“My starting point to redefine today’s modernism was the graphics of the 60’s. I wanted sportswear to be sophisticated so I contaminated everything with couture-inspired fabrics and finishes. All that is cool about streetswear meets the aesthetic that defines me” Ennio Capasa, designer
COLLECTION DETAILS
Fabrics and leather always in contrast. Bi-stretch wool. For the jackets Casentino and nylon. Everything is deconstructed. Transparencies and layering for dresses and tops.
Jackets
Parka, Eskimo and biker jacket. Iconic pieces are revisited in a contemporary way
Sportswear inspiration. Contrasting zippers, padded, curved leather sleeves inspired by the biker jacket.
Dresses and pants
Short and in two silhouettes: straight or visibly A lined Away from the body, comfortable. Multi layered in precious viscose cadì or in cloth. Moderately flared pants or super skinny.
Colors
Color Block always paired with black: Geranium, cedar, white burned, purple ton sur ton.
Bags and Accessories
In glissè leather, carried by hand or cross-body. Maxi pocket.
Shoes
In soft leather, pointy with a hidden plateau. Patent heels ton sur ton. Boots and sneaker in grey or black leather.
Milan Fashion Week is almost here.
In two days we’ll present our fall winter 2011 women’s runway show. Don’t miss our next post with all the collection!
Friday, Feb 25th
C’N’C COSTUME NATIONAL
PIAZZA DUOMO, Milan
6pm
The daughter of rock legend Mick Jagger and actress Jerry Hall was on stage to open proceedings for the C’N’C Costume National fashion parade.
She talked to us about fashion’s increasingly green and ecological conscience.
This video documents every stage of the Piazza Duomo event: building the stage, the scene backstage, final instructions for the catwalk, the rain, the public, the Horrors show and the choreographer Ismael Ivo with his dance team.
There’s also Violante Placido who renders homage to Alda Merini and of course the C’N’C collection: final steps towards the runway and off they go!
Research and innovation, neutral tones, sophisticated and essential lines.
The latest Ennio Capasa collection for C’N’C Costume National dresses a chic but strong-willed woman, sophisticated restraint yet with a subtle hint of feminine intrigue.
This collection is some distance away from the excesses of those parades in which the leitmotiv of the entire show was “Nature and spring interpreted as the season of rebirth and new energy as seen from an urban perspective.”
Colours range from tenuous shades – whites, sand, military green, tobacco and rope to then explode in topaz yellows, turquoise, coral reds.
Extremely soft, ultra-light leather with a glove-effect – fluid and comfortable clotheswear. Evening wear with large size multi-layer tunics.
Flat-shaped bags with metallic geometric details while bracelets and necklaces hand-made and fashioned from soft natural hide.
Time: 18.00
Final preparations are under way in Milan’s Piazza Duomo before the live happening at 20.00.
We look forward to an evening packed with excitement and special events!
You can follow it all on out BLOG and on FACEBOOK
In the heart of the city everything is set for “The Show”, the biggest event of the calendar of “Milano Loves Fashion”, scheduled for tomorrow, September 24th, at 8.30 pm in Piazza Duomo. On stage Ennio Capasa, presenting his SS2011 C’N’C CoSTUME NATIONAL Collection. Music, dance and art will entertain the entire city.
“Milano Loves Fashion”, at its second edition after the outstanding success of 2009, is a project of the Municipality of Milan – Council for Fashion, Design and Events – created by K-events-Filmaster Group.
There are just a few hours left before the C’N’C fashion parade in Milan’s Piazza Duomo and Ennio Capasa is hard at work in the Via Fusetti showroom preparing for the great event with the final fittings.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening at 8 pm in Piazza Duomo. The event is also being STREAMED LIVE on cnc-costumenational.com so no excuse to miss it!
After the first events in Piaza Duomo with a crowd of more than 50,000, the second version of MILANO LOVES FASHION like last time it amazed everyone as we experienced a parallel reality of imaginary landscapes, real and virtual bodies and fade-out effects.
This time the C’N’C Costume National FW10-11 show was streamed over the web on the web from the C’N’C site and Costume National’s I-Phone Application. Reporters took part in an on-line press conference with Ennio Capasa ready to answer their questions on a chatline. .
This was a true digital event that conquered both Milan and the net.
Thanks everyone!
NATURE ROCK: Ennio Capasa’s new collection for C’N’C is a synthesis of nature and street culture – a mix of the organic and the inorganic with extremely feminine silhouettes perfect for every situation. If you will, a rock and roll spirit that accommodates the wish for simple warm and handy items. .
The collection’s strong point is its wool knitwear which is either really light and soft or thick and warm: coats and outer items are warm and heavy while dresses are light with wool on the front and nylon at the back.
The collection’s colour palette is made up of natural and urban hues: sand, dust, sylvan green, burnt earth and coal.
A collection with a rock and roll spirit and an elegant mind – super-slim, really long, sullied, over-dyed jeans – decorated with burnt sequins.
Lengthy jackets and fringed coats with clear-cut silhouettes . Button-less attire to be done up with belts, buckles or zips.
And then the bags – opulent and spacious – made from ultra-soft leather or vegetable suede and just great for matching with suede-based, high-heeled military-looking boot
The icon Pixie Geldof and Anton Capasa, open the collection.
A comment about the Collection:
“The Fall fashions of C’N’C Costume National are some of the prettiest designs I have seen so far in New York and Milan. The layers and lines and curves and styles of knit and wool sweaters and jackets and leggings and boots and Autumn/Winter fashion are gorgeous, intricate, and original. Scarves and sweaters that flow and enlace each other like trellis of leaves and fall flowers cascading in the November wind. They are all lovely and should be a “smash” when they are sold in stores and shops and boutiques. Superior work, M. Capasa and crew! Your fashion is designing style with comfort and class sustaining feminine fashion as foremost in essence.”
As well as the models and clothes of C’N’C CoSTUME NATIONAL‘s FW 10-11 collection, the catwalk featured a multi-faceted tunnel creation enlivened with virtual landscapes. The concept, an idea by the designer himself, symbolizes a parallel reality in which nature and fashion blend and interact – a harmony of imaginary landscapes, body and clothing items that dissolve into one uniqe sequence. These highly original effects were created by Diana E. Le Quesne, the internationally celebrated creative and movie director who specializes in digital-motion films. She is constantly on the lookout for experimental contexts in the fields of fashion and design.
It can get pretty frantic backstage – the models arrive in a rush, often fresh from a previous show, zigzagging among reporters, buyers and photographers. Here they come, hair in the wind with their sporty of desperately casual chic look. They finally sit down to let expert hands arrange them for the parade. In a few minutes they are ready – their hair transformed into styles that complement the clothes they need to present. See how it all comes together in the flickr album screen show.
She was the first onto the catwalk Ennio Capasa’s most multimedia fashion parade. Pixie Geldof, the sister of Peaches and Bob’s daughter was the first to cross past the white block in the middle of the C’N’C runway. We caught up with her back stage of the event during a rare moment of relaxation.
On hand to warm things up at the after-party following the C’N’C show were The Fischerspooner, the New York electro-clash band, famous for their eccentric theatrical performances ablaze with colour and effects. Their jaggedly robotic sound which flirts with electronic dance music went down a storm with the DJ set at the fashion parade. We ran into the duo Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner at the C’N’C showroom while shooting with Diana E. Le Quesne.
Inside the Via Fogazzaro showroom everything is ready for the fitting test, make-up and hair styling. Follow us and participate directly in the event by logging onto the cnc-costumenational.com website as well as Costume National’s I-Phone Application – from 7pm (Milan time).
Will be a unforgettable show based on the interaction between the real and virtual world.
Don’t miss it!
Last season 50,000 of you followed us in Piazza Duomo at “Milan Loves Fashion” and it was a truly memorable event for the city and fashion throughout the world.
Today we are delighted to invite you to a new event destined to be even more spectacular! The venue is the famous Milan Teatro dell’Arte della Triennale.
Lead player on stage: C’N’C Costume National fashionwear with music by Fischerspooner and all of you. Yes absolutely everyone even if you’re not in town because you can
participate directly in the event by logging onto the cnc-costumenational.com website as well as Costume National’s I-Phone Application – to follow the catwalk parade, concert and party afterwards.
Make sure you don’t miss this historic event based on the interaction between the real and virtual world – a place where nature and technology come together and blend into one.
Stay tuned!
It was heralded as the EVENT of the week, the one that would succeed in bringing the real FASHION of Milan’s Fashion Week to Piazza Duomo – the kind of top fashion usually reserved for the journalists and buyers.
It was also announced as the event that for the first time ever would light up up the façade of Milan’s world-famous DUOMO cathedral, bring the Kills to Milan and make Eleonora Abbagnato dance – all under the same sky.
AND
quite simply, it was all that and more!
MILANO LOVES FASHION was an unprecedented event that set everyone’s hearts racing – the hearts of the forty thousand people who attended the happening, those of the TV audience watching the event live on SkyUNO and all those working behind the scenes with such enthusiasm, energy and unbridled passion.
You tore it off, stuck it on to someone, photographed it and sent it to us.
So here they are! The best shots of the C’N’C FASHION STAR competition done with sticky tape. Every contender selected can look forward to receiving their very own T-shirt signed C’N’C CoSTUME NATIONAL.
Dark sensual and rough: they are undoubtedly the garage rock due of the
moment. Ennio Capasa wanted “The Kills” to enflame the stage at MILANO LOVES FASHION and they did. A perfect mix of total British taste and Yankee drive
consisting of Jamie “Hotel” Hince, English guitaris, and Alison “VV” Mosshart, the American vocalist.
“A new age. A change of paradigm. A fresh way of communicating and making fashion in a more direct way by breaking down the barrier between the fashion nomenclature and ordinary people in the street. Our “new pop” is channelled through quality, cyberspace, sharing, real time and streaming.”Ennio Capasa.
Sharing and quality are the bedrocks of the working arrangement between the film director Paolo Sorrentino who came on stage at MILANO LOVES FASHION to read out a piece of prose in memory of the great Italian literary figure Fernanda Pivano.
Wiry, elegant, feminine, strong and passionate. This is the image that Eleonora Abbagnato, star of the Paris Opéra Garnier, projects as she takes the stage at the MILANO LOVES FASHION event. And with an electrifying and physically challenging passo doble executed alongside the dancer Jean-Sébastien Colau, she succeeds in bringing the magic of contemporary dance to the Piazza del Duomo stage and to the whole event.
“We can call this a NEW POP event designed to open the doors of fashion to the ordinary people in the street – an experiment to revolutionize the fashion world on an international level.”Ennio Capasa talks of his great satisfaction after the triumph of the MILANO LOVES FASHION event staged together Milan Council. And there’s no hiding his enthusiasm!
An exceptional venue to showcase an unprecedented new collection whose soul has to be rock-music based.
This collection is targeted at the heart of the new generations – and aims to communicate in the very same language as it echoes their cross-contaminated values and is wholly fired up with their energy. Milan’s Duomo cathedral square was the setting to present and set tongues wagging about a style and a decidedly no-frills commitment to attire – an approach focused on the concrete, on style yet also on dedication and awareness – but yet not a style that eschews fun and rock music.
The main feature is a soft yet sensual silhouette played out on extreme lengths enhanced with uncompromising tailoring and sartorial craftsmanship both ultra-long or tantalisingly short. Colours are applied in masterful doses – predominating black lightens in tone towards reddish and cobalt highlights to produce an almost psychedelic aura.
Stunningly picturesque prints suggest dilated and timeless landscapes. It’s all eco-friendly made with India ink or quinine.
The main fabrics are satin, devore and viscose though classic jacquard and woven cotton feature too. Finally the accessories are based around generous bags, hand-dyed with irregular effects; shoes raise you up with dizzyingly-high heels and double-plated, personalized soles.
The Children of rock: Anton Capasa first fashion parade An exceptional debut with a stage set unprecedented in the authentic setting of the venue plus a vast crowd of people that would have terrified most. Top models and singers included.
MILANO FASHION NIGHT marked Anton Capasa’s first time on the runway when Ennio’s son brought The Children of Rock on stage – representing a generation of fast, watchful, culturally-contaminated kids – the offspring of yesterday’s very own rock kids.
Though only 16, Anton has clear ideas about his involvement – he’s keen to feel the pulse of the world’s fashion system by starting out with minor (but preferably fun, we add!) jobs before getting into the management side of things in the future.
We interviewed the teenager a few seconds before he took to the catwalk – just when the tension and charge in the air were at their most intense.
Frankly, we found it hard to figure out how Anton managed to stay so cool amidst all that chaos and drama!
On stage at the MILANO LOVES FASHION show Ennio Capasa wanted four faces representing the new generation, a generation that has connected with fashion – absorbing, altering and cross-contaminating it.
This is the generation that with an almost poetic vision has not given up on having fun or thinking deeply about the issues and contradictions of our time – caught between city life and a love for nature, internet, connections sportswear and couture. Four iconic testimonials to kick start a fashion parade with a soul that was pure rock: Pixie Geldof (daughter of Bob), Tali Lennox (daughter of Annie), Daisy Lowe (daughter of the the Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale) and Anton Capasa (Ennio Capasa’s son) to dress a generation living out contemporary
life and its myriad daily contradictions in the most natural of ways.
“Let’s open up fashion’s doors to a bigger and bigger public so it can be better diffused, shared and swapped. Even better if done on the Net!”
The 45 minute-long show was watched by forty thousand people in Piazza Duomo and many armed with i-phones and digital cameras photographed and documented the show’s highlights.
Check out some clips now on youtube all shot from different perspectives: the barriers, inside the crowd, from far-off, from backstage … from home seated comfortably on a sofa.
A perfect production by the Net People. Read the rest of this entry »
People are calling the triumph of ideas – the ideas of designer Ennio Capasa and City Councillor Giovanni Terzi.
Working as a team they succeeded in bringing a truly unique event to Milan’s Piazza Duomo featuring outstanding artists: Eleonora Abbagnato accompanied by the dancer Jean-Sébastien Colau, film director Paolo Sorrentino, blues-punk band The Kills, singing duo Kruder & Dorfmeister and Claudio Sinatti’s amazing light show. And of course the inimitable style of C’N’C CoSTUME NATIONAL.
The event was stage managed by the director Marco Balich.
Would you like to win a T-Shirt signed by C’N’C CoSTUME NATIONAL? It’s easy, fun and creative!
If you’re in or around Milan, make your way to Piazza Duomo tomorrow evening at 8.15 pm.
When there pick up one of the competition participation cards and take off the sticker on top. Then stick it onto whoever you want to make a C’N’C FASHION STAR. Take a digital photo and email your masterpiece to eventi@costumenational.com. Then share it with all your friends on the cnc-costumenational.com website!
The best 50 will each win an exclusive signed C’N’C SPECIAL T-SHIRT!
Good shooting and have a great evening.
Mark down this date: 24 September at 8.15 pm and a world-famous venue – Piazza Duomo in downtown Milan!
C’n’C Costume National will be celebrating Milan Fashion Week with a spectacular event staged with Milan City Council.
Objective: To kick off Fashion Week with a night dedicated to fashion – and specifically C’N’C fashion with the latest collections. There’s dance with the fabulous Eleonora Abbagnato and of course music with The Kills and Kruder & Dorfmeister plus a fabulous show by Ulik and the snob. The event will be coordinated and directed by Marco Balich.
This amazing metropolitan happening is open to everyone so come and help us celebrate the deep-rooted connection that unites Fashion to Lombardy’s capital. The idea is the fruit of a common vision shared by Ennio Capasa, creative director of C’N’C Costume National and Giovanni Terzi, Milan City’s Councillor responsible for Fashion, Design and City Events.
Milan loves fashion
Piazza Duomo, 24 September 9.15 pm
Flashes of colour, stunningly choreographed light effects, MILANO LOVES FASHION holds another record! This was the first time ever a light show was projected onto the DUOMO.
Dazzling and worth watching again and again! Read the rest of this entry »
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