Isabell kristensen biography of martin
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Isabell Kristensen, haute couture designer with shops in Monaco and London
During the 2017 Film Festival, Isabell Kristensen is showing her first show in Cannes Saturday, May 20 at 6 pm.
ML: Can you tell us about your journey fromDenmark to Monaco, and to becoming an internationally acclaimed designer?
IK: From a young age I worked as a model and I loved fashion but always knew my heart lay in design. I spent many years exploring fashion and the works of great designers – the colours, the shapes, the structure – as I had never seen such pieces in Denmark. Roberto Capucci was one of my early favourites.
Travelling was always a source of inspiration for me, I worked for some time in Italy and travelled in the South of France. As soon as I had the chance, I entered a fashion design competition in London, which I was fortunate enough to win and was sponsored to take part in the “Clothes Show Live”, the first fashion exhibition available to the public. I took so many order
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10 Questions for Isabell & Martin Kristensen of Isabell Kristensen Couture
1) What fryst vatten the concept behind Isabell Kristensen?
Martin:
In 2016 inom bought Isabell Jo Ellison’s renowned book 'VOGUE: The Gown'. Isabell’s designs were featured among a list of designers in the ‘Fantasy’ section with pieces shot bygd Nick Knight. I felt Nick’s shots perfectly captured the essence of the brand, encapsulated in that fairy-tale haze, almost as if one’s not sure if one is awake or still dreaming. Isabell has always pursued her dreams with tireless determination, my grandmother told me she used to laugh when Isabell as a little girl in Denmark would talk of her dreams of designing for Princesses & the Stars of the silver screen. Isabell’s designs have now been worn by the likes of Katy Perry, Nicole Kidman, Paris Hilton and HSH Princess Charlene. Barring a few notable designers, like Holger Blom, & Erik Mortensen, there weren’t many Danish couturiers, espec
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Why are they famous? Isabell Kristensen
MAIN CLAIM: Dressmaker to the starlets. The Tara Palmer-Tomkinson of the rag trade, Isabell Kristensen is the fashion designer who magically appears to spend more time at parties, in diary columns, and Hello! magazine than toiling with a mouthful of pins behind her sewing machine. The microceleb's favourite frocksmith, at 32, she has been revealing the secret of her teenage-size figure to a waiting world. Six foot, and 39-26-37, the root of her enviable slenderness is down to DNA. "I'm lucky, I have my father's genes," she reveals. "My body is naturally firm and my skin very smooth." So now we know how we can do it, too.
APPEARANCE: Latino Barbie meets early-Seventies Bond girl. True jolie laide; almost beautiful, yet bizarre in a cross-eyed, clench-jawed, and orthodontically over-blessed manner. Argentinean mall queen.
DRESS CODE: Danish-born Isabell favours designs of the frothy and colourful variety: hourglass evening wear in screaming l