Carmen Emanuela Popa is a Romanian fashion designer known for her strong conceptual designs, she founded the brand with the same name embarking on a journey through the fashion world from vast philosophical influences, creating unique and visually challenging images, transmitting emotion and humanistic messages.
The characters she proposes are contemporary soldiers, kings metamorphosed into pure rural characters, urban entities that carry in their emotional baggage ancestral origins but who wear outfits made of high-tech materials, mixes of ecological and neoprene, natural and waterproof, all in a dynamic sportswear allure.
Her latest collection GONFLOVE is now displayed on official London Fashion Week Platform at Profile Designer Section / 17-21 February 2023. She is a constant presence at LFW from June 2020.
Popa receives the Best Catwalk Award at the Athens Xclusive Designers Week in Greece, with Contemporary Unknown Soldier collection. In 2014 presents WOMAN N, in Moscow, at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, a woman's vision which was suggestively named by the international press “a refugee of the future“.
With the 56 Route Collection Carmen Emanuela Popa is a Visual Arts Partner of the International Project UNESCO's Academy of Young Women, The Fight Against Xenophobia, Extremism and Aggression, a project initiated by the National Commission of Romania for UNESCO, which took place in August 2017. With a strong manifest speech, the project supports the young woman who is still the victim of discrimination and violence.
From March 2018, she started collaborating with a program of a traineeship ( 6 months ) with the prestigious IUAV University / Fashion Design, Venice, Italy. Her final Project is called SHOW Me Your Heart.
In 2019 she exhibits at the City Hall 1, in Paris, Place du Louvre 4, the works of the Future Folk. Costume Royal project. A concept inspired by the line of French royal dresses brought in urban area by materials and sportswear element and with an particular accessory that referred to environmental and emotional pollution, the mask, which today has become a contemporary symbol of the whole world.
Carmen Emanuela Popa is a graduate BA Arts and Textile Design at the National University of Arts, Bucharest and MA Fashion Design / Strategies of Fashion and Costume / UNAB. At present, she is PhD student VI year, at the same university, Fashion Department, with a theme that addresses the migration of the fashion outfit to the contemporary art object.
Her unconventional concepts have appeared in publications such as British VOGUE, Tatler UK, Huffington Post, ParismodesTV, Harper's BAZAAR, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, RFI, China Daily, Fibre 2 Fashion, NEO2 Magazine, The Vanilla Issue and other specialized publications in France, Greece, Spain and Romania.
Projects
- INSIDE by POPA‘Everybody is so different and still authentic in their own way.’ - #LFW The London Fashion Week September 2023 ends today, but the enthusiasm sparked by creativity and innovation in current fashion styling will remain active until the next season, when fashion design creatives will propose new unique experiences in this manifestation of giving - receiving, all in order to configure the image and the aesthetic vibe for the man of tomorrow. Profile Designer INSIDE by POPA We can evaluate ourse
- London Fashion Week 15-19 September 2023London Fashion Week taking place from the 15th - 19th September. Highlighting fashion at the intersection of culture, #LFW displays exclusive creative and innovative settings including shows and presentations, designers profiles, live performances, designer Q&A sessions, private screenings and creative workshops. INSIDE by POPA No one knows you better than your shoes. All the aspirations and all the fears, all the love and all the avoidance of real and imaginary harmful spaces, the emotion
- London Fashion Week September 2023A new season of London Fashion Week 15-19 September 2023 starts today. One of the most important of the three seasons of the year, where creativity meets the frenzy of curiosity of customers and fashion lovers in general. Although the term fashion has acquired many meanings in the last decades, this procreative phenomenon continues to arouse interest and a taste for imaginative expansion among millennials and generation Z, creatives or active / passive consumers of new-fashion concepts. And t
- Carmen Emanuela Popa at London Fashion Week September 2023INSIDE by POPA The world seen from the perspective of new experiences, from the life of another person, but also the life philosophy of your own personality and the awareness of the balances that you customize in your own life. INSIDE is about displacement, the association of dissonant elements and materialities, about the inversion of the roles of the objects we are used to, over-dimensions and interpretations, beyond the everyday stereotype. The whole body takes the figurative place of a leg.
- BASIC by PopaPerhaps our abilities that reveal an unequivocal evolution but also a belonging to higher spheres are the reason to believe that the human being is much more than a soft machine that activates outside of any essential plan or purpose. We are destabilized in the contemporary era by the onslaught of many physical or mental atrocities, but man's ability to regenerate makes him always go towards self-definition and knowledge. In the posture of a permanent duality between his condition as a man des
- London Fashion Week | Basic By PopaWho we are? How did we build the society around us and the one inside us? What is the support rooted in the primordial and what is it based on in the real and figurative gravitational context, our being? Perhaps our abilities that reveal an unequivocal evolution but also a belonging to higher spheres are the reason to believe that the human being is much more than a soft machine that activates outside of any essential plan or purpose. We are destabilized in the contemporary era by the onslaugh
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Work history
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Fashion DesignerCarmen Emanuela Popa
Bucharest, RomaniaFull Time
Fashion Design / Creative Direction
Skills
- Creative
- Art
- Photography
- Styling Direction
Education
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Fashion DesignNational University of Arts Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
PhD Fashion Design / Visual Arts
MA Fashion Design / UNAB
BA Arts and Textile Design / National University of Arts, Bucharest
IUAV University / PhD Fashion Design Department / Traineeship - Venice, Italy
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The Best CatwalkAthens Xclusive Designers Week (AXDW)
Contemporary Unknown Soldier / Collection SS 2013