I recently was shown a new collection from Swarovski Elements that holds pieces from designers like Dior Homme, Emporio Armani, Salvatore Ferragamo and more. The collection was launched at last month’s Milan fashion week, and will be available this fall. A few images of the collection are below and you can go to their Facebook Page to see videos and more!
Summer has found time to clean up and add some more glimpses from the past.
Lindsey: http://nathanaelporembka.com/photography/women/lindsey/
Mark: http://nathanaelporembka.com/photography/men/mark/
Andrew: http://nathanaelporembka.com/photography/men/andrew/
Corset & Draped Skirt: http://nathanaelporembka.com/fashion/women/corsetanddrapedskirt/
Art: http://nathanaelporembka.com/artanddesign/fineart/
Graphics: http://nathanaelporembka.com/artanddesign/graphic/
THE END IS NEAR: http://nathanaelporembka.com/fashion/forecasting/theendisnear/
Skies: http://nathanaelporembka.com/photography/things/skies/
Spring: http://nathanaelporembka.com/photography/things/spring/
Model: Nik Soluski, Garments: Jenni Kusowski
I photographed Jenni’s thesis collection at an old loft in Over The Rhine. Working with Nik again was awesome, and she did an incredible job. The collection is edgy and contemporary with lots of black and eccentric materials.
View more of Lindsey Manilla’s collection here:
www.nathanaelporembka.com/photography/fashion/lindseymanilla
Senior thesis fashion collection by emerging designer Lindsey Manilla.
Senior fashion collection by Ena Topalovic
View at www.nathanaelporembka.com/photography/fashion/enatopalovic
Leonardo’s flying machine in peach silk satin-faced organza, pine wood, and copper wire.
A member of the DAAP Fashion Design class of 2009, Ena’s senior collection was inspired by colour and shapes, and each piece is patterned from a different basic geometric element. Sandra is the wonderful model.
In case you missed it, you should check out the video from the runway
I sketched 50 full looks before editing down to 6 final pieces that I would create. I still love and would be incredibly excited to bring every piece to life. Until then, they remain on paper.
Before even beginning to sketch my collection for my thesis, I spent two weeks researching and discovering what I wanted to say. In a broad sense, all of history emerged as my inspiration. This is the statement to my thesis that was the foundation for the collection:
Though the dawn of mankind into existence may evoke the beginning creation story, there have been defining moments in our history beyond then which have marked civilization with revolutions, rather than mere steady evolution. Amongst these vast periods of calm change, all of humanity as a culture has experienced these moments and revolutions and times that propel us forward, catapulting civilization to thunderous new heights, or thrashing it to utter demise. These revolutions are each a new Dawn. To man’s history, they are beacons, like Gandhi and Mozart are to peace and music. These are revolutionary times that, in an almost inhuman way, have changed the future. These revolutions have formed pinnacles of societies that have not only formed the magnificent foundation for modern civilization, but have yet to be surpassed in glory, genius, or power. These revolutions are the discovery of fire, the great pyramids, Caesar’s empire, the Italian Renaissance, the plague, ancient Greece… In these moments and fragments of time, more has been decided and discovered, more has been accomplished or challenged, more has been changed than in all near history combined. Each is a dawn of man. When man breaks through the walls of impossibility and time and erupts forth a new creature to form a new world, rushing still forth to the next revolution.
My thesis for my undergraduate program at DAAP is finally online! You can view the collection as well as the process to make it, and of course, the runway video.
The gallery for Frank is now up! Unwrap it at http://nathanaelporembka.com/photography/men/frank/
I just posted my Grand Mosque illustrated collection from the Fall quarter (done in U4ia, a texture mapping software standard in the fashion industry). The pieces were inspired by the new Sheikh Zayed Mosque in the UAE.
My college is having a model call for our fashion show in June! Come out to audion 1-5pm on January 21st
DAAP Aranoff Center Room 6400
Females: 5′ 7″+
Males: 5′ 10″+
