CIRCLE

Spring Summer 2012 Collections – 16-17 September 2011


CIRCLE for its second season has moved to THE ALEKANO CLUB in East London and will collaborate with creative collective GOLDEN PE△KS to present a multidisciplinary two day event that brings together fashion, art and music. CIRCLE will present the Spring Summer 2012 collections of fashion designers Noemi Klein, Ilaria Lepore, Sara Loi, Panopticum and Zehr alongside an art exhibition organised by Attilia Fattori Franchini that will present works by Tobias Zehntner, Andrea Zucchini, Deniz Unal (video), Marlowe Tatiana Granados, Teresa Patino Velazquez (photography), Marcello Simone (sound performance), Mathias Hahn (product design).



On both nights GOLDEN PE△KS will take over the space and delight its guests with music performances.
www.goldenpeaks.co.uk

The showroom will be a space open to visual experimentation and wild creativity on 16/17 September from 11am – 7pm.
Music guests will surprise our ears and make our bodies dance everyday from 8pm - till late.

THE ALEKANO CLUB, 134 Kingsland Rd E29HE, access from Cremer St entrance
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alekano-Club/146198982132263

This season Designers showing at CIRCLE are: PANOPTICUM, NOEMI KLEIN, ILARIA LEPORE, REBECCA ZEHR, SARA LOI


PANOPTICUM

Panopticum is a London based label founded in 2009. A self-styled escapist exercise in developing original base patterns, sourcing and creating unique fabrics and persistent slow experimentations with the transformation of the silhouette
often venturing beyond the warp/weft.

NOEMI KLEIN

Noemi Klein, originally from the West German countryside, began working as a jeweller in the murky corners of creative East London in 2004. She first started designing and working with metal after being given a cast off piece of machinery by her dentist father, combining her inherited attention to detail and fascination with fancy tools with finding an outlet for her love of fashion, precious materials and unusual imagery. Additional design and silversmithing training at London’s Central Saint Martins and Morley Colleges and an interest in traditional craft and tactile media such as porcelain, silk and natural stones make her approach to jewellery a distinctly modern take on decorative art.

www.noemiklein.com

REBECCA ZEHR

Zehr is a fashion label founded in 2009 by London based designer Rebecca Zehr.
Her designs blend sharp tailoring and high quality fabrics with signature prints to create basic pieces with a twist and a collection that feels elegant yet edgy.

www.zehr.co.uk

ILARIA LEPORE

Her style is minimal and natural at the same time and it creates a sense of ambiguity that combines modernity with irony and an amused attitude of provocation.
Lepore responds to the new sensibility towards the ecological and ethical impact of
fashion by using only organic and anallergic fabrics and materials of the best Italian quality.

www.ilarialepore.com

SARA LOI

Rome based designer Sara Loi graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006 with a degree in menswear fashion design.
Her designs are characterized through the use of tailoring details as well as its playfulness and the versatility of the garments. Loi’s designs mix
Italian craftsmanship and sense of quality with Nordic minimalism and essentialism.
Her collection is a non-conformist take on the basic wardrobe with a few signature
pieces. It does not aim to dictate a style but leaves it to the customer to define their role.
Loi is sensitive towards the ethical aspects within the fashion industry and her collection is entirely produced in Italy using only high quality Italian fabrics, incorporating some 100% organic fabric pieces.

CIRCLE Fashion PR: Reece Prince Watson reece@arebours.co.uk







This season, friend and curator ATTILIA FATTORI FRANCHINI will be selecting artists and performers to accompany and expand the "world" of CIRCLE.
www.attiliaff.com

VIDEO

TOBIAS ZEHNTNER www.tobiaszehntner.com
BA Fine Art Goldsmiths College 2011.
Zehntner work spaces between video and installation using the relationship between art and science as a
point of departure for the exploration of human and mechanical movement in time and space.
His work is distinguished by a minimal aesthetic and modernist aesthetics and compositions and which
helps him to capture daily movements with a choreographic attitude.

ANDREA ZUCCHINI, BA Fine Art Goldsmiths
Andrea Zucchini's work is about transformation and alchemy.
The elements he uses in the composition of his installations change through time and approach the
spectator in a natural way arising philosophical questions about our way of relating with reality.
Withdrawing from science and psychology, Andrea tries to discover our actions and reactions
metaphorically expressing them through a variety of media and materials.

DENIZ UNAL MFA Fine Art, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
http://pzwart.wdka.nl/fine-art/2010/11/23/deniz-unal/
Through a myriad of embodiments, transformations and reconfigurations of the body, language, objects and time, her work aims to discuss the politics of power, sensuality and existence in a great big jumble of what she likes to call art. She works predominantly with video, performance, photography and text.

PHOTOGRAPHY

MARLOWE TATIANA GRANADOS www.marlowetatianagranados.com
Marlowe Tatiana Granados is a Canadian, Londoner by adoption, photographer, dj and independent
publisher. She works as brand advocate for the fashion brand RVCA and she the founder and director
of the Zine Petite Anarchy. Her photography work, selected for Circle represent with a poetic aesthetic,
personal inspirations, hidden corners and undiscovered places.

TERESA PATINO VELEZQUEZ www.mutterharvest.blogspot.com
Teresa is a Spanish photographer, painter and embroidery specialist. Her creations vary from psychedelic
representation to Aztec design and contribute to the construction of the fantastic world she surround
herself with. For Circle she will present a selection of her personal photographic work, surreal and fluid at
the same time characterized by vivid color and kaleidoscopic representation.

SOUND

MARCELLO SIMEONE www.marcellosimeone.com
The work of Marcello Simone concentrates on the inseparable link between art, life and the poetry of
everyday dimensions perceived in an intense, seductive manner.
His work vary from installation to collage to video to photography to sound.
For Circle he will inhabit the space with noise adventures in sound live experimentation.

DIY PUBLISHING

TOM REES: www.howlandgrowl.blogspot.com
BA Fine Art Goldsmiths College, 2010
Artists and self-publisher Tom Rees loves drawing and dreams about owning a
photocopier. His self-published zines, “half sent to like-minded people around the
world, half on sale”, as he says, are an introduction to his world made of irony and black

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

MATHIAS HAHN | Okaystudio: www.mathiashahn.com
www.okaystudio.org
Mathias is a product Designer graduated from Royal College of Art and one of the founders of
OKAY Studio. Mathias works mainly in the field of product and fornitures design and he is attracted
by the material integrity and longevity of everyday objects - in opposition to fast, ephemeral product
consumption. His recent work explores traditional technologies and materials, while introducing basic
mechanical principles and applications.