designer awards.

Jonathan Christopher made the best menswear collection I’ve ever seen in my life! It’s so much different than the ‘average’ menswear collections. Every detail was so good and every clothing piece has it’s extra’s. I’m afraid lot’s of boring dudes won’t wear them, because they are afraid of the ‘new’ things. And that’s why I’m happy with this designer! We all should be happy to be different, or are we proud to be ‘normal’ ? Let’s change the world! But before that, let’s watch pictures of the brand.

Check out other pictures at his website: Click Here



xoxoChris

Bark of Joyness: INDIVIDUALS at Amsterdam Fashionweek

BY: CHRISTIAN PHOTOS: PETER STIGTER

First I want to tell you that the runway looked awesome and fitted totally with the style of the collection. I also enjoyed the backgroundmusic before the show started. A good old Bessie Smith.

When I found my seat I saw a paper and there was written:



Individuals presents ‘Duals’

In this collection Individuals reacts with passion and force to today’s society with a raw streetwear collection full of references to the city and to a nomadic lifestyle.

Duals refers to the duel between oneself and the outside world, and to the dualty between faith and insecurity. Progess and transience are two red threads running through the collection, seeking the answer to the question: “What time could this be?”


And now , let’s have a focus on the collection. When the first model came on the runway I knew how she would look like, because of the runway. But still the quality was surprisingly good. They worked so well on the fabrics. It probably took a long time to make it.
What also was surprising, were the dogmasks. They made it with a cool fabric that doesn’t look Halloween’ish but fashionable.
Another thing that made me happy was the beautiful details in every outfits. Nothing was boring.
I would describe the collection as urban chic. A gang with class (but not in a criminal way). I also love the unisex style in it. It’s accesable for everyone!

Check out more photo’s here!

xChris

Not Late, but Fashionably late: Kelly Cutrone in Amsterdam.

Good day/night readers,

I know she’s been here a few weeks ago, but i still want to tell you that I met Kelly Cutrone in Amsterdam! She was there for signing her books and giving advice to people. I told her that i’m studying at fashion design academy and that I have a problem with Time-management. And she told me she don’t had a good time management the day before the booksigning. And we talked alo tand she also signed a book for one of my best friends Precilla Sedney (blogger of Fashion & Art Expression LINK) She couldn’t make it, so i bought one of Kelly’s books and signed it for Precilla as a birthday present! Here’s the picture of my signed book!

Kelly Cutrone has two books: If You Have To Cry, Go Outside and Normal Gets You Nowhere. I bought the last one, becase I totally agree that normal gets you nowhere. You have to be yourself and not like any other. I read the book and it’s amazing! You can buy one in the bookstores and it’s so worth to read it.

Kelly Cutrone is amazing and she might look like a bitch for everyone, but she isn’t. She wants to reach a goal and if people fail in it to get her goal, then they will get punished in an genuine way. Fashion is hard. It is falling, standing up and go ahead.

So get you copies of Cutrone’s books now!

XChris.

Please spread the word via Twitter and Facebook!

New Year, New Fashion.

Hello Everyone!

First I want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s hope we will have a stylish 2012. As you know It’s been a long time since I posted my last post. But I will keep you updated almost every week. I’ve been so busy with my school. I’ll soon post my work here!

And because it’s a new year, I will do some new things this time! Yay!


The Fashion Army

This is a new thing on my blog. I will be fashionhunt on the streets and on the internet for some goodlooking fashionsoldiers and post it on this blog. And do YOU have a picture of you looking stylish and you? Please send the picture to us at christian.capitalef@hotmail.com and join the Fashion Army!!

Fashion Shows
Besides the fashionhunting, I will post alot of interesting fashionnews and Fashion shows i’ve been to or saw on the internet.

Young Talent
What I extremely love are new and young fashion designers with their new visions and statements. So that’s the reason I will post some of them. Wich I think that they are the best new designers in the world and gonna make it well in the future.

And I might do some contests where you can win some things! But I first need alot of viewers before that happens.

So Follow us everywhere! And spread the word:

Twitter : @Capitale_F

Fashion News

News

So, here are some things i have done in the vacation!

As I told you in my last post, I’ve been to New York! So awesome! But is was perfect when I met the Crowley Brothers and Alexa Defina. The Crowleys is a band of 3 brothers who can sing, dance and cartweels. The first time I talked to them was when they covered Bad Romance. And now we are still talking! Alexa is a good friend of them and is also a VERY talented singer. We were chillin’ at Central Park and we had a great time! I also bought some Fashionable Merchandise of them. A minty green Tee with their Faces on (link) and some cool rubber wristbands with Team Crowley (Their fan group, I’m part of it) on it. Would you like to check them out? Click Here for the @CrowleyBrothers And Here for @Alexadefina!

The other perfect thing was the exhibition of McQueen ‘Savage Beauty’ in The Metropolitan Museum of art. I’ve never seen lots of masterpieces in a few rooms. MqQueen used his mood and his VADERLAND as inspiration fors ome of his collections and turned it into a wonderful fashion show where eyes and mouths are all wide open. Not only the clothes, but the whole show was a masterpiece. His technique is a good inspiration for me. They call him ‘l enfant terrible, but I call him a Rebel with Class!
It was worth waiting the 2 hours in line. Too bad that this creative man isn’t anymore.

On sunday Grazia NL presented the PC Catwalk in the P.C. Hoofstraat, Amsterdam. The Rodeo Drive of Holland… I showed us what the trends were for this autumn and winter. The trends are classy and sporty. But that’s a trend. Just be yourself and make new trends is my advice! Inspire me! Even though the extreme long delay of 1,5 hour, it was a great show the watch. The runway was 350 meters long! I think the models had the best workout ever. The price of the best store in the street went to Armani. Good job!

And to all the little monsters, have you seen the new Yoü and I video? Well it’s not a real music video, but it’s a fashion film! Directed by Inez van Lamsweerde en Vinoodh! And again, GaGa loves Dutch creative folks! Check out the Video HERE!

And the last newsflash is about me. A few weeks ago a guy added me on facebook, because someone introduced me to him. This guy who added me was Gio Diekema. He’s a new television star in holland and he asked me to design something for him. And of course I said yes! It’s a cool guy and he will wear a design, specially designed for him by me, at a dutch programm Life4You met Carlo en Irene on september 18th. So please watch! It’s my first television debute as a designer haha!

Well that’s all! I hope you enjoyed the reading!!

Love,

Christianx

New Capitale F!

Hello little fashionista’s!

It’s been a long time ago (again) after I posted my last post… But now my vacation is over and it’s time to talk about capital F, yes FASHION!

It’s been a fun vacation. As you know in my last post I went to Amsterdam Fashion Week and De ModeFabriek. But I’ve also been to New York City! Oh my God! It was amazing. I have seen a lot!

So, what I want to do is I want to post once a week a newspost. All the important Fashion news that happened that week. Special Events will have a single post. The second thing is I want to make some little contests where you can win prices. I’m not sure with hit, but we’ll see ;). And I’m going to ask you for sending me pictures of you dressed fashionable. I want to post every week pictures of the most stylish person of the week!

And another thing, please let you friends know about this blog. The more viewers, the better the prices for the contests and the harder I get to find the most stylish person of the week, but the last one is no problem haha!.

So please let your friends know and Follow us on twitter!

@Capitale_F

Love,

Team Capitale F