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The face is starting to become someone familiar.

Ed Morales-Artist Delia Posadino always focused on high quality using materials such as leather and silk.

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SURAJ KUMAR of India MISTER ASIA Jacob Xavier Photographer

Ke t t y Pi c o d a Scordia artist, craftswoman, theater actress, d r e s Costume s m a k e r Institute and The Met's H i g h l im g ho t s doe f lp am s t aM k e teGr. alas Delia Posadino Italian fashion designer Ketty Kreazioni Pico

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SURAJ KUMAR OF INDIA CREATES HISTORY! Winning The Inaugural Male Beauty Pageant of Mister Asia 2020 Held In Chitwan Nepal February 2020

Suraj Kumar, all of 20 years old, is pursuing his Bachelor in Science from Pune City. This Maharashtrian lad from Kalvan, Nasik, is a fitness enthusiast and an established fashion model and actor in Maharashtra. Standing 6'2 tall, he is indeed blessed with great looks. Suraj beat 11 finalists to bag the main title. National Director Amar Shamu Sonawane, a native of Pune, selected and mentored Suraj for the contest. Mister Asia is a brainchild of Vishal Ale of Manjari Nepal Group who saw a plethora of activities like sports, fashion, dance, acting, in the picturesque Chitwan Resort. The main objective of the pageant is to promote brotherhood amongst Asian countries through culture, talent, and beauty. The International jury included Miss World Nepal 2000, Usha Khadgi, Mister Glam International Eurasia 2019, and Rohit Shinde, among others. The event was covered by several leading news channels in Nepal. National Director - Amar Shamu Sonawane Jacob Xavier Photographer

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Delia Posadino is an Italian fashion designer with over 15 years of experience in the design of accessories. Together with her creative team at Dp&K Fashion Delia has worked on many prestigious projects based on design and product development consultancy for collections of leather goods, bags, accessories, etc. Her offices are located in Florence, Italy. Amongst her clients, there are various national and international brands such as Calvin Klein USA, Levi’s, Ermanno Scervino, Pierre Cardin, Onward Kashiyama USA, Takihyo Co. Ltd. Japan, Toyota Motor Japan, Fornarina, Benetton Group, Meltin’ Pot, Magil, Allison, Enrico Coveri, Byblos, and many others. Her Design Studio Dp&K was born with the intention to assist and collaborate with companies that require professional consultancy and recognize that a process with professional collaboration is the best way to create excellent products with a remarkable impact on the market, from the initial concept to the definition of the prototypes and product samples. Her team is up-to-date with the latest technologies and materials for the development of collections and its entire process, which allows expressing its creativity in the very best way. But also the experience and expertise of the team allow her to work on large as well as small projects open to new challenges, for any size and budget. © Red Silk Carpet June 2020

About Delia Posadino Delia is an Italian designer, who grew up in Florence, with a long experience in the world of fashion accessories. At the young age of 21, she prematurely ended her architecture study in order to completely dedicate herself to her passion for fashion. And after some collaborations in the business, she founded her own brand. Her first collections of bags, belts, and jewelry indicated her international debut with Officina Accessories. After the success of her first collections for many important shops and department stores around the world, she decided to introduce other products to her collections, such as shoes, jewelry for men, foulard, ties, hats, sunglasses, swim and beachwear, and lingerie. Pg ¼. With the rise of her recognition in the international market, she was able to sign contracts and agreements with a number of prestigious international companies in the fashion industry like Onward Kashiyama USA, Takihyo Co. Ltd. Japan, Toyota Motor Japan, Fame Collection Ltd, Japan, and others. She realized various collections presented at the famous fashion shows like Prèt-à-porter in Paris, Milan, and also in Barcelona. Amongst her national and international collaborations are various well-known brands such as Calvin Klein USA, Pierre Cardin, Ermanno Scervino, Moschino, Fornarina, Walt Disney, Benetton Group, Meltin'Pot, Magil, Sun & Co. Ltd. Japan, Allison, Naj Oleari, and Byblos. With her capacity, experience, and technical knowledge, she is able to develop collections dedicated to women, men, and kids. Thanks to her remarkable creativity, the continuous research, a large network of contacts with suppliers and manufacturers, she is able to offer her customers collections that are tailor-made for their brand, always based on research, innovation, style and involvement in the entire creative process from the initial product definition to the final samples. For approximately 5 years, she has started collaborations for sustainable vegan fashion, creating collections of bags and wallets for men and women's ethical eco-conscious fashion. These lines of fashion accessories are developed with extensive research and the use of sustainable materials, cruelty-free, and animalfriendly, meeting the demand for animal-friendly accessories in style. These materials are sustainable and create a demand that is an alternative to leather and other animal skins. The vegan fashion revolution will continue to influence designers as they see the beautiful possibilities of recycled plastic bottles, cork, wood, industrial waste, rubber, and other materials © Red Silk Carpet June 2020

Creative Vision The strong love and passion for creating art, fashion and design is the concept of beauty was born at a young age, and guided with her talent and strong insight in trends and innovation, Delia Posadino is always able to interpret a new and remarkable way of thinking, using alternative materials in mixed with other more noble products, but always with the focus on high quality using materials such as leather and silk. With her brand, she has been able to interpret and experiment with new materials, combinations, colors, and volumes, and always following the red line of the search for beauty and conceptual. Her passion for this work and the almost obsessive attention to detail took care of the rest. Over the years she has collaborated with international companies of high level, always respecting their history, characteristics, and identity of their brands, but helping to achieve many successful collections, differentiated from one another, due to the sensitivity of the creative and contemporary vision, often marked by futuristic accents and keeping the beauty, allowing to be remarked about. Thanks to her knowledge in the design and conceptual flexibility, Delia Posadino can offer collections that have a strong impact on the market, emphasizing the excellence of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Made in Italyâ&#x20AC;? with the attention to detail and giving a modern twist to the design of her creations. ÂŠ Red Silk Carpet June 2020

Collaborations CALVIN KLEIN ERMANNO SCERVINO LEVI’S ON WAR D KA SHIYAMA U.S.A. FORNARINA MOSCHINO MELTIN’POT FERRARI MAGIL LE X U S B Y TOYOTA M OTO R TOK YO NAJ OLEARI BENETTON SISLEY BYBLOS TAKIH YO CO. LTD NAGOYA PIERRE CAR DIN PARIS ALLISON WALT DISNEY KILLERLOOP TOKIDOKI NORDICA ROLLERBLADE PRINCE LA RINASCENTE FAME COLLECTION CO. LTD TOKYO SUN & CO. LTD NAGOYA KANAZAWA CO.LTD TOKYO J.M. FINO S.A. PORTUGAL SA N DY SCOTT ITALIA NA R ITA F RA SCIO N E PEDRO MORAGO SPAIN ENRICO COVERI OFFICINA ACCESSORIES

Services Thanks to the proven expertise, our studio is able to manage the product at different stages of the development process, such as: • Research trends, concepts, materials, colors and shapes • Participation at international fashion trade fairs, shows and exhibitions • Offering a wide range of the best international raw material suppliers and manufacturers to refer to for production in different price ranges • Supply of technical drawings, drawings at ¾, 1:1 scale, digital illustration • Study and design of various elements that could be used as a statement in the collections (metal components, logos, covers, details, packaging, etc.) • Management and sourcing, with development and recap sheets required for the coordination between different suppliers • Correction of the samples and coordinating the various stages of development of the collections in Italy, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. • Marketing support for catalogues, advertising campaigns, events and other promotional materials. Delia Posadino is the ideal partner for companies that pay attention to trends, products researched at high-level. We provide a result in line with the customer needs and requirements, providing new stimuli by reducing cost and optimizing the time, and thanks the ability to be a single point of contact that follows the creation of the collection development. Delia Posadino Kiel Fashion designer Florence (Italy) Amsterdam (The Netherlands) info@deliaposadino.com website: www.deliaposadino.com blog: http://deliaposadinokiel.com facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DpKfashiondesign twitter: http://twitter.com/Delia_pk instagram: http://instagram.com/delia_pk tumblr: http://delia-pk-world.tumblr.com pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/dpk26 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deliaposadinokiel/

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini Â© Red Silk Carpet June 2020

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Photographer: Andrea Zini

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Foulard collection

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Belts Collection

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The Met's Costume Institute New Online Content Highlights include footage of past Met Galas, the #MetGalaChallenge, and a preview of the upcoming exhibition About Time: Fashion and Duration Each year, The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates the opening of The Costume Institute's spring exhibition with The Met Gala on the first Monday in May. This year, with the Museum temporarily closed to support efforts to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, The Met will instead mark the occasion by sharing digital content related to the upcoming exhibition About Time: Fashion and Duration (which will now open in late October) and previous Met Galas, which are the department's primary source of annual funding. The content will be featured on the Museum's website homepage for the week of May 4. A preview of About Time: Fashion and Duration, scheduled to open on October 29, will feature animations of new photography by Nicholas Alan Cope from the exhibition catalog that illustrate a disrupted timeline of 150 years of fashion. An exclusive interview with author Michael Cunningham will accompany an excerpt from a new short story, "Out of Time," which he wrote for the catalog. A reading list of works by the exhibition's "ghost narrator," Virginia Woolf, will include time-related quotations from each work (some of these will also appear in the exhibition). A video featuring iconic moments from the last five Met Galas will also be included in the digital content. On social media, #MetGalaChallenge invites audiences to recreate past Met Gala red carpet looks from home. Participants can enter by photographing themselves in their creations and posting the photos on Instagram with the hashtag #MetGalaChallenge. Billy Porter and Vogue Magazine will choose looks to highlight. Selected looks will be featured on @voguemagazine, @metmuseum, and @metcostumeinstitute Instagram pages. Exhibition Overview Presented in The Met Fifth Avenue's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, the exhibition will feature a timeline of 120 fashions dating from 1870—the year of The Met's founding and the start of a decade that witnessed major developments in the global standardization of time—to the present. The majority of objects in the show will be drawn from The Costume Institute's collection, including major gifts from designers as part of The Met's 2020 Collections Initiative and related to the Museum's 150th-anniversary activities. © Red Silk Carpet June 2020

The timeline will unfold in two adjacent galleries fabricated as enormous clock faces and organized around the principle of 60 minutes of fashion. Each "minute" will feature a pair of garments, with the primary work representing the linear nature of fashion and the secondary work its cyclical character. To illustrate Bergson's concept of duration—in which the past co-exists with the present-each pairing will be connected through shape, motif, material, pattern, technique, or decoration. A black silk faille princess—line dress from the late 1870s, for example, will be paired with an Alexander McQueen "Bumster" skirt from 1995, and a black silk satin dress with enormous leg-o'-mutton sleeves from the mid-1890s will be juxtaposed with a Comme des Garçons deconstructed ensemble from 2004. All of the garments will be black to emphasize their silhouettes and mutually reinforcing associations. The exhibition will conclude with a small selection of garments from 2020 that links the concept of duration to debates about sustainability, traceability, transparency, longevity, collaboration, and other ethical issues pertinent to the next decade of fashion. The exhibition is made possible by Louis Vuitton. Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.

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Ketty Pico da Scordia (Ct)Is born in Catania on 12/28/1977 and residing in a small town, Scordia CT. Her passions: multifaceted artist, craftswoman, theater actress, dressmaker, and model maker. Ketty took her first professional cutting and sewing course in 1996. In 2013 she began to create cloth bags and jewels in hard stones and ceramic for hobbies. In 2017, the turning point, she embarked on the fashion path by participating in the first competition, "The aulent roses of Etna" in Militello in the Val di Catania, coming in first place.

In 2018 she participated in the competition "The face of Liberty in Canicattini Bagni (Syracuse), finding excellent criticism from the jury. She then exhibited her first collection at the regional final of "A girl for the cinema in Aci Sant'Antonio and took part in a fashion event in Rome with a Roman-inspired, Total White collection.

In 2019 the new year began with a red tulle and lace stage dress worn by the famous mezzo-soprano artist Sabrina Messina of Catania for the New Year's concert at the Garibaldi theater in Modica, also obtaining an article (the first) on La Gazzetta del Calatino.

During the year, she participates in various events in Sicily, Caltagirone, Giardini Naxos. She was a special guest twice in Naples in a talk show dedicated to emerging stylists, where she found a great appreciation from well-known Campania stylists. Ketty closed with another dress in black and silver palette for the friend and wellknown mezzo-soprano artist Sabrina Messina for a year-end opera concert.

In 2020 the new year began with a fashion event in Milan followed by a photoshoot at the Milan Cathedral. After the forced stop of the pandemic, she will start again with a fashion event in Pompeii (Naples) in late July, presenting a line of bags and jewels inspired by her land, Sicily.

There are other projects in progress for the coming months.

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Giordana Varon, a well-known Roman fashion designer, exclusively presented her new Autumn Winter 2021 "Golden Roaring" collection at the "International Fashion Expo" event in Milan, which was held on February 22, 2020, in the Shopping Diva's showroom in Via Monte Napoleone 21. The collection looks like a return to the past. To be precise, we are in that temporal passage that goes from the 1920s to the 1930s, defined as "The Roaring Years," where everything shone with its own light, and the pomp was the master of the house. "Golden Roaring" is a line marked by twelve different garments, but with a Fil Rouge that binds them inextricably: the art of daring. In fact, they show a woman who wants to highlight her prosperity thanks to dizzying necklines, softness, and sumptuousness of her curves. The collection is made up of very light dresses in black and gold-coated chiffon who want to glimpse the ethereal forms of a woman able to leave her mark wherever she goes. The necks on the back are created to play with your body, in an unforgettable "I see, I don't see" that finds its climax in the fabric belt used to outline the high waist of the wearer. The attention to detail is evident from a first glance. Flowing skirts are cut on the bias. The most voluminous details are in the "shoulders - arms" area with puffed and balloon sleeves, but much attention is also given to the use of materials such as sequins and lamé that recall that roaring past and then decayed with the Great Depression. A whirlwind of emotions and memories intertwine in the iconic techniques and colors used. The palette, in fact, is mainly composed of black, gold, and cyclamen. The collection is de ﬁ ned by the designer as "modular" because each woman can play an infinite "mix and match" capable of creating different coordinates suitable for any occasion. Giordana Varon was born in Rome, and it is precisely here that her training in fashion matures. In 2009 she graduated from the Altieri Academy, and in 2011 she decided to deepen her studies in modeling and tailoring at a specialized academy in Viterbo. Over the years, she worked at various important capital style offices in order to train in high fashion, and in March 2018, she opened his Piccolo Atelier in Rome. Participate in several national events, including Florence, Pisa, and Puglia. A river is full of ideas, events, and new collections. What is most striking about Giordana is the love she puts in choosing fabrics and accessories to make the dress and the wearer perfect. Each dress is unique in that it is created in an artisanal and original way, taken from the inspiration of the moment. Very important is her love for embroidery with which she takes care of every detail and that it has been seen how the "constant note" of her collections is: this derives from her experience at some important fashion houses in the workshops dedicated to embroidery including the Maison Gattinoni.

I’m a designer! Giordana Varon

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As many of my paintings do, this little piece took on a life all its own. Started out as a simple feeling that had to be exposed, I have no idea at all where the brush will take me. This image pretty much shows how this one started.

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The face is starting to become someone familiar. Perhaps a family member, a friend, or perhaps someone famous. How would she look in different wardrobes, a space girl perhaps, maybe an EMT, deep- sea diver?. Endless choices.

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Let's dress her up a little, and strap on a hog leg for a little visual drama. Bandanas never hurt and enhances the effect. Without the shooter, she looks like someone from San Fernando Valley mid-1970s. They were known as "Valley Girls.â&#x20AC;? Perhaps she is an Undercover cop going to the firing range.

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Here is something I rarely do. Dress her up Western Style. At this stage, I passed this by a dear family friend, Sue Peterson. Why Sue, firstly she is a genuine Valley Girl from San Fernando Valley mid 70’s, secondly, she is an authentic horse person, with a deep understanding of the culture. She owns several horses on her spread a few miles from our own. Sue said the hat I painted on the girl has got to go because it looks like a pool hustler’s hat. Sue suggested a hat design that she had on her business logo. That’s the hat design shown as an example in this image. © Red Silk Carpet June 2020

Sueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hat design painted on our girl. By now, I kind of settled on the colors pink and black overall. But I might try different colors before the piece is complete.

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How about a red blouse?

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Further exploring the variety of colors whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sums exceed their individual values.

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Interesting blouse color, however, its use darkened the overall piece.

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The Darkside beckons. Time to repaint the blouse, in a lighter shade.

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Painted the shooter out of its pink misery. Blouse still too dark.

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At this point I thought I was done, however!

Dropping the hat over the eye gives her an air of mystery and a whole lot of attitude. Little Miss City Slicker has arrived and is on the run to Choctaw Ridge. Or, as my friend, Sue, says, "Uhmmm, I still want her hat to come down towards her ear a little, so she is peeking a little more under the rim, give her more attitude. But then again, She's a City Slickers, and they don't know how to dress western. Hahaha. Other than that, it's great. She actually looks like a true City Slicker and or a "Bond,- 007 " woman. As she was. Fun project, City Slicker is available, email me for details, Ed Morales, email: deselarom@olypen.com

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