Apparel Online India Magazine May 1-15, 2019 | Page 35

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Schiaparelli bids adieu to Design Director
Bertrand Guyon
Schiaparelli is parting ways with
its Design Director Bertrand
Guyon after four years. Although
Bertrand headed the brand’s high-
end, ready-to-wear collections,
couture was his main focus as he
successfully explored Founder
Elsa Schiaparelli’s obsessions,
including astrological signs and
flowers. His over-the-top, theatrical
designs were presented for the last
two seasons at the Paris Opera
“The Schiaparelli house is
grateful to Bertrand Guyon for his
contribution to the haute couture
activity of the house, in close
collaboration with the creative
studio and the atelier of the Place
Vendôme house,” the brand owned
by Italian entrepreneur Diego Della
Valle, said in a brief statement.
Nike, Artist Steven
Harrington team
up for Earth Day
Capsule
Nike is collaborating with Los
Angeles-based painter Steven
Harrington for an exclusive Earth
Day collection intended to inspire
love for the planet. The Nike
Flyleather by Steven Harrington
collection features the artist’s
colourful California-inspired
psychedelic pop works and
includes an Air Force-1, a Blazer
and a Cortez, each of which were
created using Nike Flyleather
which is a proprietary sustainable
Guyon joined
Schiaparelli from
Valentino, where he
helped to shape the
couture and ready-
to-wear collections
under Creative
Directors Pierpaolo
Piccioli and Maria
Grazia Chiuri.
house. His designs won favour of
celebrities including Tilda Swinton,
Celine Dion and Lady Gaga.
material using at least 50 per cent
recycled leather. Flyleather takes
waste leather scraps, combines
them with synthetic fibres and a
fabric infrastructure and uses a
hydro-process that fuses it into
one material that can then be
finished.
The shoes will be sold on Nike
SNKRS app and will retail for
US $ 100 for Air Force-1, US $
90 for the Cortez and US $ 80 for
the Blazer.
Fila India collaborates
with VegNonVeg for ‘The
Masala Box Mindblower'
sneakers
Italian sportswear brand, Fila,
has linked up with India’s first
multi-brand sneaker concept
store VegNonVeg for a capsule
collection called ‘The Masala
Box Mindblower’. The designs,
colours and materials of the
collection reflect the unique
palate and plays on VegNonVeg
graphics and brand language.
“The Mindblower has been a
successful silhouette for us
globally and in India. The shoe
has been made with a mix of
premium materials like multi-
textured leather, short haired
suede. The highlight of the shoe
is definitely the F Box logos
in VegNonVeg colours (green
& red) at the back counter
and on the tongue of the shoe
where it is used alternatively
to represent Veg & NonVeg,”
averred Abdon Lepcha,
Creative Director, FILA India.
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