Artistic Fashion

Haute Couture is an art. Haute Couture is a French phrase for high fashion. Couture means dressmaking, sewing, or needlework and haute means elegant or high, so the two combined imply excellent artistry with the fashioning of garments.

The fabrics available to a couture house are very luxurious and include novelty fabrics and expensive silks, fine wools, cashmeres, cottons, linens, leather, suede, other skins or furs. In the case of a famous design house the design and color of a cloth, can be exclusively reserved for that couture house.

Cecilia Perez says: "Fashion has been a vein that has branched off from the artistic world I've been submerged to in my mind and spirit since I have use of reasoning."

Cecilia Perez goes to Miami Fashion Week in 2006

Cecilia Perez, Colombia - Cecilia Perez began her career as an artist creating on canvas what would arise from within to become one of the most renown Haute Couture collections from Colombia. Her studies in Plastic Arts defined her passion and horizon as a creative artist and fashion designer. Perez will launch her Prêt-a Porter collection for Fall-Winter 2007. www.ceciliaperez.com

Saturday, May 6, 2006: Miami Fashion Week Opens 5:00pm – 11:00pm, Jewelry & Accessories Exhibition open6:00pm – Press Conference for all Designers, Miami Beach Convention Center, Ballroom D7:30pm – Fashion Prelude by Camilo Pardo/Colombia for Mercury Milan – Lingerie / Swimwear Showcase – Arianne Lingerie/Canada, Sandra Santillan/Argentina featuring sunglasses by Cartier, Mirla Sabino for ANK and Agua de Coco, Brazil/Miami9:30pm – Cecilia Perez / Colombia, sponsored by Postóbon S.A.11:00pm - Opening Night Party, Klub Lounge, 655 Washington Avenue, General Admission tickets available at the door.

Beth Sobol, of Sobol Fashion Productions, Inc., founded Miami Fashion Week® in 1999 to provide a forum offering international exposure for designers from Latin America. During the past eight years, it has developed into one of the world’s premier fashion events spotlighting designers from Europe, USA, and Canada, the Caribbean, Middle East and Asia as well as the largest showcase of Latin American design talent in the United States.