Coccinelle Kids: A glamour-packed auctionSome of the leading fashion magazines have done their bit to support the Coccinelle Kids project.
Directors, fashion stylists and journalists gave free rein to their imaginations and “customised” Coccinelle canvas bags using a variety of different techniques.These one-off’s has been sold out at auction with help auction with the help of Sotheby’s during a special evening event organised by the Magica Cleme No Profit Foundation.
• Event the venue for the event was special and rather “artistic”: it was placed at NABA, the Academy of Fine Art, in Milan at 10.30 pm on June 4th. Proceeds from the auction has been an important support for a new venture for Magica Cleme Foundation called “The Magic Pencil”: an Art Therapy workshop that will be held on the paediatric Haematology ward at Monza’s San Gerardo Hospital.
For more information: www.magicacleme.org
Coccinelle Kids: scatena la fantasiaA celebration of creativity.Where? At NABA, the Academy of Fine Art in Milan (www.naba.it): on Saturday, May 22nd (from 2.30 to 7 pm), there’s a lot of fun to be had for kids from Milan who will have the chance to let their imagination run wild.
During the party – organised and “directed” by the Magica Cleme No Profit Foundation (for more info see:www.magicacleme.org) – Coccinelle is going to run an art workshop called: CREATE YOUR OWN ART BAG. There will be NABA students on hand to offer the kids some tips as they create their opus.
Two hundred bags made of white canvas to use instead of paper plus lots of colourful felt tip pens will be distributed to the aspiring young artists: children who go to school in Milan and some of the young patients on the paediatric Haematology ward at Monza’s San Gerardo Hospital.
Press Day 27th February 2010Coccinelle presents the new Autumn/Winter 2010-11 collection during Milan Fashion Week.
In the fabulous setting of its Milan Showroom in via Borgonuovo, Coccinelle presents the new AW 2010-11 collection and special collaboration projects with Barbara Hulanicki and German designer Kostas Murkudis to the international press.
Coccinelle Kostas Murkudis FW2010Coccinelle presents the first Coccinelle Kostas Murkudis capsule collection for autumn/winter 2010/11.
Coccinelle announces its second sensational design collaboration with the designer Kostas Murkudis, who is interpreting the brand anew with his uncompromising urban style.
His collections are complete conceptual artworks and he is just as likely to derive inspiration from materials and techniques as exciting personalities. Murkudis does not have a “Berlin style”. However, the vitality of Europe’s most exciting metropolis, his home, is undeniably an influence on his work.
“Collaborating with Coccinelle has been my greatest challenge so far!” Kostas Murkudis’ flirtation with the lady’s handbag was initially cautious and well conceived. “If you understand the principle of a handbag it quickly becomes apparent that it is about much more than functionality.”
The first Coccinelle Kostas Murkudis capsule collection was presented during Berlin Fashion Week.
Coccinelle Kids Helping Kids - Milan20th – 21st - 22nd NOVEMBER 2009
After the huge success at London, Coccinelle organised another venue for its kids-helping-kids project. This time, the invite went out to kids in Milan aged between 4 and 10. The chosen venues were Coccinelle’s boutiques in Via Manzoni and Corso Buenos Aires. Expert children’s book illustrators were on hand for any advice: Karen Wall from England and Silvia Bonanni and Francesca Crovara from Italy. It turned out to be a really special workshop: a competition where all you needed to take part was your imagination and where solidarity was the outright winner. This time, anyone who bought the canvas bags customised by the kids or by the illustrators will help Magica Cleme: a foundation that supports children staying on the paediatric Haematology and Oncology ward at Monza’s San Gerardo Hospital, offering them a chance to escape from the sterile and often traumatic condition of being in hospital for a little while.
Coccinelle kids helping kids - London11-12th SEPTEMBER 2009
«Shall we draw a picture?».
The kids who came to Coccinelle’s store on London’s King’s Road last September didn’t need asking twice. Under the watchful eye of Kristina Stephenson and Karen Wall, two hugely popular English illustrators, the baby artists were in for a great surprise: instead of the usual sheet of paper, they were handed little white canvas bags that they promptly customised with teddies, flowers, fairies, cuddly cats, tender little dragons and colourful patterns. A great way to spend an afternoon – and impress mum before proudly leaving the shop bearing an “original design” tote – and doing a good deed at the same time: all of the proceeds from the sale of the kits of “mini-tote plus felt tips” and the maxi shoppers decorated by Kristina Stephenson and Karen Wall for the occasion went to Great Ormond Street Hospital, specialised in treating children with cancer.
New Goodie Bag20th SEPTEMBER 2009
Once again, a very special gala evening was held to launch the new Goodie Bag collection for Autumn/Winter 2009-10. Coccinelle was the main sponsor of the first concert held at Milan’s La Scala opera house on September 20th, when the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the international orchestra of young musical talents founded by Claudio Abbado in 1986, went on stage. A gala dinner was held at the Four Seasons Hotel after the concert. All of the proceeds from the evening went to Fondazione Francesca Rava N. P. H. Italia NPO towards "Francisville – New Work City", a self-sustaining project hoping to offer a future to the many children who leave the orphanage and Street Schools organised by N.P.H., the international humanitarian organisation that is represented in Italy by the Rava Foundation. Francisville is being built at Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti.
New openingOCTOBER 2009: NEW COCCINELLE STORE IN VARESE
On 10 October Coccinelle opened a new store in Varese. Located on Corso Matteotti in the very centre of the city, it spans 50 square metres and has two windows looking out onto the prestigious shopping street.
NOVEMBER 2009: NEW COCCINELLE STORES IN ROME, BUCHAREST, HONG KONG AND BIELSKO-BIALA
Coccinelle’s expansion in Italy and abroad is continuing. On 4 November a flagship store shared with the Braccialini brand was opened in Rome’s Fiumicino airport. On 12 November the company opened the first Romanian flagship store in Bucharest. It is situated in the renowned Radisson Hotel in the heart of the city. In the same month, Coccinelle also opened its third shop in Hong Kong. It can be found in the famous Times Square mall in Causeway Bay, one of the most popular shopping areas in the city. Furthermore, the company has opened a flagship store in Poland. It is in the Galeria Sfera shopping centre in the important business city of Bielsko-Biala.
Forte dei Marmi25th AND 26th JUNE 2009:
Barbara Hulanicki, Swinging London’s icon fashion designer and the name behind the Boho-Déco glamour adored by rock stars, supermodels and actresses during the Sixties and Seventies, was back in the spotlight at Forte dei Marmi for two-days of glamorous, high society events: the perfect opportunity to give the international press and industry professionals a preview of the Coccinelle/Barbara Hulanicki collection for Spring Summer 2010.
"It was my first time in Versilia: I was so excited and enthusiastic to be in these "legendary" Dolce Vita places: this is where trends first started out; where enjoying life was almost a religion, a bit like the Biba shop I ran on Kensington High Street in London" said the designer. On the evening of June 25th, she met leading European journalists during a dinner party organised by Coccinelle exclusively for her: from Germany to Spain, England and Italy.
10 Corso Como22nd JUNE 2009
Designer Barbara Hulanicki, the woman behind Biba, London’s unique and iconic concept store that was a cult venue in the Sixties for more than just Swinging London, presented her collection of bags designed for Coccinelle’s 2009-10 Fall Winter collection to the press and buyers at Milan’s exclusive 10 CORSO COMO boutique.
“It’s an honour and a pleasure to bring my designs to Milan, the very heart of fashion and design”, she said. “The idea of continuing this fortunate partnership with Coccinelle is electrifying”.