Discover the Splendour of “Michael Cinco” at this year’s Dubai Fashion Week

Discover the Splendour of “Michael Cinco”
at this year’s Dubai Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2010

Dubai – March 25th 2010 – As the Dubai Fashion Week returns and unveils again for the 7th time in Dubai, this April, with spectacular and extravagant designers from the around the world; fashion lovers and connoisseurs will witness a new spectacle of opulence, magnificence and luxury.

Michael Cinco, one of the region’s finest fashion designers, will be demonstrating to the public his latest Autumn Winter Collection for year 2010 on April 6th 2010 at 8pm in Jumeirah Emirates Towers – Godolphin Ballroom.

“We are proud to be part of this glamorous event that nurtures emerging talents and the industry as a whole; and continues to bring a collection of local and international designers on one ramp to promote them further” says Michael.

Using the rich overtures of the Japan’s colour palette, Michael will present the ‘THE IMPALPABLE DREAM OF MADAME BUTTERFLY’ through his select collection at the Dubai Fashion Week Summer 2010. Inspired by the colorful life of Madame Butterfly, Cinco will present a unique blend of imagery, sound and fashion of the bygone Empire of the Sun, the celebrations and ceremonies of the old nobilities, its culture and arts.

“I always felt that Madame Butterfly was a femme fatale, tempting and seductive, but people didn’t really want to see her like that” Michael Cinco launches into Madame’s character with gusto. “Here’s a woman who’s unapologetic about her weakness and love. She’s leading different life from the norm. She’s everything that, on a superficial level, I am and that is my ultimate high inspiring me to make this collection of mine very unique from the rest of the designers “!

Dubai Fashion Week has become the forum for designers, buyers and media with an objective to strengthen business relations within the fashion industry. This event, therefore, will aim to provide Michael with an exclusive platform to showcase his development in the fashion business as a whole.

Michael Cinco’s work will portray the meaning of his simplistic and classy style, which will be a triumph. With CRYSTALLIZED – Swarovski Elements, vibrant colours, and extravagant models; Cinco’s work will appear to belong to a genre of representational fashion style that is local and deeply magnificent.

Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma according to Michael Cinco. “The purpose of participating in this event is to bring to fashion lovers a composite of styles with all its splendour and glory embedded in imagination and affluence. On a broader note, in this larger-than-life event, the vision is to provide all fashion lovers a repertoire of the finest fashion styles for this autumn/winter 2010”

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Background of Michael Cinco:
Born in the south of Samar, Philippines in 1971, the picturesque place that provided Michael Cinco with a lush setting where his imagination would run in wild abandon. As a child Michael was very fond of watching old Hollywood movies in black and white and envisioned those fabulous heroines painted in his mind with a myriad of colours, dressing up the glamorous women with his imaginary creations in their severe chignons and deadly stilettos, conjuring up grand entrances. He grew up watching beautiful classy women as he went chasing that dream and finding it.

By year 1988, Michael was a state scholar taking up Fine Arts in a reputed university in the Philippines. He took up fashion courses in 1991 and started to design hotel and office uniforms in a Japanese firm by the year 1992.

Michael was persuaded by a friend to work in Dubai. Moving to the Middle East was a big leap for him; however he took the plunge because he believed that this region is reckoned to be the haven of haute couture.

In 1997, Michael moved to Dubai. His first job was very challenging…he was about to change the image of a slightly staid big fashion house. ” I was so scared and don’t know what to do but eventually had the courage to reinvent the image of the house and I think the Dubai fashionistas eventually saw the catcher of an edgy, new young designer.” Michael says. Soon the fashionable woman of Dubai has been choking on their Carpaccio as he began to inject a new vigour into couture.

Michael left Dubai for London and Paris to study special fashion courses in prestigious Central Saint Martin’s School of Art in 2002 to honed and broaden his craft.

By the year 2003, Michael went back to Dubai to open his own couture house with a business partner. He is now the creative director of Michael Cinco Haute Couture that caters mainly on fabulous wedding gowns and unique evening dresses.

He wowed audiences abroad as he joined the Miami Fashion Week last year and his couture dresses has been worn by prominent divas and celebrities. His controversial dress in Emmy Awards last year made a stir on the red carpet as it was worn by famous Filipino actress Angel Locsin when she was nominated for best actress category.

In search for inspiration Michael states ” I travel a lot…my visual research ranges over many cultures and periods. Every item that interests me is collected in my mind to be used as possible future stimuli…i believe all artists are eclectic “borrowers” throwing wide their nets in search for inspirations.