Basso & Brooke

Basso & Brooke is a fashion label formed by Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke.

Basso & Brooke
IndustryFashion
Founded2001
FounderBruno Basso, Christopher Brooke

Bruno Basso was born in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.[1] Christopher Brooke was born in Newark-on-Trent, UK.[2]

After meeting in 2001, they produced their first collection in 2004, and were the inaugural winners of Fashion Fringe,[3][4] a UK talent competition to search out for the next big thing in fashion. The label is noted for their pioneering use of the digital print technique within the fashion industry.[5][6] Tim Blanks of Style.com described them as the Pixar of clothes.[7] They have also been described as "the masters of fantastical digital print." [8]

Since then, they have launched numerous ready-to-wear collections from 2005–present.

In 2006, The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan museum of art in New York acquired the Swarovski crystal-covered finale piece of their Autumn/Winter 2005 collection.[9]

In May 2009, Michelle Obama wore a piece from their SS09 collection at an informal evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word within the White House.[10]

Collaborations

In April 2006, they produced a chandelier with Swarovski for the Crystal Palace exhibition in Milan, Italy.[11]

In May 2009, Basso & Brooke collaborated with Converse for the Project (RED) charity,[12] and designed a limited edition lipstick packaging for L'Oréal.[13]

In 2006, The Dorchester Collection (a luxury hotel operator owned by the Brunei Investment Agency)[14] commissioned Basso & Brooke to design a series of dresses to represent five of their hotels; Dorchester Hotel, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Plaza Athénée, Hotel Meurice and Principe di Savoia. Stephen Jones (milliner) to the Dior fashion house was enlisted by the designers to create hats to accompany the dresses.[15][16][17]

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gollark: Just because your language theoretically has words composed of subwords doesn't mean you can ignore the various problems I mentioned (except possibly the grammar one). And "convert the words to semantic expressions" hides a lot of the complexity this would involve.
gollark: I'm pretty sure I've seen diagrams of pronounceable things of some kind, but they're more complex than just permutations of "high tone, low tone" and do not conveniently map to concepts.
gollark: What do you mean "all of the possible forms of a square diagram with two or more sides"? There are infinitely many of those. And how do I just pronounce a diagram without a predetermined mapping?
gollark: Also, I have no idea what an "objective → semantic buffer" is and I think you're underestimating the difficulty of implementing whatever it is.

References
  1. http://www.fashion.at/design/2008/bassobrooke10-2008.htm
  2. http://www.fashion.at/design/2008/bassobrooke10-2008.htm
  3. http://fashionfringe.co.uk/
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-18. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-BASSOB/
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/the_costume_institute/robe_basso_and_brooke/objectview_altviewenlarge.aspx?page=1&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=8&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=8&OID=80064883&vT=1&iID=1&iPage=1
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-18. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/business/media/23adnewsletter1.html
  15. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. http://www.dorchestercollection.com/Documents/company_20061110_1_a_new_collection_unveiled-lifestyle_press.pdf%5B%5D
  17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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