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Carlos Miele – Spring 2012 Review – Brazilian Heatwave

When some like it hot, some fall in love with Carlos Miele. The Brazilian designer’s “Immersive Landscape” collection was on fire, sending the runway temperatures to dangerous levels. With a cue of the music, the audience was instantly transported to hotter and chicer climates, where, say, wearing white swimsuits never abides by post-Labor Day standards, and cocktails are always served with a side of leg.

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story by Lo Gray
photos by Pete Cameron Dominkovits

When some like it hot, some fall in love with Carlos Miele. The Brazilian designer’s “Immersive Landscape” collection was on fire, sending the runway temperatures to dangerous levels. With a cue of the music, the audience was instantly transported to hotter and chicer climates, where, say, wearing white swimsuits never abides by post-Labor Day standards, and cocktails are always served with a side of leg. Continue reading “Carlos Miele – Spring 2012 Review – Brazilian Heatwave”

Carlos Miele – Fall 2011

A runway full of gorgeous gowns and sexy separates. Mr. Miele works a design concept as well as any designer in fashion today.

story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Freda Henry

What’s the winter like in Rio? Some fashion designers from tropical climes often have a difficult time understanding a fall-winter wardrobe. The technical demands of garments for Boston Common in late January must seem very alien at first to a son of a sun drenched country like Brazil. However, Carlos Miele has been showing internationally for ten years and lives in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City, so he now completely comprehends the way to keep a brittle Battery Park breeze from getting in the way of the joy of wearing his his glamorous gowns. And Mr. Miele does understand that most of his red carpet stunners are only out of the limo for a few seconds before they glide into an A-list party while a wall of flashes fire in any event. To be sure there were nods to the inhospitable nature of a serious winter in his fall 2011 collection, but overall it was classic Carlos Miele, as a runway full of gorgeous gowns and sexy separates. Continue reading “Carlos Miele – Fall 2011”

Carlos Miele – Spring 2011

This is the way that one encounters curves in nature, never perfect in measure but a harmonious perfection.

story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Freda Henry

Once you are a commercially successful fashion designer a whole trunk full of rules invisibly drops into place around you. The stores who buy you give you sales reports and they very clearly show you what sells. The temptation to design to fill those slots must be terribly difficult to resist. Pulling against that ton of temptation is the restless nature of creative artists, the desire to be joyfully fresh and boldly innovative each new season. It is the ability to create a collection that both satisfies the designer as an artist and satiates the appetites of buyers that leads to long careers. It is always a joy to see a great designer deal with that “difficulty,” the great ones escape from it as easily as squirrels defeat every bird-feeding countermeasure humans devise. Continue reading “Carlos Miele – Spring 2011”