This collection talks about the union of past and present worlds, adds something to history and borrows something from it. It displays simple forms of draping like the Roman ones, the two-piece sports outfits have been unified in a contemporary robe with the allure of a hierarchical character....
Noua colecție fashion conceptuală Il Lamento, creată de designerul român Carmen Emanuela Popa, ne este dovadă clară: sugerează apăsările cotidiene ale omului modern și contradicțiile lui constante prin forme arhitecturale, texturi stratificate și asimetrii extrase din deconstructivismul lui Picasso. Trebuie să recunoaștem că noi am fost cuceriți din prima de siluetele lor contorsionate și de explozia de culori și paiete, care îndulcesc tema sumbră a colecției. Ah, pune la socoteală și accentele sport care își găsesc locul surprinzător de bine în aceste compoziții....
ICR London will broadcast, on February 22, 2021, a portrait of the Romanian designer who has high appreciate internationally in the field of conceptual and avant-garde fashion. The film will include a presentation by Carmen Emanuela Popa, as well as images and videos with her collections. ...
Romanian designer Carmen Emanuela Popa participates with a new collection at LONDON FASHION WEEK. In this season, 19-23 February 2021 she reveal a concept that performs with interdisciplinary methods of artistic expression. Il Lamento collection talk about how things are never nailed down, that there comes a time when everything goes into dissolution or transforms, as the pandemic context has taught us....
The current concept proposed by designer Carmen Emanuela Popa concerns a selection inspired by the 18th century French royal costume, in a stylistic tandem with the graphic symbolism found in Romanian folk costumes. The dynamic rhetoric of sportswear will enrich the look with a neo-baroque style. ...
Romanian designer Carmen Emanuela Popa participates in London Fashion Week 17 - 22 September 2020 with her new collection for the Spring / Summer 2021 season on the LFW Digital Platform, with a philosophy of the contemporary woman which accesses the same statement in force of the origin of the human being, namely the truth of an indestructible sacredness, of its mission that remains the same, regardless of temporality. ...
