Workshop 2010
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François Dumas (Designer)
François Dumas studied at the École supérieure d’Art et de Design in Reims and the Ensad in Paris. After one year at Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec studio in Paris, he graduated in 2008 from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands where his atelier is still currently based. By winning the Grand Prix of Design Parade 05 at Villa Noailles in Hyères, he was invited to participate in the Camper Summer workshop: Master Class in Master Crafts. In September he starts one year research at La Cité de la Céramique in Sèvres.
Kelly Clark (Designer)
A Philadelphia native, Kelly Clark was sewing clothes by the age of 12 after years of watching her mother stitch costumes and her father assemble Harley Davidson’s from scratch. She later attended Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. After stints as a fine art handler, stylist’s assistant, and assistant designer at NoLita’s Unis, she went on to manage garment development and production at a small Manhattan studio. Keller is the line of clothes and shoes made by this Brooklyn-based designer, classic with an intriguing contemporary twist.
Alexandra Verschueren (Designer)
Alexandra Verschueren was born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium.
Being interested in fashion from an early age,she enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where she obtained both her BA and MA (magna cum laude). An internship at Proenza Schouler in New York and after that an apprenticeship at Derek Lam, widened her horizons and expectations of what fashion could be.
She was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury at Hyeres 2010 for her collection “Medium”, by a jury presided by Dries Van Noten. Adriana Rodriguez awarded her with the participation in the Camper workshop during the festival too.
Still located in her hometown of Antwerp, she ‘s now working on new collections, designing for the beauty of the garment, rather than thinking about hypes and trends.
George Bezhanishvili (Designer)
Georgian-born and bred, George Bezhanishvili is a student of University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he studied under Veronique Branquinho and now continues his graduation year with Bernhard Willhelm. He received Swiss Textile Sponsoring Prize, magazine Peng! editorial Award, concept store “Song” prize and was the first prize winner of the International Fashion Competition ” A box of Dreams” ( organised by Fondazione Claudio Buziol ). His work has a mysterious air of sophistication relating to cultures of other times and places, and has already been widely noted in the design press.
He was recommended by Belgian designer Veronique Branquinho to Camper team, to take part at Camper workshop Master Class in Master Crafts.
Roderick Pieters (Designer)
Roderick Pieters is from a little village called Aalten in the east of Holland and for 4 years he has lived in Arnhem where he studys Product Design at Artez Academy of Arts. Next year, after an internship at the Camper headquarters in Mallorca he will graduate and then try to find his way as shoe/product designer.
Camper Barcelona Design Center led by Adriana Rodriguez and Diane Becker came to this school to make an intensive workshop of 4 days and based on his appraoch to design and new solutions he was selected to participate in Camper Workshop, Master Class in Master Crafts.
Manami Saito (Designer)
Manami Saito is student of product design department in Artez, Academy of Arts in Arnhem, Holland. She originally comes from Shizuoka, Japan, and her work reflects the mix of cultures. Although she has had training in traditional shoemaking, she is attracted to more abstract design solutions in her footwear projects. She was selected for the Son Fortesa workshop during the Workshop at Artez led by the Barcelona Design Center.
Right after Camper workshop she will be flying to China to start her internship in United Nude. Next year she will be graduating Artez.
Mary Wing To (Designer)
Mary Wing To is a fashion designer turned saddler/ leather artist based in London, UK. A Distinction BA Honors and Masters degree graduate in Fashion Design & Technology at The London College of Fashion and a qualified Cordwainers trained saddler in traditional British Saddlery leather craftsmanship.
The Vietnamese/Chinese designer from Manchester, trained as a bespoke coat maker on Savile Row London. A registered member of the Society of Master Saddlers her expertise in leather and unique design eye has won her premium prizes in national saddlery competitions also claiming her Best International Designer Award for her sculptural leather garments in Holland and New Zealand. and the prestigious City & Guilds National Lions Award for Creative Craftsperson of the year and the Medal of Excellence Award Mary continues to master the art of her leather skills within the Royal Mews under the discerning eye of the Queen’s harness maker.
Camille Rossi (Designer)
Born in the suburb of Paris, to a vietnamese father and a french mother, she has experience in creating performance art and installations linked to garments, a work between art and fashion and costume design for contemporary dance and théâtre.
She traveled to Vietnam, Nepal Mexico, Guatemala and Romania researching traditional clothing , ancestral techniques of embroderies and weaving. After an experience of as fashion designer for accessories and garments in Nepal (a fair-trade production) for a french company, she decided to study pattern making for women’s ready-to-wear.She interned at Sakina M ‘Sa and worked for Plein-Sud in Paris, as modelist assistant and pattern maker.
In 2009 , she entered in the Fashion Design Postgraduate program for Accessory at the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, collaborating with Camper for shoes, Thierry Lasry for the sunglasses and Yves Saint Laurent for a leather goods.
Xavier Mañosa (Ceramic installation+shoe shine box presentation)
Son of potters, Xavier Mañosa grew up surrounded by clay, lathes and
furnaces. After studying industrial design and designing in Barcelona, he moved to Berlin where he had the idea for Apparatu.
Apparatu is a studio, a family business and a pottery workshop
based on self-production, a space being defined for each project, work that is between the world of crafts and industry.
During the Camper Workshop he did two parallel projects, the first was the project The Place Leaves a Trace, the union between ceramics and footwear, through the footprint. The designers created a shoe sole from natural elements gathered in during a first exploration of Son Fortesa, then they hand made tiles and walked these shoes over the ceramic mural generating a pattern of fresh footprints. The tiles were fired at a local kiln, and were ready for the final presentation.
The second project was to design an installation that could travel, a package that contains everything that happened during the workshop process as well as display the final shoes. Inspired by the nomadic life of the shoeshine boy, he built a custom wooden box for each shoe design, total of eight pieces.
Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba (Exterior installations)
During a research visit to last edition of the Salone del Mobile Satellite in Milano, we came upon the stand of Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba which was remarkable not only for the 10 hand made pieces of furniture he presented, but for the fact that everyone who passed by – smiled. His work is deceptively simple, disarmingly animate with a sense of humor that is somewhat surreal and truly funny, without a trace of sarcasm. Add to this his ‘communication’ performance and we invited him on the spot to take part in the Son Fortesa Workshop. Marcantonio has a serious preparation in Fine Arts, with a degree in Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti. He has always felt a strong connection to objects, for the pleasure and a certain sense of security they can give. His current interest in design is for handcrafted, unique pieces, which he feels are warm, poetic, communicative and playful, very different from the sensations transmitted by industrially produced objects. For the Workshop, he was appointed art director final installation, which he designed, built and presented, his tongue–in-cheek interpretation of the world of Camper, and we were all very amused.
Chini (Video maker)
He started his career as an art director in advertising agencies in Buenos Aires and then after a few years decided to leave and travel to Barcelona, where he has been living for 11 years, working as a freelance art director with friends in a multidisciplinary studio, making videos, animation and illustration. In 2006, he founded You Are So Overrated as an excuse to do what he really likes: directing videos, illustrating, taking pictures, getting into trouble and collaborating with many people in many different projects. This is the second workshop at Son Fortesa in which the video documentation has been created by Chini.
Line Asser Hansen (Master)
On a cold wet morning in February we set out from Liverpool station on a mission to discover an extraordinary craftsman. And indeed we found one: Master Saddler, the highest distinction in her field, head of the Cordwainers Saddlery Diploma program at Capel Manor College, consultant to the Royal Opera and a freeman in the Worshipful Society of Cordwainers. Line is a wonderfully capable craftsman, an excellent teacher and has the rare gift of understanding exactly what comes next in any project. All this and a perfectly wacky sense of humour. Her personal research is in creating saddles that respect the horse as an athlete, comfort with the highest safety and security qualifications.
Francesca Starnotti (Master)
Some people are born into it and grow up with a knowing built into the dna.
Her great grandfather first began the trade of leathers, and each generation has built a new dimension to the family business. Her father established a tannery of high technical specifications, but her brother had more artistic leanings, and Francesca works with him as head of the design department of a specialized tannery known for developing exclusive new effects on leather for the world’s most important designers. Part science lab, part painting studio, part serendipity, she brought equipment and ingredients and set up an impromptu studio under a fig tree and got everyone involved in experiments on leather of color, heat, waxes, and imagination. Her personal passion is breeding horses on her family’s estate in Tuscany.
Barbara Mannucci (Master)
Tuscan DOC from the Leather District, Barbara is responsible for the Consorzio Vera Pelle Italiana Conciata al Vegetale, a group of tanneries dedicated to the art and craft of tanning leather exclusively by the ancient tradition of vegetable tanning. To support the projects and exploration of our new talent workshop, Barbara brought a generous supply of all kinds of veg tan leathers, from linings and lambskins, to camel, vacchetta and sole leather and explained the special characteristics inherent in the material as the starting point for experimentation and design.
Andrea Traina (Master)
His approach to leather craft is more as a philosopher and sociologist than one raised in the traditional cannons of the trade. His method might be called neo primitive, intuitive and without preconditions, based upon a personal rapport of respect for the leather and the tools of the trade, although he uses them in an entirely original way. His ‘performance’ was centered upon the creation of a one piece shoe and each designer then created their own.
Carmel Walsh (Master)
While not yet officially a Master, this passionate, creative artisan with a footwear Design background, left her native Ireland to follow the classical path of training as an apprentice to a Master Bespoke Shoemaker in Italy. She brought all her know-how and interest in the architectural challenge of making shoes to the task of the realization of ideas developed during the workshop, many from designers who had never made shoes before. Directing the designers in shoemaking and in the end taking over the heavy hammering for the designers who simply didn’t have the muscle, working all through the gentle Mallorcan night, she is largely responsible for the high level of finish of the workshop shoes.
Erika Nerozzi (Master)
A scientist specializing in international research in the field of Posturology- the organization of the body in space and movement, Erika brings important information as the starting point for designing shoes. As an instructor for Judo with specialization in teaching the blind this martial art, she became curious about how people move and use their feet, and proposed a research project involving every member of the workshop, and a specialized electronic platform.
Peter Traag (Master)
A furniture designer who is fascinated by mass-production and how it might be thwarted to make products less ‘generic’. His position is paradoxical: he immerses himself in mechanized processes, but in the name of individuation. By experimenting with the conditions of manufacture and intervening in processes, by making his own tools and moulds, he is almost seeking out the innate form of a volume of material rather than pressing it into a pattern that exists.
He shared his experience of designing for manufacturing and joined in the workshop activities.
Massimo Morozzi (Master)
Creative director for EDRA the italian furniture company that works closely with designers and creative artisans to produce many of today’s most iconic pieces of contemporary design. He presented a seminar based on the experience of these prestigious collaborations and the particular mix of high-tech and hand-made that characterizes the Italian tradition, making the most of the unique opportunities that the culture and history of the territory have to offer. Massimo’s great personal experience in this field makes him a true Master of contemporary culture, and his vision was a wonderful inspiration for the workshop.
Jordi Guirado (Master)
Head of the Camper tech team, Jordi is the Master link for the support and development of the logistic requirements for the workshop. He brings a lifetime of experience in the realization of footwear and great passion for this craft, which inspired him to document, in a collection of artifacts, the history of Shoemaking in Inca and the foundation of the Museu del Calcati dela Pell. In anteprima he gave a tour of the Museum to the workshop group and the Inca Design Team.
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