FRANCE: Designers scramble to put finishing touches on collections ahead of Paris Fashion Week

Record ID: 197681

  • Title: FRANCE: Designers scramble to put finishing touches on collections ahead of Paris Fashion Week
  • Date: 27th September 2010
  • Summary: REFLECTION OF MODEL IN MIRROR / MODEL HAVING PICTURE TAKEN VARIOUS OF DRAWINGS AND SWATCHES OF COLLECTION (SOUNDBITE) (English) FASHION DESIGNER FATIMA LOPES, SAYING: "This is the most important fashion week, this is Paris. Of course I know I'm competing with all the best in the world but I think each designer has his own work. In my head, the other designers are not important for me. I want to do better than I did last time." REFLECTION OF MODEL IN MIRROR MODEL POSING FOR LOPES, LOPES ADJUSTING DRESS ON MODEL AND CHOOSING ANOTHER DRESS OFF THE RACK FOR MODEL TO TRY ON (SOUNDBITE) (English) FASHION DESIGNER FATIMA LOPES, SAYING: "I know that when I'm designing, when I'm creating for me, I know what I want. I know what is more feminine and I know what is valued. That's what I want to do, I want to make a woman whether it's me or any other woman, I want to woman a very elegant woman? above all it has to be very feminine. It has to be glamourous. This collection is very feminine, it's very glamourous. I love to be a woman." LOPES SAYING DURING MODEL FITTING 'THIS IS PERFECT. IT FITS HER PERFECT.' CLOSE OF SHOES MADE OF LEATHER AND COVERED IN SAND (SOUNDBITE) (English) FASHION DESIGNER FATIMA LOPES, SAYING: "This time I spent my August in the Algarve, in the south of Portugal. So the idea is the sand and it has everything to do with my last summer." SHOES COVERED WITH SAND AND LOPES EXPLAINING THE IDEA OF THE SHOE TO REPORTER CLOSE OF LOPES' FACE WIDE VIEW OF SHOWROOM WITH MODEL WALKING FOR LOPES, MODELS WAITING FOR THEIR TURN IN THE FOYER
  • Embargoed: 12th October 2010 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Fashion
  • Reuters ID: LVAATRM30MSZONNQOT91RR95FEBL
  • Story Text: The last models are being chosen, final hemlines being sown and the all-important front row seat allocation for fashion editors and celebrities are being worked out as designers prepare for the 24th Paris Fashion Week on Monday (September 27).
    After seeing collection in New York, London, Milan, the fashion pack is travel to Paris for the first day of shows on Tuesday (September 28).
    Among those on the first day is Portuguese designer Fatima Lopes, who gave Reuters a rare insight view into her showroom as assistants were busy finalising last minute details.
    At least a dozen models were on hand, hoping to be chosen to walk the Paris runway, as Lopes dressed and redressed models in her inspirations for spring/summer 2011.
    "This is the most important fashion week, this is Paris. Of course I know I'm competing with all the best in the world but I think each designer has his own work. In my head, the other designers are not important for me. I want to do better than I did last time," Lopes told Reuters Television.
    Highlights of the upcoming fashion week include shows by classic Parisian designers YSL, Christian Dior, and Chanel but other brands with a renewed focus and increasing fan base over the past few years include Lanvin, Isabel Marant and Balmain.
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