FASHION

DTell us about you and your business. Where did you originally come from and what made you decide to go into the fashion/ bridal business in Denver? What prompted you to become a fashion designer?

GI was born in Honduras, at the age of 9 years old I made my first sketch and I didn’t stop since then. I moved to NYC in my early 20’s to pursue education in fashion and a better future as a gay man, I attended to the Fashion institute of technology and after completing my program started freelancing for so many brands, Reem Acra, Semsem, Dennis Basso among others.

G I started my own business in 2018 and released my first bridal collection in 2019 with a show in New York bridal fashion week and Launched my brand in Hong Kong and Shanghai with a beautiful bridal show. Covid tried to sink my ship but I was one of the lucky ones new designers that survived. while being in lockdown in NYC I decided it was time to move forward with life and Denver offered the opportunity for a good-life-work balance which is important in order to live in a more sustainable way.

DWhere can people go to find your collections in Denver and throughout the world?

G You can see my whole collection online visiting www.gp-bridal. com, I offer exclusive and private appointments at my downtown Denver location, wholesale appointments in NYC and you can also find my designs through authorized retailers in USA and Hong Kong.

DWhat is your motto or philosophy?

DWhat do you consider your specialty?

GBridal and evening-wear

DWhat is your goal for the next year?

GEstablish my design offices in Denver and become more recognized for my work.

DHow are your designs unique?

GThey are extremely high-end with sophisticated and intricate construction, my designs are beautiful from the inside to outside.

DTell us some things that no one knows about you:

GSomething no one knows about me is that I have heightened sense of hearing and smell. Years ago I helped making costumes for one of Madonna’s Tour.

G

Whatever you do, do it with passion and love, be stubborn with your dreams because they actually come to reality.

Find Guillermo Pharis at gp-bridal.com

DTell us about giving back to non-profits:

GI personally like to support non-profits that protect LGBTQ youth, children as UNICEF and organizations protecting chimpazee and monkeys as Lwiro Chimpanzee Sanctuary, in the republic of Congo.

Milano, Northern Italian Fashion Flaunt

Richard Carroll

Photography: Halina Kubalski

Milano, Northern Italian Fashion Flaunt

Richard Carroll

Photography: Halina Kubalski

Torn scattered clouds drift over a spirited and scrupulously sophisticated Milano--as it is known in Italy--casting long imaginative shadows over a massive cathedral, ancient stone churches, and meandering streets lined with dazzling multicolored display windows draped with the fashion of the day. The fickle Northern Italian sky is vague and unresolved, the rolling clouds as endless as the sea, while the Sforza Castle, 1450, overlooks the city like a faithful guardian.

The city, with a personality and demeanor unlike any other in Italy, is home to some of the world’s top fashion designers whose original and inspired thoughts have come together forming a powerhouse of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and vision. Today’s implausible collection of creativity by way of Milano’s own Prada, Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Giuliano Calza’s GCDS, and Giorgio Armani, have created Milano’s own independent fashion history. It’s a city that adores fashion and does it all so well. In Milano, the style and cut of a hand-tooled briefcase becomes a status symbol and, observing the Milanese on their way to work, it’s easy to see that dressing with style is far from an anomaly. In the mold of Italian tourism, Milano has quietly played a distant fourth fiddle to Rome, Florence, and the canals of Venice despite its rich history to share. “Our city is like the decanting of a fine bottle of Chianti,” remarked, Celia Abernethy, an attractive Milanese Itinerary Designer, and former model. “It takes a little time for the wine to become truly sensuous, but it’s well worth your patience. Milano is a city waiting to capture your heart. Make the commitment and you’ll see.”

Duomo Bravura

While the fashion houses set this splendid city’s style sending rich colors blazing skyward, the Piazza del Duomo, dating to the 14th century is home to a towering cathedral, historic buildings, and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, possibly the world’s first shopping mall, and the original boutiques of Prada, Gucci and Louis Vuitton. On a sunny day, the expansive area that surrounds the cathedral, ranked among the most ambitious and original architectural creations of the later Middle Ages, teems with European students and young Milanese couples fired with passion who lounge on the steps of the Duomo practicing their playfully refined art of fondling each other while fully clothed.

Fashion Quadrilateral

The city and her glorious sacred treasures have an eye for expressive fashion. Via Monte Napoleone is reportedly Europe’s most expensive street per square foot and makes up one side of the famed Fashion Quadrilateral, which also includes Via Alessandro Manzoni, Via della Spiga and Corso Venezia. Together they are an esteemed European shopping destination, and the hallowed roaming grounds of fashionistas from around the globe. Energy, imagination, and trade expertise are alive throughout the Fashion Quadrilateral where the large concentration of haute couture labels, ready to wear garments, jewelry shops, boutiques, showrooms, a fashion museum, cafes, and bookstores are lined up wall-to-wall. The fashion houses of Versace, Fendi, Armani, Alberta Ferretti, Gucci, Prada, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Hermes, Valentino, Bulgari, and Cartier, are only the beginning of a stroll through the Quadrilateral.