Friday, November 7, 2008
FANTASY FEST 2008
We were recently in Key West to shoot some footage of Fantasy Fest for an undisclosed film. Check out some of the pictures.
Monday, October 27, 2008
ALEJANDRO INGELMO FEATURED IN VOGUE
Our friend and cousin Alejandro Ingelmo is featured this month in Vogue as he is one of ten finalist for the Vogue CDA Award. Check out the shoot and accompanying article.
ALEJANDRO INGELMO
A fourth-generation shoemaker puts real soul in his soles.
"This was the flagship store," says Alejandro Ingelmo, flipping through an album of old black-and-white photographs of his family's shoe business in Cuba. "I look at it today and say, 'I want this.' " Ingelmo's designs—from sexy, high-concept stilettos with names such as "Terminator" to pretty pastel flats to men's metallic snakeskin sneakers—are a far cry from the sturdy wingtips on which his grandfather built an empire in pre-Castro Havana. But this tattooed designer's sole ambition is the same.
Ingelmo didn't always know he'd follow so literally in the footsteps of his forefathers (his great-grandfather was a cobbler in Spain). After the 34-year-old arrived in New York four years ago, he enrolled in interior design at Parsons. While there, Ingelmo took a shoemaking class, and his DNA caught up with him. He left school and started his collection, which was quickly picked up by Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and Jeffrey New York. And the rest—like his family's fabled past—is history.
http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2008_Nov_Fashion_Fund/
Only a handful of America's designers on the rise get to compete for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. The prize? Money and industry mentors.
By Florence Kane. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy.
A fourth-generation shoemaker puts real soul in his soles.
"This was the flagship store," says Alejandro Ingelmo, flipping through an album of old black-and-white photographs of his family's shoe business in Cuba. "I look at it today and say, 'I want this.' " Ingelmo's designs—from sexy, high-concept stilettos with names such as "Terminator" to pretty pastel flats to men's metallic snakeskin sneakers—are a far cry from the sturdy wingtips on which his grandfather built an empire in pre-Castro Havana. But this tattooed designer's sole ambition is the same.
Ingelmo didn't always know he'd follow so literally in the footsteps of his forefathers (his great-grandfather was a cobbler in Spain). After the 34-year-old arrived in New York four years ago, he enrolled in interior design at Parsons. While there, Ingelmo took a shoemaking class, and his DNA caught up with him. He left school and started his collection, which was quickly picked up by Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and Jeffrey New York. And the rest—like his family's fabled past—is history.
http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2008_Nov_Fashion_Fund/
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