Black Balloon Bible #4

BLACKBALLOON BIBLE

BIBLE #4FREE MAGAZINEwww.blackballoon.be

NOUVEAU BELGIAN CHIC FASHION

We started this adventure 3 years ago with a great hunger for fashion, a huge heart for music, a big passion for design, and making beautiful things!Little did we know that this would be the start of a great journey.

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The variety of work, is what keeps triggering us; One day you’re sweating your pants off building up a stand on an fashion ex-hibition. Another day, we are negotiating and networking like real business women, and the day after that back to the drawing tables doing what we do best: creating and styling!

The ultimate satisfaction is seeing one of our designs walk-ing down the street! Because we create for real women and men regardless their size, forms or shape. We want you all to shine and be Nouveau Chic!

So who are we?We are Cléo Baele and Sarah Bos, the creative duo behind Black Balloon, a label from Ghent, Belgium.

A brand of clothing, shoes and accessories for men and women, where music and emotions set the tone. The men and woman col-lections combine female and tough elements, simply yet edgy, ZLWK� DQ� H\H� IRU� GHWDLO� DQG� UHÀQHPHQW� ´1289($8� %(/*,$1� &+,&µ�as we like to call it. Next to our prêt-à-porter collection, PDGH�WR�PHDVXUH�DQG�KDQG�PDGH�RXWÀWV��ZH�DOVR�KDYH�D�SUHPLXP�%/$&.�&ROOHFWLRQ�D�WRWDO�FRQFHSW�DV�ZHOO�EXW�ÀOOHG�ZLWK�FXVWRP�made prints and ingenious designs, every time with that extra va-va-voom. As if there’s music in our designs and we turned it up a notch!

We won the prestigious Fred and Ginger price for the most prom-LVLQJ�FROOHFWLRQ�LQ�������$QG�LQ������WKH�´3UL[�3DULV�&DSLWDOµ�for best foreign men collection.

I AMWHATI PLAYBlack Balloon is 100% MADE IN BELGIUM! From design to ecological fabric print, and from creation to production.

WHATdoes Black Balloon do?At present Black Balloon consists of THREE building stones:

ONE We have a hand made andtailored made collection. We already designed a VWDJH�RXWÀW�IRU�$UQR��/H�&KHYDOLHU�GHV�$UWV���$OVR�%D-ORML�IRUPHU�UDSSHU�ZLWK�6WDUÁDP�LV�WRXULQJ�WKH�ZRUOG�ZLWK�KLV�VROR�SURMHFW�LQ�D�%ODFN�%DOORRQ�RXWÀW��%DUEDUD�6DUDÀDQ� �%HOJLDQ� DFWUHVV� IURP� ¶%XOO� +HDG·�� FRXOG� EH�admired in a Black Balloon party dress on the recent )OHPLVK�2VFDUV�¶1DFKW�YDQ�GH�79�VWHUUHQ·��$Q�3LHUOp��the wild child behind a piano, is a regular at the %ODFN� %DOORRQ� ÁDJVKLS� VWRUH�� :H� FXVWRPL]HG� VZHDWHUV�for the band Willow, asked them to perform for our passage in the Miele Catwalk 2012 ànd dressed them for the Music Industry Awards, where they won best music YLGHR��-HVVLH�:DUH��8.�EDVHG�VLQJHU��RXWHG�KHU�DV�D�Black Balloon fan on twitter.

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TWO Next to our hand made & made to measure collection and our premiumcollection we also have a prêt-a-porter. Basic pieces that one can style as one pleases, which resulted in the collection’s name Pick & Play.

Premium /THE BLACK collection Next to our prêt-a-porter collection we also have a premium collection called the BLACK collection, DOVR� D� WRWDO� FRQFHSW� EXW� ÀOOHG� ZLWK� FXVWRP� PDGH�prints and ingenious designs, some simple some complex, but every time with that extra va-va-voom As if there’s music in our designs and we turned it up a notch!

The BLACK collection wonthe International prize‘Prix Paris Capitale’For Best Foreign MenCollection 2013!

THREEBlack Balloon also designs B2B.

Black Balloon designs prints, uni-forms, theater costumes, made to meas-ure or other concepts, every time with an eye for the client’s style & de-mand.

An example of our B2B creations were the uniforms of the hosts and host-esses for the established company the International Design Biennale Interi-or 2010. We also created a laundry bag in house style for WASBAR. Wasbar is a new concept laundry where you can do your laundry obviously, but also meet great people, drink and eat or even go to a concert!

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BODYCANDYThe Black collection, our new premium line is colour-ful, a total concept, with custom made prints as a base of this collection. We have found inspiration in our roots, our memories of family get together and summer holiday photos. It seems that passion for music and the joy for life are in our genes!

For this season it’s all aboutthe sugar rushit’s all about the candy crushit’s about fire and spice, the gazing in their eyes

it’s about the beauty ofsweetnesslike water on ice, absorbed within its bliss,longing for that zesty kisscolours doesn’t lieit’s (all) about the attractionin the dye

The result is a special collection featuring bold de-VLJQV�DQG�FXWV��´1289($8�&+,&µ��DV�ZH�OLNH�WR�FDOO�LW��a continuity in Black Balloon’s collections.

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Play Caravan : Belgium 1968

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Greetings from... Play Tree : Sicily 1953

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