In today’s Industry Interview, we caught up with Rocco Leo Gaglioti – creator, producer, and host of Fashion News Live. Fashion News Live is a televised online fashion magazine, giving viewers access to exclusive celebrity and designer interviews, beauty tips, industry updates, and more. Rocco travels the world, constantly on the hunt for the next big thing, and is always a welcome presence backstage at our shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Read on to find out how it all began!
You created Fashion News Live as a televised fashion magazine, what inspired the idea? My passion for fashion. I was going to start a magazine but the investors backed out. I ended up turning it into a treatment for a TV show. The seeds for it began, though, when I moved to Milan at 17 to model. I fell in love with clothes and how they felt and made me feel when wearing them. I also noticed at that time how people reacted differently to you depending on how you were dressed, which I found very interesting.
Did you have experience in broadcast journalism or television? And if not, how did you develop the skills needed to host and produce your own show? I actually had experience in theater and acting before I ever started modeling. Once I started modeling it evolved into TV and hosting and led into creating Fashion News Live. School is fantastic and I really push education, you can learn details and how to connect-the-dots, but in my life it happened that I learned it as I lived it.
You were discovered in Miami and spent time modeling. What is your most memorable modeling experience? I have a few very memorable moments from that chapter of my life:
The first is being a showroom model for John Bartlett. I would wear his clothing to model for buyers and was able to learn about fabric and textiles and cuts by listening to the designer as they would pick apart the design and garment and discuss cuts and silhouettes.
The second is walking in a Jean Paul Gaultier show and discovering how friendly and nice he was and what a pleasure he was to work with.
Walking for Armani and Versace was also memorable.
All nine designers from the Academy of Art University Fall ’12 Fashion Show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weekwere featured on Metro Velvet! The fashion forward website brings readers the best of the best from fashion weeks all over the world, and we LOVE that our designers were included. Below is a preview of the post, but head over to Metro Velvet’s websiteto read the entire thing!
Another one for the press books – Wu Di was featured in the March issue of 7×7 Magazine! Sketches from her Fall 2012 Collection are showcased along with a few words about the experience of showing at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The article is part of the magazine’s new feature, Portfolio, which will showcase the work of local talents each month. We hope to see more students from the Academy of Art University in the future!
Looks from Xiang Zhang and Jeanette Au. Photos Courtesy of Randy Brooke/WireImage.
This afternoon, two of our amazing designers from the Academy of Art University Fall ’12 Fashion Show are going to be guests on 7Live! 7Live is a local talk show program covering the best of the best in SF, and have asked Jeanette Au and Xiang Zhang to be guests on the show. They’ll be talking about designing their collections, showing at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, and what they’re plans are next! Be sure tune in today, from 3:00 – 4:00 PM on San Francisco’s ABC 7.
There’s something about fashion shows that just never gets old. You feel like a kid in a candy shop and sometimes you really don’t know where to look because you’re torn between multiple moments that beckon your attention.
From the team backstage employing their artistry with hair and make up to the outstanding collections the design graduates produced, the show was a smashing success. I agree with Diana Vreeland that “fashion must be the intoxicating release from the banality of the world,” for fashion and style are a duet of inspiration and feeling that certainly distract from the dreary day. Once the runway is before you, you can’t help but be taken over by fashion. The Academy of Art University show was full of this kind of intoxication.
This edition of 180 takes readers on a journey through the past, present, and future – celebrating techniques that have been practiced for centuries and embracing new movements that will preserve them for generations to come. It’s packed with amazing photo shoots and insightful stories, so be sure to pick up your copy tomorrow!
UPDATE: The issue will now drop next Tuesday, February 28th. Sorry for the delay!
Working with black and ivory, Amy Bond’s intriguing collection was full of complex, sensuous shapes, particularly an ivory silk dress with a bustled hem.
Donghyuk Dan Kim gave military uniforms a wearable twist, combining oilcloth cotton shirts with tailored wool pants that mixed fabrics, most memorably in wool plaid pants and jackets with leather grid-like accents and stripes.
Kate Y. K. Lee’s layered wool and leather pieces, ranging from a luxe quilted leather jacket with a stand-up collar to pants and leggings, were a modern take on suiting.
Jade Juanyu Liu presented lightweight, menswear-inspired pieces crafted from Swiss bonded wool, as well as terrific vests and coast in a fur-like copper fabric that added texture and dimension.
Deanna Pei-Ju Lo worked leather into pleats, and also used two saturation of navy along with black and velvet blocks – a subtle take on color blocking and fabric mixing.
Music has a certain way of setting the tone – for a film, a night out, a road trip – and, of course, a fashion show. Each season, we walk away from fashion week, our heads filled with images of sartorial greatnessand all of the songs that accompanied said greatness down the runway. We are lucky enough to have an amazing DJ, Scott Ewalt, to create our show playlist each season. He has a talent for perfectly matching the mood of a collection to music – bringing together the visual and auditory senses to marvelous effect.
Xiang Zhang and Jeanette Au on 7Live.
Looks from Xiang Zhang and Jeanette Au. Photos Courtesy of Randy Brooke/WireImage.
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