CHRISTINE PHUNG

SYMPOSIUM 2011- SAN FRANCISCO | OCT 29 – 30, 2011|

The Arts of Fashion Foundation is preparing itself for the 2011 AOF Awards and Symposium.

During the last weekend of October, the 10th edition of this annual Fashion Rendez-Vous will take place at the San Francisco Art Institute – one of the oldest and most distinguished American School of Fine Arts.

2011 PARIS SUMMER MASTERCLASS EXHIBITION | The Modern Dancer and the Flying Tailor | OCTOBER 29-30 | 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM |-Location: SFAI Spanish Courtyard (Free & Open to the Public)

Summer of 2011, 3 rising star designers: Christine Phung (Paris - christinephung.com), Lucile Puton (Paris – lucileputon.net) and Jasper Sinchai Chadprajong (London - jasper-chadprajong.com), worked with a group of 12 selected international fashion students to create two innovative projects per student in collaboration with the Paris renowned couture pleating studio: Atelier Lognon.

The projects were exhibited in the Hall des Marechaux at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs at the Louvre on July 21, 2011. The ephemeral exhibition traveled to San Francisco to be shown during the 2011 Arts of Fashion Symposium.

FASHION.EDU-SERIES | Teaching Creativity in Beijing, Paris and New York | OCTOBER 29 | 01:00 PM – 04:00 PM |-Location: SFAI Lecture Hall (Free & Open to the Public, Reserved Seating Available)

The discussion panel gives opportunities to fashion educators – professors, artists and designers – who teach at fashion institutions in the United States and abroad to present their research and publication to their peers. It is a platform for these academics to speak with a Q&A session to follow.

Mediator: Steven Faerm

Beijing – Professors Rong Zhen & Liang Yan & Lan Lan – Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

Paris – Fashion designers Christine Phung & Aurore Thibout – Ecole Sup. des Arts Appliques Duperre Alumni

New York – Professor Gregory Climer & Fashion designer Christine Mayes – Parsons The New School for Design

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Thank you very much to the graphic communication agency Fake

Pre-view of the future collection Christine Phung, this vest is the first piece of the collection, it’s a basic, a wardrobe essential, but cut with beautiful silk and textured cottons and customised with an embroidery designed by Macon&Lesquoy.

Because I am half-cambodian, I decided to build a project with this country in order to help them to develop some jobs and to build links with this culture. This vests are made in Cambodia by hand with a charity association, to help to provide to Women a social and professionnal background and to help the families in the rural countries with the aim of openning some new class in the schools.

Une partie des bénéfices des ventes de chaque débardeur sera reversée à cette association Khmère.

Soutenez le projet et pré-commandez … !

contact@christinephung.com

Créative workshop in Paris / 27th of June until 22nd of july 2011

Loie Fuller 1892, New-York

With the “Arts Of Fashion Foundation” from San Francisco – Summer Masterclass -  with Nathalie Doucet

Museum of the Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Workshop students from all over the world. The created garments will be exhibited at the Museun of the Arts Décoratifs, during an event on the 21rst of july 2011.

There will be 2 workshops in parallel, one will be more “Tailoring” with Lucile Puton and the other one more on the “Flou”, Jasper Sinchai Chadprajong will be the link between the two workshops and we both will have as a starting point the theme of the Flying Tailor, Franz Reichelt, in 1912, a tailor for womenswear who dreamed that he was flying and who decided to construct by himself a parachute. He jumped from the Eifel Tower and unfortunately dyed ; but what we appreciate into that was the fact that it’s important to have some dreams and to try to built and bring them into reality.

Franz Reichelt, the flying Tailor, 1912

Work on the parachutes, the suspensions, the links, linked with the modern dancer Loïe Fuller who has amazing shapes of dresses.