AN ECLECTIC SHOW.

THE TEMPUS'S HOUSE.

Tempus is a latin word meaning time, but Tempus is also the name of a watches brand  produced by  the Tempus House, house that born in Italy, on the post-war era, inheriting the dedication and meticulous work of Alessandro Signori, a renowned artisan italian from a town near Milan.

Alessandro practiced alchemy with great skill and such was his reputation that this came to the ears of king Humberto I, who immediately commissioned him to do the mission all the locks of royal treasures.

The environment, like the art that the Etruscans left in Tuscan land, served as inspiration to Alessandro to commit to give to the Tempus House the values aesthetics and innovation plus a high component of accuracy and reliability which remain the basis in the development of this brand. So, the Tempus  Watches are for those who want to carry on your wrist more than a watch, an accessory that holds within it, the memory of a King.

• You can see all details and more information about of the last Tempus Watches 2014 collection on the following website: Tempus Watches.

THE MIRANDA COLLECTION.

Last July 23 was a magic night, full of fashion, music, lights, and personalities, night for which were created minimalist outfits, basics and no basics, garments in stretch fabrics, wools and chiffons in neutral colors as Navy Blue, Nude tone and Raven, muted colors that scream on the catwalk, which served as a backdrop to show the only and unique accessories of the night, the Tempus Watches. 

INVITATION CARD.

• And with the motto: "Your time is now", in invitation card, the Tempus House promoted its event to show the last Watches collection.

• The first time that I made an evening gown, was a tubular column purple color with an eclectic silhouette. And almost two decades after this happened, eclectic is the word who my great friend and right hand in all my fashion catwalks, fashion photographer and event planner, Gustavo Lopez chose to baptized the last Tempus Watches 2014 fashion show.

BACKSTAGE.

• The makeup  and styling for this event was in charge of two young and talented professionals. Here the makeup artist Camila Carvajal with model Anita Ospina.

• The styling and make up was perfect and here the makeup artist Hernan Restrepo is delighted with the beautiful face of Yekaterina.

• Eliana Hoyos on selecting the watches for the models  Angelika Lange and Yekaterina Grigorenko.

ON STAGE.

• The singer Maria Camila Tapias, doing their performance, in John Miranda with only two Tempus Watches like accessories.

• While singer were doing her performance, models were striking a pose on stage to show the las Tempus Watches collection. Here Anita Ospina in John Miranda.

• I love this picture from Camara Lucida, here everything is perfect,  the model, the dress, the pose to show the watch. The beautiful model Anita Ospina was responsible for opening the fashion show.

• A beautiful close-up for a beautiful brunette, Monica Londono in John Miranda for Tempus Watches 2014 Fashion Show.

• I love Raven color and the beautiful Liza Monsalve looks stunning on it.

• Nothing better than a minimalist design to show a Watches collection.  On this picture Angelika Lange in John Miranda for Tempus Watches.

• On stage from left to right, Angelika Lange in John Miranda, Jefferson Rodriguez, Anita Ospina in John Miranda and Yekaterina Grigorenko in John Miranda.

• Russian model Olga Solovei in John Miranda, strikes a pose, on stage for Tempus Watches 2014 Fashion Show.

• Live music to show the latest collection of Watches Tempus. On stage Diego Gonzalez striking a pose with Olga Solovei in John Miranda.

• Saxophonist Juanito Rivera on stage of Tempus's show.

• This is one of my favorites outfits, a mermaid skirt in stretch fabric complemented with Colombian poncho in silk chiffon and Olga Solovei, looks stunning, striking a pose on stage.

• The Beautiful Monica Londono in, a nude color, negligee dress by John Miranda for the Tempus Watches 2014 fashion event.

PHOTOCALL.

• Eliana Hoyos, Tempus Watches general manager.

• Former model Isabel Cabrales, daughter in law of former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe.

• Journalist and model Adrian Lara, best known for the commercial of perfume 'Pronunciation' by Open English.com.

• My great friend, Gustavo Lopez, fashion photographer and event planner was the mastermind of this great event. Here with his '​​paisana' and socialite Marucha Kury.

• EVENT PLANNER: GUSTAVO LOPEZ.
• FASHION COLLECTION: JOHN MIRANDA.
• MAKEUP ARTISTS AND STYLING: CAMILA CARVAJAL AND HERNAN RESTREPO.
• MODELS: YEKATERINA GRIGORENKO - ANGELIKA LANGE - MONICA LONDONO - LIZA MONSALVE - ANITA OSPINA - OLGA SOLOVEI - DIEGO GONZALEZ - JEFFERSON RODRIGUEZ. 
• PHOTOGRAPHY: CAMARA LUCIDA.
• WATCHES: TEMPUS WATCHES.

MY RED CHINA

• Fashion

• The prints range from small tribal designs of plastic finishes and Korean suns with my last name Miranda in Chinese to imperial dragons with metallic finishing.

                                 My Red 

    China

• Introduction the latest  swimwear collection of designer John Miranda, inspired by the Far East.

By John Miranda.

 

The century can not end, without 'succumbing' to the air of the East: a fashion sensual and provocative, with black and red as backdrop. In my collection of swimsuits for 2000 I took as inspiration the decline of Chinese brothels and the original style of opium smokers, giving as resulting an exquisite extravaganza, where the Kitsch and maximum sophistication are mixed.

• As for colors, the carmine red, yellow wheat and black are the colors season.

• The effects of bright shades over matte textures are the latest fashion. For men, the trend is dominated by the solid finishes and monochromatic clothing.

• Versatility is also important in swimwear. Is achieved when the garments are interchangeable, and who will use them can find their favorite look and achieve a different look, always.

• For Bras, the moment proposal is the rods, whole exposed, pagoda style. The contrasting forms and exaggerated, are in wrath:  width Bra and mini panty.

• Models: Lina Ramirez and Juan Gomez.
• Makeup: Claudia Betancour.
• Photographer: Gustavo Lopez.
• Fashion designer: John Miranda.
• Location: Sakurahana restaurant, Medellin.
• Taken from: Semana Coleccion magazine.(Nov. 5/99).

MY MIRANDA MARE CATALOG.

• Cover.

• Cover

• Models: Laura Figueroa Miranda (girl), Lina Ramirez and Juan Gomez.
• Makeup: Claudia Betancour.
• Photographer: Gustavo Lopez.
• Location: Sakurahana restaurant, in Medellin, Colombia.
• Layout: Jaramillo Vieira Diseño y publicidad.
• Fashion designer: John Miranda.

MY MOTTO...

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

• FASHION DESIGNER: John Miranda.

NOTI - LYCRA MAGAZINE...

Model: María Isabel Lopez

Photographer: Julián Restrepo

Designer: John Miranda

Location: Metro de Medellín, Estación Berrío 

National Designers

John Miranda

• Architect graduated from the Pontificia Bolivariana University in 1981.
• Fashion Designer, graduated from Secoli Institute, Milano, Italy 1988.
• "International Design competition" with Dralon of Bayer, fifth among 162 designers from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Venezuela.  March 30, 1999.
• "Tiempos de Oro" (Golden Times) award,  winner in the evening wear category. August 20, 1992.

Collections 1993

"This year, the collections have an "eclectic" conception, which results from the different fashion trends, the Cash City, The Retro 50s, and Asian influence and Indochina, with mixing different textures and silhouettes, being the sharpest ones, the tubular, reflective and rectangle,  which retain the elongated lines.

Predominate the Point Stretch fabrics, microfibers, Crepe silk, and the traditional fabrics as Denim, Linen, Wool, Satins, Compact and velvet, all mixed with Lycra fiber from Du Pont that gives more flexibility and versatility to the tissue.

I have a "Minimalist" style and this collection so stated.

Predominating the basic shapes, primaries, monochrome, and the absence of decoration, presenting a less formal and more relaxed look"...,John Miranda.

• One winner design from the collection 1992, in the "Tiempos de Oro"(Golden Times) award, like the best evening gown designer. Body suit in velvet and Lycra.

Taken from  NOTI  LYCRA  Magazine.

IL MIO FIGURINO DI MODA...

• Asymmetrical cocktail dress from my 'Melt' collection, inspired in the glacier melting.

There are some differences between a 'figurino' or fashion sketch, and a fashion illustration. An figurino or fashion sketch, show us a clear-cut idea of any design, with details and the real proportions, that a professional pattern maker can read without almost any explication, from the designer, to start making a professional  pattern. But, a Fashion illustration,  instead of that, show us an general idea about of a fashion trend, silhouettes, colors, textures and accessories, but without enter in technical details.

• My Moon dress. 

• Cocktail dress from my ‘Melt’ collection.

I have been teaching figurino or fashion sketch as well as the fashion design, for more than 15 years and I love it, but I like the more when I do it realizing my own creations. It is a magic moment when yourself can see your own thoughts materialized in graphic form on paper.

• Ana T. Vidal's wedding dress (2005) inspired in The Phantom of the Opera musical. 

• A second version of the same idea, with the same bustier but only one panel of skirt.

• To Alba Zuluaga's wedding dress (2006) the inspiration was herself.

• Evening gown from my 'Melt' collection.

“To me, a 'figurino', or fashion sketch is more than a quick sketch to give an idea of the design or to show a fashion trend, it is my personal hallmark that shows the essence of my spirit of fashion "... John Miranda.

AXXIS FASHION ...

John Miranda Márquez

A
hero
of
silence

He is a talented designer with energy who knows the advantages of prudence and discretion. He is a simple, deep and sensitive person, who knows what he wants and where he is going. He has earned the place he has waited for with patience and work.  But for the moment, he continues chasing dreams among fabrics and interpreting the world around him, being an spectator of life and creating dresses that, as the poet said, smile when a woman smiles.

• Acid green, and silhouettes with zipper.
• Colorful designs to impact everywhere.

• Long dresses that let the skin be seen in strategic places.
• Faux furs that are seen today in all the world's catwalks.

John Miranda Márquez is an, architect-designer, or better, a designer-architect because he became the first after having studied the second due to the lack of a fashion design school  in Medellin at the time he wanted to study it. After graduating in architecture, he left for Italy, where he studied at the Istituto Secoli of Milan.

Since his return he has worked in haute couture in his own workshop, he has  participated in different fashion shows; in the Bayer dralon contest; has dressed beauty queens for large national and international beauty contests; he has taught; an has earned awards, like "Tiempos de oro"  (Golden Times) for best evening dresses. He has designed unique and impactful collections for textile industries  like DuPont from Colombia (today Invista) and Coltejer, who have both stolen the show in the past in the Colombiamoda and  Colombiatex fairs; He has been a judge in different fashion and beauty events, and he has glowed, but leaving aside pretensions and delusions of grandeur.

He bases his work on global trends, but always tries to infuse his personal seal to his work. 

He is a comprehensive and highly versatile designer, not set into predictable styles, this is perhaps his greatest strength. He exerts his trade in a responsible manner; and for this reason these years he has been going through a phase of experimentation and maturation; he has been prudent and has waited to appear with impactful proposals in the right places and at the right time, with the goal of becoming well known when he is rightly positioned. There are those who reach success based on audacity, but this does not apply to him, on the contrary he believes in creative and continuous work of quality and accessible prices for Colombian women.

His style is purist, minimalist, but definitely vanguardist. He is planning to launch a basic line of bathing suits under the name of Miranda Mare, with a defined creative concept and a focus on durability, using neutral colors as a base, and interchangeable collections with continuity. Designs that are the answer to what people are asking for, proposals that women who are uncomplicated, spontaneous, genuine, complex-less, modern and sensual are looking for. 

John Miranda dreams of dressing Naomi Campbell. With the talent that characterizes him on the catwalks he considers that black models add a beauty and exotic touch to any designer's collection. When it comes to fabrics he is in love with chiffon, which he considers to be sensual, soft, and exquisite. In terms of colors he prefers purple.  If he had the opportunity of adding a pattern to fabric he would choose one inspired on Botero's paintings. 

When it comes time to designing, he loves to do it in a place full of light and cleanliness, his studio has few elements: something he does not give up is having some sort of contact with nature and he looks for a chromatic dose in fabrics and color palettes. He prefers silence to music and if he has to choose he would go for jazz or any other music that has trumpet sounds. 

• The long coats are imposed in the world; here appears at the Miranda Couture style.

Dressing up his own house

When it comes to defining the style he wants to live in, he leans to an eclectic mix that combines retro elements with high tech designs. He loves the predominance of black, white and gray with bright color accents. In terms of art, he prefers sculptures and loves original ones, especially those of Botero. He hates copy-cats and prefers having a white wall if he cannot have an original piece. 

He dresses up the dining table with wooden placemats and black china. He loves the main bedroom to be minimalist with a low bed and a sleek and modern television. 

Playing a word association game he relates the word vanguard with: the combination of white and black, orange and green hair, virtual reality fashion shows, flying cars and a hundred years of solitude with the temporary fantasy it deals with. 

When it comes to international fashion designers, he loves Armani because he is aware of the the implicit difficulty that involves making something beautiful and simple. Moschino also deserves his admiration because he knows how to bring humor to his style. Among the Colombian models he likes to work with the most are Tuti Barrera because of her style and Bianca Arango because of her silhouette. 

His life dream would be to be nominated for best designer of a period film such as Braveheart and Gone with the Wind, or an Almodóvar one because of his unique and irreverent style.

In terms of teaching, which he practices daily at the Escuela de Diseño Proyectual de Medellín, he considers fundamental to teach students to be resourceful and visionary, to acquire sensibility to face anything that might come their way.  

He thinks that creativity consists of giving oneself the liberty to structure and he thinks this is a duty in any discipline. He considers that one is born with it but that the processes to achieve a good design can be taught.  He thinks that Colombian fashion can further develop its own style and that it can compete in an open market with creativity. 

Even though he is a discreet and solitary person who enjoys solitude, it has been impossible for him to escape fame. He has earned fans of his designs based on his own talent, keeping his simplicity and never chasing a status of vedette. John Miranda has definitely caused a loud roar with little noise, imposing himself as a true hero of silence. 

• By Catalina Restrepo K.
• Taken from AXXIS Magazine
• Photographer: Efren Isaza Morales
• Models: Danyluz Meza, Bianca Arango, Tuti Barrera.

THE WINNERS...

SOCIETY

White, beige, and coffee are back for women’s clothes, and the double breasted jacket is back for men. The ethnic touches in bathing suits are the proposals of the most prominent designers in the Colombiamoda 97 fair.

• Sergio Ramirez, special envoy, Medellin.
• photos: Andrés Sierra.

THE MOST IMPACTING

Ethnics >> is the name of the new collection of dresses and accessories, the work of the cordobés (People from Córdoba, state in the Caribbean Colombian coast) John Miranda. A mixture of everything that can identify ethnic, to bathing, in waters so far away as Morocco, India and Colombia. 

The colors range from fuchsia to gray, through yellow, green, blue and violet. The new: the draping in both swimwear for men as well as for women. "It is the strong point of the collection", he says. The important thing: comfort.

Swimsuits without rods nor fillers, for women who do not have complex in their bodies. The accessories: beaded necklaces and chaquiras. Ethnic elements that also can be used in water. The versatile: the bathroom outlets. True and sensual fabrics to wear around the pool feast. "An example of transferable and adaptable garment", says Miranda.

• The collection Ethnics from John Miranda, shows comfortable garments for the modern woman, with delicate fabrics that enhance sensuality and elegance.

Taken from Cambio magazine. 18 august 1997.

IN RECOGNITION OF...

5  designers

By Zayra Pelaez

In recognition of the talent in the field of fashion in Colombia, Semana Coleccion magazine chose: Olga Piedrahita, Amelia Toro, John Miranda, Angel Yanez and Silvia Tcherassi, who testify to the creativity that shows the best face of the country, along literature, science, art and architecture. This is a close-up that gives us a vision of their ideas, their image and their achievements.

Everyone who wants to feel casual and well dressed, can wear John Miranda's clothes, because he designs for all ages: he makes suits, sport garments, swimwear and even lingerie. In other words, there is no fashion segment that he has not experienced.

Today he feels mature enough to offer collections that convey "security, impact and comfort", the three pillars of his design. However, this mental clarity also lets him understand that he is still in search of a style and to confess that this search is in process.

Five years ago, his clothes were, very ornate; medium baroque; he admired Ferré, Lacroix and Omar Rayo; Armani bored him, because of his simplicity. Today he likes the vanguard style, because of its rarity, and how broad it can be; Armani fascinates him, he hates the excesses and is a hopeless minimalist. 

Paradoxically, he doesn't have many clothes, her wears jeans and jackets -does not have more than five of them- and can  always be seen in black, gray, blue and white. He prefers not to have much, to not to think so much “it disperses energy", he says. His thing are the basics, informality, and cool colors. And obviously, the sandals that remind him of his land, Ayapel in Córdoba.

The fabrics, colors and prints are the inspiration for his collections, especially those that evoke sensuality and movement. He is convinced that there is much more mystery in color than what is thought and that each person prefers some tones more than others for pure chemistry reasons. He personally likes red, white and black, and for swimsuits he prefers warm colors that evoke joyfulness.

Despite the choreography of his shows, and the music that you hear on the runways, John Miranda is rather shy and quiet, but confesses that behind the curtain he is muted and loses all sense of humor.

But shy and all, he loves to teach. It was the first thing he did when he finished his design studies in Istituto secoli from Italy, and is convinced that contact with students requires him to be constantly up to date. 

• Photographer: Jaime Andres Orozco.
• Taken from Semana coleccion magazine.