Ph:Felix Busso
Thursday 19.30 hs.
Darwin 1154, loft 2ºC, Castillo
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Beggining: May 10th.
contact: atravesdelamoda@seminariocivil.com
more information: www.seminariocivil.com
From April 12, every Tuesday at 7pm it will be held a 24 sessions workshop by the extremely talented Javier Arroyuelo entitled “A través de la moda” (Through Fashion).
Javier Arroyuelo is an author – living in Paris and New York since 1969 and in Buenos Aires since 2006 – of plays and analysis and commentaries about social trends, fashion, design, literature, and politics. Some of the publications in which Javier contributed with his keen aye are “Vogue Paris”, “Vogue USA”, “Vanity Fair”, “Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine”, “Vogue Italia” and “L’Uomo Vogue”.
“A través de la moda” will be held at ABM., Marcelo T. de Alvear 1155.
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 – – Urresti – Lescano – Ramírez – Harris – Franco – Rocca – Pastor – Trosman – Torrejón – Muchnik – Toledo
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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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Civiles presents the second Edition of Civil Seminar, which will take place between May 19 and May 28 of 2010, in Buenos Aires.
Civil Seminar is an innovative coaching project that brings together the most distinguished Argentinian professionals involved in different areas of the fashion industry. The proposal consists on a duo of professionals that will talk to each other and to the participants about their work experience, with an intimate and not academic style.
In this opportunity the Director of Civiles, Picky Courtois, prepared six meetings to investigate about Trends, Photography, Styling and Design:
Ana Torrejón + Jessica Trosman
Gabriel Rocca + Andrés Pastor
Laura Muchnik + Mariano Toledo
Pablo Franco + Roxana Harris
Victoria Lescano + Pablo Ramírez
Gisela Filc + Carolina Urresti
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 19 and 26, Thursday 20 and 27 and Friday 21 and 28 of May, from 7 to 10 pm, in Civiles (Darwin street – Loft 2nd C – Palermo – Buenos Aires)
+ info: www.civiles.com / seminario@civiles.com / 4858-0928
University is the place where you can find the minds that best understand the language of creativity and that in the future will set the course of labor market. So, it is the ideal place to tell the experience of someone who, only with a table and a borrowed computer, ended creating a brand, developing an aesthetic concept, associating with the trend and being an international reference point in styling and fashion: the story of Civiles. That is the reason why a year ago Picky Courtois began to offers talks in the educational circuit.
One of the most important things that students can incorporate during these talks is the importance of creativity, of moving away from traditional stuff and changing the rules. The last of these meetings, titled “The new model of models”, was performed on April 13 and organized by the University of Belgrano, and the next one will be next April 28, at 4.30 pm, in UADE University.
In the same university context, but this time in a different role, Picky was in charge, with Ana Torrejón and Dora Becher, of the presentation of the book titled “Fashion in Palermo III: creations of students of Fashion Design”, in which students of Palermo University show the projects they develop in classrooms. The event was held last April 14 at Sofitel Buenos Aires Hotel.
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