Arts of Fashion 2007 / November 1-2-3 at M i a m i In t e r n at i o n al U n i ve rsi t y o f A rt & De si gn M I A M I Presided over by Veronique Branquinho / Arts of Fashion Competition The Arts of Fashion Foundation is honored to announce that the international leading contemporary creative fashion designer from the Belgian scene - Veronique Branquinho - accepted our invitation to come and preside our 2007 Symposium and International Fashion Student Competition. Following the footsteps of iconic designers such as Martin Margiela, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, and Walter Van Beirendonck, Veronique Branquinho has been able to develop her own tailored sophisticated and contemporary identity and clean-cut and high-end design details which transpire femininity and elegance. Her collections have been presented in Paris and are sold around the world. 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of her label. www.veroniquebranquinho.com Lagerfeld Confidential premiere Miami / CineToile Thu. Nov. 1 - 8pm - Gusman Center The Arts of Fashion will present "Lagerfeld Confidential" by Director Rodolphe Marconi in Miami on Nov 1, for the opening of the Arts of Fashion Symposium. "Rodolphe Marconi, Cannes Festival Awarded French director, has been contemplating a documentary on Karl Lagerfeld over 10 years... This is the first time Karl Lagerfeld has agreed to let someone create an artwork on his life... The confrontation between the - image - hidden behind the glasses questions the modern media, elegantly oscillating between two extremes: the raw and sensational - reality image - on one hand, the artificial, supernatural fashion image on the other hand." www.lagerfeldconfidentiel.com A r t s o f F a s h i o n S y m p o s i u m & I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o m p e t i t i o n P r o g r a m Monday October 29 - Thursday November 1 Friday November 2 9 - 5pm Arts of Fashion MasterClass - Series 2007 9 - 12am Jury Working Sessions BagBoys - BitchStitchBeach - ClutchingNomadBag - FashionPixel - Miami International University of Art & Design / Fashion FlatFashAttitude Department / 1501 Biscayne Blvd Miami Miami International University of Art & Design / Fashion Department / 1501 Biscayne Blvd Miami 1 - 5:15pm Seminars and Conferences - Arts of Fashion Tandem Rubell Family Collection / 95NW 29th Street Miami Thursday November 1 6pm Welcoming Reception 7 - 9pm Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Veronique Miami International University of Art & Design / Gallery / 1501 Branquinho label Biscayne Blvd Miami Gemma Lounge / 529 Lincoln Road Miami Beach 8pm Arts of Fashion CineToile Saturday November 3 Lagerfeld Confidential directed by Rodolphe Marconi 7 - 10pm International Fashion Show Competition Gusman Center for The Performing Arts / 174 East Flagler & Arts of Fashion Awards Ceremony Street Miami Alfred I. DuPont Building / 169 East Flager Street Miami Arts of Fashion Foundation - 635 Tennesse Street Suite #402 - San Francisco CA 94107 USA +1 415 252 0734 Arts of Fashion 2007 / November 1-2-3 at M i a m i In t e r n at i o n al U n i ve rsi t y o f A rt & De si gn M I A M I Matthieu Blazy exhibition / carteBlanche Sat. Nov. 3 - 7pm - Alfred 1 duPont Building Maria Luisa award at ITS#FIVE & 2007 Lancome Design Colors Award Matthieu is a graduate of La Cambre Mode(s) / Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels and he received the highest distinction from La Cambre Jury. He has just joined the creative team of Raf Simons. Blazy will show his collection during the Arts of Fashion event in Miami www.myspace.com/matthieublazy photo / Pierre Debusschere Sandra Backlund exhibition / carteBlanche Sat. Nov. 3 - 7pm - Alfred 1 duPont Building Hyeres Fashion "Grand Prix" Award 2007 Sandra Backlund is a graduate of the Beckmans School of Design. She lives in Stockholm where she has founded her own fashion label. She experiments origami and pleats of knits and mohair that push the volumetric limits of the material and transform the body through disturbing and original shapes. www.sandrabacklund.com photo / Peter Farago, Cameralink Ar ts of Fashion Conferences / Tandem Fri. Nov. 2 - 1pm - Wynwood Art District / Rubell Family Collection Themes : Business of a Young Designer <Ann Claes> Copyright in Fashion <Susan Scafidi> Fashion Media <Susie Bubble> more on www.af-competition.com Arts of Fashion Foundation - 635 Tennesse Street Suite #402 - San Francisco CA 94107 USA +1 415 252 0734 A R T S O F F A S H I O N FOUNDATION p r e s i d e d o v e r b y V E R O N I Q U E B R A N Q U I N H O M I A M I I n t e r n a t i o n a l F a s h i o n S h o w C o m p e t i t i o n & A r t s o f F a s h i o n A w a r d s C e r e m o n y S a t . N O V. 0 3 - 7 p m A l f r e d I . D u P o n t B u i l d i n g 1 6 9 E a s t F l a g e r S t r e e t , T I C K E T S w w w . a r t s - o f - f a s h i o n . o r g w a n t t o s e e m o r e ? w w w . a r t s - o f - f a s h i o n . o r g w w w. m y s p a c e . c o m / a rt s o f f a s h i o n w w w. v e r o n i q u e b r a n q u i n h o . c o m p r e s i d e d o v e r b y VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO A rt s o f F a s h i o n 2 0 0 7 / N ove m b e r 1 - 2 - 3 a t M i a m i I n t e r n a t i o n a l U n i v e r s i t y o f A r t & D e s i g n M I A M I Veronique Branquinho takes Miami by storm Born in 1973, Veronique Branquinho, with Raf Simons, A.F. Vandevorst, and Bernhard Willhelm, is part of the “Second Wave” of internationally renowned Belgium designers who came from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and transformed Antwerp into a new fashion capital. In 1998, the United States recognized her as the “Best New Designer” at the VH1 Fashion Awards. In Italy, Ruffo Research chose Veronique Branquinho and Raf Simons to design their collection. Two years later, she held an exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology of New York and was awarded the Moët Fashion Award. In 2003, she broadened her vision with menswear and defintively established her label with the opening of her first flagship store in Antwerp. In 2005, she became the Chair—joining an illustrious group of designers such as Westwood, Castelbajac, and Lang—of the Fashion Department at the University of Applied Arts – Vienna. Her collections are sold all around the world. Today, she is the guest curator of the next issue of A Magazine, a unique fashion magazine that emphasizes individuality against homogenisation. In A MAGAZINE #6 Veronique stays faithful to the themes that have dominated her work since the start, giving this issue a clear Branquinho signature. She likes what she describes as frozen images, such as the opening shot of ‘As Black as Midnight on a Moonless Night’: Snow White’s blood-red apple pierced with a rusty nail. Or the naked girl on the cliffs somewhere in the north of France, her face hidden behind a mask of owl feathers. She wears a transparent cape that no longer conceals as capes normally do, the image therefore gaining a paradoxical erotic twist. These pictures are invariably both fragile and cruel. They suggest beauty with a dark undercurrent. This duality is a constant in Veronique’s world: attracting and rejecting, playing and pushing away again. Things are never what they seem. The smoke, to be found in several images, sometimes as a kind of mist or haze, then again as cigarette smoke partially hiding a woman’s face, seduces and shrouds and, above all, never telling the whole story. A MAGAZINE #6 will be available during the event in Miami. Concept : Veronique Branquinho Design : Paul Boudens On The Runway by Cathy Horyn - October 4, 2007 A casualty of too much continental kissing and contagious salons, I haven’t been operating on all cylinders. Bernard Alloux did his part to repair the problem, bringing me a gateau pomme, and as we streamed into the traffic of the Rue Etienne Marcel, through the Sentier and into the Marais, where I had an appointment with Veronique Branquinho, I polished off the cake and put away further thought of a hand-span waist. Where do our thoughts go when we have no more use for them? That line, offered by Diana Trilling in a long piece about her impressionable experiences as a girl at summer camp, has stuck in my mind.