Everything is set at Regina Margherita theater of Caltanissetta to host the Med Moda which will begin on 25 October 2009 and that, like every autumn, will present new and exciting collections created by designers from around the world.
Born in 1994 as a festival to start young and unknown international designers, the Med style has become over the years a sort of salon where you compare the global fashion and know each other.
Korea, Bolivia, Syria, Iraq and Angola are just some of the nations, over the years, have brought their creations on the catwalk event.
Participation in the Med is free and open to fashion designers from around the world, but who want to participate, must pass the strict selection of the jury that ensures the originality of creations from year to year.
For 2006, for example, the organizers have received nearly 200 applications for participation, among which they selected 12 promising designers.
This year promises to be even more memorable thanks to a cast of artistic exception: it will parade the collections of Indian designers Jatin Varma and Pria Kataria Puri, Ukraine s Olena Burenina of Croatian Alen K, Albanian Ardi Asllani, the Bolivian Sonia Aviles, Venezuela Guillermo Forero Gomez, of the Georgian Elene Pitskhelauri and Ketevan Darsavelidze, and Italian Koscanyo. Heading up the event will Saba Wesser, Princess of Ethiopian origin, model, presenter and actress, a figure who embodies the spirit of fashion Med.
Among the many designers, Croatian Alen American adoptive K seems to be the designer best known: it has participated in several fashion shows and fashion events in Europe and in America. His creations are both practical and innovative, inspired by his homeland, but also characterized by Hispanic influences.
The Albanian Ardi Asllani is more known in his country had treated some of the costumes for the event Euro Video Grand Prix 2006, a musical event held last year Tirana.kind.
For this edition, says the patron of the event Massimo Pastorello, we were struggling not just to select the finalists rose: we received more than a hundred requests from all continents and spent months to view the collections to reach 10 designers who, I am sure, are an important part of international haute couture.
We are particularly pleased to have two designers from India, a new economic superpower, that even in the fashion industry will tell her in terms of creativity and quality, as we are sure of the reappointment of fashion Ukraine after the success of last year Ludmyla Kyslenko.
Important is the presence of countries such as Georgia and Venezuela that will host the overseas edition of the fashion Med.
The future of the festival is in fact, according to organizers, in its transformation into itinerant event, as they tried editions organized in Bolivia, El Alto and La Paz.
Alongside Massimo Pastorello Management there will be Marcello Motta and Renata of btf Falco, who will take care directed fashion, makeup and hairstyles while entrusted to the staff of CentoXCento stylists, led by Salvo Fiandaca and Michele Cammarata. To sponsor the fair, the President of the Sicilian Region, the Regional Department for Cultural Heritage and Tourism and Transport, the City and the Province of Caltanissetta Caltanissetta Regional. These entities are added to the Venezuelan government, which will be represented by Ambassador Alejandro Lacava Evangelista, and the Georgian government, represented by Ambassador Gogsadze Zaal, and Claudio Debiasi, contact person for the Med Moda in Georgia and organizer of cultural events.
Who is not in Caltanissetta can also be inspired by the creations that will parade on stage at the Teatro Regina Margherita, following the event live on the Sky platform, the frequencies of Mediterraneo Sat.
Author Resource:
Francisco Ropa is a fashion reporter who cover the fashion shows over the world and report to Venezuelan government for ropa premama agency. The website where you can find some information is http://ropa-maternal.jeanspremaman.com