Designers to watch #3

Five designers to watch #3: Coralie Marabelle, Phoebe English, Ricostru, Niv Keren, Juan Hernandez Daels.
A weekly spotlight on five emerging talents making waves, picked by Nasty.

CORALIE MARABELLE

Deconstruct, experiment, transform, embroider, wrinkle…Through the clothes of Coralie Marabelle, she reveals a world of impertinence and freedom. Life – is a game, not platitude but attitude. She plays, by getting inspired from the masculine and feminine wardrobes, combining the silhouettes from large volumes to Haute Couture, wanting to free the body with her garments, to move spontaneously and overcome conventional behaviors and concepts of sensuality. -Credits: Photography by @chloeledrezen.

@coralie.marabelle

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PHOEBE ENGLISH

PHOEBE ENGLISH is a luxury Womenswear and Menswear label based in London. Her garments are created with attention, precision and beauty. Labored construction forms the center of the design ethos, which embraces an uncompromising attention to finishing and fabrics through the resurrection of lost, forgotten or little-used techniques. The design process begins with sampling and is focused on craftsmanship and engineered surfaces. This attention to ‘surface’ is a key aspect of the design process and largely informs how a garment interacts with the movement of the body. -Credits: pag.1 @philiptrengove, pag.2 @lucieroxxx

@phoebeenglish

RICOSTRU

After the graduation from Istituto Marangoni, in 2011 chinese designer Riko Manchit started the first collection of her ready-to-wear line, Ricostru. The brand is centered around the concept of reconstruction, while their philosophy of design focuses on the “Return”, a return to the essential of clothing. The garments are meant to be comfortable and full of silent details, though without much decoration, “Luxury Basic”, simple and elegant. -Credits: Photography by @marcogiulianoph

@ricostru

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NIV KEREN

Niv Keren, young emerging designer from Israel. During his study in Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, he noticed his natural gift for tailoring and attraction towards unconventional materials. All this comes together in his own design language that characterizes his style. His works all have an intellectual value, and the drive behind his creations are topics and representation that are undermining political and gender cultural and social structure so revealing the cultural context of the outfit. -Credits: Photography by @benlouloumerav

@nivkeren1

JUAN HERNANDEZ DAELS

Born in Argentina but trained in Belgium, Juan Hernandez Daels launched his own label after graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Ever since he presents his collections during Paris Fashion Week, where his designs, highlighted by sharp tailoring lines, have become renowned for balancing classical aesthetics with a radical modernism. Midpoint between conceptual anti-fashion’s experimentation from Antwerp and latin-american intuitive sensuality. -Credits: Photography by @barbaraarcuschin

@juanhernandezdaels

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Selection by Zhujun Gao / @zhujun_gao

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