Archives 2018

Paris retrospective

Fashion in Paris
The year 2011 in the retrospective
Anyone, who wants to be internationally successful in the world of fashion and wants to persist in the long run as an entrepreneur with the self-created brand, may not ignore the fashion capital Paris. With the Paris fashion weeks, fashion designers find ways to familiarise themselves with their own creative ideas and designs to a demanding international expert audience.

Christian Janssen — 1st January 2018

Paris couture spring/summer 2018

	Gentle bonds The fashion as a cultural message Fashion designers are also cultural ambassadors. Then fashion becomes the message. The Japanese fashion designer Yumi Katsura sees herself as an ambassador of Japanese and European culture. With the couture collection for spring and summer of 2018, she built a bridge between the Far East and the West under the motto “Bonds”. Christian Janssen — 3rd February 2018
	Olympias of Epirus and the woman’s strength Fashion from Greece in Paris Behind a successful man is mostly a strong woman. This had applied, for example, to Olympias of Epirus, princess from the tribe of the Molossians and then consort of Philip II, King of the Macedonians, because it had been her aim to make her son Alexander III, the Great, to the most powerful ruler in the, at that time, known world. Christian Janssen — 4th February 2018
	The health of grace The fashion and the salvation The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had once remarked to German composer Richard Wagner: “Wagner has not thought about anything as deeply as about salvation. His opera is the opera of salvation.” Christian Janssen — 5th February 2018
	There spoke the old chief of the red Indians The fashion and the Charleston The cultural heritage of foreign peoples is a rich treasure, which must be salvaged and preserved for posterity. Beirut fashion designer Zuhair Murad, who respected indigenous cultures all along, turned his attention to the American continent. He discovered the symbols and visual vocabulary of the Native Americans, especially the Sioux, Navajos and Iroquois. Christian Janssen — 6th February 2018
	On the way into the Elysium Fashion in the circus arena The event site “CIRQUE D’HIVER BouglionE” with its circus performances and various other events has been an institution and a symbol in Paris since the year 1852. This time, namely on 24. January 2018, it became the setting for the Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei’s fifth fashion show in Paris, wherefore it transformed itself into a romantic and colourful Elysium. Christian Janssen — 7th February 2018
	He is again there! News from the couturier Christophe Josse After the Paris fashion designer Christophe Josse had said goodbye to the world of couture in the year 2014 because of financial problems, he came back as a guest member of the Chambre Syndicale de Haute Couture on 25th January 2018. In the Site of Architecture and Cultural Heritage, he presented the couture collection for spring and summer of 2018. Christian Janssen — 8th February 2018

Milan ready‑to‑wear autumn/winter 2018/2019

	Wild abstractions The fashion and the kinetic art The Milan fashion week was on a tear. The calendar of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode for the ready‑to‑wear week in February and March 2018 still contents only seventy-nine parades, while the calendar of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana for the ready‑to‑wear week in February 2018 reached sixty-nine parades, so that both fashion weeks went head to head nearly. Christian Janssen — 5th May 2018
	Circus life The fashion and the uniformity Sometimes a fashion presentation causes outrage and resistance. The Italian animal welfare association “ESSERE ANIMALI” pointed out in the Milan fashion week, that there were still fur farms in Italy. According to its statement, one hundred and sixty thousand minks died each year in Italy, whereas such a practice had been prohibited elsewhere in Europe long ago. Christian Janssen — 6th May 2018
	Capucine and Altea di Vallenberg Fashionable diabolicism or diabolic fashion When you know, whence you come, you also know, whither you shall go, because past and future are related. This also applied to the brand “Les Copains”. Stefania Bandiera, the fashion designer, and Alessandro Mariani, the chief executive officer of the fashion house in Bologna, thought about its future, while they were dealing with the historic heritage. Christian Janssen — 7th May 2018
	Sometimes more, sometimes less Fashionable compositions The type of dandy fascinated the Milan fashion designers Luisa Beccaria and Lucilla Bonaccorsi. They looked for a very feminine counterpart. They found the British singer and actress Marian Evelyn Faithfull alias Marianne Faithfull. The British writer and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson alias Lewis Carroll’s dreamlike world and the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini’s aesthetics were added. Christian Janssen — 8th May 2018
	The father of all things Punk and fur THE TEXT IS REVISED AT PRESENT! Christian Janssen — 9th May 2018
	Elisabetta Franchi, Monica Vitti and the charismatic irony Back to the sparkle of the 1970s The fashion designer Elisabetta Franchi from Granarolo dell’Emilia near Bologna knows how to stage fashion glamorously. This time the Italian actress Maria Luisa Ceciarelli alias Monica Vitti was her inspiring muse as a modern symbol of authenticity. Everything revolved around the style of the 1970s as an era of female rebellion and power. Christian Janssen — 10th May 2018
	A song for Milan A musical journey through fashion Bon-ton and rebelliousness are in a charged relationship. The fashion designer Ermanno Daelli knowed to ease such a relationship for the brand “ERMANNO SCERVINO”, based in Bagno a Ripoli near Florence. Christian Janssen — 11th May 2018
	The Bauhaus in Milan The fashion and the symbolism There was something to celebrate for the brand “mila schön milano”, nowadays in Japanese hands, because the Italian fashion designer Maria Carmen Nutrizio alias Mila Schön had opened her first atelier in Milan in the year 1958. The graphic footprint, which she had left with her creations in the fashion world, abided a reinterpretation. Christian Janssen — 12th May 2018
	Catharsis The fashion and the theatre Just as theatre has a “cathartic and restorative” effect, so fashion activates the “collective and individual spark of change”. This was the fashion designer Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna’s firm conviction; she considered herself the guardian of Italian cultural heritage like her in the last year deceased mother and predecessor Laura Biagiotti. Christian Janssen — 13th May 2018
	The country of the smile The fashionable Milan in Asiatic hand The Chinese clothing industry is growing. There is a new giant by the name of Anzheng Fashion Group Co., Ltd., whose core business is the research, development and production in the context of clothing brands for the international distribution. The Anzheng Fashion Group Co., Ltd., founded in the year 1986, listed on the Shanghai stock exchange, has been its headquarter in Haining since the year 2015. Christian Janssen — 14th May 2018

Berlin retrospective

Stage dance in Berlin – first part
The years 2009 and 2010 in the retrospective
On 10th April 2010, after the previous year’s premiere, the boards, which notoriously mean the world, anew opened in Berlin to a broad audience. Under the auspices of the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH organized the event “2. LONG NIGHT OF THE OPERAS AND THEATRES”, in which sixty-eight Berlin venues – twenty-three of them for the first time – participated.

Christian Janssen — 1st July 2018

Paris couture autumn/winter 2018/2019

	Hedonistic Amazons The fashion and the exotic As much as the content and style of the presentations in the Paris couture week fascinate someone, so much their scheduling annoys someone. Recently, the cases of date collisions became more frequent. Christian Janssen — 1st August 2018
	Through the rose window Art nouveau in the fashion Windows exist for the lighting and for the view. Nevertheless, the term has something ambiguous. Either it is just the bay in a wall of a building or it is about a closure of such a bay, which usually consists of a glass, enclosed in a frame. Christian Janssen — 2nd August 2018
	The red thread of fashionable voyages of discovery Lordly fashion The French writer Charles-Pierre Baudelaire is extremely popular with fashion designers. The Milanese Rocco Adriano Galluccio had referred to his literary work for his own brand “ALCOOLIQUE” the with ready‑to‑wear collection “LES FLEURS DU MAL” for autumn and winter of 2017/2018. Christian Janssen — 3rd August 2018
	Fin de siècle The fashion and the cultural decay The phenomenon, where optimistic mood, future euphoria, fear of the future, apocalyptic mood, world-weariness, fascination of death and transience, falling back into childishness, taedium vitae, happy-go-lucky attitude, frivolity and decadence come together, has a name: fin de siècle. Christian Janssen — 4th August 2018
	Twenty-five years News from the fashion brand “VIKTOR&ROLF” Twenty-five years are a long time. In the year 1983, the song “25 Years” of the British band “The Catch” had been concerned wasted time and punishment. Other than in the song, there was something to celebrate in Paris recently. The Dutch fashion designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren looked back happily on twenty-five years of creative work. Christian Janssen — 5th August 2018
	When God created woman Fashion from the Riviera The fashion designers Galia Lahav and Sharon Sever from Israel concerned themselves with nothing less than the topic, that God had created woman. It was about the feature motion picture “ET DIEU... CREA LA FEMME” – in the English version: “And God Created Woman” – by the French movie director and screenwriter Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov alias Roger Vadim from the year 1956, which had established the myth of the French actress Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot by the role of Juliette Hardy. Christian Janssen — 6th August 2018