This upcoming season at CIFF marks the fourth collaboration with Virgil Abloh as Machine-A founder Stavros Karelis follows up last season curating the special projects area with ‘Enlightment’. Curated by and Sami Janjer, the project titled aims to raise awareness for the Little Sun Foundation featuring one-of-a-kind artworks Abloh, model Naomi Campbell, photographer Nick Knight, art director Peter Saville along with other acclaimed industry insiders.
“The works”, said Karelis “are inspired by light to raise awareness for the Little Sun Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to bring solar power to 1.1 billion people around the world who lack access to clean and sustainable energy. Our actions have to become a platform to raise awareness and do something good, so we reached out to close collaborators like Virgil and Nick, who all came up with brilliant ideas of how they can work with the concept and the meaning of light.”
Nick Knight will showcase a short film created exclusively for the project. “As an image-maker, light is the foundation of everything I do,” said Knight.
Meanwhile, Campbell teamed up with Saville to create ten original artworks with the model’s favourite inspirational quotes painted on blankets provided by Woolrich while Abloh has created a special limited-edition product. “Using creativity to spread light on things that better humanity is a part of my ethos. Joining this team on the Enlightenment project was a great fit for me,” said Abloh.
Hosted in partnership with CIFF’s creative director Kristian Andersen, ‘Enlightment’ is just one of the ideas to strengthen CIFF’s pursuit in becoming one of the world’s leading destinations for creativity.
The ‘Englightenment’ special projects installation is set to run as part of CIFF from August 8 to 10.
Set in an underground parking lot, the location gave way to experience the technique of “Dérive” the rapid passage through varied ambiances of the city, practiced by the group of political and artistic social rebels of the mid-20th century – Situationists.
For Spring 2019, Givenchy’s streamlined, scuba-inspired JAW bag for men is gliding into fine weather mode with a stark white edition and two new, smaller styles.
Designers Archie Dickens, Federico Protto, Pu Tianqu, Saskia Lenaerts, Victor Huarte and Vitor Antunes, showed their collections at the SANGUE NOVO platform, during Moda Lisboa.
Patrick de Padua showed a Spring/Summer 2019 collection featuring deconstructed silhouettes between fair and oversized, as well as overlapping of materials, in an assumed streetwear/sportswear DNA.
The style has been created through the overlaying of multiple references, divided between a return to formal wardrobe and a more cool attitude in relation to self-comfort.
Kolovrat showed its Spring/Summer 2019 collection in Lisbon, featuring vivid colors, embedded in the democratic expression, “where every fabric, every pattern, every cut transports us to a life of liberation”.
Andrew Coimbra’s Spring/Summer 2019 collection explores the carefree spirit of summer in the city; lightweight, loose, and bubbling with cheeky spontaneity.
Alexandra Moura’s collection for the upcoming Spring/Summer season reinforces the history of the designer and her childhood, evoking the holidays in Trás-os-Montes, near the frontier— Vila Verde da Raia.
This Fall/Winter 2018, challenge the elements with Sky’s the Limit by Lacoste L!VE, a streetwear collection featuring unisex outerwear and warm fabrics to handle the cold winter.
Jonas Toft Simonsen at Unique Models photographed by Lasse Wind and styled by Denis Bjerregaard & Sabina Simmelhag, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
Caleb Carrillo at MP Management Los Angeles photographed by David Gerry and styled with pieces from Maor Luz, Calvin Klein, and Diesel, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
Belgian designer Glenn Martens, creative director of Y/PROJECT will present the new Fall/Winter 2019-20 menswear collection in Florence with a special event.
