IN VOGUE

PARTICIPANTS

Jolanta Rimkutė & Ieva Ševiakovaitė (guests), Lithuania

Eugene Chokhloff & Julia Bunakova, Russia
(“Bunakova & Hokhloff Studio”)

Larisa Kuchalskienė, Lithuania, "Cold Summer of 2000"

Marina Iskandarova, Kazakhstan, "Metamorphosis"
(Fashion Salon “Andree”)

Sotera Norvilaite,
Hungary, "Last Spring of this Millenium" (Fashion House “Kalaka”)

Julian Fedo,
Lithuania, "Mirage of Frescos" (G.Fledžinskienė`s Higher Art School)

Vita Černiauskaitė & Jurga Kasperavičiūtė,
Lithuania, "Night Fishing" (Vilnius Art Academy)

Natalija Natkevičiūtė & Vaida Radvilaitė,
Lithuania, "Fragile Touch"

Elena Starceva,
Russia, "Without Title"

Olga Rink,
Lithuania, "Coans"

Ekaterina Kostrikova,
Russia, "Glitter"

Rita Plioplienė,
Lithuania, "On the Border" (Salon “Kristijonas and Karolina”)

Neolina Matkerimova
Russia, "Persian Lilac"

Olga Brovkina,
Russia, "Feeling"

Liubovė Čaplikienė,
Lithuania, "Storm"

Dmitryi Butyrskyi,
Russia, "Couturiosy"

Greta Dargevičiūtė & Alena Makarova,
Russia, "Harmony of Contradictions"

Indrė Pavilonytė,
Lithuania, "Sarasvati"

Marje Mottus,
Estonia, "Look`99 "

Rasa Urbonaitė,
Lithuania, "Desire and Play "

Julija Potupa,
Russia, "Pret-a-potu-porte"

Viktor Anisimov,
Ukraine

Jolanta Vazalinskienė,
Lithuania, "Summer Rain"

Elena Badmaeva,
Russia, "A Bit of Sun in Cold Water"

Issey Miyake – Fashion House collection "Pleats Please" Autumn-Winter 1999-2000, France

Rochas – Fashion House collection Autumn-Winter 1999-2000, France

Lecoanet & Hemant – Fashion House collection of Haute Couture Springs-Summer 1999, France.

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International Fashion Festival “IN VOGUE Vilnius`99”

GUESTS

ROCHAS
Pret-a-Porter

CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY:
The French de luxe fashion and perfume House Rochas, which can be proud of its prestigious past and prominent name, is aligned to the most famous representatives of French luxury. Marcel Rochas reigned the fashion of Paris for 30 years, from 1925 to 1955. Being the creator of an exclusive code of elegance he brings to the fashion a new type of woman – self-confident, contemporary and subtle. But beauty is what fascinates him most. And if a woman is eternal, it is only because she is changing. Every epoch, every generation, every decade has its own style. That is why, standing on the edge of the third millenium, Rochas Fashion House has chosen to come back to the fashion world, offering new and broad perspectives to the contemporary elegance. Returning to the sources of its creativity and producing new designs, the fashion house refreshes and strengthens its essential features and identity by trusting the creative work to an Irish designer Peter O`Brien.
Since his childhood a pencil has become an extension of his hand, he was always scribbling. He was very good at caricature but was far more interested in elaborate-looking ballgowns. Inspired by his aunts who would glide around the Dublin Musical Society dances in clouds of tulle, the young O`Brien would sketch ladies in ballgowns and dream that someone one day would see his drawings and discover him. Ironically, truth did echo fiction, but that was many years later. Before that, when he left school at 15, he worked in a clothing factory, loading shelves and eventually dressing the windows in a supermarket. Ever hopeful, he sent sketches to magazines, when one day some landed on the desk of Eve Pollard, fashion editor of a Sunday newspaper, who suggested him to go to college. And Peter O`Brien did. He entered St.Martin`s College of Art - London`s leading fashion school – which was the alma mater of such British designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen or Rifar Ozbek. Peter O`Brien was never a trendy designer there; he always designed pretty grown-up clothes of total glamour in a grand European way. Already then it was obvious that he would go to Paris.
After college O`Brien went to New York to do a post-graduate course at Parsons School of Design. In 1981 he returned to Paris to work with Marc Bohan, the couturier at Dior. From Dior he went to Givenchy, then Chloe, just after Karl Lagerfeld had departed for Chanel. In 1990 O`Brien became a designer for Rochas and set out to revive Rochas` fashion fortunes. But successfully working within the framework of an established house, he dreams of creating his own collection one day.

ROCHAS
Pret-a-Porter
Autumn-Winter 1999-2000

Understanding that the choice of clothing as well as of scent exclusively depends on a woman wearing it, Rochas has obliged Peter O`Brien, a creator of a new generation, to look after that this woman, who has always been the main care of the fashion house, would become even more beautiful, desirable and shining.
In spite of ephemerality of the fashion, the first luxurious Pret-a-Porter collection of Rochas opened an authentic style of Rochas women in this last decade of our century. A free, shining, relaxed woman, who adores to fascinate and to be fascinated. Provoking when necessary, extravagant, but not vulgar, prosperous, but not arrogant, active, for whom everything is movement, rhythm, charm… Working, traveling, taking care of her family, she is always spontaneous. Desiring that this world would not have mysteries, this woman wants to be everywhere by any means and under any circumstances. She is confident in herself and her clothes. Permanent elegance, originality, voluptuousness and creativity combined with Peter O`Brien`s cosmopolite understanding of fashion and Rochas` experiences!
Peter O`Brien`s signature style is very wearable, elegant and daywear, which the French adore, and modern, chic eveningwear that appeals to the Americans – all that with sensitivity for luxury. His attention to detail, his passion for clothes and a fairly fixed idea of what he wants, the finishing touch and always the last thing to be worked on brings the designer close to couture fashion. He is however more interested in what goes on inside a garment because it is the means rather than the end. He loves a concept of the full-blown ballgown, but gives a fresh energy by casually rolling up the sleeves of an evening dress. He is a suit and tailoring designer. He can transform jeans or military garments into something luxurious and subtle.
The fantasy of Rochas` woman is revealed by multitude of pretentious details that masks the temperance: inward embroideries, linings of wet silk, expensive fabrics, exemplary smoothing and decorations… That is originality that penetrates through nearly monastic forms. Unexpected combinations of classical cut and unusual materials, where audacious play of tints competes with ordinary palette of colors. Evening clothing can be as loose as T-shirt; Polo shirt is suited to a wide, long skirt that is cut from flannel of a man’s suit. Distraction, absent-mindedness, incompatibility, humor and surprising changes – constant search of the equilibrium and balance in fashion.