Luciana Teixeira

What is your name? Luciana Teixeira

What is the name of your label? Also Luciana Teixeira

Where did you study and when did you graduate? I studied in CITEX , in Oporto, Portugal and graduated in 2010

What inspires you as a designer? The unexpected inspires me, a song, an image, memories...Usually I never look for inspiration, inspiration always finds me...

Who is your favorite designer? Why? I have too many designers to mention but Christopher Kane, Helmut Lang, Alexander Wang, Gareth Pugh, Luis Buchinho .... They all have different styles but all of them have the ability to transform the simple in something very strong.

What can you bring to FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011? A piece of me…

What do you expect from the FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011? What I expect from FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011 is a lot of fun, to get to know designers from different countries, to share some ideas and to promote my work.

 

How did your experience with fashion started? When did you decide to be a fashion designer? When I was a little child I used to sit in the sofa in front of tv and draw in a black sketchbook what the actors and actresses were wearing. Then with the help of my grandmother, who is a dressmaker, I started sewing clothes for my dolls and I realized I enjoyed it a lot. When I went to school I lost a bit my passion for fashion and since nobody wanted to be a fashion designer I was planning on studying architecture or something in this direction.

Fortunately one day during the art class we had a visit of a graduate of our school, who went to Brighton, England to study Fashion and she brought some of her work. That day I decided that I wanted to be fashion designer.

What are your goals concerning your career? What are your ambitions? Where do you see yourself in the future? I just want to feel loved for what I do, sell my works and transform my label Luciana Teixeira in something bigger and well respected, but that comes with experience and hard work.



Luciana's collection, sneakpeak 1



 

Luciana's collection, sneakpeak 2



Edited by Natalia Serwanska

Christopher Kane Galaxy Cardigans

The Christopher Kane brand has brought their outer space inspired design to not only t-shirts and hoodies, but cardigans as well. Their Galaxy Cardigans ($956) are made of 85% silk and 15% cashmere, and feature print that provides a view into various parts of our universe.

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Burberry Prorsum Fall/Winter 2011-2012 Menswear

Approaching the fall/winter 2011-2012 season with endless color and exaggerated proportions, Burberry Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey looked to a coat for all seasons. Creating his very own weather boy, Bailey’s outerwear stole the show as usual. Embracing the unexpected, the 60′s provided the inspiration for slick raincoats, quilted finishes and a rainbow of checks. Gathering pleats and reworking tweed, Bailey once again delivered an easily cool showing for a timeless label.

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There is, in case you haven't noticed, a royal wedding about to go down in London, so it was tempting to extract regal references from Christopher Bailey's latest collection for the most heritage-based of all English fashion companies. The neat little coats were the sort of thing young princes might have sported in days gone by, and the ermine-look fur trim had obvious royal connotations, even it was in fact something called "jaguar mink." But the real backstory was both bigger—and smaller. Small first. In the bottomless Burberry archives that are such an inspiration to him, Bailey found an ad campaign from the early sixties where every single image was photographed in different weather conditions. And that—cue the big picture—instantly led him along to the current, utterly ga-ga global weather situation.

Bailey is nothing if not focused. He decided on a coat for all seasons as his theme for Fall 2011, and that's exactly what he offered. There were myriad accompanying permutations of skinny pants, suits, and knitwear that was lacquered or cable knit in combo with furry doeskin. But the Main Event was The Coat in weights that were variously suitable for rain or wind or snow. Here's testament to focus—just as with Bailey's aviator jacket collection last Fall, almost every single coat was an object of lust, from the buffalo-check biggie that opened the show to the "jaguar mink" coat that closed it. Bailey used color astutely—an orange duffel, a pea-green military coat—but he also nailed subdued city camels and tweeds (fur-collared for luxe). And he closed his show with a full-on catwalk rainstorm, courtesy of his special-effects team. The only other designer who dared corral the elements was Alexander McQueen. In his own, much more subtle way, Bailey is as daring.

The kicker for the whole event is that every coat is available on Burberry.com until January 23. "Personalizing technology" is Bailey's game plan. "It makes the whole world smaller, more intimate," he said after the show. Sure, it's a spur to sales, but it goes beyond that; Bailey's acknowledgement of the universality of what he's doing is as timely as the inescapability of the climactic conditions that inspired his latest work.

Source: Style.com