ALMUDENA ALCAIDE

Muuse. Vogue Italia Most Promising Designers Fashion Contest

2011-12-27T14:03:00.000-08:00

I've been seleceted to the most promising designers contest hosted by Vogue Italia. Please vote online for my collection at http://www.muuse.com/#!contest

NO SEAMS

2011-05-11T11:50:00.000-07:00

This collection takes on other disciplines, such as industrial design,

packaging, and interior design to produce a way of constructing

garments were NO SEAMS ARE USED. It's about creating shapes in

a whole different way; putting aside archaic stitching and sewing,

exploring the qualities of the fabrics, and other ways they can be

assembled together. Many contemporary artists such as Leonardo

Drew and Oliver Arms are going back to the experimentation of

these techniques by forcing the laws of the materials.

Contemporary packaging uses paper without glue to create interesting

packages that are more eco-friendly than the ones that use glue

or other substances to create these shapes. To apply this idea into

fabric, we just have to find the type of fabric that will stay folded

crisp together without sewing it, and maybe even reinforcing it with

the iron or the ancient starch.

Contemporary packaging uses paper without glue to create interesting

packages that are more eco-friendly than the ones that use glue

or other substances to create these shapes. To apply this idea into

fabric, we just have to find the type of fabric that will stay folded

crisp together without sewing it, and maybe even reinforcing it with

the iron or the ancient starch.

Garments needs closures, and there are existing ones that donʼt

need stitching, such as grommets, snap buttons, braids and knots.

These techniques could not only be used as a way of closing but also

to create shapes.

One of the biggest challenges of this project is how to have a clean

finish without using stitches. One technique that has been used by so

many disciplines is the laser cut. This precise method can create very

complex cutout patterns of extremely thin fabrics without the need to

finish its edges. This method is perfect to finish the edges of the

fabrics that threads easily.

THE ORIGINAL COPY (Taxi Art Magazine- Issue #1)

2011-01-07T13:38:00.000-08:00

What is art when we see the photograph of a sculpture? Is it the picture or the sculpture that is being photographed?
¿Qué es arte cuando se hace una fotografía de una escultura? ¿Es la fotografía o la escultura fotografiada?
Read full article (Page 24) (Photo: Horst. P. Horst, Costume for Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus, 1939)

Pasarela Internacional de Jóvenes Diseñadores de Vigo

2010-12-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

The designer Almudena Alcaide is presenting her new collection “Dreams and Reflections” in the Pasarela de Jóvenes Diseñadores de Vigo (Vigo's Novel Designers Runway) from October 30^thto November 1^st 2009. This collection is inspired by a revealing dream where she was climbing up and down dunes and everything had a golden tone to it. Her surprise was when she found out that the designer and friend Andrea Carandini made a collage with out knowing about her dream that resemble exactly the esthetic of it. She has also taken influences on a trip to Istambul including fabrics that she bought over there. The rest of the fabrics are high quality silks, organic cottons and hand dyed lace. Click to see come photos and articles about the event

INTERVIEW ELISA PALOMINO

2010-12-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

La diseñadora Elisa Palomino nos concede una entrevista sobre su nueva colección que presento en Cibeles. Read the full article.

GABRIEL OROZCO (Art Magazine- Issue# 0)

2010-11-08T00:00:00.000-08:00

(Gabriel Orozco, "My Hands are My Heart", 1991) Read Full Article . Page 12

JAPANESE FASHION NOW

2010-09-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

El museo de FIT en Nueva York acogerá la primera exhibición sobre la moda en Japón en los últimos 20 años del 17 de Septiembre al 8 de Enero del 2011. Read the full article.

PREMIERE EXPOSITION "ART AND FASHION BILBAO"

2010-08-08T11:17:00.000-07:00

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Cuando la moda se fusiona con el arte DEIA

2010-06-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

Cuando la moda se fusiona con el arte

La navarra Edurne Ibáñez obtiene el primer premio del certamen Bilbao Internacional Art & Fashion

maite redondo - Jueves, 13 de Mayo de 2010

"El vestido curvilíneo blanco de algodón de la estadounidense Almudena Alcaide se inspira en las estructuras eólicas del holandés Theo Jansen, que construye animales de playa como él los llama, que caminan solos, utilizando la fuerza del viento." Read the full article

FASHION SPOTS Williamsburg Brooklyn

2010-05-27T12:04:00.000-07:00

Williamsburg originariamente un barrio industrial se ha convertido en el epicentro de la tendencia en Nueva York. (FOTO: Andrea Carandini). Read the full article

INTERVIEW ELISA PALOMINO

2010-04-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

La diseñadora Elisa Palomino presentó su primera colección en solitario durante New York Fashion Week este pasado Febrero y nos concede una entrevista desde su estudio de NY. Read the full article

COLABORATION WITH NEOMODA

2010-04-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

Os presentamos a la joven diseñadora Almudena Alcaide, nuestra nueva colaboradora desde Nueva York. Almudena nos dará sus impresiones sobre la ciudad de los rascacielos y nos presentará a jóvenes diseñadores españoles, que como ella, tratan de abrirse un camino en el mercado norteamericano. Read the full article

FINALIST FOR THE FASHION DESIGN CONTEST ART AND FASHION

2010-04-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

Soft Intimates

2009-09-21T20:18:00.000-07:00

This collection is inspired in 1950's lingerie. It approaches the need to create foundations but that at the same time is glamorous and versatile.

Face of Fashion NY Fashion Week Emerging Designers

2009-09-09T18:21:00.000-07:00

Almudena Alcaide will be presenting her collection "Urban Nightmare" at the Face of Fashion NY Fashion Week Emerging Designers in Partnership with Ashley Stewart the upcoming Friday September 18th and Saturday September 19th at the DWYER, 258 Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10027. To reserve a sit please click on the following link.

SUDAFRICA

2009-06-19T06:32:00.000-07:00

"Los hombre del lugar, los africanos, perciben el tiempo de manera bien diferente. Para ellos, el tiempo es una categoría mucho más holgada, abierta, elástica y subjetiva. Es el hombre el que influye sobre la horma del tiempo, sobre su ritmo ysu transcurso (por supuesto, sólo aquel que obra con el visto bueno de los pasados y los dioses)"

Ebano Ryskard Kapuscinski

LAYERS

2009-06-19T05:03:00.000-07:00

Collection inspired in Jean Nouvel's soft structures. The idea of the juxtaposition of layers, filtering light is translated into garments to create a winter collection that even though the chromatic palette is very neutral and dark it has allot of play with light and also with layering structures.

BOTANICAL SHOES

2009-06-18T17:26:00.000-07:00

This Shoe Collection is inspired on the 1910’s Photographer Imogen Cuninghan follower of the F/64 movement. The designs references her botanical close ups recreating shapes, lines and proportions.

SPANISH FOLKLORE

2009-06-18T17:21:00.001-07:00

This Shoe Collection is inspired on the regional costumes from Spain. Colors, materials and trimmings are assembling together to create a collection that reinvents the typical espadrille.

WIND STRUCTURES

2009-06-17T15:42:00.000-07:00

This collection is inspired in Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures.This collection explores the possibility of being more aware of the touch sense by using highly contrasted fabrics, shapes that are able to transform with the wind and also by creating mechanical closures that help to create a different relation between the garment and the body. The slow fashion movement has many different ways to be approached and this in one of them.

NYU FASHION BUSINESS ASSOCIATION RUNWAY April 2009

2009-06-17T09:12:00.000-07:00

Almudena Alcaide was the first Spaniard to present a collection in the NYU Fashion Business Association. The NYU FBA organizes one runway per season selecting work from the NYC Schools. This Spring the event was esponsorized by BCBGeneration. Street Spotted did a exclusive interview to the designer. To see the exclusive interview on Street Spotted click here

Photos by Alexander Lobascio

URBAN NIGHTMARE

2009-06-17T09:04:00.000-07:00

This collection approaches a reaction to the acceleration of the urbanite lifestyle. The main problems of this speedy way of life are the prioritization of the sight against the other fourth senses, and the synchronization to an artificial ecosystem. The world has left touch, smell and taste to a second position. This collection is created over a basic dressing system consisting on a simple circle and square fabric that can be draped inserting laces through holes to create multiple shapes. By taking the time to get dress and think about the desire shape the costumer experiences an increase of their creative ability and their senses.