Fashion Week Toulouse is an eco-responsible edition

This year, Toulouse Fashion Week has reserved big surprises in terms of trends and fashion.

Names that have been fighting for a few years have climbed onto the fashion podium with their created clothes and even with the organic trend, tea bag dresses.

Even Mà-oui, a participant in the event for more than 5-6 years, has returned after a period of absence, regardless of the personal problems she has faced.

This year, the participating designers have impressed their spectators with their particular creations but also with their extravagant imagination of fashion emancipation.

During the three days of the Toulouse fashion show, new designers appeared on the list of posters, some born during the Covid pandemic, such as:
– Ages Wuyam Chanson, Mà-oui, La libellude, Tonye’s Fashion, Jenia Gala, or the 5 macramé designers Gayral Catalina, Iusumba Tatiana, Pallares Ophelie, Wagner Berenice, Laurent Victoria, among whom we find other guests such as Bi-ethic Show, Momo Lova 1 Domingo Solene, Miss, rue ADN °2 Sanna Shayna Tourini Noa, etc.

Dresses made from tea bags

The adventure came to life during the Covid pandemic, when everyone stayed at home to protect their health.

The stylist Christelle Garrigue, created a collection imagined in just one year, she trained in sewing on her own and which is part of an eco-responsible approach.

Making dresses out of tea bags. This is the original challenge that Christelle Garrigue, a stylist, author, visual artist and teacher of literature and visual arts at the Irène Joliot-Curie college in Fontenilles, west of Toulouse, has taken on.

The beautiful adventure began during the Covid crisis. Confined and tired of drinking coffee, Christelle turned to tea, a hot drink that she did not like. Failing to drink it, she ended up being inspired by it. The visual artist first imagined paintings, by cutting out models from magazines and dressing them in dresses made from tea bags. « I created more than 200 paintings. And then, I wanted to really make these dresses, » she explains.

During the fashion show, Christelle revealed her dresses and their accessories, with a floral inspiration, to the general public. An achievement for someone who taught herself sewing and who creates in her home in Fontenilles, which has been transformed as best she can into a workshop.

In addition, the stylist and designer pursues three objectives through her collection: respecting an eco-responsible approach by recycling tea bags, « managing to make something that is raw beautiful, for a moment », and « playing with the feminine, sensual and sexy side of women ». An approach that hits the mark since Christelle’s collection was quite successful at Toulouse Fashion Week last November.

DREAM FULFILLED

Jenia has made Toulouse her home for seven years, where she has transformed her passions for fashion and design into an inspiring career. Her exceptional career: A graduate in finance and design, Jenia began her professional life in aeronautics before launching into the world of sewing.

Jenia Gala is of Slavic origin and has lived in Toulouse for 7 years. In love with France and its culture, she is also passionate about fashion, an international specialty of France.

After learning French, she registered as a free candidate to take a CAP in sewing and obtained her diploma, which led her to find her first job as a seamstress in the center of Toulouse; At this time, she launched into her first creations and collections, participated in Toulouse Fashion Week by presenting about twenty models made by hand or by machine with a choice of chosen fabrics.

With her modern style, inspired by her Slavic roots, Russia and Ukraine, she draws her ideas from her learning of French culture.

The style of her models that she designs and draws, aims at ready-to-wear for the modern, active woman looking for luxury. Black and white were the dominant shades of the collection with touches of red. Regarding fabrics, she chooses silk and printed patterns and does not hesitate to go and get them on site, in Moscow, Shanghai, Paris or even Biarritz.

Fashion has exceeded expectations this year in Toulouse, through the new collections presented, do not miss the events that will come in the years to come, the designers are inspired by the modern imagination but also become eco-responsible for the future of the planetary ecosystem. Do not miss next year’s event at Fashion Week Toulouse.

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