BTS 'MTV Unplugged' Performance: Fashion Breakdown - WWD

BTS 'MTV Unplugged' Performance: Fashion Breakdown - WWD

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• BTS 'MTV Unplugged' Performance: Fashion Breakdown - WWD
• Spring 2021 Was All About Handcrafted Fashion - ELLE.com
• 5 Africa-born designers open digital Milan Fashion Week - News-Press Now

BTS 'MTV Unplugged' Performance: Fashion Breakdown - WWD Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:51 AM PST BTS made their highly anticipated "MTV Unplugged" debut Tuesday night, bringing their signature, high-fashion, coordinating style to the performance. The hit K-pop group, comprised of RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook, looked to major fashion houses like Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Thom Browne for their performance, which was filmed in Seoul, South Korea. BTS performed five songs during the "MTV Unplugged" performance, including tracks from their 2020 album "Be" like "Telepathy," "Blue & Grey," "Dynamite" and "Life Goes On." They also sang a surprise cover of Coldplay's "Fix You." For "Life Goes On," BTS wore matching Polo Ralph Lauren suits in varying shades of brown and coordinating fabrics and textures, such as a mixed plaid and houndstooth suit jacket and a brown suede suit jacket. BTS in Polo Ralph Lauren during their "MTV Unplugged" performance.  Courtesy of MTV BTS later wore Gucci for their performance of "Telepathy," which was staged in a living room decorated with arcade games and motorcycles. The members wore casual pieces from the design house, including a bedazzled denim jacket, striped sweaters, flannels and collegiate-inspired jackets paired with graphic T-shirts. The group also made their debut performance of "Blue & Grey" wearing Thom Browne suits and knitted pieces in varying shades of gray, likely giving a nod to the song. To perform their hit song "Dynamite," BTS chose matching all-white looks with white blazer jackets and satin dress pants. BTS has grown to be a formidable influence in the fashion world since the K-pop group came together in 2013. BTS signed with Fila as global brand ambassadors in October 2019 and later launched a capsule collection with the brand the following year. They also teamed with Louis Vuitton for the design house's fall 2021 men's collection to create a teaser campaign that explored themes of racial identity and cultural appropriation. The video was viewed more than 105 million times. They also made it onto Vanity Fair's Best Dressed List in 2019 and were named Time Magazine's Entertainer of the Year in 2020. Click through the above gallery to see more photos of BTS from their "MTV Unplugged" performance. Read more here: Blackpink's Lisa Is on the Jury for the ANDAM Fashion Prize Asian Influencers Boost Audiences for European Men's Digital Fashion Shows Blackpink's Rosé Helped Make Saint Laurent's Last Film a Blockbuster WATCH: Inside Louis Vuitton's Fall 2020 Show

Spring 2021 Was All About Handcrafted Fashion - ELLE.com Posted: 24 Feb 2021 05:11 AM PST Songs, memes, and listicles have all been known to go viral—but a sweater? After Harry Styles wore one of JW Anderson's patchwork knit pieces and fans began re-creating it en masse on TikTok, the designer decided to release the pattern and instructions to the public. The idea, Anderson explains, was "to help promote this idea of craft and making during a period when everyone was stuck at home with nothing to do." His theory as to why an art form with definite granny associations has taken hold with Gen Zers and millennials? "People are looking for connection," the designer says, "and not just via their phones." Indeed, the craft movement that has bubbled up in recent years—from the resurgence of quilting via designers like Bode to the rise of handmade crochet at Altuzarra and Isabel Marant—has exploded during quarantine. Perhaps you've seen someone you know breaking out their knitting needles and yarn on Instagram, or curling up in their own hand-dyed sweatshirts. As Anderson makes clear, craft offers a way for us to connect—whether to the hands of its makers, age-old traditions, or simply our own humanity. Knitting, crocheting, quilting, and even weaving are making a major comeback, not just on social media, but in the realm of high fashion, where handmade fringe, tie-dye, and beading have hit an all-time high. A look from Chanel's 2021 Métiers D'art show. MARIE ROUGE/Courtesy of Chanel For spring 2021, Fendi showed artisan-made bobbin lace, quilted satin, lace-embroidered linen, and fisherman-woven willow. At Valentino, caftans, little jackets, sweaters, and cape dresses were punctuated with delicate crochet and macramé, and creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli reworked embroidered flowers atop lace. Delicate handiwork is always on display at Chanel's annual Métiers d'art show, where the house's artisan partners showcase their extraordinary talents, but the brand has doubled down on craftsmanship lately. This summer, it's scheduled to open a new multistory space, Le 19M, that will bring together 11 Métiers d'art, comprising about 600 artisans—allowing Chanel closer contact whenever it requires their expertise. Harry Styles in the TikTok-viral JW Anderson cardigan. NATHAN CONGLETON/NBC/GETTY IMAGES Slowing down has given us "an opportunity to reconnect with the little things," says Carlotta Oddi, founder and creative director of Alanui, the Italian luxury knitwear brand. "We've been able to direct our attention to details. Something that in a normal busy lifestyle, most of us cannot do." This season, she dreamed up embroideries from India, crochet cardigans and shirts, and handmade raffia bags and AirPod cases. "The hand is so important to me," she says. "It is what gives a soul to our pieces." Backstage at Fendi spring 2021. Adam Katz Sinding/Fendi As it turns out, fashion-conscious women are flocking to the soulful qualities of craft with as much enthusiasm as the knitters on TikTok, and are seemingly just as content to buy as to DIY. Natalie Kingham, the fashion and buying director at MatchesFashion, rattles off best-sellers: Gabriela Hearst's hand-knit cashmere; Bode's patchwork jackets; Marques' Almeida's homemade repurposed fabrics; Vita Kin's vyshyvankas, or traditional embroidered shirts, from her native Ukraine; and Lauren Manoogian's homey knits. "Handcrafted pieces have a sense of individuality," Kingham says, "and the connection to something that is lovingly made feels personal, which is more important now than ever." Roopal Patel, fashion director at Saks Fifth Avenue, notes that with stay-at-home recommendations in effect late into last year, "it's no wonder that designers returned to crafts and techniques that originated from doing just that—staying at home. There's something nostalgic and comforting about handmade items, which is what makes them so appealing to customers in our current environment." Patel is particularly drawn to Hearst's crochet gowns and Brunello Cucinelli's knits, with their handmade touches. Alanui spring 2021. Courtesy of the designer. The tactile feeling of a lush, hand-knit sweater or an embroidered top provides a bit of comfort in an increasingly unpredictable and progressively digital world, where even socializing takes place onscreen. Sitting down with a pair of knitting needles and fluffy merino yarn sparks a deeper connection than mindless scrolling ever could. This article appears in the March 2021 issue of ELLE. Kristen Bateman Contributing Editor Kristen Bateman is a contributing editor at Harper's Bazaar. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io

5 Africa-born designers open digital Milan Fashion Week - News-Press Now Posted: 24 Feb 2021 03:12 PM PST MILAN — Five designers of African origin making their runway debuts opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday under the banner "We are Made in Italy," having nurtured dreams deemed fanciful in their native countries and which faced considerable obstacles coming to fruition in their adopted Italy. Joy Meribe, who is originally from Nigeria, started out working in Italy as a cultural mediator. Fabiola Manirakiza came to Italy as a child from Burundi and first trained as a doctor. Morocco-born Karim Daoudi grew up in a shoe-making town in northern Italy and eventually took up the local craft. Pape Macodou Fall arrived from Senegal at age 22, applying his creative streak as an actor, film producer, figurative painter and now, as a designer of up-cycled garments. Just one of the five, Cameroonian Gisele Claudia Ntsama, set her sights on Italy with the singular, already mature goal of a fashion career. "When I told friends in Cameroon that I wanted to travel to Italy to become a fashion designer, they said, 'Why are you going to study fashion. You know you are Black? What Italian fashion house is going to hire you?'" Ntsama said in a video chat with The Associated Press. "It is always in people's minds that fashion is for white people. No and no and no!" The designers, dubbed "the Fab Five," are the first crop of creators nurtured through a collaboration between the National Chamber of Italian Fashion and the Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion movement. Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean, Milan-based African American designer Edward Buchanan and Afro Fashion Week Milano founder Michelle Ngonmo launched the movement last summer. The collaboration has expanded from September, when the Fab Five's collections hung in a showroom, to a bona fide runway show of five looks each for Milan Fashion Week, which is taking place 99% online. For their fall-winter 2020-21 collections, the designers worked alongside suppliers and received mentoring from experts, all organized by the Italian fashion council, in an enhanced partnership that allowed them to take their creations to the next level. A multi-ethnic team of stylists, hairdressers and makeup artists were on hand to prep for the runway show, and buyers can visit the collection on the National Chamber of Italian Fashion website. Meribe worked with silk from the Como-based textile company Taroni, revisiting some of her earlier designs for her Modaf Designs brand that she has traditionally made from cotton renderings of traditional African wax textiles. Buchanan helped with fitting and encouraged Meribe to change ideas at the last minute without being too rigid,' she said.' "This collection is the most luxurious I have ever created. For this capsule collection, I went beyond every possibility,'' Meribe said. Daoudi worked with Veneto shoemaker Ballin, which produces footwear for Bottega Veneta, Chanel and Hermes, to create his collection of high heel sandals and boots. He said the association helped him produce more challenging designs. "I hope that there are buyers,'' he said, adding that the producer plans to help him fill any orders he receives. Ntsama added knitwear to her distinctive swirling creations from hemp textiles. The artisanal looks are one-of-a-kind pieces fit for the celebrity red carpet and require hours of handcraftsmanship: She shapes the hemp with a kitchen utensil she prefers not to identify and irons it into place. Fall, whose nom de artiste is Mokodu, took existing garments and upcycled them with hand-painted African-inspired images. Manirakiza, whose Frida Kiza brand already has a following in the Marche region of Italy where she lives and in Rome, needed no outside financing for her collection inspired by Botticelli's "Primavera," which she intended as a sign of hope after the pandemic. A babydoll dress with a gathered neckline and cape details is crafted from a black and white print of "Primavera" that emphasized the masterpiece's floral elements. Manirakiza said staging a runway show was "a wonderful experience" that she hopes will help expand her brand. Ngonmo established Afro Fashion Week Milano on her own after failing to get the attention of the industry before the Black Lives Matter movement inspired Black Italian creatives to draw attention to the limits they face. She said it was particularly important that the fashion world didn't just stop with slotting the names of African-born designers into the fashion calendar, but gave them material support to grow. "This has to have deeper roots. If we want to have true change, we need to offer the same opportunities that their colleagues have had, give them the same instruments and experiences,'' Ngonmo said. "Let's say this is a good first step." Local Videos

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