CBC: Who is Paulo Peixoto? The man, not the videographer.

PP: It’s hard to talk about ourselves, isn’t it? Well, Paulo Peixoto is a mix. If I could, I’d define myself as a being which evolves in itself. I’m 8 AND 80! I notice strength and delicacy in my personality and value the simple gestures in life. Kind, fun and authentic people delight me. I have a strong connection with my own God, what gives me a deeper vision of life, my missions and deeds. I believe everything in life is possible, and value the truth and kindness. I’m a person who prefers believing than doubting and who fights for and only for what I believe. At the moment I’m waiting for the aliens to visit us. (laugh)

VERANO

CBC: At what point in your life did you discover your passion for videos?

 PP: The moment I realized that earning a living with music would be harder (laughs). Music is my biggest passion, what burns me inside. I was born in a music loving family, my dad used to play the drums, my mum a little piano and my brothers still make music. I was lulled to sleep with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Beatles. Later I discovered that the audio visual was also something constant in my life. As a child my dad was always with a handcam and we used to film silly and fun videos. As I’ve grown up, I got closer to video making and saw a possibility of expressing my art and creativity in it. That’s what I do today, though music is in second plan, for a while.

 REGINA SALOMÃO · INVERNO 2013 ESTÚDIO

CBC: You work with production and direction from the beginning of your career?

PP: In the begging we do a bit of everything, right? Nowadays I try to share all duties, especially because I love my colleagues works and talents. One never gets to the top alone.

BLACK SUN

CBC: Everyone thinks that the life of those who work with art, it is pure fun, is this true?

PP: Well I guess we laugh as not to cry. (joke) I guess having fun is part of enjoying what you do, loving your job. We work hard, art is a bland of technique, aesthetics, feeling, communication. After it’s done is like a new born child. That’s what gives us pleasure and the feeling of “can’t get enough of it”.

 RODRIGO FRAGA • DOUBLE FACE

CBC: What was the hardest video you directed? Any funny stories to tell us?

PP: I can’t tell you precisely the hardest job, as each of them is a new challenge. There’s always some situation which can be either tragic or comical, depending in the mood of those involved. Because is natural, it can’t be planned. I always try to keep a good mood in the recordings. I love working with friends (clients, models, actors, colleagues) because we always burst in laughs over these situations, without losing the professionalism.

 AMANDA GROSSI • MONOCEROS

CBC: Work versus commercial art work. You have a different approach and it feels more confident?

PP: The approach is different but it depends on the client and the purpose. In an art work I can sometimes be contradictory, which I love, I can risk on the soundtrack, on takes, on the editing. In the commercial work, though it’s more limited, I always try to make my mark and innovate.

THEREZA EME • IN(CORPO)RAÇÃO

CBC: Inspiration can be away and at the same time very close, where does your inspiration come from?

PP: It is exactly this way! Sometimes it comes from something nothing related to the final product, sometimes it comes from something closer to the result. But generally there’s a starting point: either esthetic, a new language which I want to experiment or even a message I want to come across.

ANJUUM • NOIR

CBC: We believe that music really inspires fashion and connects people around the world. So tell us, what’s currently playing on your headphones?

PP: Honestly I need some update! I’ve been too busy to research new tunes and whenever in need I ask some DJ friends for indication, search iPods or naturally someone introduces me something which has a lot to do with my work. I’ve been at fault in this aspect and also miss it. Lately, on my headphones, I’ve listened to some rock and rap/rip hop/black music (which I love) or electronic music at the gym, only!

BUTIC BARDOT · MOVE ON

Check : vimeo.com/brutalproducoes  The art of Paulo Peixoto.

Creative and ambitious, at senior year of Interior Design at Frederick University, Cyprus. Now she is studying as an Erasmus student at Birmingham City University.

Her future aim is to take a postgraduate in Furniture Design degree.  From a very early age she has been showing interest in the arts and participated in many art contests, even in a photography contest recently.  She designed her first armchair, ”Tie”, as part of a University project, then created the new ”Tie” white armchair and presented it in the most popular art festival in Cyprus which takes place during the last four years.  The main idea and inspiration about ‘Tie’ armchairs were ties and the complicated knitting of ties.  Different fabrics and cotton inside are used for the armchairs and knitted on a metal structure with a complicated way.

Here is an exclusive interview with the designer Katerina Stavrinou Moleski.

CBC: What inspires you in the world we live in today?

Katerina: Today we live in a world of technology , the technology has involved into our lives the last few years, people are being inspired by technology- google, youtube,Wikipedia,twitter, facebook, etc. –all that sources and much more have been a part of our lives. However, the technology is not a part of my life that could inspire me. Something that I could say that really inspires me is the liberalism in our world and society. People are thinking now more open and they don’t afraid to do things, so this is a good reason to be creative. Imagine that I am in the world that nobody is going to say to me ‘no’ if I want to create something that is beyond the fantasy. People that live in the world of today is very lucky about that, Years before when Picasso created the ‘Les Demoisselles de Avignon’ –nude women was such a shame before, but now is something usual in our society. The main idea is that, artists today live in a world without taboo and limits and that gives a privilege to create something unexpected that is beyond fantasy.

CBC: Today much is said in design. In your opinion what is the best definition of the word Design?

Katerina: Design? What is design? That is a long subject I think, you can’t define it with just words. Behind that subject there are too many things that get involved until the final result is done, there are things that people don’t know, for example why that design is looking like that?

MOOD- FEELINGS- GOOD MOMENTS-BAD MOMENTS- THE NEEDING OF CREATE SOMETHING-INSPIRATION-EXPERIMANTATION-FANTASY- OBSSESSION-CREATION- and after all that, you can see the final visual result.
Design is when you are being inspired by something or by a situation, and that makes you create something new but in the same time that new is influenced by something that already exist.

CBC: How do you see the market design in the world today?

Katerina: About the design market I think that this is the part after the people believe in you and your creations. This is the most difficult part for an artist. When you create something, you feel that is a part of you-at least that is the way I feel.
Another hard part is when you have to make people trust you and your creations. If you can touch people with your creations, after is easier to make them to buy your creations as well.
But, unfortunately I think that people who is ‘out’ of the design world, they cannot realize the reasons why sometimes a design table, or a design bowl, or a panting cost so much. Only people who is engaged into the design world can realize why a design product worth the price ratio.

CBC: In that inspires you to draw your creations?

Katerina: As I said before, the liberalism is the main thing that in general inspires me and make me feel more comfortable to create something new, but actually I am inspired by a variety of things, I get inspired by the world of art and design, by artists that really attracts me, I get inspired by the moments of my life, daily things, places, music, people. Sometimes I get inspired by something that I could never imagine that would inspire me but that’s the weird and nice –the unexpected moment of the inspiration and idea! I have mentioned that my creations are such complicated as my mood, personality and my feelings are, so I can say that my own personality, my feelings could be also my inspiration!

CBC: Do you believe that fashion, architecture, art and design are connected?

Katerina: There is no doubt that fashion, architecture and design is connected. If you are a fashion designer, or an architect, or an interior designer for example, you do the same things: inspire experiment, imagine, and create. I believe that all are connected and each one of them has an impact into the others. Many designers and architects are influenced by art or fashion and sometimes fashion, architecture and art involves together to produce something.

CBC: We believe that music really inspires Design and connects people around the world.. So tell us, which currently plays in your headphones?

Katerina: Music is like a common language that everyone knows and speak, I believe. Artists and designers usually are get inspired by music and sometimes the music is like an elixir for artists and designers because when you are confused, or when you don’t feel very well, or if you are happy, music is always there to keep you up!
Now, on mine headphones plays one of the famous bands and I am stuck on it since I came to Birmingham, but in general I listen to a variety of music that depends on my mood, my psychology and the feelings of the particular time and place where I am.

Inspire. Imagine. Create! Katerina Stavrinou Moleski

About the Designer:

Milan is based in Florence, Italy. He studied at Accademy of Fine Arts of Florence and graduated in 2009. His collections are produced in Italy.
Milius – 
Milan Stamenovic is 26 years old and is of Serbian origin. 
He graduated with honors in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and has specialized in the Haute Couture and Costume. 
His work is the fruit of a reflection that takes shape in the form of sophisticated artistic versatility and extreme attention to detail. 
”Time Collection” is an expression of times gone by that lives on in our memories, the inspiration from which is transformed through the craftsmanship of antique clocks.
The result is a collection of awards which honors young dandies.
Small precious jewellery sophistically created with agate, turquoise, coral and horns, reptile leather and feathers.

The preview of the second collection “Hunter”, presented at “Who is on next? Uomo ” for Pitti Immagine 2011 is the confirmation of his rich midlle – European style and the new creations let the pins become characters in a world that seems to belong to Hieronymus Bosch. 
Accessories, for Milan, are the absolutely essential element for a man’s wardrobe and characterizes it’s purpose. 
Here is the footwear, laced, in suede, tweed pied dè poule and leather or damask mocasins which complete the look for the man who loves to dress and live his own style. 
Gilet, cloaks, shirts and other garments are the defined traces of the style of Milan Stamenovic and his Houte Couture craftsmanship. 
Milan’s world encompasses carpets, damask and manufactured brass products, scents of the forest and incense, a crossroad of cultures that come together and live together in a style where eclecticism is the answer to the contemporary.

CBC: Who’s  Milan Stamenovic ? The man, not the designer.

MILAN: Any man for him self is like Pandora’s box.
Milan Stamenovic beside his creativity and senses for beauty and pioce, is a fighter. In life there are to many thing to confront to and not to escape to.

CBC: How did you realize you wanted to work in fashion?

MILAN: My obsession with aesthetics led me through many aspects of beauty. The charm of things around, of life, of people that I know waked up one strong desire which becomes passion and need to create beautiful things.
I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in painting. I worked on the sculpture, engraving, restoration, photography and design… After which I specialized in moderation in leather and postgraduate in high fashion and culture of costume. That gave me a proper direction when I want to go.

CBC: What inspires you in the world we live in today?

MILAN: The write inspiration can be contained in a single drop of the morning dew, if you can see it. The most unusual moments in a day or in referent experiences makes me realize the uniqueness of the moment which I use in creating process. There are entire oceans of things – movies – people – books -  fillings – emotions that evokes ideas and creative energy.

CBC: Do you believe that Internet sales is becoming the fashion in a globalized product? some brands are doing very similar clothes…

MILAN: There is a war going on bet vine brands. In absolute globalization and mixture of motions around the world in age of not defining tendencies and unclear moods, each brand of certain level is trying to do the most salable product looking one of the other and making the same thing. Art, beauty, passion are dead. The internet sales are providing one product to all, if the product isn’t original from the beginning then Internet sales become fashion are just Fashion Communism!

CBC: With all this crisis in the United States and Europe, which countries do you find most promising now?

MILAN: The economical facts are clearly showing that the game is passed on the Asian playground. If the history teaches us something that is that it’s repeatable. Now we could be desperate or we could see endless opportunities. The world isn’t that big and distant like before.

CBC: We believe that music really inspires fashion, and connects people around the world.. So tell us, which currently plays in your headphones?

MILAN: The sound is a beautiful creation and it can be a leading “note” of the inspiration. There is to many musical pieces on my mind, I would say that I prefer pieces be twine rock music and classical music.

TIME COLLECTION

 – On the WHO IS ON NEXT? UOMO 2011 in Florence during PITTI UOMO 80 was presented the preview of collection of men’s jewelry created by artist and designer Milan Stamenovic.

TIME COLLECTION by MILIUS MILAN STAMENOVIC is composed of 40 limited-edition jewelry all made using materials of different kinds of silver watches ranging from the late 800 and early 900, semi-precious stones, coral, metals such as tin, brass, porcelain clocks districts, snake skin… Collection is composed of unique and unrepeatable pieces all made by hand. The name of the collection is perfectly suited to the meaning intended by the designer that is a timeless jewel. Being honored with pin – medal that are MILIUS’es jewelry, the one who be wearing the jewel would be embellished it self. A gem that recalls the taste of a style from the past enhanced with the appearance of man of today.

George Keburia, a very promising young design in the fashion world. This is his third collection, which was presented on BE NEXT Contest.The inspiration of the collection was a BIRD NEST. He used feathers, chains and organza to create visual of his theme.

 CBC: Who’s George Keburia? 

George Keburia is 21 years old fashion designer from Tbilisi,Georgia.

CBC: How did you realize you wanted to work in fashion? 

Fashion has been my obsession from the early childhood I was sketching and dreaming to become a professional designer so one day i decided to drop studies and to have my say in fashion world.

CBC: What inspires you in the world we live in today?

It can be anything but i can never define exactly what inspires me, it can be emotional portraits, people or music.

CBC: How do you see the global fashion and design now, with all this crisis in the United States and the European Union?

I think the effects of the global fashion extremely negative. Designers simplify the collections to make clothes more commercial. And part of the work of art that involves the creation, always loses.

CBC: We believe that music really inspires fashion, and connects people around the world.. So tell us, which currently plays in his headphones?

Clams casino, Heartsrevolution , Glass candy, M.I.A, Lana Del Rey, Salem

Designer: George Keburia /  Make-Up: Christine R. /  Model: Lika Abrumia /  Photo.Style: Gregory Regini

You can find more information on BE NEXT contest at :  http://www.societeanonymeagency.com/artists.html#

MIMI.C by Milda Cergelyte

When the Creative Director describes her design philosophy as ‘no rules and no compromise’, you suddenly yearn for something fresh and different. MIMI.C – the brand created by Milda Cergelyte, is a wonderful mish-mash of colour, prints and unique fabric choices that are put together with an expert hand and eye for style.  The result is a collection of clothes that look crazy and yet somehow perfectly wearable.  MIMI.C provides you with its ready-to-wear clothes as well as a luxurious custom made service.

Milda Cergelyte was born in Lithuania.  A self-taught designer, she launched her first collection at the age of 15 and is now an award winning designer.  The brand was opened in Lithuania back in 2009 and has won awards since then.  At age 18, once MIMI.C had received Lithuanian recognition, Milda bravely left to expand the brand in London.

“Fashion is the only thing I can and want to do, there were no other dreams in my life.” – Milda Cergelyte

Milda goes to great lengths to use her collections to comment on social issues that are often taboo for designers.  A/W 12/13 PETIA Campaign ‘combined a timeless design with contemporary edge’ and utilized both faux and real fur, leather, wool, cotton materials, with fake blood details that were inspired by PETA and, of course, human nature’ –

“We love animals, that’s why sometimes people wear them.” – Milda Cergelyte

PETIA, the new collection from MIMI.C took inspiration and beauty where others might find dirt, wounds, scars or blood.  Caught between the prestigious fur boutiques and the PETA organized campaigns, MIMI.C chose a third route using both as inspiriation.

‘Hunting and power parallel temples built by blood, sweat and violence. Cities developed by kings, emperors, bankers and tycoons, Popes and prostitutes. As domestic animal murders shroud themselves within a veil of imaginative culinary opus, recipes are offered every day  – in the form of an endless visual soup by which we experience the relentless action of eternity.’

CBC: Who’s Milda Cergelyte?

Milda Cergelyte a lady behind exclusive demi-couture womenswear label MIMI.C.

CBC: How did you realize you wanted to work in fashion?

When my barbies had more dresses than my school friends all together did , and I even started to receive custom made orders from my friends barbies – there was no way back.

CBC: What inspires you in the world we live in today?

Smell, music, air, sky, blood, running, river, lady biting her nails in the tube, church, beetroot…everything. But mostly – music and love.

CBC: How do you see the global fashion and design now, with all this crisis in the United States and the European Union?

Consumerism and fast fashion is making me sick. The smell of primark, H&M… Oxford street on saturday. Me and my customers are going for style and quality, not quantity.

CBC: We believe that music really inspires fashion, and connects people around the world.. So tell us, which currently plays in his headphones?

DJ CAM – Swim /  The soundtrack of my future show…Which I can not tell you… But i currently listen to.

MIMI.C

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Who is Rafael Borges?

I am RafaBorges, years old, ex circus performer, graduated in graphic design and post graduate in photography.Currently I live in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

At what point in your life, you really knew it would be a photographer?

I realized I wanted to be a photographer when I saw that it was possible to transmit more than memoriesin an image, but many messages. What the pictureI could realize my imagination, feelings and desires, as well as on the picture will freeze a picture but the way to materialize and perpetuatefeelings.

Black and white or color?

Black and white! With black and whitebring more drama into the picture. Even when capturing the image I already do in black and white, to have a greater sense of the nuances, shades of gray shades. I like trying to keep the tradition of the great photographers who I admire as Bresson and AnselAdams.

Excessive use of the resources of Photoshop in magazines, is always cause for some controversy. What do you think?

I’m fully in favor the use of the imagesin photoshop, but being used with great good sense. I like how the currentphotographers Lachapelle Abusing the tool in your images to create a surreal world with a perfect aesthetic, but I’m also in favorof the photos super raw, without any treatment or correction of the imperfections of the models. However, we are in the era of digital photography and believe that the use of photoshop and other image processing software are needed to set up the photos today. In my case, I like to use software that simulatesa darkroom negative,because I like to keep the essence extracted from the original scene.

What inspires you in the world we live in today?

Everything inspires me! People, wishes and desiresof society, what uncomfortable oris repudiated. To extract characters from the coreof the models is what most inspires me and encourages me to do the photos.
Music is also part of my creative process, listen to good music is already the main part to a good inspiration.

Most of his works are linked to fashion editorials, as you see the global market this segment now?

The photographicmarket is always in high fashion. People always want to see beautifulmodels and super produced,or models supermuscles shirtless and speedo.In my opinion there is no scandal in the fashion that can take the glamor and importance surrounding their fashion and photography. I just think we’re at a stage that we need new things, new languages​​, new attitudes and not just a reinterpretation of the past, or languages ​​always very repetitive!
The popularization of photographydid develop a very simple picture language, crude that is being preferred by many. But I think the concern with beautiful photography, with an interestingangle, perfect meteringhas returned to have a great importance in the fashion world.

We believe that music really inspires fashion. So tell us, who currently plays in his headphones?

Music isone of the things that inspire me to create!
I always listen to much electro as Miss Kittin,Felix DahouseCat, Swedish House Mafia.I like music to me cause intense catharsisencouraging me to develop the images.
But really enjoy listening to music as involving Enigma, The Golden Filter, Massive Attackand Air that complement the sensual side of my creations.

”Live Fast Die Young” /  Photo and design by  Rafa Borges

 Art Director: Remulo Brandão   /   Production Assistant: João Andrade
Models: Sulevan Araujo (FORD), Bernardo Haueisen (FORD), Adriaan Zanetti (FORD), Jefferson Moura (Woll), Matheus Fernandes (Woll), Silas Espeschit (Woll)

Who’s Orri Henrisson?

Orri Henrisson is a menswear brand started by Henry Ng (designer and creative director). It is based in Melbourne, Australia but has a huge international following due to its global relevance in terms of creative direction. The name itself was my beagle’s name and it’s a little tribute to him.

How did you realize you wanted to work in fashion?

I never studied fashion and never really considered fashion as a career. It just happened. I started the label back when I couldn’t find anything I like. Melbourne has a very black aesthetic which is depressing. Fashion to me is about looking classy, relevant, sexy and  still having fun but I just wasn’t finding any menswear here that I thought was exciting. That’s how the label came about.

What inspires you in the world we live in today?

I am huge fan of architecture, interior design, graphic design, photography and music. I always find inspiration from these medium. A few of the collections have been named after song titles, and the way colours and material-mixing in architecture and interior design work always find themselves into the collections as well.

How do you see the global fashion market right now?

Online publications and e-commerce have really allowed consumers to become very savvy. Because of this re-education in fashion, a lot of them are also picky in what brands they like and what they buy. People are buying investment pieces and luxury products more so than ever rather than on-trend, disposable products and Orri Henrisson is definitely a brand for the savvy clientele who wants more than 5-minute fashion ware.

We believe that music really inspires fashion. So tell us, which currently plays in his headphones?

Drake “Take Care”, School Of Seven Bells “Ghostory”, Air “Le Voyage Dans La Lune” and I revisit a lot of 90s albums like Nine Inch Nails “The Downward Spiral”, Bjork “Post”, Radiohead “The Bends”, Slowdive “Souvlaki Space Station”, Spiritualized “Lazer Guided Melodies”. And I am really looking forward to Madonna “MDNA”. It will be such a fun party album and I really think people should just chill out and dance!

AW12 (SS12 northern hemisphere) “City Of Brotherly Love”

Menswear label Orri Henrisson chalks up another innovative campaign for their  AW12 (SS12 northern hemisphere) collection, “City Of Brotherly Love”.  Shot by the talented Manouri Peiris, this is the second season that designer Henry Ng has worked with Peiris to achieve this “jigsaw puzzle” tableau. Peiris’ attention to details and keen awareness has encapsulated the uncompromising philosophy of Ng’s designs and vision.

Ng also chose to work with model, Samuel Walter, for the second season. Walter reflects the youthful spirit, refined style and clean lines of Orri Henrisson’s ethos.  The campaign was styled and finished with post-production by Ng. The layering/flying garment styling and “jigsaw puzzle” treatment evoke the notion that fashion is not to be taken too seriously and also accentuate Orri Henrisson’s distinctive style and strength.

Ng’s label has been called ‘one of the most promising emerging menswear designers in the country and with a number of high-profile stockists placing orders for his collection, things are about to get a whole lot more promising.

Photographer: Manouri Peiris  /  Post Production: Henry Ng  / Model: Samuel Walter