“The Child’s raw, psychedelic, yet carefully crafted rock-n-roll has the same edgy-chic energy and soul of Costume National”. Ennio Capasa, Designer


On November 12th, Ennio Capasa will host an evening presenting “The Child”, an emerging rock and roll band. The concert will take place at Bar Lubitsch’s Red Room, Los Angeles.

The Child is a Los Angeles based band consisting of Holly Marilyn, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and Norm Block, drummer, percussionist and producer. Also playing and recording with them are Gianni Garafolo and Christian Stone.
The band will release their first album in 2010 and is currently performing in and around Los Angeles.

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Mix the season’s keys pieces and create your own outfit!

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“The harmony between natural and rare elements creates an original, sensual and charming fragrance, for an essential and timeless man”. Ennio Capasa

You are invited to the official preview of the men’s new perfume CoSTUME NATIONAL HOMME which takes place from 28th October to 2nd November. Come and try it!

Ongoing research, haute couture and the experimentation of new fabrics are the hallmarks of Ennio Capasa’s approach to Spring Summer 2010.

Every item is unique and all thirty-two that make up the collection cry out to be looked at and touched.
 

The use of fabric is key and is exploited to the full: irregular, back-to-front, washed, unwoven and superimposed and coloured in vegetable tones.
 

Prints are maxi and organic, in tune with each piece’s overall graphic look.
As for lengths items are either mini or really long, fluid, soft and dazzling textures: cotton and Lurex, cotton and silk, linen and cotton, doubled-over washed silk with 3D effects.
 

The workmanship is all haute couture: undressed threads and stitching show structures and volumes with details hand-finished.
 

Leather and suede shoes have geometric platforms: sandals, ankle-boots and boots.
 

have a look to THE COLLECTION
video: the CATWALK
video: the BACKSTAGE

Paris- Carrousel du Louvre 12 pm

Come inside the catwalk backstage from a most particular angle: Ennios very own place in the midst of it all.

These guys move fast and they have to if they want to catch the right moment and immortalize that perfect detail. Backstage these are the people (that’s us, folks!) who are the most cumbersome and in-the-way.
Be careful not to disturb the right photo-op angle or stop us snapping the models just a few moments prior to their entrance onto the runway! In any case they’re the ones that always win!

Check out all the smiles, looks and shadows under the eyes (well hidden by
make-up) of Ennio Capasa’s crew. However every feeling of weariness
vanishes when they hear the ecstatic applause with which the public greets
the new collection. A job well done!
 

NIGHT
4 am

All looks have now been finalized and the order of the entrance and exit of the models agreed.
The clothes are hanging on racks ready for Enzo to take them to the Carrousel du Louvre.

4.30 am

Almost impossible to find a taxi to get back to the hotel. The all-night session in Paris has practically come to an end and with it all of Paris’s taxis!

DAYTIME

10.00 am
The collection items have now reached the Salle Soufflot and Enzo is looking after them as he waits for the team.

11.00 am
The make-up artists and hair stylists organize their “tools of the trade” and listen to the final input on styles decided by Ennio.

11.30 am
The first models and team members arrive.
But before starting it’s best to enjoy a hearty breakfast!

12.00 am
The photographers are coming in and the first flashes explode in the air.
Backstage things are starting to get crowded!

12.30 pm
Catwalk check for the models

13.30 pm
The last girl has now arrived. To speed up her “overhaul” as many as seven
people are working on her at the same time. And in ten minutes she’s ready!

13.45 pm
People start to come in to take their seats.

2.00 pm
The room is packed but backstage things are running decidedly late! But this
is all part of the fashion game! You need at least 10 minutes to organize
the girls, get them in line, check the final details, shoo away the
photographers and start up the music!

2.40 pm
15 seconds of darkness, music, lights on and Karmen makes her entrance onto the runway.
Maida is marking the time and shows the girls the exact second they have to take to the stage.

While Ennio checks the parade’s progress on the monitor, Alistair runs through the final details of the looks and Paul Hanlon, the hair stylist and Lyne Desnoyers the make up artist apply the final touches to mascara and hair.

Once the first parade is over, the have to change as fast as possible and get back in line for the second exit, brave the umpteenth check of the assistants, make-up people and all the rest: an out and out assembly line!

Magdalena’s Look No. 32 closes the parade. Then it’s a final exit and
catwalk for all the girls and at last Ennio himself.

Applause

The first hugs back stage

An unmitigated triumph!
And another wonderful sensation of satisfaction to feel part of such a closely-knit and intense team, to belong to such a chaotic, but undeniably fascinating and exciting world! Also to work alongside such a charismatic and experimental designer, a visionary yet also a rationalist, Ennio is
driven by pure passion for style, for rock music and for that often indefinable formal and stylistic balance.

2.50 pm
The music is turned off, the lights come on in the hall and the journalists
crowd into the backstage area.

And finally we too enjoy a toast with all the others!

Check out all the backstage photos on flickr.

Stefano Roncato, MFF’s fashion director, describes the next SS10 Costume National collection.

Micheal Gaubert tells about the new CN collection start from the music.