Franck Sorbier Haute Couture show

FRANCE, Paris : Franck Sorbier Haute Couture show for Fall/Winter 2008/2009 in Paris

SYNTHE
- Franck Sorbier, Designer

DOPESHEET
The guests were all present at the Cirque d'hiver however not to witness a fashion show of Franck Sorbier's designs due to financial issues. The lost designer had already exhibited his drawings ready for this new collection dedicated to "pasionaras"- passionate female militants, women who dedicated their lives to a cause and who changed the world. He also presented two models, Mother Theresa wore a raincoat made entirely from shopping bags and George Sand, dressed in a suit which was a mosaic of lace and guipures which he found locally. All of the silhouettes were animated and can be seen on the internet on the website of Franck Sorbier.




INTERVIEW (in french) Franck Sorbier, Designer




"This season we did things differently for one main reason: lack of money, so we didn't have a budget to realise the collection, all the drawings were done, et cetera. So my idea was that it was a bit dramatic to find ourselves in this situation, very dramatic so I asked myself how I could be present on the calendar this season, how I could exist, at least how I could present the work that I have been doing up until now.

So we came up with the idea to present our drawings on the internet. In fact the idea was to send out cardboard invitations with, at 11 o clock the possibility to discover the new collection on the website. So that was interesting, in the sense that it's a new means of communicating, it's also a new technology, a new way, a technology that saved my life this season.

The general theme of the collection is passionarias, passionate female militants, so obviously it started with the famous woman of the Spanish war who gave her name to many women because now when we speak of passionarias we speak of someone who has a committed temperament. So following this decision I came up with 24 women who could symbolise this genre of temperament. Then we chose 2 of them, who didn't cost anything.
So there was Mother Theresa who was wearing a raincoat made entirely out of recycled plastic shopping bags. The second character which we designed was also a silhouette that cost nothing, because it's made out of left over lace and guipures and the character was George Sand, the first woman to dress up as a main in the 19th century and go to a place strictly reserved for men, the first feminist you could say."

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