Joseph Altuzarra’s decadent A/W 12 collection launched him into the top of the fashion elite. The designer speaks to Indigo Clarke about his influences, being a school nerd and meeting his hero.
DELFINA DELLETREZ FENDI: Family Jewel
Fourth generation in a lineage of Italian fashion royalty, twenty year-old Delfina Delettrez Fendi’s knack for design was seemingly predestined. With mother, Silvia Fendi, imparting invaluable fashion knowledge, and her father, the celebrated French jeweller Bernard Delletrez, schooling her in the art of jewellery design, Delfina has lately put her privileged, and lifelong, design education to use. Indigo Clarke writes.
ELLE MULIARCHYK: Devout Follower of Fashion
Creating art that is quite literally a religious experience, New York based photographer and fashion devotee Elle Muliarchyk is lately dusting off antiquated Christian iconography, while sidestepping post-modern references, to create “A totally new type of art.”
TABITHA SIMMONS: Walk on the Wild Side
When British-born, New-York based fashion stylist and consultant, Tabitha Simmons, revealed she was launching an eponymous footwear line, few doubted she could, literally, put a foot wrong.
NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD: Step to it
Designed to be ‘strong and empowering’, London’s most promising young shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood’s sculptural heels have lately been doing what they do best – upstaging everything from the ankle up. Indigo Clarke