5/15/2023 0 Comments Kilometre parisAlso, we have started playing with fabrics. This collection has definitely been more refined and well-tailored. And their ultimate bestseller with shops has been a long dress shirt that has a classic feminine touch with the cinched waist and flowy skirt.īrenda Herrera is wearing Kilometre, shirt Orchard and Ludlow Street, NYC, USA, hand-embroidered, 100% linen. This season they have introduced many other styles, such as cinched waist shirt that accentuates the figure and extends to the top of the thigh or the Ultra Light, which was designed for the easy and breezy, everyday fit. Her brand started with only one model, what they now call the Shirt. ![]() Her current SS2017 collection has been their departure point into the development of other styles. She is an indian ecologist and feminist writer who had a Prix Nobel and fights against the GMO’s. I follow Vandana Shiva, sort of feminine Ghandi. Today, Alexandra Senes have 30 shops around the world, from Seoul to Marseille, going through Newport California or Tokyo. So it put the brand under a magnifying glass and all the other brands followed. Barneys NY immediately carried us and did a corner for the opening of Barneys downtown. I am not a fashion designer neither an antique dealer. The beginning was just luck and magic. I found a shirt on a flea market and when speaking with the “brocanteuse”, she told me she had 400 pieces and, immediately, I told her I wanted to buy them. It is funny. Alexandra says she never decides to create a sustainable fashion label. Another film that I really enjoyed was Wasteland, by the bresilian artist Vik Muniz. Instead of complaining, it shows solutions and tells a feel-good story… this may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crisis that countries are going through. She tells us Demain is the best documentary she saw recently. It is always a mix of ethic meets chic and expensive brands – she says. And if she wears a vintage bleu de travail, she would need YSL high heels. The worst disease in this planet are these small bottles of Evian. In India, I would drink tea and worst case scenario would need to buy a mineral water because I have no choice.Īs she says, she is a Céline meets Rabih Kayrouz person with Patagonia shoes. I always stop my shower and faucet when I wash my teeth. I never take plastic bags in shops since years. We could not wait to meet her! So excited about her fashion story… She is also the author of the book Le Paris du Tout Paris on 100 parisiens and their adresses. She had a radio show hosted in Tokyo and sponsored by Hermès, and a TV show in France that was the analogue of the famous Project Runway in USA. Was editor-in-chief of Jalouse and Harper’s Bazaar France. The story of Alexandra Senes, founder of the brand, is a Wow story! She is journalist. These include DJ Nadège Winter, chef Alexandre Gauthier or French actress Julie is a luxury brand that combines flavours, destinations, literature, sound and music to create a community of travellers for whom beauty has not limits or frontiers. Still, Kilometre’s Web site has an editorial component, including videos interviews on travel with people she has labeled “GPS” for “Gens Particulièrement Sympathiques,” or “Very Nice People” in English. What did Senes learn by switching from editor to designer? “I discovered custom duties, how to deal with department stores - they’re tough with young brands - and how to choose buttons at the Première Vision trade fair - the torments of a fashion designer.” For winter, Senes is adding a range of jumpsuits and bags to the line. ![]() In its first season for spring 2016, the collection is distributed in 16 doors. The antique shirts are priced at around $3,175, while the new pieces, that are handmade in Mexico, are sold at around $975. ![]() For Le Bon Marché, she created a basket as a tribute to the square Boucicaut, the park in front of the department store. The Barneys shirt, sold at the West 18th Street location in New York, features the High Line and the Whitney Museum. In addition, she created exclusive pieces for retailers. All shirts come with a “passport” and a guide to the destination. For example, the embroideries on the Pantin shirt reads “métiers d’art,” as a nod to the home of Chanel’s specialty ateliers, and “ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.” “To me, Pantin will be like the Marais 10 years from now,” she predicted. “I chose the Brooklyns of tomorrow,” she explained. She bought a stock of 300 vintage pieces, of which about 200 were in perfect condition.ĭestinations featured on the new shirts include the Inhotim arts center in Brazil Kashan, Iran and Pantin outside Paris. “These don’t wear out,” said Senes, noting that they’re made from linen, hemp or nettle. Behind the Scenes of the Dior and Chanakya School of Craft Collaboration
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