Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
The 12th edition of Feeric Fashion Week turned Sibiu again into the world’s capital of creative fashion. Between 17 and 21 July, designers from all corners of the world presented their new collections in unconventional spaces in the city and around it. Sibiu is a medieval city found in Transylvania, Romania.
Feeric Fashion Week is rightly credited with the recognition of the most creative fashion week in the world due to the absolutely unconventional fashion shows it puts on stage. Designers from all corners of the world choose to value their new creations in atypical spaces for fashion presentations. This being told, let’s enter into this #feeric world.
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
Day 1
Silvia Serban
The first day of fashion shows began in the shadow of the most representative symbols of Sibiu, the Tower of the Council. Silvia Şerban presented to the public the Autumn-Winter 2019 collection called “Double You”. Silvia Serban believes that every piece of clothing she imagines can contribute to the well-being of the wearer. Silvia Serban’s mission is to design styles that will never expire, not just because you get attached to them and develop various incurable addictions, but because you always rediscover them, again and again.
Eduardo Ocantos
Eduardo Ocantos fashion show transformed a small river into a runway, where the models were walking through the cold and sparkling water. This year’s collection is inspired by Argentinean artist’s paintings and is made with sustainable materials as wool of llamas, a specific animal from the north of Argentina. The wool is dyed with natural colors, then the wool is tissue in loom and with that texture he made some pieces of this collection also combined with silk
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
The Rags Tribe
The Rags Tribe is more than just a brand, its mission is empowering women from sex trafficking. It presented a vaporous, warm-walled collection, made exclusively from vintage, unique materials, gathered by the creator behind the brand in rural India. Dawn Schuster, the creator behind this brand, started this experience after seeing a post on Instagram with a group of women saved from the Mumbai human trafficking. In a few weeks, Dawn had already opened her first workshop in India, with all the employees of the workshop being women who had gone through this calvary. Each piece created by Rags Tribe is unique and talks about courageous women and their power to overcome any difficulty.
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
Day 2
Pif Stephano
The second day of FFW started with the fashion show of Pif Stephano, which was showcased on the luggage lane of the Arrivals terminal at the Sibiu International Airport. Pif Stephano graduated the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timişoara, Romania, Once again, taboo aspects became open discussion topics. Aesthetically and structurally, the MONOLOG 20.19 collection wishes to combat the pink – it “a girl”. Or not! Thus, the designer proposes an aesthetic represented by a socio-cultural hybrid of the present.
Bianca Popp
From the airport, the next stop was Magura Airport in Cisnadie, where the fashion shows moved into the sky. Among the planes, moto-planes and delta-planes, was showcased the Spring/Summer 2019 collection of Bianca Popp, Blue Giraffe. This was one of the most complex and unique shows of this year’s FFW edition. Bianca Popp is an extraordinary designer of the Feeric Fashion Week in the last 10 years. The collection is about a declaration of freedom, casual and romantic dresses, with white and blue as main colours, said Bianca Popp.
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
Ramelle
Soon after, Habermann Square put the grate geometry to showcase the Ramelle brand. RAMELLE was born out of an immeasurable passion for fashion and art. Ramona Mihaela, the creator behind the brand, wanted to explore new dimensions with new perspectives, offering creations with a minimalist, feminine design, where fashion meets architecture, and geometric shapes blend perfectly with futuristic accents.
Check out: Highlights of the MDVTM Gala
Feeric Fashion Week Venue
IED – Time is now
Friday’s day ended at the foyer of the “Ion Besoiu” Cultural Center, where Bianca Popp presented a menswear collection, and IED – Istituto Europeo di Design had a collective presentation. In 2018, the IED started a series of extensive events on sustainability.
”We started in 2018 with a series of happenings focused on sustainability, together with IED students and special guests. The topic of sustainable fashion is not just a fad, but an urgent issue. It inspired IED students, guiding them in the development of their capsule collections”.
Kalei
The fashion shows continued at the Cultural Center ”Ion Besoiu” in Sibiu with KALEI’s collection that represents femininity, strength, the concept of slow fashion and the search for the values of tradition from which contemporary fashion has fallen. The shapes and the details of each piece, elaborated by hand, recreate the essence of the woman as if it were the same particle of life: woman and the universe are one.
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
Redesign the Future of Fashion Competition
In collaboration with Feeric Fashion Week and Vfair, a sustainable fashion design competition was dedicated exclusively to the Romanian young designers. The prize was a substantial one and consisted in a free scholarship in Barcelona for Diana Daian, the winner of the competition, in collaboration with IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona, Spain.
Bianca Popp
The second day of Feeric Fashion Week ended by showcasing another collection made by Bianca Popp, but this time the designer turned her attention to menswear.
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
Day 3
Pat Equilux
The last day of fashion shows began in the basement of the “Ion Besoiu” Cultural Center, a place that keeps the time and the mystery, which emphasised with the Pat Equilux brand collection. VORÁGINE, the tornado of freedom, referring to the word itself, speaks about that overwhelming emotion that you feel having achieved such freedom. It is so disproportionate and great that has no exact explanation; and as a second reference to the word, we also allude to the tornado that invades us and envelops us by having in ourselves that which we have always sought and needed, FREEDOM.
Juan Boleco
Juan Boleco brought a collection full of spirits and vapours that breathe Spanish air and showcased it between the flaying skaters at the new and the modern Skatepark in Sibiu. The collection “Lola en la Luna” is inspired by the Holy Week and the fairs of Andalusia (Spain) and the Polka dot prints and lurex fabrics ruled it. Juan Boleco is a young designer from Sevilla, Spain and has presented his collections at SIMOF (international flamenco fashion salon) and at We love flamenco.
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
Feeric Fashion Week Gala
The most important event of the festival, Gala Feeric, began at 21 o’clock, in the Little Square of Sibiu, in the front of the House of Arts. In front of hundreds of spectators collections by Aida Lorena, Casi Couture, Irina Akkaya and Chaotic were showcased.
Read also: Modic Fashion Editorial – Catching the Summer by Anna Priakhina
Aida Lorena Atelier
Inspired by the power of women to reinvent themselves every day and the love for the versatility and complexity of bridal dresses, the Phoenix collection was born. Like the legend of a bird that rises from its own ashes to end up shining brighter and rising as high as possible, the Phoenix collection is based on classical elements that were re-interpret and brought to modernity through precise techniques and a lot of creativity.
Casi Couture
Through the ,,Tears from Universe” collection Casi Couture celebrates the courage of the lost in solitude and sadness woman who decides to reborn and to step into the world, full of self trust sensuality and opulence. She does this in style by wearing a mesmerising dress created with the finest silk, precious crystals and feathers, the perfect elements which make her an unforgettable appearance.
Highlights of the Feeric Fashion Week, the most creative one in the world
Casi Couture
Casi Couture reminds us about the traditional Romanian costume, using in the ,,Scents of the Past” collection the old and the new and modern. We are talking about authentic clothing pieces made of natural textiles like wool, cotton, or borangic (natural Romanian silk) hand embroidered by Romanian artisans in hundreds of hours of work next to contemporary couture elements made of velvet, denim or leather accessorised with precious crystals, pearls and fringes, suggesting some outfits that can be worn nowadays in daily life.
Irina Akkaya
Irina Akkaya is a Romanian Fashion Designer whose collections have Asian influences. The collection presented at Feeric Fashion Week Gala talks about ‘’the necessity of keeping a good energy through environment follows us everywhere. SEED implies the beginning of a simple and unique purpose, which follows the necessity of evolving to a new life in abstract shapes.”, says Irina
Chaotic
Combining textures, colors and fine details, the collection reflects through each piece diverse emotions felt by the chaotic women living inside you. Each item is carefully manufactured, featuring memorable elements such as glamorous embellishments, playful pleats or feminine bows. So, who are you challenging today? Your inner goddess, Cinderella, the child in you or the fearless, seductive women? Embrace every mood with confidence. Today you can feel…
Cover Foto: Alexandru Dragos
Runway Foto: Cornel Petrus