| Irina Marinescu Fashion Designer |
| Something About IRINA MARINESCU By Ovidiu Buta IM. As in Irina Marinescu. A designer that has appeared from the need of talking differently about fashion in Romania. In a world of inbreeded organza outfits, wearing the signatures of “couturiers”, in a city where the mini skirt was proclaimed as the national flag, there was the need of an alternative. So came to life the so called “new wave of designers”, a happy accident in the Romanian fashion. The most powerful “voice” of this movement was Irina’s. With a clean and simple style, with practical and versatile outfits, successfully playing the part of the model for her own designs, Irina has become a familiar image in the fashion press, and very soon, the designer of a new generation. In her collections she always talks about this new world, with her obsessions, her music and her favorite characters. The layering, the large jersey t-shirts that can be transformed in comfortable dresses with the only help of an ’80 style belt, the latex leggings, the falls of silver jewelry, the little toys worn as a portboneheurs, prints containing images and messages or wooden clutches are indispensable elements in the designer’s collections. For Irina, fashion is her favorite playground, a place where she grew up and that she closely knows in its each and every detail. And the key forte of the designer is exactly this endless appetite for playing. |