Famous faces front Mango
Spanish fashion firm Mango is known for its front row full of famous faces. Dakota Johnson, Sandy Meyer, Camila Alves, Mónica Cruz, Naty Abascal, Ariadne and Aida Artiles, and Julia and Vladimir Restoin are just a selection of guests who attended the international presentation of Mango’s SS09 collection and the party that followed, which featured a performance from Kate Ryan. An all-star cast including Ariadne and Aida Artiles, Camila Alves, Sheila Márquez, Jon Kortajarena, Nuno Lopes and Miguel Iglesias showed the new Mango collection ‘A Playground of Dreams’.
Dakota Johnson, daughter of the actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, said: “I love Mango clothes, I feel very comfortable in them and their jeans are my favourite garment.”
After the catwalk presentation, the ten finalists of the second El Botón-MANGO Fashion Awards were announced. The Awards aim to promote and increase the international projection of up-and-coming designers. The President of Mango Isak Andic, and Sandrina Fasoli, winner of the first Award, presented the silver button to the contest’s 10 finalists: Josh Goot (Australia), Jean Pierre Braganza (Ireland/Asia), the duo Peter Pilotto (Austria) and Christopher de Vos (Lebanon), Lee Jean Youn (Korea), British duo Aleksandar Stanic and Fiona Sinha Christian Wijnants (France/Belgium), the German duo Miriam Lehle and Sabine Egler, Jakub Polanka (Czech Republic), Jaeha Alex Kim (Korea) and lastly Silvia García Presas, a Spanish designer living in Barcelona.
The SS09 collection features new clean-cut styles in which masculine elements play a major role, combined with lines inspired by the eighties. Mango also showcased its limited edition Penélope & Mónica Cruz for MNG collection, in which the Cruz sisters add a personal touch to garments with a strong Japanese influence in shapes and prints.
The new menswear collection HE by Mango is based around an urban, casual look inspired by the modern dandy, consisting of come 50 items that reinterpret classic elements of the male wardrobe.
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Image: Mango SS09