World Premiere Event from Shanghai Fashion Week!

 USA's #1 Fashion university in the world, The Fashion Institute of Technology opened the show as the supermodel strutted down the runway infront of the paparazzis from all over the country of 7; Italy, France, Holland, Finland, London, Korea, Japan, China and yes, USA!     

With incredible standing 0vations from the audiences of theUSA and the  masterpieces of FIT's students created couture and sophiscation, inspired the great-late Alexander McQueen! The Next collection came from Holland's #1 Fashion School. Inspired Dark Gothic/Mysterious collection.

 

Very Gothic and Mysterious Collection from Holland, the next collection came from ESMOD, the #1 fashion school in Paris, France. The inspiration was a Unique Collection with fabrication using Musilin and sculptured faces and shapes on Bustiers.

   

 After France, Italy's #1 Fashion school.. Institute of European Design, inspirated what they are always known for very high end  and very classic of Ready-to-Wear. Dazzeling constructions of fittings & creative sleeves. 

  

After Italy's presentation, a beautiful Ballerina performed a romantic number from the scene of "the Swan".

   

After Finland's collection, was a beautiful collection inspired by textile and screenprinting from Korea's #1 Fashion university, Sang Myung University: Design College.  

 After Korea, came the beautiful collection from Japan! Bunka Fashion College is Japan's number 0ne fashion college, and yes their designs were striking the fabrications were vinyls! that's right, Vinyls!

 After the beautiful collections from FIT to Bunka Fashion College, the women from Japan performed their traditional and classic dance number.   Love their traditional Kimono Robes! The Music was a Classic! 

The Closing of the show ended with China's #1 fashion university, Donghua University....their collection were breathtaking and a Work of Art with crystals and contructions with details!
 As the closing began, China's well-known femal Soprano  performed a beautiful voice that was amazing, she sand a little in English to Italian to French and ended the song in Chinese..The 0pra lady performed  as each male/female modesl walked down the runway with standing ovations in different country's collections and one by one the University's representatives including myself stood on stage and recieved beautiful bouquet of flowers and a beautiful gold statue as I represent USA and the Fashion Institute of Technology!

Behind the Scenes of the 10th Anniversary of Shanghai's Donghua Fashion Week!

Its 8am at Shanghai , Model Castings, Fittings, Tall beautiful Women and Masculine Men walking down the huge runway. Not just a runway, a huge areana with 48,000 seats! Here are the amazing arena, the stage, the models, the fittings..Long hours of fittings and creating headpieces for the collection! I learned that there are 8 different Countries from top Fashion Schools! Italy, France, Holland, Finland, London, Korea, China  and USA representing  the #1 Fashion School, the Fashion Institute of Technology! I'm in China! I'm in Shanghai! I'm representing USA and FIT along with my mentor and co-workers, Linda Sands! Here is Behind the Scenes of the Biggest Premiere Fashion Show happening the next evening!

The Model trying on many of  the headpieces I created, was up all night by hands and doing some needleworks while Linda did some quick and small fittings..thank god the collection fitted the supermodels perfectly. And yes, afterward..the runway rehearsal began nonstop! And they were amazing!

Shanghai, China!

I just returned home from Shanghai, China..the fourth largest fashion capital of the world with New York, Milan, Paris, Shanghai and London. Attended a business college-related for the Fashion Institute of Technology to represent the amazing couture/fashion design students work inspiring the great-late, Mister Alexander McQueen. I went sightseeing and shopping with my former professor, mentor, idol, she teaches at FIT and Pratt Institute, Linda Sands. Here are some of the amazing locations that we went along with our assistants, Maggie and Poorum! We shopped, dined and sightseeing some amazing locations of Shanghai!

The rich Culture, Designs and the beauty of Art , I took over 700 pictures of this fabulous Country. Heading to Shanghai was a 14 hours flight from New York, and yes, it was worth it. The weather was a little chilly on some days and the rest was nice and sunny.     

Beautiful Country; Traditional and Modern; The Food, the Shopping and touring was amazing, the time of my life. The Memories of China will always be in my heart. I met many great new friends including two great  assistants Maggie and Poorum, Fashion Design students from China's number one Fashion school, Donghua University...  

The modern side of Shanghai, the 4th Fashion Capital of the World, uprising and passing London!

       Galaxy Hotel was the hotel I stayed for 7 days, beautiful hotel across the Donghua University!!

Uvenio salute to Christian Lacroix!

Around the same time, he met Jean-Jacques Picart. Picart was press attache for several haute couture houses and provided aid in gaining Christian Lacroix a job working at Hermès in 1978, where he worked on color schemes and the execution of designs, and then Guy Paulin in 1980. After graduating from the École du Louvre, in 1981 he started working at Jean Patou, where he worked until 1987.With help from Jean-Jacques Picart, Lacroix mange to put out season after season of popular clothing. Bright colors, luxuriance, and perfection made Lacroix and Picart popular designers of the time.Later, Lacroix would gain the award for "most influential designer" by the CFDA for foreign designer in January 1987.

               

In 1987 he opened his own couture house. He began putting out ready-to-wear in 1988 drawing inspiration from diverse cultures. Critics commented that he did not seem to understand the type of clothing the working woman needed. In 1989, Lacroix launched jewelry, handbags, shoes, glasses, scarves and ties (along with ready-to-wear). In this same year, he opened boutiques within Paris, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, London, Geneva and Japan.

With his background in historical costume and clothing, Lacroix soon made headlines with his opulent, fantasy creations, including the short puffball skirt ("le pouf"), rose prints, and low décolleté necklines. He quoted widely from other styles—from fashion history (the corset and the crinoline), from folklore, and from many parts of the world—and he mixed his quotations in a topsy-turvy manner. He favored the hot colors of the Mediterranean region, a hodgepodge of patterns, and experimental fabrics, sometimes handwoven in local workshops.

Madonna in a LaCroix bustier for her premiere concert to VOGUE!

Christopher Uvenio's "Cirque Du Soleil" Collection by Steven Larson

 

Sequins and Feathers. Chic and Glamour. Dark & Mysterious. Gothic and Class. Eye Shadows and Lipsticks. 3 fabulous models, Lena, Mel and Courtney were in town from the agency during New York Fashion Week. Steven Larson and I finally decided to do a big shoot at the rental studio in the village with those beautiful ladies from different countries. Lena from Poland. Mel from Italy and Courtney from London. Steven Larson from London flew in New York for several weeks for several projects. Steven and I never worked together, we met thru our friends, makeup artist Caylie who I worked with at Bob Mackie. Steven emailed me and asked if i was free to give him my ideas and designs and his comments to my design was, "Cirque Du Soliel!" and I was like...Mmmmmmm LOVE IT! my name of this collection!

The photoshoot was glamourously fun, but it was a long day at the studio in the village. First I had my dearest makeup artist friend Legend (pronounce Lee/gin) meet the models at the studio and do his creative magic with his talents in makeup which took a good two hours, while I was finishing my morning class at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Steven looked through my inspirations and ideas and brought his ideas as well and the shoot was amazingly incredible. The 3 gorgeous supermodels and I became fast friends thru emails and yes, facebook as well. They even mentioned they wanna work with me again soon after they get more work in New York. I Love my Cirque Du Soliel collection! More to come with my website!