Furla Spring Summer 2011 The Little Prince Collection

Travel and fairy tales once again inspire the Leitmotiv for the Furla Talent Hub accessory collection. After chasing the White Rabbit to Wonderland and searching for the Wizard of Oz, the concept of the collection moves between the planets of the Solar System, together with a blond child: the Little Prince. The collection evokes the immaterial nature of a metaphorical journey, the colours are pale and white predominates. The prints retrace the steps of the Little Prince, along with representations of the symbolic figures that accompany him: the rose, the aeroplane, the fox and naturally his blond hair and curious expression. The planets float on glossy surfaces and the various elements are lit up with the colours of fluorescent pink, his hair and spinning tops. The collection is aimed at travellers, and once again comprises all the accessories needed to accompany adventurous spirits with a desire to make discoveries and lose themselves. Bags, practical, capacious shoppers, cosmetic cases, briefcases and handbags, the special new features of which are the clasps: little plaques, like asteroids containing the message revealed by the story of the Little Prince. We only really see with the heart.

With the innovative Furla Talent Hub project, launched in 2007, the company offers young international designers, presently unknown to the general public, the opportunity to design a collection for the label and associate their names to a brand recognized worldwide. With the Spring Summer 2011 Leitmotiv collection, the company continues to accompany the effervescence and energy of young and promising fashion designers, reworking traditional fashion codes with original and unexpected proposals always avant-garde.

 

LEITMOTIV 

The Leitmotv is a guiding melody, the recurring musical theme associated with a character or emotion, place or idea. In the case of Juan Caro and Fabio Sasso, dreamlike creativity is the common thread of a young, successful artistic fellowship. Juan, who is South American, transferred to Europe where he specialized in the visual arts. Fabio, an Italian student at Dams in Bologna, conducted research into the relationship between art and fashion. And in the meantime he trained as a tailor. 

The meeting of the two worlds created a curious imagination which struck and amazed international critics thanks to the innovative strength of their language. Leitmotiv participated in two editions of Pitti Rooms, the area dedicated by Pitti Uomo to the new visions of emerging creators. In 2008, with the “Life with butterfly” collection, they won Fashion Incubator, the competition of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber for Italian Fashion). 

They showed the same collection at both Milano Moda Donna and Tokyo Fashion week. And in 2009 they began a new adventure, creating an original capsule collection of accessories for Furla Talent Hub. The atmosphere of their creations is always a dialogue between the baroque decorative style of Fabio Sasso and the gothic mood of Juan Caro. Their inspiration comes from a precious iconographic pot-pourri, blending complex ideas that enter and depart from fairy-tale, surreal worlds. Influences that give life to unique creations. 

 

New Creative Director

Fabio Fusi is the Creative Director of Furla from the Autumn Winter 2010. Fusi, 40 years old, a native of Florence, has had notable previous collaborations with big names in the world of luxury, including Salvatore Ferragamo, Cartier and Etro, with whom he served as Accessories Design Director. Today Furla has assigned him the task of determining the stylistic guidelines of the women’s and men’s collections and to supervise the projects of the Furla Talent Hub.

 

In the Philippines, Furla is exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc. (SSI) and is located at Greenbelt 5, Rustan’s Makati, and Shangri-La Plaza Mall.