Did you ever thought of making your own clothes, own label and own shop when you are young? I believe it’s many fashion designer’s dreams! Today, let’s see how my new friend, Poppy, made her dream come true :)
Poppy Lissiman was founded in 2009, what made you start doing your own brand?
It sounds really clichéd but I started my own label after I couldn’t find certain pieces in the market that I wanted to wear. My mother taught me to sew at a young age so I have always made clothes for myself and occasionally friends, starting my own label just seemed like the most natural thing to do. It has always been a goal to have my own shop one day as well, starting my label would be the first stepping stone to getting my name out there and eventually having my own store.
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We all know South Africa is developing rapidly in recent years, including fashion industry. We are so happy to have a chance to talk with Alice Heusser from Lalesso. She is so kind to talk about how she builded up her own brand Lalesso and how her design life is in South Africa! At the moment as we talked, she is right in Diani Beach, Kenya, designing her new collection and the studio is out-doors over looking the Indian Ocean! It really surprised us and the scene is really amazing!
Where did the name Lalesso come from?
The fabric which we draw inspiration from and the trademark to the brand is called lesso, hence the name Lalesso.
Start from this week, we will interview a number of fashion designers worldwide and see how they build up their own brand. We can also catch a glimpse of their initial sketches on Fashionary! Our first guest is Timm Suessbrich, he founded barre|noire together with Aleida Roser. Following their collective studies in fashion design in Berlin, and further international design projects in Paris and Los Angeles, among other locations; they decided in August 2009 to found their own label, barre|noire.
Let’s see our interview with him.
Where did the name barre|noire come from?
We just wanted to have something simple and timeless, but it also had to describe our style and design: A black bar stands at the beginning of every draft we make. So, as you can see, the idea is very simple but nonetheless it represents a thousand of different things.
By the way, there’s also a mountain in the French Alps which is called “barre|noire“ – thus the name also stands for our ambition, our goal to reach the top.
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With the technology advantages, print becomes more and more sophisticated and well engineered. Digital print taking the role of the traditional screen printing and bring the design to another level of possibilites. I am driven crazy by the vivid color and the shade of the print that overwhelmed the whole body. We would love to share some of the collections we love over the recent years.
Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 2010
Full Collection | Catwalk Video
McQueen SS2010 is a collection telling the story of women morphing into creatures of the deep as the seas slowly reclaimed planet earth. The models wore sculpted dresses, with computerised, digitally-enhanced prints of fantastical fish, snakes, praying mantis, moths, beetles and giant squid.
Distressed metal harnesses, girdles and collars clung, crablike, in the manner of carapaces. Some girls wore dresses in iridescent tulle with waving “fronds”, suggesting cyber-jellyfish; others gleamed in golden, fish-scale ‘armour’ like warrior-mermaids.
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I am always amazed that how people can turn thread into fabric, and then into garments — by using their own hands. They seems to have everything in their mind and they are just like a composer conducting the thread together for a symphony, making it as an art performance. I would love to share some of our favourite knitwear brands/designers.
1) Sandra Backland, based in Stockholm, Sweden
Sandra Backland, a Swedish master knitwear designer, featuring in a lot of fashion magazines. Those crazy building blocks of knits, those nodding to skeletal forms and crocheted pants, Sandra is clearly a designer that likes to take artistic risks, and the results are spectacular. She was also commissioned to produce knits for the collections of both LV and Emilio Pucci.
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