TELL ME ABOUT YOU
Polimoda Fashion Show 2017
7pm, June 15 - Villa Favard, Florence
Facebook Live
On the occasion of the 92nd edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo, Polimoda presents the work of 20 young design talents in the Polimoda Fashion Show 2017 - Tell Me About You.Villa Favard, Polimoda’s headquarters, hosts the best menswear and womenswear collections by final year students of the undergraduate course in Fashion Design, as indeed the event also celebrates the conclusion of the 4 years of studies for these students before an audience of fashion insiders, journalists, and experts in the industry.
Composed of some of the most influential contemporary fashion figures, a jury will decide the Best Collection for 2017. The awarded student will receive special support from the Institute in the academic year following.The jury includes Christiane Arp (Editor-in-chief, Vogue Germany), Simone Cipriani(Head and Founder, Ethical Fashion Initiative), Fabrizio Fabbro (Senior Vice President of Creative Operations, Burberry),David Fischer (Founder and CEO, Highsnobiety), Simonetta Gianfelici (Fashion Consultant and Talent Scout),Sara Kozlowski (Director of Education & Professional Development, CFDA),Hirofumi Kurino (Co-Founder & Senior Adviser for Creative Direction, United Arrows), Linda Loppa (Advisor for Strategy and Vision, Polimoda), Michel Maffesoli (Sociologist and Emeritus Professor, La Sorbonne), Sara Maino (Senior Editor, Vogue Italia and Head of Vogue Talents), Kanya Miki (Associate Professor of the Faculty of Fashion Science, Bunka Fashion College), Diane Pernet (Founder, ASVOFF), GiocondaRafanelli and August Kaciuruba (Photographers and Founders, Gioconda & August), Etienne Russo (Founder, Villa Eugénie), Francois Schweitzer (General Manager and Head of Business Development, Chalhoub Group Retail), Akiko Shinoda (Director of International Affairs, Japanese Fashion Week), Riccardo Vannetti (Tutorship Director, Pitti Immagine) andDanilo Venturi (Director, Polimoda).
The event takes place at Villa Favard, the opulent 19th-century building located along the Arno river in the heart of Florence, and will be streamed live via Polimoda’s Facebook page. The show’s director isPiergiorgio Del Moro at DM Fashion Studio, the world-renowned casting director, and the sound design is by DJ and producer Kim Ann Foxman.
The students Claudia Genco, Yunjin Cho, Sofia Mollberg, Shania Matthews, Federico Cina, Xi Luo, Fabio Bigondi, Elizaveta Burtseva, Ilaria Tosti, Daisy Ramer, Matteo Bruschi, Margherita Banti, Mirco Arena, Olga Vasyukova, Maximiliano Ruelas, Miranda Hochkoeppler, Lai Shu Lin, Max Anish Gowriah, Ning Yang andPeirong Jiangpresent each a collection of 8 outfits. As a culmination of their matured sense of creativity, this is their final transition from students to designers, and their first entry into the fashion world.
Tell Me About You is what links these 20 students’ work. It explains their strong collective desire to express their identity unconnected to gender stereotypes, geographic origin, or societal belonging. As fashion is a manifestation of the ego, their stories are personal,inevitably relate to each other, and reveal themselves as each collection emerges on the runway.
“Beyond traditional categories of people based on societal constructs, in the end there is always the human. Tell Me About You insists students do exactly this; express who they are with their clothes, to us and to themselves. Their tool is the garment - to communicate an identity, create a silent dialogue, and begin a story.”Danilo Venturi, Director of Polimoda
This event is supported by Vogue Talents, Not Just A Label, Olfattorio and CLASS Hair Salon Academy Style.
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