FEELOMENA- Spring/Summer 2015 collection

We love brands and all the labels. We surely do appreciate what every brand has to offer, let it be a cosmetic brand, clothing brand or a parfume brand. Today, Let's appreciate a brand new couture fashion brand called FEELOMENA whose designer is Filomena Saltarelli herself.

About the Brand;

"Feelomena was created in 2014 by Filomena Saltarelli and it aims to become one of the top luxury Made in Italy brand. Indeed, all Feelomena clothings are realized with refined Italian fabrics, selected between tops textiles manufacturing company. The whole production process is handcrafted in Italy, including patterns which do not follow industrial lines as in haute couture." as said by Filomena Saltarelli.

Feelomena s/s 2015 collection

Let's get you a little closer to Feelomena.

I asked some questions and the Fashion designer answered.

1.Does your brand only specialize in women clothing?

- Feelomena is a new born brand. It is specialized in women clothing but we are already busy thinking about man! ( Filomena worked as a fashion designer  either for women  and for men collections )

2.How many fashion designers work for your brand?

-Filomena Saltarelli is the only fashion designer and creative director of the brand.

3.Do you believe your brand has that potential to become a luxury of Italy?

-Feelomena aims to become one among the top luxury brand worldwide.

4.Are you happy with your current Spring/Summer 2015 collection?

- I am happy with her first collection, even she is already working on her second one!

5.Is your brand- Couture, Ready to wear, or for Mass market?

-The brand Feelomena is a couture one: all clothes are addressed to all women that want to feel elegant, charming, confortable and unique at the same time. Wearing a Feelomena outfit will make you fell on TOP! 

Let's feed you on the information about the Fashion Designer herself.

Here, she talks about herself in third person, just so it sounds formal.

1.Who is Filomena Saltarelli?

-Filomena Saltarelli was born on July 4, 1982 in Rivoli ( a small town close to Turin, very famous for its contemporary art museum)

2.How did you enter into Fashion world?

-She has always been very passionate for fashion and after high school, she received her first fashion education at IED (Institute of European Design) and then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where her thesis degree was a women’s collection, supervised by fashion professionals and designers such as: Bruno Pieters, Walter Van Beirendonck, Linda Loppa, Mr. Pearl, Véronique Branquinho.

3.Did you always have a dream to become a Fashion Designer since childhood?

-Filomena drew silhouettes since she was 4 years old, always putting price aside! Her only dream was to become a fashion designer.

4.Which is your Favorite Brand?(Clothing, shoes, accessories and perfume)

-She loves different fashion brands (Gilles, YSL, Marras, Rei Kawakubo,Bruno Pieters,etc).  As to shoes, she would love to collaborate with emerging shoes designers such as  Georgina Goodman, Raphael Young and Victoria Spruce. With reference to accessories, she loves Sivia Beccaria's collars, where as she does not really love parfume!

5.Who is your role-model? (Any fashion designer, artist, musician etc)

-Filomena's role models are exclusively the member of her family: dad, mum and sister.

6.What are you most inspired by? (example: nature, empowering women, music, dreams etc)

- Filomena takes her own inspiration from everywhere :travelling, theater, music, library, exhibitions, walking around the city and in the mountains, looking at clouds in the sky, observing people and their movement, etc etc...the trick is to keep your eyes open, discover details and never stop dreaming!

7.What's it like to be in Italy? Have you joined any fashion week in Milan?

-Italy is a lovely country to live: that's where Filomena was born and grown up till she was 19. After starting her "fashion life", she traveled around the world and now she feels like a citizen of the world herself. She has not  joined a Fashion week yet...but we are busy working on it!

8.How do you think a women should be and look like?

- Every woman should wear what makes her feel comfortable, sexy and elegant. Every day is a different day and women should wear themselves according to their mood  or what they think that will "make their day"!!!

9.In your thought, How long will it take for you to be successful with your brand?

-Starting a brand is an important choice of life. It takes time to see results but it is worth it. It's important to work and believe every day in what you are doing so that one day your dreams will became reality! I deem a new brand needs at least two years to become successful. 

10.Do you want to expand your brand overseas?

-Filomena would love to expand her brand Feelomena overseas. Feelomena was born as a global brand: elegance and charm is everywhere!