On October 1, 2022 at 7pm at the Carrousel du Louvre, the Parisian public was blown away by the discovery of a new generation of hyper-connected fashion designers. The immeasurable talent of young designers who came from the four corners of the world to present their spring/summer 2023 collections on the bangs of Paris Fashion Week turned trends upside down. Highly connected to social networks and aware of the upheaval of codes and lifestyles in the world since the pandemic, they seek through their creativity to challenge consciences.
Ashlyn So
Ashlyne So, a 14 year old Chinese-American designer who uses fashion as a means to break down prejudices and defend various causes for which she has been praised by the American press, including Teen Vogue. She presented a collection whose scissors stroke echoes the new generation concerned about the issues and the environment in which they evolve. It all started the day Ashlyn returned from sewing camp at the age of 6. She was obsessed! She loves to draw, then drape, pin and sew. She always wanted to dress like her mom, so she started sewing her own way.Ashlyn also loves helping others. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashlyn started making masks for frontline workers, to protect the heroes who keep us safe and healthy. She was later named a People’s Hero by E! People’s Choice award in late 2020. She has since made 1,000 masks.
In early 2021, still in the midst of the pandemic, she saw reports of Asian elders being abused, injured and murdered. She mustered all her strength and energy to launch not one, but two rallies for #standforasians and Stop AAPI Hate. Since then, she has spoken at numerous rallies, conferences, news shows, and TV specials to raise awareness and created a petition to include AAPI history in school curricula. Ashlyn has shown her collections at fashion shows, including New York Fashion Week, where she combines fashion and activism.
Adisza Kahanasty
Adisza Kahanasty is an explorer of Indonesian heritage and values that she brings to life through her contemporary collections.
The brand offers comfortable, easy-to-wear pieces with great value textiles to encourage conscious purchases that generate versatile, artistic and flattering results for all shapes and styles. Founded in 2022, Adisza Kahanasty embodies handmade craftsmanship and details with timeless and artistic garments. Recreating, retelling and recontextualizing the tradition of Indonesian culture to preserve it.
Kolya Galya Biryukovy
KGB
Exclusive designer clothing brand KGB / Kolya Galya Biryukovy, Moscow, Russia. The brand takes its name from the initial letters of the names of the designer Galina Biryukova and the artist Nikolai Biryukov.GALINA BIRYUKOVA – Fashion designer, designer, Member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MOA). Member of the Association of Artists of Decorative Arts (MA AHDI).Student of the famous Russian fashion designer Slava Zaitsev.The brand creates conceptual collections for children and adults. Recently, KGB has also paid attention to the fashion of age, for women of elegant age, the Neo Fashion style.The brand has repeatedly participated in the main Russian fashion week Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, Belorussian Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week, France and Monaco. Today the brand presents the new collection SS 2023 LA Felicita. All models of the collection are unique and created in one piece.
Pa Ya Hui
Pa Ya Hui is a Malaysian fashion designer who is into music, art and history, mastering cutting and draping techniques, currently based in Malaysia, looking for possibilities of a new visual language to represent women in an extraordinary way through new techniques and concepts.After graduating from Equator Academy of Art in 2009 as a fashion designer, Pa went on to further her studies to continue her fashion dream at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2011. She developed extensive pattern cutting skills throughout her years of study as part of her fashion design degree.She landed an incredible internship opportunity with one of London’s top designers, Inbar Spector, and worked as an assistant to the designer on the pattern cutting team for two years.
Her increased knowledge and innate fashion sense made her one of the most valued employees of the fashion house. Pa Ya Hui gathered everything she could absorb from the top of the fashion industry in Europe and finally decided to create her own brand PAYAH UIin 2016. Since then, she has created many outfits to dress the beautiful city girls, but also talented dancers for their performances in several local art events.
Patrycja Plesiak
Patrycja Plesiak is a brand created by passion. The designer is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree in art. She owns an original boutique in the historic site of the OFF Piotrkowska center in Lodz, Poland. Since 2011, she has created 40 original clothing collections, award-winning collections presented in many places around the world in Venice, Milan and Paris…The collection “Everyone loves ice cream (Freedom)” is inspired by the art group “Lodz Kaliska”. Founded in 1979 in an atmosphere of scandal, it connects different areas of art, including conceptualism, performance, Dadaism and surrealism.Ethereal silk evening dresses, linen cocktail suits, original coats with prints and sets of sweatpants in natural fabric . The collections are characterized by a combination of high fashion and ready-to-wear.
Each collection is created out of a love of fashion and a desire to enhance the individual character of the client. Attention to the quality of fabrics, cuts and finishes is the culmination of the whole.
Tony Visions
Tony Visions is a fashion brand based in the United States.Brand specializing in “Street Luxury”. Established in 2017 and quickly gaining a global presence with their signature style ,mixing ready to wear and couture, and street style clothing. The brand focuses on an eco-friendly fashion lifestyle while showcasing and providing platforms around the world. The goal of our brand is empowerment to potential using fashion as a tool.
Adam Saaks.
More than a designer, an artist, seen on TV or read in fashion magazines, transforming an ordinary piece of fabric into a sexy and provocative dress? Yes, that’s Adam Saaks. He is a fashion designer and a Youtuber. He has been in the fashion industry for over 27 years. He is famous for his live t-shirt cutting performances and has made a name for himself in the fashion industry for his unique style of “cutting” clothes…He will amaze you when you see what he can do with a pair of scissors. Adam is no ordinary stylist, he cuts the fabric while his model is wearing it! He has worked with many stars such as Eminem, Katy Perry, Shakira, etc… In the 90’s, he was a stylist for 10 years. During this period, he spent a lot of time in nightclubs and raves, watching people and getting inspired by all the styles he saw. He lived in San Francisco, a very international city, and fashion was predominant in the underground scene. Through exposure to all of this, he took style ideas from the people he saw and became a bit obsessed with perfecting his look. What happened next was something he didn’t see coming, people started asking him for fashion advice. He soon had clients for personal shopping, and soon after, he ended up getting style agents in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Fashion Division
Fashion Division, is a creative and collaborative fashion platform founded in 2018 by Khaled Khoualfi, a French expatriate in South East Asia ,it aims to promote the many designers present in this part of the globe.His expatriate status allowed him to gain on the ground experience with several fashion organizations and schools, and thanks to his work and commitment, he allowed several Indonesian students to come and train in France and leave with experience and know-how in the fashion industry. He created Fashion Division in order to give visibility to the overflowing creativity and talents of the Southeast Asian region, and also to showcase their talent during the Paris Fashion Week. The world of music and fashion are intimately linked, which is why Khaled decided to create a new platform in Paris, dedicated to promoting both the new generation of musical artists and those of the fashion world and for this purpose, He collaborated with the Disc House Carbozo that launched September 30th their new album Crossover Volume 1 The singer artist CARBOZO and creator of the brand CARBOZO PARIS.
The philosophy of CARBOZO is much deeper: “Before being a brand of textile, Cardozo is an attitude, a lifestyle of each person… The principles are human values, cultural mix, but also the determination, discipline and work that each of us puts into practice in the field in which he excels.
Oriental Fashion Show
Fashion Division is supported by the association Silk Road and Al-Andalus, which organizes several fashion events around the world to promote young designers, including the Oriental Fashion Show.