For many, Paris is a dream destination. For recent Wade College graduate (class Salutatorian no less!) together with emerging fashion designer Venny Etienne, the dream became a "life changing" reality later on a sports bomber jacket together with tailored pants, inspired past times athletic shoes translated into ready-to-wear concepts, garnered him the overstep prize inwards the Fashion Group International Scholarship Competition. Etienne had entered the prestigious contest twice earlier but ever left empty-handed. The 3rd fourth dimension was a charm alongside him taking abode iii prizes – a cash scholarship together with ii grand prizes – for the FGI’s Best of Sewing Award resulting inwards an industrial sewing machine addition the coveted FGI Paris American Academy Couture Award. This past times June 30, Etienne packed his bags together with headed to the fashion uppercase of the the world for an all-expenses-paid, study-abroad program.
On his fourth dimension at the FGI Paris American Academy Etienne muses, "The professors at the schoolhouse direct keep 20+ years’ sense inwards haute couture - working for houses such equally Nina Ricci together with Christian Dior exactly to cite a few. My professor, Xavier Brisoux, was main inwards pushing me exterior of the box. I knew to locomote out whatever ego or noesis I had of fashion at the doorstep inwards Dallas together with come upwards to Paris alongside a construct clean slate to learn. There were many times I would direct keep a one-on-one session alongside my professor nigh an inspiration idea, together with he would know how to direct keep it 3-4 steps deeper. Seeing his procedure of how he dissects a concept to its core was beyond belief to me. He would survive able to connect nature alongside scientific discipline to popular civilization together with bring together it all dorsum to the inspiration. Witnessing this had me reverberate on my ain blueprint procedure together with how all along, I’ve solely touched the surface of a concept.
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| Etienne inwards forepart of the Louvre museum inwards Paris |
"I hollo upwards walking the streets belatedly at nighttime alongside my sketchbook inwards hand, sitting on the steps of the Seine River but sketching away for hours. Ideas would run through my caput similar a racing machine at the Indy 500. It tin definitely acquire similar that piece inwards Paris because everywhere yous plow is an inspiration. Paris inwards itself is injected alongside together with hence much history together with beauty fifty-fifty the details of windows, balustrades, balconies or a door knob inspired me," said Etienne.
"Paris allowed me to empathise my aesthetic together with gave it to a greater extent than pregnant together with substance. That is the major primal together with vital constituent that I learned piece inwards Paris that volition survive alongside me for my entire blueprint career." The 28-year-old merchandising together with blueprint major, who lives at Southside on Lamar, expects to graduate inwards September 2015.
This twelvemonth Etienne also was named the National RAW Artist Fashion Designer of the Year title, defeating hundreds of up-and-coming professional person designers from America’s overstep cities such equally New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami together with more. As business office of the prize package, he’ll showcase his jump 2016 collection at LA Style Fashion Week this October. It’s a huge boost, equally measure fees to demo commonly hit from $4,500 to $45,000! Clearly, this designer is i to watch. You tin banking concern tally out his work Levity at http://www.levenity.com.
photos provided past times Venny Etienne
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