Vivienne Westwood Anglomania + Melissa Lady Dragon IV Winter 2010
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(DO YOU KNOW WHAT MELISSA IS?) VIVIENNE WESTWOOD ANGLOMANIA + MELISSA LADY DRAGON IV winter 2010 Melissa IS... photo Rômuo Fialdini ZAHA HADID (2008) / by MELISSA aleria G A CELEBRATION OF DESIGN. IT IS NOT JUSTA SHOE. MELISSA ACADEMY METAMORPHOSE + HEAD GENÈVE by MORGANE RIBEYROLLES IT IS A FASHION ACCESSORY. IT IS AFASHION MELISSA ULTRAGIRL + J. MASKREY summer 2012 4,000 POINTS OF SALE IN MELISSA IS A GLOBAL MORE THAN 70 COUNTRIES. FASHION ICON. AND COLORFUL. MELISSA ISFUN VIVIENNE WESTWOOD ANGLOMANIA + MELISSA SKYSCRAPER winter 2010 ABSOLUTELY CANDYLICIOUS! ITS SMELL REMINDS US OF OUR BEST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. MELISSA’S CLASSIC STYLE IT TAKES ONE MINUTE IS CALLED SPIDER. TO BE PRODUCED. FORMS. SCULPTURAL AND SENSUAL THEIR MOST TOUCH INTO TEXTURE AND TO TRANSLATE MELISSA ALLOWED PLASTIC HAS MELISSA MESH PUMP + JEAN PAUL GAULTIER winter 2011 MELISSA IS SUSTAINABILITY IS A ECO-FRIENDLY PRINCIPLE THAT GUIDES ALL INITIATIVES IN THE BUSINESS OF MELISSA. FROM THE DESIGN PROCESS, ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE FINAL iro M DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRODUCT, EACH STEP IS lastic.o.rama / photo P for S R CAREFULLY PLANNED IN OTHE BR ORDER TO CAUSE THE AMPANA AMPANA C by LOWEST POSSIBLE IMPACT ANHA AR ELISSA ON THE ENVIRONMENT. M MELFLEX MELISSA’S COMMITMENT TO THE IMPROVED ELASTICITY, IMPERMEABILITY ENVIRONMENT, AND DESIRE TO IMPROVE THE AND RESISTANCE. IT IS HYPOALLERGENIC, QUALITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF PVC, HAS RESULTED ODORLESS, NEUTRAL AND NATURAL. IN THE CREATION OF A GROUNDBREAKING 100% RECYCLABLE, IT MAINTAINS ITS MATERIAL CALLED MELFLEX. MELFLEX IS CORE PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT A FORM OF PVC THAT PROVIDES THE PRODUCTION PROCESS. A CONTINUOUS CHALLENGE OVER THE YEARS MELISSA CONTINUALLY STRIVES TO BE THE LEADER IN TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN OF PLASTICS. THEY HAVE PIONEERED MANY TECHNIQUES, COLORS, FINISHES, PATTERNS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS. THIS DESIRE FOR UNIQUENESS IS A PRINCIPLE THAT GUIDES THE COMPANY’S DESIGN LABORATORY AND HAS MADE MELISSA THE winter 2011 INDUSTRY REFERENCE FOR POLIBOLHA PLASTIC FOOTWEAR. ELISSA M MELISSA ALWAYS LOOKS FOR ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF EXPRESSING NEW IDEAS. THAT IS WHY, SINCE THE 80’S IT HAS PARTNERED WITH SOME OF THE BEST KNOWN PROFESSIONALS WORKING summer 2004 PANA BAG PANA AROUND THE GLOBE. M CA MELISSA “THE FLUIDITY MOVING EXPERIENCES OF OUR DESIGN WAS “MELISSA “WE LIVE IN AN ‘ELASTIC’ PERIOD OF A PERFECT FIT KNOWS HOW TIME AND MUST USE MATERIALS FOR MELISSA’S TO INTERPRET THAT ARE EQUALLY FLEXIBLE.” PLASTIC OUR DESIRES Gaetano Pesce TECHNOLOGY, VERY WELL WITH INJECTING PROFESSIONALISM, SEAMLESS QUALITY AND PIECES.” BOLDNESS. “IT’S A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU’VE GOT TO PLASTIC IN AN INNOVATIVE Zaha Hadid HAVE A LOT OF WAY, EXPLORING DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE TO POSSIBILITIES WITH A COMPANY MAKE OUR CRAZY THAT HAS THE MOST EXPERTISE IDEAS COME TRUE.” IN THE SUBJECT.” Fernando Campana Jason Wu “WORKING WITH MELISSA HAS BEEN A COUP DE PIED À LA MODE! “I HAD NO IDEA THERE WAS A COMPANY THAT I’VE ENJOYED WORKED WITH INJECTED MALLEABLE PLASTIC THE CHALLENGE “IT HAS BEEN A GREAT CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SUCH EXPERIENCES FOR OF CREATING OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE THE FEET. I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE AND THE A HIGH HEELED SOMETHING WHICH CAN BE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE DELICATE ARTISTIC PLASTIC SHOE WORN DAILY BY A VARIETY EXPRESSIONS WITH MELISSA WHICH WILL WITH ALL THE “IT’S QUITE SPECIAL WHAT MELISSA CAN OF YOUNGSTERS AND CONTRIBUTE WITH THEIR JELLY SHOES LINES, ALL values OF MY DO WITH PLASTIC. EACH SHOE HAS A WOMEN.” SO SUCCESSFUL AND EQUALLY HIGH-SPIRITED.” DESIGN ETHOS.” CHARACTER AND TELLS A STORY.” Gareth Pugh Karim Rashid Jean Paul Gaultier Vivienne Westwood VIVIENNE WESTWOOD DAME VIVIENNE WESTWOOD’S SHOES ARE CELEBRATED AROUND THE WORLD FOR THEIR DESIGN, CREATIVITY AND STYLE, THANKS TO AN INITIATIVE FROM MELISSA THEY HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR WORLDWIDE TOURING EXHIBITION HOSTED BY RENOWNED MUSEUMS IN LONDON, HONG KONG, BEIRUT, MOSCOW AND SÃO PAULO. SINCE 2008 and MELISSA BABY MELISSA for THIS FRUITFUL UNISON HAS RESULTED IN MORE THAN 45 PRODUCTS, INCLUDING MELISSA VERSIONS OF SOME OF THE VIVIENNE WESTWOOD DESIGNER’S MOST ICONIC STYLES. photo Juergen Teller / Courtesy Vivienne Westwood photo Juergen Teller All products by ZAHA HADID GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED FOR IMPLEMENTING HER VISIONARY AESTHETIC BY WORKING ON ALL SCALES AND IN DIFFERENT SECTORS, THE ARCHITECT LAUNCHED HER SIGNATURE STYLE WITH MELISSA IN LATE 2008. NAMED BY FORBES AS ONE OF THE ‘100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN’ IN THE WORLD, SHE WAS THE FIRST FEMALE TO BE AWARDED THE PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE (2004) AND HAS MORE THAN 950 PROJECTS DEVELOPED IN 44 COUNTRIES. MELISSA ZAHA HADID summer 2010 CAMPANA BROTHERS MELISSA CELEBRATES A DECADE OF CONTINUOUS WORK WITH THE BRAZILIAN DESIGN DUO BY RE-LAUNCHING SOME OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL STYLES OF THEIR COLLABORATION. KNOWN FOR THEIR INTELLIGENT METHOD OF UNITING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY WITH RUSTIC, ARTISANAL MATERIALS. THIS IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE MORE THAN 10 PRODUCTS THEY CREATED WITH MELISSA. MELISSA CAMPANA ZIG ZAG winter 2010 MELISSA CAMPANA GAETANO PESCE THE ITALIAN ARCHITECT-ARTIST-DESIGNER STAR GAETANO PESCE BELIEVES THAT THE FUTURE OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IS IN PLASTIC MATERIALS. BOTH HIS PRODUCTS WITH MELISSA HAVE THE SIGNATURE EMOTIVE, MUTATING AND TACTILE QUALITIES. SIMILAR TO HIS GREATEST summer 2011 E C WORKS, WHICH ARE FEATURED IN PES O AN T THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS OF THE GAE + MoMA AND CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU. ELISSA M JASON WU TAIWANESE FASHION DESIGNER JASON WU IS THE CREATOR OF MANY NOTEWORTHY DESIGNS. HE HAS CAPTURED THE ATTENTION OF AMERICA’S CELEBRITIES MELISSA ULTRAGIRL + JASON WU summer 2012 WITH HIS VISION. WU ALSO CAPTURED MELISSA’S, RESULTING IN A PARTNERSHIP THAT YIELDED TWO MODELS. THEY FEATURE LACE DETAILS, HIS SIGNATURE OWN ICON AND ARABESQUE PRINTS. WU’S RELATIONSHIP WITH PLASTIC IS SPECIAL: AT THE TENDER AGE OF NINE HE BEGAN TO DRAW HIS FIRST CREATIONS AFTER BEING INSPIRED BY DOLLS OF THE SAME MATERIAL. Lace print by Jason Wu adorns both his model for the brand and the facade created for Galeria Melissa GARETH PUGH ENGLISH DESIGNER GARETH PUGH HAS RECEIVED CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR HIS DRAMATIC, OFTEN SINISTER, AND CONSTRUCTED CREATIONS. PUGH HAS DESIGNED TWO PRODUCTS FOR MELISSA, A GLADIATOR STYLE STRAIGHT FROM THE YEAR 3.000 AND ONE WITH HIS EMBLEMATIC FIVE POINT STAR IMAGE. THEY ECHO AN UNDERLYING MELISSA ALERON + GARETH PUGH summer 2012 HUMOR PRESENT IN BOTH HIS WORK AND MELISSA’S. JEAN PAUL GAULTIER THIERRY MUGLER L’ENFANT TERRIBLE OF FRENCH FASHION AVANT-GARDE ICONOCLAST FASHION FIRST PARTNERED WITH THIERRY MUGLER BLENDED HIS UNIQUE MELISSA IN THE 80’S AND LATER PERSPECTIVE OF SENSUALITY, HUMOR RETURNED TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS AND EXTRAVAGANCE WITH MELISSA’S OF THE BRAND WITH TWO NEW FANTASTIC PLASTIC IN 1983. EXTRAVAGANT HIGH-HEELED MODELS. CREATOR OF MAISON GAULTIER, HE ALSO DESIGNED FOR LUXURIOUS BRAND ORIGINALLY A PROFESSIONAL BALLET HERMÈS FROM 2003-2010. DANCER, THE ESSENCE OF THE ‘MAGIC OF PERFORMANCE’ IS AT THE HEART OF HIS BEING. THE WAY MUGLER TRANSLATES HIS VISION LEAVES NO ONE INDIFFERENT. MELISSA + THIERRY MUGLER 1983 MELISSA JEAN PAUL GAULTIER summer 2011 MELISSA JEAN PAUL J. MASKREY KARIM RASHID BORN IN HONG A PREACHER OF THE CULTURE OF FORM, KONG, THE THE EGYPTIAN DESIGNER IS THE MAN BEHIND ORIGINAL CREATOR DESIGNOCRACY AND AN ENTHUSIAST AND OF ‘SKIN JEWELRY’ WAS ADVOCATE OF PLASTIC DESIGN. HE PARTNERED AN ESSENTIAL PARTNER FOR WITH MELISSA IN 2005, CREATING ONE TEAR- MELISSA. SHE HAS ALSO COLLABORATED WITH SHAPED MODEL AND ANOTHER WHICH ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, GIVENCHY, LANCOME DELIVERS HIS INTERPRETATION OF AND MAC COSMETICS. HER BRAND DEBUTED THE CLASSIC “ARANHA” AT LONDON FASHION WEEK IN 2001 AND STYLE. EVER SINCE SHE HAS DEDICATED HERSELF TO EMBELLISHING WOMEN’S AND MEN’S CLOTHING MELISSA LADY DRAGON + J. MASKREY winter 2010 WITH HER LUXURIOUS CRYSTALS. MELISSA KARIM RASHID HIGH summer 2005 ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH JUDY BLAME THE BRAZILIAN FASHION DESIGNER WHO HAS THE CELEBRATED ART DIRECTOR AND EXPORTED HIS FASHION STYLE AROUND THE JEWELRY DESIGNER, FAMOUS FOR CREATING WORLD, HERCHCOVITCH HAS CREATED OVER TIMELESS IMAGES FOR “I-D” AND STYLING 20 MODELS WITH MELISSA IN AN EXTREMELY BOY GEORGE, BJORK AND SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIP. A TRUE BRAZILIAN NENEH CHERRY, PARTNERED FASHION MOGUL, HE IS CREDITED WITH WITH MELISSA IN 2005, INTRODUCING NEW FASHION POSSIBILITIES RE-EDITING TWO BOOTS FOR BRAZILIAN WOMEN WITH A TRULY INTO GUTSY UP-TO-DATE UNIQUE SENSIBILITY. HE IS CURRENTLY VERSIONS, ADORNED SHOWING HIS COLLECTIONS WITH SYMBOLS OF HIS AT NEW YORK PUNK SOUL. FASHION WEEK. MELISSA MAKING + ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH winter 2011 MELISSA SCARFUN BOOTS ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH + JUDY BLAME summer 2005 LOVEFOXXX ISABELA CAPETO LEAD SINGER OF CULT BRAZILIAN POP-ROCK BAND CSS, LOVEFOXXX HAS BEEN WORKING AS AN ILLUSTRATOR FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS AND CONQUERING FANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH HER EDGY, HANDMADE DRAWINGS EXPRESSING UNIQUE THEMES. MELISSA PARTNERED WITH THE YOUNG SENSATION IN 2006, BEFORE HER BAND BROKE OUT, COMMISSIONING HER FOR ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE A TRUE TALENT, AND ONE OF BRAZIL’S NEW FAÇADES FOR ITS GALLERY. SHE LATER GENERATION OF FASHION DESIGNERS, CAPETO PRODUCED TWO PRODUCTS THAT BRINGS THE CULTURAL ELEMENTS THAT DISTINGUISH LIVED UP TO THE HIGH HER PIECES TO HER CREATIONS FOR MELISSA. EXPECTATIONS. AMONGST HIGHLIGHTS IS THE “IPÊ” SANDAL, NAMED AFTER ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN NATIVE TREES OF HER COUNTRY. A SPECIAL TRANSLATION MELISSA NUMA + LOVEFOXXX summer 2010 OF THE BRAZILIAN STYLE INTO FOOTWEAR. MELISSA FLOWER + ISABELA CAPETO summer 2010 MELISSA ACADEMY DUCK + HEAD GENÈVE by JULIE SIMON GROUNDWORK WASLAIDTHROUGHASERIESOF MELISSA’S HEADCREATORS,WHOCALLEDUPON THIS PIONEERPROJECTAIMSTOSTIMULATETHE WORKSHOPS FORUNIVERSITYSTUDENTSLEDBY PATRICIPANTS TOCREATEA‘WALKINGOBJECT’. PATRICIPANTS MELISSA ACADEMY WORKING ANDCREATINGWITHPLASTIC.THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW WAYS OFTHINKING, DEVELOPMENT OFNEWWAYS GENÈVE UNIVERSITY. THREEMODELSWENT GENÈVE UNIVERSITY. THE FIRSTEDITIONTOOK PLACEATHEAD INTO PRODUCTION. A SELECTION OF LICENSED NAMES SEASONALLY APPEAR IN MELISSA’S COLLECTIONS, SUCH AS THE SMURFS, BARBIE, HELLO KITTY, THE LITTLE PRINCE AND VARIOUS DISNEY CHARACTERS.