Cathy Pill
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The Belgian born Cathy Pill is a graduate of the LA CAMBRE École nationale supérieure des arts visuels and former intern of A.F. Vandevorst and Vivienne Westwood.
After having won an accolade of prizes since "The Collection of the Year" at Trieste's contest Its # Two in 2003, and in 2005 the sponsorships of the "Fondation Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent" and of the "Yves Saint Laurent Company" at the contest Andam in France, the "Fabio Inghirami Award" in Italy and the "Modo Bruxellae Price" in Belgium, Cathy Pill launched her first ready to wear collection during the Paris Fashion Week in October 2005.
Her first Spring / Summer 2006 collection titled "Blink", married Art Nouveau influenced sinuous patterns with draped and bunched silhouettes. The collection was exposed at Les Arts Décoratifs of Le Louvre and immediately evoked interest and attracted the international press like The Herald Tribune, Le Monde, Vogue and Vogue's Style.com.
For her Autumn / Winter 2006 collection titled "Balad", Cathy Pill brought a soft and warm midsummer dream into the Paris winter collections. Colourful prints made of flying butterfly-flowers ornamented the wide silk dresses while black and white mysterious shadow prints... on heavy coats and long trousers.
After only two collections Cathy Pill's label can be found in France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Japan, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Belgium.
Press articles on the designer are in magazines from all over the world from Vogue, Elle, l'Officiel to Figaro Japan, Hanatsubaki...
Cathy Pill also works as a consultant for other fashion houses and recently designed the costumes for the opera Frühlings Erwachen at the Royal theatre of La Monnaie.
The collections of Cathy Pill are known for her smart use of prints and shapes, creating modern and feminine silhouettes.
"While other capital cities never seem to warm to new talent, Paris greets it with wide open arms. A young Belgian designer, Cathy Pill, 24, was able to put an installation on display for one day at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs on Monday. Looking at the intricate and graphic patterns, inspired by the Art Nouveau architecture of her native city, Pill proved why she has won a slew of accolades and awards since she graduate from La Cambre fashion school. Those scholarships have financed her first collection. "It is not really Art Nouveau but its sinuous arabesques," said Pill, explaining how she worked digitally on the prints to give them a "coup de vent" or wind-blown effects, so that the pattern follows the course of the body. So did the fabric, when Pill used jersey, making both optical black and white patterns and vibrantly colored effects inspired by stained glass windows. The Paris season is only 48 hours old, yet already there is the sense that a fresh wind of new talent is blowing through the spring/summer 2006 collections." (Suzy Menkes - International Herald Tribune)'
"Sans bande-son rock, Cathy Pill a présenté dix-huit modèles statiques à couper le souffle dans le hall de l'Union centrale des arts décoratifs. A 24 ans, cette jeune Belge réussit à surprendre par la coupe de ses robes (un mouvement rond ou ovale du tissu qui fait naître des femmes fleurs) et ses imprimés : vitraux années 1920 ou arabesques de papier peint, déformé, photocopié en noir et blanc, pour des motifs postmodernes qui la placent parmi les espoirs prometteurs de la création." (Véronique Lorelle - Le Monde)
«Not since the waffle has Belgium exported something so delectable.» (Sean Manning - Black Book)
"At Fashion Week in Paris, Milan, and London, the spotlight fell on....; Her dresses, like her digitally mastered prints, are the stuff of daydreams. Pretty dresses fluttering with lime and china-blue butterflies are perhaps the least-expected thing to see floating from the mind of a Belgian designer. Especially for fall. But these pieces are the stereotype-defying highlights of 25-year-old Cathy Pill's second collection, of which she murmurs, "I wanted to have something fresh, like summer, a dream of what's missing in winter." Born in Antwerp, Pill is the latest in a long procession of Belgians to have arrived to show in Paris-but she's done it without taking the dark and Goth-y route usually trod by her hometown's famous designers. Pill attributes her difference to the fact that she chose to study at La Cambre in Brussels, inspired by how the school had incubated the delicate aesthetics of Olivier Theyskens. Like him, Pill is a quiet-spoken mixture of sensitivity and analytic focus. The cleverly cut rounded panels and layers of her dresses are a good example of this analytic bent: "I love the mathematics of patterns! I always like working on structures and lines," she says. "The short dress is really two dresses, one inside the other, but I worked to make it as simple as possible. "I like the ideas of Le Corbusier," she says, "that everything you design should have a reason behind it and not just be froufrou." Inspired, too, by the techniques of Madeleine Vionnet and the organic, tendrilly look of Brussels's Art Nouveau architecture, Pill has also created bright digital prints that give her work their extra zing." (Sarah Mower - Vogue)'
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Expozitia de la MNAC a lui Cathy Pill video [1]
Cathy Pill Défilé Janvier 2008 à l'Hôtel Ritz Paris HC 08, Video: Fédération Française de la Couture [2]
CATHY PILL Runway Fashion Photos Spring 2008 Paris Haute Couture Collection [3]
Designer Cathy Pill presented her latest haute couture fashion collection in Paris, Runway Fashion Photos Spring 2007 [4]
Video Fashion File first look [5]
FASHION CLOSE-UP Cathy Pill moving image and Video [6]
As a fashion cameraman "blink" movie for stylist Cathy Pill's exhibition at the Louvre, Paris.., Video [7]
First real Catwalk Cathy Pill, backstage Video [8]
ELLE fall haute couture Cathy Pill [9]
VOGUE 2007 spring / summer CathyPill[10]
Style.com Cathy Pill [11]
ELLE cz 2007 Haute Couture Cathy Pill Backstage [12]
Cathy Pill Haute Couture Spring 2007 Dress-up [13]
Cathy Pill, caractère d'impression, LeTemps.ch [14]
Fashion Show Panoramique TheFake Magazine [15]
