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Participative fashion show
Friday, January 14 2011 as part of the first CENTQUATRE's Crazy Night
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Sakina's boutique in the Curial Lodge
Come and have a look, until February 27 2011!
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L’HABIT DU CENTQUATRE
FROM DECEMBER, 11 2009 TO MAY, 31 2010
The Sakina M’Sa fashion house is moving its design workshop on to our premises. L’habit du CENTQUATRE is the democratic uniform inspired by a very up-market working-class memory. It is a workshop open to the public on enrolment and to CENTQUATRE staff, who are the players in a design studio on the spot. All the stages of the making of a collection are included in this "made-to-measure" laboratory. Garments and recycling: producing a winter and summer uniform in collaboration with studio T, a space devoted to sewing and reintegration. Use of the technique of patchwork and the geographical map of the district, revelation of memories of old clothing, buttons, collar, and buttonhole facing appear in places where they have no function. The clothes are collected in the district and from the Valoris reintegration workshop, which gets women back into work through sorting textiles. Material and technique: 100% recycled cotton / overalls + silkscreen printing.
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"L’habit du CENTQUATRE" is supported by VIVARTE
BIOGRAPHY
"Originating from the Comoros Islands, the young designer Sakina M’Sa has successfully transcended her social origins and asserted her hybrid identity with talent and determination. A woman of her time, she cultivates an offbeat glamorous style which has overtones of romanticism and dandyism, enabling her to appeal to women of all generations and sympathies. Her technique of "buried" or "planted fabric" which involves making cloth age naturally through slow oxidation is now famous. Since 1998 she has run cultural mediation workshops in deprived districts in order to set up a fashion house by integrating women in vulnerable situations. She received the Grand Prix of the Saint-Etienne international Design Biennial in 2001, and the Fondation de France prize in 2002. In 2007, she was awarded the Grand Prix de la Création by the City of Paris. That same year, she presented the "L’étoffe des héroïnes" exhibition at the Musée du Petit Palais, which was an unqualified success. Her Spring - Summer 2008 collection is a tribute to the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who has supported and inspired her design approach.(...)"
Hervé Lucien
