On Sunday 20th of June, in the context of Milan Men’s fashion Week, Civiles was great majority in the fashion show of Bottego Veneta, one of the most exclusive shows of the European season.
Our star Santiago Montero and the new face Andrés Risso were selected in the casting made in Buenos Aires, which was coordinated by the top director John Pfeiffer.
Nicolás Malleville and Lucho Jacob were also part of the show, both of them chosen trough their agencies in New York.
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To celebrate South Africa World Cup, Nike invited some of the most innovative artist from all around the world to add their own personal touches to their country’s national team collection. The result of the new sportswear series is named True Colors, a cheeky project of art and design.
Inspired on their cultural backgrounds and on the passion that football generates, the artists designed the complete equipment for the team of their country, including new shields and typographies.
The artist Nunca, in representation of Brazil, created a work inspired on the metropolis and the urban environment, with designs based in graffiti. This campaign was leaded by the civiles Alex Treutel, Andrés Risso and Fede Mosquera. The photography was done by Gabriel Rocca and the styling by Andrés pastor.
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Loi Suites Iguazú is a great five stars hotel built in the subtropical jungle of Iryapu, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones. 15 minutes far from the Iguazú Falls and 20 from the airport, it is the perfect place to enjoy an intense contact with nature and the comfort of a great level accommodation.
Loi Suites has 162 fully equipped rooms, all of them with amazing views of the jungle. It also has a spa, function rooms for meetings and training courses with a capacity for 400 people, and two restaurants.
Built with extreme respect for nature, the hotel offers all you need to live a unique experience in this wild Argentinian paradise.
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Sr. Amor is a clothing brand created by the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson to collaborate with The Salvation Army. The project? Five fashion designers choose five garments each one and recycle them according to their taste.
The chosen professionals were Mariano Toledo, Martín Churba, Pablo Ramírez, Hermanos Estebecorena and 12NA.

The collection of Sr. Amor had five graphic campaigns, three of them produced by Civiles.
Designer + photographer+ model was the basic alliance that made possible the campaigns of this project that brings together fashion design and solidarity: Pato Battellini did the shots to Priscila Crivocapich for Mariano Toledo; Sebastián Arpesella photographed Rocío Somoza for Pablo Ramírez and Santiago Albanell shoot Alex Treutel for Hermanos Estebecorena.
On her side, Nora Lezano did the photographs for Tramando, with Laura Beramendi, and 12Na decide to work in Chile.
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The result of the work done by these five top fashion designers for Sr. Amor was a collection of by twenty-five garments that will be auctioned as unique pieces, and all the money collected will be for The Salvation Army.

Civiles participated with its models in the fashion show, one of the most interesting events of 2010 and took place on Thursday 10th of June at Konex Cultural center. Civilizate recommends you lookint at the images.
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Ubicado en la esquina de Arévalo y Cabrera, Paraje Arévalo es un bistró que ofrece lo mejor de la gastronomía porteña, en un ambiente donde se destacan la calidad y la calidez.
Matías Kyriazis y Estefanía di Benedetto son sus dueños, una joven pareja de chefs con experiencia en los mejores establecimientos, como el vasco Mugaritz y el famoso Fat Duck de Londres, donde incorporaron elementos de la cocina molecular. Durante el mediodía ofrece menúes con las opciones del día y por las noches dos menúes conformados por pasos (uno de ocho y otro de seis).
Paraje Arévalo es recomendado a quienes buscan una experiencia genuinamente gourmet, y combina los sabores tradicionales con las técnicas más modernas de cocción, a lo que se suma un servicio perfecto y el espíritu de los viejos bodegones.
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The second Edition of Civil Seminar ended. The proposal took place between May 26th and June 4th, and consisted on six meetings with duos composed by distinguished professionals from different areas of fashion industry.
The Director of Civiles, Picky Courtois, called, for every meeting, people from different disciplines that had already worked together and who had experiences as a group. Every chat was characterized by an intimate atmosphere generated by the speakers and the audience, which is the concept that defines the Seminar and that makes possible a close contact with the professionals. So intimate that we didn’t even turn on a camera to film it, so we could let the speakers feel more comfortable to talk about their experiences. In this edition, Civilizate tells you in broad strokes what happened and what was said.
During the first day of the Seminar, the photographer Gisela Filc said: “I like working with natural light and it generated my own and particular style”. The fashion producer and costume director Carolina Urresti emphasized the importance of working as a team. On the second day, the journalist Victoria Lescano defined herself as a natural born investigator who enjoys working with difficult sources and held: “I’m closer to anti-fashion than to fashion, (…) I work on the B side of the industry and I like the plots around it”. On his part, the fashion designer Pablo Ramírez asserted: “First of all I’m a draftsman”, and added: “One day I realized that I was dressing rich people like poor people”. Afterwards, Lescano stressed about her talk-partner that “as a designer he has the great talent to make wonderful collections with simple materials”, and he said back that “she is very serious researcher, and very funny in her writing. She is kind of a great gossipy”.
In the next meeting, the fashion producer Roxana Harris told how was her beginning of the profession and emphasized: “what defines me most than anything is the sophisticated eroticism”. She shared the talk with the photographer Pablo Franco, who held: “My cameras have my energy (…) my relationship with photography is very physical, I devote my body and soul to my work, so that everything goes well”. Finally, both of them admitted that they play while they work together, they have fun and that is reflected in the pictures, in which always there is some craftiness. The photographer Gabriel Rocca stressed, during the fourth meeting, in the role of models and declared that: “nowadays they must be models and actors at the same time”. By his side was the fashion producer Andrés Pastor, with whom he had shared plenty of jobs. “When the shooting session is over, begins what we call `the artistic´, the after-hour, and great photographs result from it”, confessed Pastor.
Jessica Trosman and Ana Torrejón were together during the fifth day of the Seminar. The journalist and gallery owner Torrejón said: “In fashion world, no one can say what is right and what is wrong”, and concluded that “the concept keeps being the most important thing”. The prestigious fashion designer Jessica Trosman said: “I work in the emergency”, and emphasized that she is characterized by being neo-critical and not a bourgeois, and said that her learning comes from the streets.
One of the professionals in charge of closing the Seminar was the consultant Laura Muchnik, who assured: “I do lots of inspirational trips that generate new ideas, and I’m grateful for the possibility of working and creating jobs”, and then continued: “It is so much modern working as a team than working on your own. Nowadays every successful work model worldwide is related to complementarity”. The other professional in charge of the last meeting was the talented fashion designer Mariano Toledo. “I knew that I had something nice and important to tell (…) Fashion is about enjoying the image more than about having the garment”, said Toledo, and concluded with a confession: “As far as designing is concerned, nowadays I have a vision closer to industry than to art”.
In this edition Civilizate shares some exclusive images from the backstage of the seminar.

TAGS: Picky – Seminario Civil – Filc – Urresti – Lescano – Ramírez – Harris – Franco – Rocca – Pastor – Trosman – Torrejón – Muchnik – Toledo
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The Brazilian top, Renata Sozzi, visited Buenos Aires to shoot the current fall-winter campaign of the Argentinian brand Paula Cahen D’Anvers.
The production took place in a remote farm of Buenos Aires, the ideal scenery for a collection inspired in the clothes for farm work, where the sense of elegance means simplicity and comfort.
Gabriel Rocca was in charge of photography, Andrés Pastor did the styling and the art direction was made by Federico Batemarco for FBDI.
Civilizate presents the complete campaign of a brand whose style and identity is a referent point in the local fashion scene.

TAGS: Renata Sozzi – Paula Cahen D’Anvers – Rocca – Pastor – FBDI
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In middle of the maelstrom of super productions like “Sex & The City 2”, Civiles wants to recover the good national cinema: “Por tu culpa”.
With Erica Rivas in the leading role and considered by the reviews as the best job of the Argentinian director Anahí Berneri (“Un año sin amor”, “Encarnación”), “Por tu culpa” is an intimist drama that describes the experience of a woman during an endless night of fury. A provocative story crossed by the fault and that raises questionings where they don’t usually appear: in the territory of maternity.
Julieta is at home with her sons, Valentín (8) and Teo (2). The kids have fun fighting on the bed, while their mother finishes some work. That night their father (played by Rubén Viani) didn’t fulfill the agreement of taking care of them. The fights on the bed get more dangerous and the inevitable happens. Teo gets hurt. Was it because of the fall? Did his mother hit him? Julieta runs for help to a clinic and the domestic accident turns into a nightmare that threatens with taking her sons away from her.
Away from the clichés and the predictable formulas, Berneri’s film presents complex characters that don’t respond to prearranged criterions, and with whom the audience can indentify and also be surprised.

“Por tu culpa”: Country: Argentina/France, 2010 / Director: Anahí Berneri / Screenplay: A. Berneri y Sergio Wolf / Cinematography: Willi Behnisch / Cast: Erica Rivas, Nicasio Galán, Zenón Galán, Rubén Viani, Martha Bianchi, Osmar Núñez y Carlos Portaluppi.
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In the context of an intriguing scene and with a stage production that cought the atention of everyone, the Argentinian Fashion Designer Jessica Trosman presented her collection from the heihts, on Wednesday 2nd of June. This time the place chosen was the floor 20 of Madero Harbour, a building on construction in Puerto Madero neighborhood.
Baptized as “Renovación”, in reference to a new stage, this colection represents a hybrid of material commercialized in foreign countries, and includes pieces from summer 2011 seasson and also from winter seasson. The materials used were voile, natural silk satin, natural wool and velvet, combined with textures like embossed latex, rubber and materials with a treatment that simulets leather. On its side, the colours proposal was predominantly neutral.
Once again Trosman raises a rapprochement between fashion and art, making of every garment a unique piece and keeping her characteristic stamp: unusual shapes, innovative silhouettes and intriguing textil developments.
In this edition, Civilizate presents exclusive images from the backstage.

Styling: Eugenia Rebolini
Make Up: Vero Momenti L´Oreal Paris
Hairstyle: Estudio H
Lights and Stage Production: Sergio Lacroix
Photography : Inés Ayerza (except for opening picture: Pablo Franco)
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Inside Iguazú National Park, in the province of Misiones, Argentina, are the incredible Iguazú Falls, one of the most beautiful and inspiring natural scene of the world. Composed by more than 270 falls, it is a unique destination to enjoy in every time of the year, but especially during May and June, when nature gains prominence and makes of it a majestic show.
This exquisite scenery is about to become one of The Seven Natural Wonders of the World. The election is an initiative of New7wonders, a non-profit Swiss foundation that aims to raise world public awareness on the need of preserving our natural and cultural patrimony. In 2007, 440 attractions from 200 countries were nominated and after an international process of voting and a selection done by a group of experts, just 28 of them were the finalists. And of course the Iguazú Falls are one of them. Civiles supports the election of this sublime scenery as one of the seven natural wonders and suggests voting for it in www.votocataratas.com.
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The Australian model Tallulah Morton, special booking of Civiles, was chosen once again by the Argentinian brand Tucci to lead its summer campaign. Born in 1991, Tallulah was discovered when she was eleven years old and began her career at the age of thirteen, while she was studying in Murwillumbah, New South Wales. Her first professional experience was nothing less than the opening of the fashion show of the Australian designer Josh Goot and very soon she was cover girl on magazines like “Follow” and “Russh”. She also modeled in the shows of Vivienne Westwood, Hermès, Dior, Gaultier, Diane von Furstenberg and Viktor & Rolf; and she has been photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel and David Simms, amongst other great photographers.
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Since her arrival in Paris, where she is based and working with Ford Agency, Mía Flores Piran didn’t stop growing professionally and she immediately became the favorite girl of Paul & Joe and also the preferred by some of the most top editorials from the Old World.
This young model is going through one of the most successful stage of her career. Before leaving Buenos Aires she worked with our great friend Urko Suaya, who agreed to photograph her in the company of a luxury team: Estefi Novillo in make up, Estudio H in hairstyle and Ana Noseda in charge of styling.
This exquisite material is a novelty that Civilizate shares in this edition.
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The first series of meetings of the 2010 edition of Civil Seminar was a great success and now we are going through the second stage of this innovative coaching proposal.
The kick off was on Wednesday 26th of May and the couple in charge of this beginning was headed by the Fashion Producer and Costume Director Carolina Urresti and the Photographer Gisela Filc. On Thursday 27th we attended a pleasant conversation leaded by the Journalist Victoria Lescano and by the Fashion Designer Pablo Ramírez, and on Friday 28th it was the turn of the Fashion Producer Roxana Harris and the Photographer Pablo Franco.
During this week will take place the last three meetings. On Wednesday 2nd of June will discourse the Photographer Gabriel Rocca and the Fashion Producer Andrés Pastor. On Thursday 3rd will be the turn of the Journalist and Art Gallery Worker Ana Torrejón and the Fashion Designer Jessica Trosman. The end of the cycle will be on Friday 4th with the duo composed by the Fashion Designer Mariano Toledo and the specialist in communication programs Laura Muchnik. This way, Civil Seminar begins to consolidate its format in the local scene.
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Wapaq is electronic music that explodes on Live set. The duo composed by Edu Herrera (guitar) and Nizo Mauas (drums) brings together the influence of rock culture, punkronk, funk, jazz and the research of ethnic sounds trough instruments like sitar and Paraguayan harp.
The result of this fusion of ethnic elements with rock and electronic is an original proposal, with an own identity and accompanied by a scenic setting characterized by a visual strength created by ilustrators, programmers and artists that make of the live set a great experience for the senses.
WAPAQ is preparing to take its music to Europe, where they are already confirmed to play in the most important festivals of the electronic world scene, like Boom Festival 2010 organized in Portugal.
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