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I have read about this new label in several places....but haven't seen much about it. I think they pass a certain percentage of profits to charity.
Has anyone got any more info?
This is all I could find....
NOIR
The exact opposite to the trendy but cheaper high street label is Noir, a new high end luxury label which demonstrates a different aspect of Danish creativity – Expensive quality and exclusive design at quite the same level as Paris, New York and Milan.
Peter Ingwersen - former brand manager for Levi’s Red and Levi’s Vintage - quit his job as managing director at the Danish, international brand, Day Birger et Mikkelsen, to establish his own label, “Noir” based on the feeling that fashion today carries a greater and deeper meaning. Thus Noir is aiming at both the fashion and social conscience of the consumer who in this way is able to give something back to the Third World, by investing in Noir design.
The idea has led to the creation of the cotton fabric brand, Illuminati II, the finest sub-Saharan cotton from raw Ugandan cotton, which is being manufactured in Europe for Noir for onward globally sale to luxury brands. The new Noir Foundation uses percentages of the revenue of the sales of cotton suits and fabrics to support the African cotton workers.
The decidedly luxurious first Noir collection, called Geist (i.e., spirit or ghost), is a sexy feminine take on men’s wear, using inspiration from rock’n roll elements like oversized shirts and a Bianca Jagger tuxedo jacket. Features from masculine clothing is adapted into tailored suits, cut as a modern interpretation of classic British tailoring, and a “rock chick” look with tight jackets and low hipped jeans is acquired by adding special details like strings and straps. An organza blazer, and an organza skirt in layers – to wear alone, as a cape or over trousers - white leather suits and asymmetrically draped empire-balloon-dresses held by a wide leather belt across the top adds up to the exclusive new Danish luxury look. Noir has in its first season sold 80% over the predicted sales.
Mads Nørgaard
Demonstrating the with of the Danish fashion scene and even further from the Noir luxury than Designer’s Remix and Soaked in Luxury was the sporty street wear design by Mads Nørgaard being presented at a show for the first time at Copenhagen Fashion Week at Christania – the Free Town in Copenhagen.
^^^ from http://www.denmarkfashion.com
Has anyone got any more info?
This is all I could find....
NOIR
The exact opposite to the trendy but cheaper high street label is Noir, a new high end luxury label which demonstrates a different aspect of Danish creativity – Expensive quality and exclusive design at quite the same level as Paris, New York and Milan.
Peter Ingwersen - former brand manager for Levi’s Red and Levi’s Vintage - quit his job as managing director at the Danish, international brand, Day Birger et Mikkelsen, to establish his own label, “Noir” based on the feeling that fashion today carries a greater and deeper meaning. Thus Noir is aiming at both the fashion and social conscience of the consumer who in this way is able to give something back to the Third World, by investing in Noir design.
The idea has led to the creation of the cotton fabric brand, Illuminati II, the finest sub-Saharan cotton from raw Ugandan cotton, which is being manufactured in Europe for Noir for onward globally sale to luxury brands. The new Noir Foundation uses percentages of the revenue of the sales of cotton suits and fabrics to support the African cotton workers.
The decidedly luxurious first Noir collection, called Geist (i.e., spirit or ghost), is a sexy feminine take on men’s wear, using inspiration from rock’n roll elements like oversized shirts and a Bianca Jagger tuxedo jacket. Features from masculine clothing is adapted into tailored suits, cut as a modern interpretation of classic British tailoring, and a “rock chick” look with tight jackets and low hipped jeans is acquired by adding special details like strings and straps. An organza blazer, and an organza skirt in layers – to wear alone, as a cape or over trousers - white leather suits and asymmetrically draped empire-balloon-dresses held by a wide leather belt across the top adds up to the exclusive new Danish luxury look. Noir has in its first season sold 80% over the predicted sales.
Mads Nørgaard
Demonstrating the with of the Danish fashion scene and even further from the Noir luxury than Designer’s Remix and Soaked in Luxury was the sporty street wear design by Mads Nørgaard being presented at a show for the first time at Copenhagen Fashion Week at Christania – the Free Town in Copenhagen.
^^^ from http://www.denmarkfashion.com
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