The
exhibition “Retrospective of the fashion in Macedonia 1983-2013”
officially opened Fashion Weekend Skopje 7th season, spring/summer 2013.
The
goal of this project is
to get closer to the process of designing collections that know no
limits. A retrospective that brings you back in time, that connects
the things created in the past and in the present and looks forward
in what we can expect. The exhibition presents photographs and video
materials, as well as apparel, shoes and fashion accessories typical
for each of the decades. The brands that are represented are
MAKPRIMAT, Astibo, Bella, Britex, Rudnik, Godel and other. The
project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Macedonia, its media partner is Macedonian weekly magazine “TEA
Moderna”.
“Retrospective of the fashion in Macedonia 1983-2013”
The exhibition was followed by the fashion performance of one of the most famous Macedonian designers Nikola Eftimov (assistant – Aleksandra Jovanovska). Behind the seemingly pretentious title of the collection – Being Nikola Eftimov, based on the film Being John Malkovich - hides the intimate desire to re-actualize part of the shapes, types of finishing, textures, and colors which constantly fascinated me throughout my design career in the past two decades. The process of devising the collection began with a stylistic research of the 1970’s, especially in terms of international bohemian spirit. The collection contains elements of reinterpretation of certain types of clothing taken from the history of suit and extremely stylized folklore. This mixture is spiced with the inevitable influence of street fashion and youthful rebellion for constant relativization of the established values.
Part of the materials was laundered several times in order to achieve a vintage feeling. They have been colored, painted, bleached, embroidered by hand etc. The palette is based on gray, black, and dirty white with an emphasis of intense colors.
Tanja Kokev
The
next fashion show that took place on April, 1, was of Tanja Kokev’s,
another very famous designer. The fashion show was held at the Museum of the Macedonian struggle for statehood and independence.
About
the collection: A man
and a woman. He is wearing a suit with a perfect cut and she is
wearing the most feminine dress that has ever walked the town
promenade. A romance. A romantic one, the one we have forgotten,
where the foreplay is more important than the act; the man is man and
the woman is woman. Kokev dedicates this year’s spring/summer 2013
collection to romance – to the most feminine in woman, where the
dignity and elegance start with clothes and end with the overall
lifestyle. Minimalism but luxury, pastel colors but lively ones, a
pinch of retro and a lot of contemporary. The new collection has the
freshness of spring morning and the strength of love at first sight.
Inspired by the trains of the past, there are parts of the visited
places whose air left a mark on the fabric. The lace is just a detail
– an emphasis that remains in the memory of the memories past.
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