LO ACTUAL at SHOCK MAGAZINE...

SEXY 

24 

HOURS

a day

8:05 a.m. First station ...

Basic elegance in the morning

and flowing silhouettes ... the day is just beginning.

Much to show and everything to see.

• Location: Metro de Medellin. Floresta station.
• Costume: John Miranda
• footwear: Pinel

10:04 p.m. Excesses...

bright makeup,

transparent dresses ,

intense colors.

Vanguard is the

night’s key.

• Location:Three Amigos Cafe
• Costume: John Miranda
• footwear: Pinel
• Taken from Shock Magazine.

FASHION'S SPECIAL

John Miranda

• "The dress must adapt to a person's movement". John Miranda....John Miranda.

He is a 'sabanero' (People from the savanna of the Colombian Caribbean coast) that left the models and architectural drawings to enter the teaching world of fashion design. A shy and retiring man, whose fondness for boards, chalks, sketches, and student environment, led him to study design in Italy. His dream was to become a prominent teacher. However due to the insistence of his students, who were bored of being limited to seeing Miranda Designs only in paper and sketches, they achieved getting this designer to brake the limits of teaching and launch into the world of creation.

In his small workshop located in an apartment in Medellin and clinging to his old sewing machine, which seems more like a relic of a museum, John Miranda creates his garments which he considers as “vanguardist, worked under a minimalist concept."  He gives vanguard to his designs through the cut, materials, daring slits, and his handling of transparencies. He gives the minimalist touch through the materials he uses: chiffon, and crepe, his inseparable companions. He handles these fabrics with great skill and have always been the basis of his inspiration.

Bored of too much monotony in summer garments, John Miranda was launched to create a trend in Colombian swimwear fashion. Transparencies combined with materials that have expanders, such as lycra, are the main secret of the collection 'Miranda-Mare', recognized in the Colombian walkways because of the striking originality.

For this 'sabanero' dreamer, being a fashion designer is not limited to creating garments. Accessories are a fundamental piece that gives the 'seasoning' to dress well. In order to rescue the ethnic from tribes as nausseau, the chocoanas, the guambianos, among others, Miranda chooses the most representative of each of them, to give a cultural touch to their designs. Despite its success Miranda cannot leave aside teaching. Each time he can, he escapes from his workshop to get into the world of the classroom and there, with his students, create and seek perfection in his designs.

Models with his designs:

• María José Barraza
• Sofia Vergara

Taken from Semana Magazine, August 11,1997.

AMONG THE TOP 5...

I love these two collections, not in vain, they were the protagonists with which the renowned Colombian photographer Jaime Andres Orozco, wrote with his lens, two of my, Miranda-Prêt-a porter and Miranda-Mare, best collections: "Skin over Skin" and "Summer in Green and Beige"; fashion histories that were chosen later by the magazine Semana Moda, in 1997 among the top 5, during the first 5 years life of Semana Moda magazine.

Photography: Jaime Andres Orozco

Taken from: Semana Moda Magazine

SKIN OVER SKIN COLLECTION...

              ON THE COVER

Transparent and strechy dresses 

of John Miranda

Skin over skin

                               

John Miranda creates a second skin with striking designs in jersey and tulle that, mixed with Lycra, acquire the elasticity and the transparency, that the sensuality need.

• Asymmetrical, empire style dress, long midi, in stretch jersey and tulle, from John Miranda. Rings and silver bracelet from Mariana Shuk. Shoes from Jorge Ramirez.

• Stretch jersey dress, ivory color, with only one sleeve high neck and long to the knee from John Miranda. bracelet and ring from Mariana Shuk.

• One-shoulder dress, ivory color, long asymmetrical in tulle, and jersey stretch fabric from John Miranda. Bracelet from Galería Cano.

• Asymmetrical cut dress, in white stretch jersey.

• White dress inspired by the Roman toga in jersey and stretch tulle from John Miranda. Bracelet from Galería Cano.

• Asymmetrical long dress in tulle stretch fabric from John Miranda. Silver choker from Mariana Shuk, and black sandals from Jorge Ramirez.

• Photographer:  Jaime Andres Orozco
• Photography assistant:  Guillermo Pardo
• Makeup and styling: Carlos Montoya
• Model: Helena Kouzyck, from Stock Models
• Magazine: Semana Coleccion.

SUMMER IN GREEN AND BEIGE COLLECTION

              ON THE COVER

 Special OF Bikinis

SUMMER IN GREEN AND BEIGE

Ringtones that born from of the earth: crude, coffee, white, and green, between transparencies and tortoiseshell details, are the alternatives presented John Miranda for this holiday season.

• One shoulder top, honeycomb style, from Sandra Cabrales and white bikini, with belt, from John Miranda.

• Triangle bikini olive green, with hawksbill details on the panty, from John Miranda. Sandals with straps imitation hawksbill , Egoiste, from Claudia Gontovnik.

• Bikini with asymmetrical bandeau top, with hawksbill rings, from John Miranda. Sandals with straps imitation hawksbill, Egoiste, from Claudia Gontovnik.

• Strapless, white swimsuit, with stretch tulle and belt from John Miranda. White Sandals from Unisa.

• Bandeau Bikini, sand color and panty with straps on the side, from John Miranda.

• One shoulder black sweater, from Pepa Pombo, and hawksbill underwire bikini on sides of John Miranda.

• Photographer:  Jaime Andres Orozco
• Photography assistant:  Guillermo Pardo
• Makeup and styling: Carlos Montoya
• Model: Ingrid Wobst, from Stock Models.
• Magazine: Semana Collecion.

MY MARE PUNK ROCK...

"There are no differences in the look, in the silhouettes, color and textures, between adults and children, in this collection. The message is clear and sharp: I want to dress like my mom or like my daddy"...

MIRANDA MARE: 

                                           PUNK CHIC & PUNK ROCK...COLLECTION.

Miranda "Mare" ("Sea" in Italian), it is my signature  swimming wear brand, for men and women, which focuses on the creations of relaxing garments to "dress up" on the beach, where in most cases the customer can create his own and singular look, because each garment can be purchased separately, mixing styles and sizes, and this collection is not the exception.  But definitely the most important aspect is the fact that, because of the basic silhouettes and neutral colors present in the collection, it is completely timeless, because it was, is, and will perfectly be in force in the near future.

And I love when a fashion collection talks by itself, because of the silhouettes, color, textures, and finishes, but besides that, like in this case, the issue of collection is printed, like a visual texture or graffiti that yells, like a rock singer on a live concert does; underlining the name of this collection: "punk chic & punk rock".

But definitely this is what I call a "CCC"  collection: classical, classy, and chic. 

• It is classical, formal, refined, and it is continuously in fashion because of its simple and basic style in the silhouettes, characterized by simplicity, balance, regularity, and purity of form. The basic bikini, two -piece, triangular shaped is the queen piece of this collection for ladies and girls, and  the swimsuit brief, low waist, is the king, for  gentlemen and boys.  There are no differences in the look, in the silhouettes, color and textures, between adults and children, in this collection. The message is clear and sharp: I want to dress like my mom or like my daddy.

• It is classy because is glamorous, without being flashy.

• And it is chic because of its smart elegance and sophistication.

• My accessories on this collection are unisex, and handmade by myself, in leather, metallic beads, and metal pins, using the macramé technique.

• I was the first designer in Colombia that introduced the swimsuit brief, with low-waist, for men in different styles, from the boxers to the G- string style. And here Luis Guillermo (the boy) and Esteban Lopez, are wearing the low waist swim suit brief, mimicking leather finish, and they look like real protagonists of the MIB 3 movie "the Men in Black".

• I love my stretch fabric, mimicking leather texture, it is handmade, piece on piece, and it is very very punk.

• Laura, striking a pose, for the photographer. 

• I love the pictures, and in this one, in particular the models seem to think: "I'm like my mom" thinks Laura. And Mónica thinks "My daughter is smart like me".

Models: Laura Figueroa, Monica Londoño, Luis Guillermo Miranda and Esteban Lopez.

Photographer: Tavo Lopez.

Designer: John Miranda.

DISCOVERING THE SKIN...

"Each design of John Miranda whether underwear, swimwear dresses, blouses or dresses cocktail, takes a unique touch of irreverence which surprises and captivates"...

Photography: Julian Restrepo A.

If John Miranda returns the time, to remember what awaked on him the curiosity about of  fashion design, memory  brings the memories of his sister Laura  that always  asked to him for the consent of how to dressing up when she had to go to a party. Since then the words began to be accompanied by strokes, which gradually became in creations.

With the certainty of having good ideas and little knowledge, was launched with a brother to start a clothing company, and John, who at the time was studying architecture in Medellin, in the U.P.B., towards the design, thinking about the clothes that fit to the fabrics that they had been acquired. It was one of those young dreams that last bit, but leave good lessons.

Then , while he was doing the thesis, he taught drawing and design, and over, and over, and a thousand times more returned to thinking about fashion design in Italy, particularly in Milan, and was at  the Institute Secoli that  he found the school of its successes and errors, he deepened more on the technique area, in where it had gaps, than in the creative area, that he had because of his architecture studies and was when started dressing the skin, of colors, textures and shapes.

Returning to Medellin followed in the Proyectual Design School, like principal of Fashion Design and for 10 years he devoted much of his time teaching, and a few hours to his workshop,where he made clothes on measures, and large collections for companies as Dupont, Coltejer Protela, Vicuna and Fabricato among others.

Thinking that the time had come to create, John was launched with a clear line of swimwear, the Miranda Mare, that continues to draw your attention by its beginning in contrary way, like years ago, because of knowledge:

•  "In my training ,I had never studied the technical part of the swimsuit, my area was pure outerwear, all that is haute couture, tailoring both male and feminine, and basically I started with what I was not  study, but I did it, advised by an excellent patronista ".

But beyond the reached success, that generated to him, a little some discomfort the tendency of people to pigeonhole it  on the creation of these clothes, and then decided, as multifaceted designer, dress and undress the skin on other lines.

• "I'm going from underwear to evening gowns, masculine or female. I Work on lines like the Pret, blouses; the V.I.P., of cocktail dresses, and the Body, of underwear. And this year I start accessories crystal, using materials such as acerinas,Murano and swarovski, among others."

The latest proposal from John Miranda responds to the work of three themes: The 50's, combined with the 20's and the punk. 

• "The three trends are really different and, I play with that. Regarding the silhouette, the waist did not exist in the 20's and in the 50's was very marked, the two epochs were very feminine  and I have put them in contrast. The punk element, highlights; it is more current  and reflects what people like today."

In swimsuits,he works  shiny  and matte lycra; in underwear, transparent elastic tulle, in cocktail dresses, lycra, elastic tissue but combined with chiffons, plastic silks, acetates type,  organza and lace. Combines accessories with belts and leather chokers with studs, collars dog style. In his designs dominated three colors: white, black and nude, skin tone that in underwear goes well with transparencies and is very versatile.

John defines his style thereby : 

• "I have a strong tendency to minimalism, understood as the taste for things that cause a great impact using the minimum of elements. I am tend much to eclecticism, as we are a mixture of different races and cultures, we received influence of many parts and that enriches us. I really like the Kitsch , gives me a singular character as a designer,  that responds to thinking of staging: for me, the question is much more theatrical and we must leave a message, the inspiration of the designer, that it is on the essence of the model, in music, the lighting, in cadence ".

This article was taken from the Buen Vivir magazine.

MY PUNK ROCK ACCENT...

I am a discreet person, but when I am designing, I am bold, and I love doing it for a daring lady, for a woman without complex, but at the same time extremely chic.

Not in vain I got a reputation for being a bold designer, and it is true, because anytime that I am doing a new fashion project, I like to take risks, with silhouettes, and fabrics, but at the same time I try to be faithful to my eclectic style, the same that I’ve kept it since the first time I designed my first evening gown.

• This is one of my favorite dresses, very 20's, made in chiffon without lining.

• MY NUDE PUNK.

• I love my punk leather spiked accessories, on nude tone. They are my favorites to complement my two pieces, blouse and skirt with petticoat in chiffon, giving these, a dramatic punk accent that contrast with the fragility of this romantic outfit.

• There is nothing more romantic that see a woman wearing a petticoat, and Laura Jimenez looks stunning in my two pieces petticoat outfit.

• Transparent fabrics, like chiffon, organza and elastic tulle, are a constant in my designs. I love  to see a woman wearing it, with or without bra, garment to which I consider an accessory more.

• MY CLASSIC PUNK.

• In all my collections, you can find clothes that seem a little "kinky", I mean that there is a little sexually provocative on them, but at the same time I have conservative clothes, timeless and very wearable for everyone like this beautiful and classic wool trouser and Laura Willes look stunning with them.

• My leather punk belt in this set, is the transition between the romantic and fragile organza blouse and the austere wool trousers.

• Susana is wearing a boat neckline blouse, in organza and pencil skirt in wool, with a punk leather spiked belt.

• I love the contrast between the delicate romanticism of the blouse and the strong aggressivity of the belt,  as champion boxer style , made it in leather spiked.

• MY AVANT-GARD PUNK.

• There are no limits or frontiers between my outerwear and my underwear.  Be bold and unique, use it as you like.

• The same T-shirt that in the previous picture was outer garment, here takes a different connotation, more casual, it is an undergarment.  To me there is nothing sexier that to see a woman wearing a masculine underwear style and with this set, Laura Willes seems ready to debut like the perfect "sagger" woman.

• I love this body, made in elastic tulle, printed in plastisol with my name, tone on tone, black on black and Evano's Goddess, Rosa looks stunning on it.

Models:  Laura Jimenez, Laura Magdalena, Rosa Cordoba, Susana Olmos.

Photographer: Tavo Lopez

Accessories: John Miranda

Designer: John Miranda