Chicca Lualdi was rewarded at the Fashion Incubator contest in 2009 by the CNMI and won the prize as the best young brand given by the Regione Lombardia, Sistema Moda Industria and the Bocconi University.
Chicca Lualdi Bee Queen’s collection starts form the essence of an understated femininity and points straight to an aesthetic at a high intensity which refuses any sort of showing off by playing with severity, terseness and equilibrium of match and researching quality materials and finishing.
Her sartorial expression creates light geometries brought back in prints, in processing, in applications and in inlays all becoming the absolute rule of the designer and of her brand Chicca Lualdi BeeQueen.
FALL WINTER 2012 - 2013.
The collection starts with a path inspired to the essential, a vocation for minimal which is then enriched by contaminations from the sixties in volumes and by hints taken from contemporary arts by Toyo Ito and his geometries. A vision of fashion in which modernity is brought out by the linearity of cuts, a non “cold and androgynous” minimalism, but it is interpreted through feminine volumes or the use of colours and materials instead. Faithful to an understated feminine path and a research refusing any sort of showing off.
Clean cuts and lines highlighted by the use of matching fabrics often looking like materials melting together and giving a tri-dimensional look to the garments. Embroideries and applications bring light to the fabrics without imposing themselves in an intrusive way but creating a smooth and soft effect of preciousness.
Sheepskins and light furs become an almost “fabric” which gives way to geometrical prints and games of material fusions. Thicker and more compact fabrics such as the “nattè” interchange with more fluid and delicate ones such as the “sable” or the printed silk or the organza. Colours alternate: delicate “caramel pink” gets stronger when matched with black or must. White is used as “trait d’union” element over an extremely versatile and feminine colour palette. The young brand keeps it growing path thanks to its presence throughout important department stores, boutiques and concept stores (Saks NY, Isetan, Gente Roma, Banner Milano, Antonia, Luisa Via Roma etc..).
Cristiano Burani ha debuttato nell'edizione di Milano Moda Donna nel settembre 2011 con la sua prima sfilata di pret à porter femminile.
Lo stilista bolognese è stato, tra il 2010 e il 2011, uno dei vincitori del FASHION INCUBATOR di N.u.de - i progetti di Camera Nazionale della Moda dedicati ai talenti emergenti - grazie al quale le sue collezioni hanno sfilato nelle più importanti città del mondo, da Tokyo a Berlino, da Mosca a Kiev fino a Parigi. Il suo concetto di moda è legato ad uno stile ricercato ed una qualità sartoriale Made in Italy; le sue collezioni sono vendute in oltre 30 paesi nel mondo. : il mercato più importante è l'Europa – con Italia, Francia, Regno Unito, Spagna e Germania – seguita da Russia, medio ed estremo Oriente
Collezione FW 2012-13.
Un'ispirazione "Scuba Couture" caratterizzata da un mix di tessuti tecnici e performanti che, uniti alla lana e alla seta, danno vita a una collezione dall'allure femminile e grintosa. Con un focus deciso sul collo, dal mood vittoriano, i modelli, dalle linee asciutte e grafiche, vivono nell'uso sapiente dei colori primari e in un utilizzo di materiali preziosi, in cui il ricamo e le pellicce sono protagoniste.
Sergei Grinko studied at the Technological College of Fashion in Khabarovsk (Far East Russia) and then graduated at the prestigious Central Saint Martin's in London. His creative career began to open up to a cosmopolitan vision and knowledge with courses from different realities. He worked for years as couturist at the royal Courts of the Middle East where he dressed up or better, decorated, during the official occasions Queens and Princesses like Ranja of Jordan and most of Noble people of the Gulf.
Due to these premises, since 2009, you can recognize the unique style of the Maison Sergei Grinko, made of a sophisticated craftsmanship of the clothes and accessories combined with extreme versatility and portability, in every kind of his creations, designed and produced entirely in Italy. The brand Sergei Grinko attracted the attention of International press and buyers with its collections, showing during Milan Fashion Week, now for three consecutive seasons, offering his unique style and full of artistic and philosophical references, always imbued with a sophisticated three-dimensionality.
SERGEI Grinko A / W 2012-2013 COLLECTION WOMEN: "APPLES FALLING INTO THE SKY".
Sergei Grinko calls its new Women's Collection Fall / Winter 2012-2013, "The apples falling into the sky", fascinated by the esoteric theories of transfering realty by Zealand. In them, as is known, it supports the multi-variant theory, which provides a technique of "migration" from one branch to another reality, thanks to the energy of the thoughts of man consciously aimed at materializing of one or another variant of the development of events. The practical sense of this doctrine is the fact that a fellow, activating an intentional control of his thoughts and his attitude towards the outside world, can choose a set of defined variants of reality at his discretion, that no matter what happens is not good or bad or sad or happy, but it gets based on the subjective characteristics that are deliberately assigned. Everyone chooses what he wants the event to represent himself. Therefore, there is a clear dividing line beyond which if you choose to consider a fact in a certain way, that will also cover the way in which we will consider and evaluate the same consequences, while remaining ontologically the same natural event. It's up to us to attribute a value in a positive or negative way, with the effects that it may entail. And this line of "demarcation" is, thus, recovery from Sergei Grinko, in its own reinterpretation always urged by the work of Alexander Rodchenko, in which the stretch marks and black runs shares of the suit, by interrupting or joining pieces of the same material or of materials and different structures, depending ̶ as we have sought to explain esoterically above ̶ that contributions the one or the other meaning. The Sergei Grinko's woman, then, for the Autumn / Winter 2012-2013, lives and moves constantly in elegant and defined shapes, with precise and very feminine cuts. The allure forties echoes the classic forms of fur coats with fine details, as well as in clothes with sophisticated and precise fits.
The same accessories consist of small or large aircraft that are brooches, necklaces or earrings, and ornaments for handbags (Regondi for Sergei Grinko) fully recall that period of great construction and expected soon after the end of major world conflict. Precious jewelry belts and metallic zips applied on the surface of the garments characterize further the collection, and the structures are particularly emphasized on the waist and giving to the female figure a sophisticated elegance and originality.
Large decorative buttons and applied elements of polycarbonate (Sergei Grinko by James di Marco) also embellish the creations of the collection and merge with other accessories such as handbags, corsets and collars covered with drops of black silicone drops, executed in collaboration with the renowned artist Marcello Gobbi (www.marcellogobbi.com). Everything always needed to contribute more to the 3D effect, the central element in all Sergei Grinko Collections. The nuances of colors used in this season range from beige, burgundy, green and black English, for the first time, you used the real Kurabo, the blue Japanese denim. These colors are cleverly put together and used in addition to the usual wool, mohair knits well on, and on cashmere, but most of the original prints, designed by the designer himself influenced by the work of Rauschenberg and combine painting imprinted on a precious silk triple. The collection is completed the integration of branded footwear Sergei Grinko by Isabella Lo Russo, in which there are unusually shaped thin heels, wedges or very smart because they have very low front of the plateau, all coordinated with the furs and fabrics expressed in the collection.
Finally, Sergei Grinko offers a full line of legwearings based on precious yarns (Ileanacalze for Sergei Grinko) in which the unique stylistic and thematic development is fully coordinated with all the in terms of materials, colors, and above all with the exclusive digital printings.
The BASHARATYAN V Brand was founded in London in July 2010 by Veronica Basharatyan, its artistic director.
Veronica Basharatyan was born in Moscow on 20 November 1985 from an aristocratic closely-knit Armenian-Balkarian family. After obtaining an Economics degree from Moscow State University, Veronica decided to move to London when she was 20, to proceed with her fashion plans. She degreed at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and then specialized at the London College of Fashion in techniques of working and printing on fabrics.
In the last few years, Veronica has produced several capsule collections that were successfully presented at numerous events. The latest collection for Spring/Summer 2012, entitled Surreal Hidden Beauty, was presented at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Moscow and was greeted enthusiastically by buyers and the media.
The BASHARATYAN V Brand has found itself customers that appreciate its conceptual style and outstandingly original embroidery and prints, created at the computer or in the workrooms. BASHARATYAN V creations are mainly obtainable from its London boutique at 123 Bethnal Green and are distributed from its showrooms in London and Moscow.




