Saverio wears the t-shirt designed by Collettivo Carraldo

After the contest we promoted in december called “Your tee for 2012 Men Fashion Week Milano”
We realised a photoshoot in collaboration with WHY NOT MODELS MILANO. The models are wearing the winning t-shirt from the contest and are giving their point of views about life and modelling. Enjoy!

Name: Saverio Rotini.
Age: 22 years old.
Palce of birth: Spoleto, Italy.
Which is your biggest passion?: Mt deepest passion is traveling.
How have you started your model’s career?: I proposed myself to Why Not and they wanted to represent me, it was love at first sight!!
Which is your favorite dish?: Tortellini, of course!
Which is your favorite city? Paris, of course!
Which is your favorite song? My favorite song is “You don’t have a clue”, of Royksopp.
Which is your best outfit? I’m really sure about that: skinny jeans and a simple t-shirt, totally black outfit!

Ralf wears the t-shirt designed by Francesco Russo

Name: Ralf Javoiss.
Age: 20 years old.
Place of birth: Riga, Latvia.
Which are your hobbies? I play thailandese box, i think that it’s a great way to relax myself..I love also all the extreme sports like parachuting, bungee jumping. Besides, since I am a child i play acrobatic cycling: it’s my deepest passion!
What have you done before being a model? I have always worked, also when I was at school and I did a lot of jobs, like waiter, barman, working in the restaurant’s kitchen..
Which is the best experience of your life? The parachuting, of course!!
How have you started your model’s career? The photographer Saverio Cardia has asked me to take some pictures and then he brought me to Why Not!
What do you wanna do when you grow up? I would love to be a spaceman!

Gabriel wears the t-shirt designed by Giovanni Bettacchioli

Name: Gabriel Burger.
Age: 21 years old.
Place of birth: San Paolo, Brasil.
Which are your hobbies? I play basketball sometimes, but my biggest passion is skateboarding!
How have you started your model’s career? It was 2008, I attended a models contest and I won!
Witch is the best experience of your life? Well, i think that the best think is that I’m learning different languages and I am visiting a lot of places, all of them are full of things to learn and to see!
Witch is the most beautiful place that have you visited? I love Barcelona, really awesome and funny, but I love New York: the place where the dreams become truth!
What do you want to do when you grow up? I would like to study languages, because I love it, but I would like to be a professional skater!!

Ralf wears the t-shirt designed by Kimberley Collins

Saverio wears the t-shirt designed by Stefano Carlo Ascione

Gabriel wears the t-shirt designed by by Andrea La Rocca

Gabriel wears the t-shirt designed by Cristina Pasquale

Location: Cronulla Beach/ NSW, Australia

TOP: Junk
EARRINGS: stylist’s own

DRESS: Tallow
HILLS: model’s own
BANGLES: stylist’s own

DRESS: Tallow
HAT: stylist’s own

DRESS: Tallow
BANGLES: stylist’s own
VEST: Quicksilver

VEST: Quicksilver

VEST: Quicksilver
DRESS: Tallow
BANGLES: stylist’s own

KIMONO: Dotti
BANGLES: stylist’s own

SHIRT: Style stalker
SHORTS: Dotti
BANGLES: stylist’s own

SHIRT: Style Stalker
SHORTS: Dotti
BANGLES: stylist’s own
HILLS: model’s own

Introducing: Natalie de Koning
Edited by: Liselotte Fleur

Natalie de Koning is a 23 years old fashion designer and just graduated in a bachelor Fashion Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts. I photographed her graduation collection and I loved the colours, the shapes and the material of the clothes.  Since her graduation she was nominated to participate in the ‘Lichting 2011 by G-star Raw’ fashion show during Amsterdam International Fashion Week. Besides that she was also chosen to participate in this seasons The Green Fashion Competition. At the moment she is fulfilling a part-time internship at Elsien Gringhuis and in the remaining time working on her own label ‘I am Nold’.

How did you get interested in becoming a fashion designer?
I was already very creative as a child. For a long period of time a already knew I wanted to be some kind of designer, but my interest in fashion design started when I was about 15 years old. Since that age I knew that this was what I wanted to do and started a simple sewing course in the small village I grew up in. So there I was, sewing things that were already seen as ‘different’ as everyone else did there, because I sat between old mothers and grand-mothers who where sewing little garments for their children and grand-children. The whole situation was a bit awkward but funny at the same time. In this period I also entered an art competition, where I won second place by giving a small fashion show (competition called Kunstbende).

How do you get inspiration for your clothes?
Inspiration for me comes mostly from three different things. First is vintage. I absolutely love vintage clothing and also collect them at home. This is a big source of inspiration for me. For example, the last time I got my inspiration out of ‘Space Age’ fashion design. I sometimes even call my own style ‘new vintage’. Second I found people on the streets very inspiring. I love to observe people and this is automatically an inspiration for me. Third are the colours of nature. Colour is also a very important aspect in my work and this is mostly a reflection of what I see in nature. For example, last time my colour palette was inspired by the colours of autumn (its leaves and clear blue sky).

How would you describe your style of fashion?
My style can be described as ‘new vintage’, colourful and the most important aspect in my work is sustainability. Sustainability is always the starting point in the designing process. A good quality and sustainable material use are always reflected in my work. I only use eco and/or fair trade certificated fabrics or I recycle fabrics my own.

What kind of person do you imagine wearing your clothing?
Creative, early-adaptor, women who are open for what can contribute to a better world and environment. Age does not matter.

What goes through your mind when you design a collection?
In my design process I always aim for the most sustainable solutions but at the same time keep it fashionable and contemporary. And when designing, I really put a lot of effort in the details and perfection. And since I just started my own label I think it’s very important to always keep your customer at the back of your mind.

What is your latest collection and what was the concept behind the collection?
My latest collection was my graduation collection Αυθεντες. With this collection, I have tried to showcase our present consumer behaviour in an ironic way. The outfits, inspired by the shape of a diamond, portray a kind of luxury in their details and decorations, but a closer look reveals that the embroidery, buttons and sequins are made out of plastic. It looks like people want to form some kind of ‘authentic’ identity by immersing themself in all kind of luxury, but in reality, this identity is quite fake. With this collection, I have painted some of the fabrics with tea and other fabrics are painted in a factory where water is purified and re-used. The leather is residual material. The plastics are from a company where energy and materials are managed in a sustainable manner.

What is your favorite design and why?
From my graduation collection: the outfit with the long beige skirt, mint-coloured blouse and the woolen jacket with the big plastic sequins. It not wearable at all but aesthetically I found it the most special peace of my collection.

What are you working on now?
At the moment I am working on a new collection for my new label ‘I am Nold’. A completely sustainable brand where all garments and accessories are made out of recycled and other sustainable materials. This January 22-23 I will present my first ‘I am Nold’ collection at the leading fashion fair Modefabriek in Amsterdam and in February my webshop will go online. So keep an eye on www.iamnold.com!

How do you see yourself in the ‘fashion world’?
I see myself as a designer who can really make a difference in this rapid and polluting industry. I’m a great advocate for slow fashion and new sustainable production solutions. At the moment, the fashion industry is, in my opinion, on a dead end street. We cannot continue to ignore the effects of this economic crisis and global warming whe’re in right now. I hope to inspire consumers but also other fashion designers to follow in the same footsteps and all try to contribute to a better world.

What can we expect to see from you in the future?
I have a lot of plans for the future. At the moment I hope I can continue with and expand my label ‘I am Nold’. My biggest dreams for the future are to one day collaborate with other artist or companies to create a total ‘cradle to cradle’ collection. Besides that I would really want to bring the production-chain back local and maybe in this way help poor people here this country to give them a new start by letting them be a part of this production process, so in this way create a total local and fair-trade collection.

Credit pictures:
1-5: Peter Stigter
6-7: Liselotte Fleur
8: Jerom Fischer
9: logo illustration by Thirza Kok

Introducing: Wendy Rombouts
Edited by: Liselotte Fleur

Wendy Rombouts is a 25 years old fashion designer. She studied Fashion & Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and just participated in the Dutch television program ‘Beat the Top Designer’ (part 2). She also had an exposition during the Amsterdam Fashion Week Downtown called ‘ Human Origin’. In this exhibition she showed us that we descend from the fish. In her design she created the new human body, to achieve this she used recognizable elements of the fish and humans.

How did you get interested in becoming a fashion designer?
When I was a kid, I had a big interest in drawing. Especially fashion drawings. I can remember I had a game, that was called ‘modewijzer’. But the moment I touched a sewing machine, I knew I had to do something with fashion!

How do you get inspiration for designing clothes?
My inspiration could come everywhere. Mostly the small things in life inspires me, and the funny thing is, it almost never has to do anything with fashion.

How would you describe your style of fashion?
A little bit weird, but modern. For me it’s like art.

What was your latest collection and what was the concept behind the collection?
My graduation collection: ‘human origin’. It’s about the human existence. People say we descend from the apes, but I’m convinced, we descend from the fish. So I thought this would be a great moment to let the human body reborn by design a collection of 8 outfits. In this collection I used elements from the fish and also from humans to create new shapes.

What are you working on now?
At the 26^th of January 2012 I had my own exhibition at Amsterdam International Fashionweek Downtown, so I was really busy to get everything done for that event. At the end of January I would like to start a new collection.

How do you see yourself in the ‘fashion world’?
I have no idea. It’s a hard world, there are a lot of good young designers, but I’m also my opinion that a lot of fashion people are fake. I’m not that type of girl. It’s all about my work, not about me.

What can we expect to see from you in the future?
I hope to start my own label as soon as possible!

All clothes by Marija Voitovich
model Alexandra @ Lilas models

Text by Bárbara Oettinger

Edited by Max Hailwood

Make-up by Alison Monte

Models : Giancarlo – Alison

‘The human being knows to some degree the experience of love, being in love, or feeling that they are no longer a separate person but that the two in love are one inseparable being, if they do become one entity. However, this entire beautiful experience comes on the heels of heartbreak most of the time, the loss of that infatuation which made ​​us both walk in the clouds and the emotional consequences that are inherent after the separation.

This series of photographs presented by  the Chilean Photographer Néstor Álvarez- Zeballos tells the story of love and heartbreak, the pain of loving and separation: heartrending images of two lovers lost in time, where the memory still lingers.”

As POSI+TIVE is always interested to give you the best and useful informations, you’ll have a list of all the shows around Milan but also much more: exhbitions, events, things to see are the ingredients of our articles inside the special section dedicated to the fashion week.

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In this issue:

Reportage from Haiti and Kurdistan
Photographers interview:
Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Yann Faucher, Nelli Palomaki

Book review:
Quando i fauni escono dal bosco by Sara Gentile

Fashion editorials with..
Juan Manuel Arancibia
Eddie Tucker
Harry Goodwins
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Cover Story by
Coco Young

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Art Reviews
Architecture
Interview with the italian actor Pierpaolo Spollon

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New York, December 2011.
A clean bon-ton. Daily chic. This is the Francisco Costa 2012 pre-fall collection. Austere geometries give way to charm a bare back, working lacy, velvet heels. The Calvin Klein nun from the leather veil is dyed neutral colors that come alive on clothing thirties. A winner mix that contains in full the personality of the designer sewn between the clothes plots in previous collections. The same lines carved in Costa’s style are presented in different materials. A pure woman, with character. Hair pulled back and broad shoulders. A precise stride directed toward their own ambitions.

New York, Dicembre 2011.
Lindo bon-ton. Daily chic. E’ la pre-fall collection 2012 di Francisco Costa. Geometrie austere lasciano spazio allo charm di una schiena nuda, lavorazioni effetto pizzo, tacchi in velluto. La “monaca dal velo in pelle”” di Calvin Klein si tinge di colori neutri che prendono vita su abiti anni Trenta. Il mix è vincente e racchiude in pieno la personalità dello stilista cucita tra le  trame degli abiti nelle precedenti collezioni. Le medesime linee scolpite nel Costa-style vengono presentate in materiali differenti. Una donna pulita, con carattere. Capelli raccolti e spalle larghe. Falcata precisa, diretta verso le proprie ambizioni.