Craig Green

MEET Craig Green, the Central Saint Martins-trained menswear designer you'll soon find featuring on your radar a lot more: he's just been nominated for the British Fashion Awards' Emerging Talent Award Menswear and been named the Centre for Fashion Enterprise's latest designer recruit for its Fashion Venture Programme.
"When I first started at Central Saint Martins on the foundation, I originally wanted to be a painter or sculptor - mainly because I liked to make things. I accidentally ended up going into a fashion textiles pathway for my BA," says Green of his career path.
The rest has fallen very nicely into place - he graduated from the Central Saint Martins MA in 2012, scooping the L'Oréal Professionnel Creative Award as he went, and then went on to showcase at London Fashion Week with Fashion East's MAN initiative for the spring/summer 2013 season.
And those early ambitions of being a painter or sculptor have very much stuck with him and his aesthetic - his is one that combines minimal garments with dramatic sculptural body pieces and angular ornamentations with a pick-it-apart wearability.
The same can't necessarily be said of his first-ever fashion creation.
"It was an awful dress made from cheap white netting and silver duct tape for a charity fashion show."
While his nomination for the British Fashion Awards will propel him into the public fashion domain more, his CFE accolade will enable him to receive complete tailored business support.
"With the CFE's added support I hope to continue to grow my brand," he says.

Formichetti’s Diesel Debut

 
Nicole Formichetti ha revealed a first look at his debut collection for Diesel. Having been selected the label’s artistic director in April, the designer’s inauguration offering, named #DieselTribute, has used the brand’s 35-year archive as it’s starting point.
“It’s like a love letter to Diesel,” Formichetti told us. “The #DieselTribute collection idea came from simply finding beautiful things in Diesel offices and factories, including old denim and patches, and I wanted to work these into a small collection.”
The whole beautiful collection is divided into two different lines- denim and leather, which are going to be launched in November and February respectively. Every single piece is handmade, and includes men and women’s ready to wear apparel, lingerie and denim accessories… The campaign was shot by Nick Knight. The images would be shared through the label’s social media channels.
Nicole Formichetti said “What Renzo Rosso, the founder of Diesel, has done over the last 35 years is so incredible,” he said. “I want to make Diesel the coolest brand on the planet. We are planning so many crazy things for the future.”
The range is just a teaser to his first complete collection for the brand, which would be showcased in March. Formichetti, a collaborator of Lady Gaga has worked as creative director of Mugler. He is very inspired by Rosso’s passion towards work and this is why he wanted to work at the label.
“I’m working in a completely different environment now,” he said. “I have a huge team all over the world. With Diesel we can do something very personal and handmade but with a global reach.”