New York Fashion Week
February 12th 2010 10:10
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Georges Chakra
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New York Fashion Week
Fall/Winter 2010 ready-to-wear show
For the third season, Georges Chakra will present his Edition by Georges Chakra Fall/Winter 2010 ready-to-wear collection during New York Fashion Week.
The fashion show, scheduled for Saturday February 13, 2010 at 11:00 am, will take place at The Promenade located in The Tents at Bryant Park, 6th Avenue and 41st Street, New York, NY USA.
At a time when the Chambre Syndicale estimates there are at most 2,000 women actually buying (not just borrowing) couture, designer Georges Chakra could probably double that number on his own.
Chakra keeps an atelier of 60 working permanently in his home city of Beirut, and sometimes dresses several hundred women at grand society weddings in the Middle East, where he has a loyal and booming clientele.
On Monday July 8, 2002, the opening day of the Paris haute couture season, gentlemanly Georges staged his first couture catwalk show in Europe in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs on the rue de Rivoli. Chakra had a clear goal in creating haute couture to make clothes for women to wear, not just borrow.
At the time Chakra argued, Even if this show is about building our image I still want to make wearable couture. My style is too strong, and what is the point of making clothes just to show off?
At the ripe young age of 22 he opened his own couture house in Beirut and has been staging shows there for a decade. Once he famously presented a catwalk show underneath the bomb-damaged roof of the Grand Theatre of Beirut.
It was a little tricky, seeing as how it began raining in through a huge hole in the roof. But we coped, we always do, smiled Chakra.
Chakra began off studying interior design before enrolling at Academie des Couturiers Canadians in Ottowa. His inspirations were grand designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Gianfranco Ferre.
He loves beautiful clothes and eccentricity, as long as the result is stylish and plausible. His is a grand style inspired by his regular travels and an aesthetic that mixes the charm of the Orient with the pizzazz of the West. Chakra, now 44, describes his clientele as sexy, sensual, fussy and capricious women.
He does not sell in boutiques but deal with clients directly. This is an ancient idea of fashion but the pace of life in the Orient is slower and these women have time to enjoy the refinements of life. Except for women in Beirut, none of his Middle Eastern clients work he says They don't have to.
Source: www.fashionwindows.net
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New York Fashion Week
Fall/Winter 2010 ready-to-wear show
For the third season, Georges Chakra will present his Edition by Georges Chakra Fall/Winter 2010 ready-to-wear collection during New York Fashion Week.
The fashion show, scheduled for Saturday February 13, 2010 at 11:00 am, will take place at The Promenade located in The Tents at Bryant Park, 6th Avenue and 41st Street, New York, NY USA.
At a time when the Chambre Syndicale estimates there are at most 2,000 women actually buying (not just borrowing) couture, designer Georges Chakra could probably double that number on his own.
Chakra keeps an atelier of 60 working permanently in his home city of Beirut, and sometimes dresses several hundred women at grand society weddings in the Middle East, where he has a loyal and booming clientele.
On Monday July 8, 2002, the opening day of the Paris haute couture season, gentlemanly Georges staged his first couture catwalk show in Europe in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs on the rue de Rivoli. Chakra had a clear goal in creating haute couture to make clothes for women to wear, not just borrow.
At the time Chakra argued, Even if this show is about building our image I still want to make wearable couture. My style is too strong, and what is the point of making clothes just to show off?
At the ripe young age of 22 he opened his own couture house in Beirut and has been staging shows there for a decade. Once he famously presented a catwalk show underneath the bomb-damaged roof of the Grand Theatre of Beirut.
It was a little tricky, seeing as how it began raining in through a huge hole in the roof. But we coped, we always do, smiled Chakra.
Chakra began off studying interior design before enrolling at Academie des Couturiers Canadians in Ottowa. His inspirations were grand designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Gianfranco Ferre.
He loves beautiful clothes and eccentricity, as long as the result is stylish and plausible. His is a grand style inspired by his regular travels and an aesthetic that mixes the charm of the Orient with the pizzazz of the West. Chakra, now 44, describes his clientele as sexy, sensual, fussy and capricious women.
He does not sell in boutiques but deal with clients directly. This is an ancient idea of fashion but the pace of life in the Orient is slower and these women have time to enjoy the refinements of life. Except for women in Beirut, none of his Middle Eastern clients work he says They don't have to.
Source: www.fashionwindows.net
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