Geoffrey B. Small

[Ahimsa]

Work:Space - Geoffrey B. Small


More images and text on SZ-mag

[TabulaRasa]

Fantastic photos! Thank you for sharing!

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Geoffrey B. Small "escape" in Paris

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Thanks so much to Eugene and SZ-mag for the beautiful story on our workrooms and for the kind comments. We are still shorthanded and growing like crazy, so very sorry... but if we missed your invitation and you wish to attend our Paris defile for the new women's collection on Sunday night, we still have some standing room... contact Lionel Csinski asap at: fashiontherapy@free.fr
Best wishes, Geoffrey & the Team



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Thank you all for your kind comments and support. Our women's AW2015-16 collection appears in a recent issue of Collezioni Donna, the industry's leading runway coverage magazine. Very sadly, the ancient trees we were fighting to save on the Via Spalato were just cut down en masse a few days ago by a corrupt administration which runs the town we live and work in. Makes me want to leave the town, honestly. We thank the editors at Collezioni in Italy for their wonderful coverage of the show and our efforts to save the trees...





















We are now currently working on the women's Autumn/Winter 2016-17 collection which
will be shown in Paris on the 6th of March during the women's designer fashion week
see schedule here

Thanks again. Back to work...
Best wishes, Geoffrey

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Damn G! So sorry to hear that! The simple things are always freaking casualties.

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Geoffrey B. Small "escape" in Paris: first look

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Angelika Konarska wears the new handmade ESWD03 "super-dress" in Luigi Parisotto's hand dyed cashmere/silk and pure Como silk shantung in last night's "escape" presentation for the Autumn/Winter 2016-17 Geoffrey B. Small women's collection in Paris. The special evening dress group marked a new direction in our growing range of extreme handmade clothing designs that closed an emotionally-charged show where all of the models were crying as they each walked down the runway, with many thanks to everyone who made it all possible...

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Matteo Carcelli story in Nasty Magazine

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Matteo Carcelli's images in Italy of Jackie Shen at Cavarzere Venezia
for Eth0s now appear in Nasty Magazine.
With many thanks to everyone, Geoffrey

http://www.nastymagazine.com/fashion/geoffrey-b-small-by-matteo-carcelli/

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[yubbermax]

Beautiful photos, the first one is mesmerizing. Your link is broken though, this should work: http://www.nastymagazine.com/fashion...tteo-carcelli/

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thanks yubbermax

Dear yubbermax, thanks for your kind comment and correction, both much appreciated. We are great fans of Matteo Carcelli and honored that he was able to shoot our work in Cavarzere for Eth0s in Shanghai. Along with Eugene Rabkin's recent beautiful essay of our workrooms, it seems like this tiny depressed town in the Basso Polesine region of northern Italy is fast becoming an international fashion shoot destination location. -- All joking aside however, there are a number of excellent new-generation photographers out there now appearing on the global fashion stage that are representing a new vision of what fashion imagery can be about. So next up: another photo essay on our work by another exciting new photographer on the international scene from Spain. Thanks again and Best wishes, Geoffrey

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Geoffrey B. Small "witness" in Many of Them

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Antonio Macarro's iconographic images of our GBS "Witness" men's collection shot in Paris
and styled by Pedro Canicoba appear in the current print issue of Many of Them, published in Spain. The essay, all shot using traditional analog film photography and developing techniques, features intriguingly elongated proportions, emotionless portraiture, and beautifully rendered
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With many thanks to everyone...
Best wishes, Geoffrey


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GBS "Heartbeat" on Fashion TV:

More press coming out on our work... here, a perfect example of why I would prefer to stay behind a camera- instead of in front of one, especially if it's for TV (I thought that light in my face was going to kill me). And after six weeks of only 4 hours of sleep a night and yet another Paris collection for women coming up just 4 weeks away, well, what can one say... looked like hell and could barely speak... as Balenciaga (the real one) once described it: "it's a dog's life." Nevertheless, many thanks to everyone who worked on this record-breaking collection and all who have helped and supported us to get this far. Best wishes, Geoffrey

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Well, it's great to see the forum site back up and back to its normal look again. We extend our great thanks and appreciation to Faust,
Ahimsa and the entire SZ crew for getting things back up under such pressure and unforeseen circumstances. We have not been very active
here for awhile as we too have been under immense pressure as our growing Italian workroom team at Cavarzere struggles with the
company's largest backorder log in history and a record (albeit clearly oversold production-wise) spring/summer 2016 season. After back-to-
back runway collections and shows in Paris just 5 weeks apart there has been little time or energy to consider posting anything until we
started to make some headway with our order logs and be able to come up for air. Major deliveries are now starting to arrive in Tokyo
and New York of our latest works, and very soon London, Berlin and Bilbao as well. Much has happened in the fashion media circus, that I
would like to comment more upon in the days ahead perhaps, including presentation and delivery schedules as they relate to real
artisanal creation and production versus the rest of the industry. But for now, we just wanted to check in, make a brief announcement about
our next delivery, say hello to everyone, and thank the SZ people for all their time and effort to get the forum back up and running as quickly
as they did.

Thank you and best wishes,

Geoffrey





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We are pleased to also inform you that a smaller more limited selection of beautiful new pieces for men and women is now
arriving at IF in New York as well.

But please note that the selections and edits are quite different, between each store, clearly reflecting the interpretations of
its unique owner and staff. And that each delivery was created individually and separately in our workrooms at Cavarzere Venezia,
as a distinct artistic project dedicated to its own exhibition and gallery space. This unique production approach greatly impacts our
delivery timing... we are known in the industry as being one of the latest deliverers each season (more on this later). But it
makes an enormous difference on the individual, personalized long-term artistic and sartorial value of each store's delivery that
has proven itself to be fundamental to the growing demand and success of our work in the market over the past decade.

For example, the all-new Piacenza Super 150's ultralux suit design (below) was created only for Hotoveli in the entire world,
and is truly a spectacular example of some of the most advanced modern supersoft handmade clothing now coming out of the
amazing Via Spalato workrooms.

If you are in the New York area, we cordially invite you to experience it in person...

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OR take a look at this phenomenal 1850's modified pattern reproduction jacket
also created only for Hotoveli...







Made from an original 19th century razor-sharp fit modified frock coat
pattern from our extensive historic tailoring research (note for
example the beautiful pocket positioning and angle, the early 18th
century military sleeve cuff detail design, and the pronounced rear-
diagonal positioned shoulder seam in the pictures - all key design
elements of the period)…












And cut using a very special 'greggio' organic pure linen stripe
(which was not treated or finished with any industrial chemicals)
woven exclusively for us in Sarcedo, Italy by Luigi Parisotto, a
longtime collaborating GBS key partner and perhaps the best
artisan research weaver using power loom technologies in the
world today…







All beautifully finished inside with precisely sewn satin bias-tape trim,
french-seaming center-back and elegant viscose pinstripe lining panels
woven for us by the super lining specialist weaver Tessitura Mauri in Como...












Then, each individually hand dyed in our studios using a process which
requires a minimum of 8 hours of totally expert work for a single piece
to achieve its special color and patina effects...







The design also features remarkable hand made covered buttons
created exclusively in our workrooms at Cavarzere- as always,
individually handstitched to the garment using our own special
technique...







-and no less than ten real hand-stitched and marked buttonholes (that
require at least 8-10 minutes to create each one) executed in luxurious
pure silk Bozzolo Reale Milano Seta threads...