Stella Fashion Night 2008
Zurich welcomes the glamorous world of fashion!
On 13 November 2008, the fashion promotional prizes – Swiss Textiles Award and annabelle award – were presented at Stella Fashion Night 08.
- The label Rodarte, i.e. the sisters Laura and Kate Mulleavy from USA won the Swiss Textiles Award with prize money of 100'000 euros.
- Judith Klingenfeld from Lörrach won the annabelle award and the right to spend a one year internship with the Missoni team in Sumirago near Milan.
The Swiss Textile Federation (Swiss Textiles) awarded its promotional prize for the ninth time at Stella Fashion Night. This year, the Rodarte label from the USA was the winner (www.rodarte.net).
Rodarte
Sisters Laura and Kate Mulleavy from Pasadena in Southern California are self-taught. Kate studied History of Art and Laura English literature. In 2005, they decided to found a fashion label and called it Rodarte after their mother’s name. They experimented with materials, silhouettes and techniques. A few months later they presented their first collection in 2005 to carefully selected fashion editors. Within just three years the newcomers advanced to become sought after designers at New York Fashion Week and have remained so ever since. Each season, they make what they call «a new experiment» guided by the reflections of their imagination and create stories from the world of fantasy turned into fabrics. Sophisticated art works are the result: the fabrics are ultra soft, the cuts complex and the details numerous: plissees, sewn pearls, draped tulle – everything which serves to lighten the garments.
Special guests of the evening
Last year's Swiss Textiles Award winner, Marios Schwab, showed the creative development from which he benefited in his winning year by presenting his summer collection. The US fashion designer Patricia Field, famous for the cult series «Sex and the City» and the cinema hit «The Devil wears Prada», also showed her latest collection «Destination Style New York». The annabelle award has been presented by Angela Missoni.
Virtual and real parts of the show at the Fashion Night
Two very different presenters took the audience through the evening. In the first part of the program the virtual figure «Stella» created by Alex Postelnicu welcomed the public on a big screen and presented the individual designers with the help of personal photos of them. In the second part of th show, German top model and presenter Franziska Knuppe took over.
Photogallery
Photos by Sonja Hugentobler, appointed by Swiss Textile Federation
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Silvano De Matteis' pictures are accompanied by the song «Classic Thing», live version from Jono McCleery at the event.
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