Europa Artium- Fashion Performance

CPD Dusseldorf – july 2007

Our newest collection prepared for the summer 08 season – was presented at the fashion fair in Dusseldorf at the “New Romanian Designers” section. The collection is called “Show me” and has a major focus on the key piece of the summer season: the shirt. We’re talking about various transformations of the sleeves and collars, as well as innovative cuts in a sort of androgin style. All ranges of white- with subtile stripes and fine sensitive fabrics such as poplin and menswear details. The pieces were very well received in Germany- we’re hoping it will be presented soon in Romania too!!

BuY UAD CONCEPT STORE – Cluj-Napoca

The University of Art and Design from Cluj celebrated on the 28th of June 2007- the opening of the first Concept Store in Cluj-Napoca, which pursues building a new brand “bUY UAD”. The brand proceeds from the creations and artworks of the UAD students.
“bUY UAD” is a unique project of its kind in Cluj, being the first concept store opened by a university. The opening of such a shop is a natural step in the educational and artistic evolution of our university, being a conceptual space well thought out for a large public who is wanting to buy for special prices , valuable artistic objects. The new commercial space, opened in the heart of “CASA MATEI” in Cluj-Napoca wants to be a space of junction between different directions in visual arts specific to the contemporary artistic climate, in which artworks from fields like painting, sculpture, photography, videoart, ceramics, design and fashion design will be exhibited for sale.

 

ROMANIAN FASHION WEEK- IASI 2007

This year we are glad to present our fall-winter collection at the Iasi Fashion Week -Romania! Not only that these are a range of outfits that we recommend for the season that comes ahead, but each garment is thought of to represent a certain feeling, a certain state of mind in “our private poetry”. You can find reviews and pictures on fashionandbeauty.ro and stiletto.ro

CPD Dusseldorf – feb 2007

..TIME HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL..
..these outfits- we can call them stories- are states of mind which define a maximum individualism, a self pursuit without any clichees,a play allure, where the spirit amuses itself, the ludic becomes the dominant note, generating a confortable feeling. A sort of harmony created between elegance and spontaneity, between restrained and exhuberant.
Studied, wide volumes, in which you cuddle for protection, disimulate a refined taste for luxury and difference. The classic codes “bon-chic”-“bon-genre” are cheered up by the taste for embelishments, descrete but indispensable – showed clearly in prints, jaquards, metal sheens and embroidery.
The generous volumes are balanced by fited shapes and mini lengths which relaunch the silhouette. The personal unfolding manifests in each individual an equilibrum between rigor and sensibility, between force and delicacy, between movement and reverie.Thus clothing becomes the sign of a personal message- an attitude problem in which each person associates in his/her own way contrasting elements. The “Total look” dissapears in favour of a “Total Perso”.
The approached themes associate puritan elegance (with retro 60s influence for structured precise formes) with an urban spirit, where everything merges and is mixed in a playful space (a youthful streetwear with jogging influence and recovered vintage, with romantic exaltation and free layering).
From the tension generated by the natural-technic mix- to the “couture” magic, balanced between tradition and futurism- the spirit of time marks the need of redefining oneself,a personal unwinding in a new equilibrium: the volume play sustained by the energy of colours.
The collection is a project asserted through WBF/GTZ program, a program for promoting designers’ competitivity in the SE of Europe at profile fairs.
The 3rd year students from the fashion department of the UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN Cluj-Napoca, under the coordination of lect. univ. drd. Elena Basso-Stanescu have imposed themselves at the february edition of CPD Dusseldorf, in a representative space for the avantguard design of the “NEW DISCOVERY” section.