Website www.malanbreton.com Name Malan Breton | Role Fashion designer Education Juilliard School | |
Born June 16, 1973 (age 50) ( 1973-06-16 ) Taipei, Taiwan Movies Malan Breton a Journey to Taiwan Profiles | ||
Marise designs mercedes malan breton fashion show nyc fe 2015
Malan Breton (born June 16, 1973) is a Taiwanese-born American fashion designer based in New York City. He launched his namesake label "Malan Breton" in 2005. The label is associated with menswear, womenswear, outerwear, accessories, and bridal.
Contents
- Marise designs mercedes malan breton fashion show nyc fe 2015
- Malan breton spring 2014 presentation
- Early life
- Modeling
- Design
- Fashion columnist
- TVvideo game collaborations
- Television
- Awards
- References
Malan breton spring 2014 presentation
Early life
Breton was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He began designing fashion at the age of eleven but grew up, as a performer, in the entertainment industry. He never went to design school and is self-taught as a designer.
Modeling
In 1996, as a model, Breton moved to New York after a request by Versus and KCD to cast for the New York fashion week Spring 1997 Collection shows at 7th on Sixth. As a model, Breton was photographed by top photographers and directors Herb Ritts, Len Prince and Hype Williams. Thom Oliphant, Joseph Kahn
Design
Breton got his start in fashion design as a stylist. Some of his clients included Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion, and Linda Evangelista. His work as a stylist introduced him to the fashion industry.
His mentors in fashion include Arnold Scaasi, also noted is his training at British heritage brand Turnbull & Asser .
In 2005, Breton was one of twelve new designers to watch for on the New York runway in WWD Women's Wear Dailies "Cheat Sheet".
In 2007 he opened the first Malan Breton flagship store in NYC's East Village.
Malan Breton Collection expanded in 2008 to include Malan Breton Accessories.
In 2010 he expanded to include a full line of menswear - Malan Breton Homme (Men)
In 2014 Malan Breton expanded into outerwear with his first license That same year, he was ranked at number twenty-six on IMDb's list of the one hundred most popular Tapei, Taiwan-born people in entertainment, for his work in fashion, costume, and television.
Fashion columnist
Malan Breton contributed weekly to OK! Magazine's column "Malan's Musings",. Breton covered the 82nd Academy Awards for OK! Magazine in a column called "Malan Breton Takes on Oscar Fashion!" Malan Breton and Jeannie Mai covered red carpet fashion for the 2012 Golden Globes Awards for OK! Magazine.
TV/video game collaborations
In 2010 Breton designed costumes for NBC's prime-time game show Minute to Win It. The show starred Guy Fieri which featured "Game Agents" Petra Lauren Gilmore and Ling Ai-Li Wang each week wearing Malan Breton designs.
In 2011 Malan Breton's costume designs, for the television game show Minute to Win It, were part of a packaging deal with NBC/ Universal, Nintendo Wii systems, Xbox 360, and ZOO for the video game of the same name.
Television
Breton was the subject/host/co-producer of The Malan Show featured on BravoTV.com as a weekly web series. It followed the process of making it in America as an independent designer.
The collection was featured on an episode of Australia's Next Top Model (Cycle 4). In an episode called "New York, New York" The final 3 were judged in a retrospective catwalk of Breton's fashions, their finale fashion show before the top two were chosen.
Awards
Breton has won numerous awards including the 2016 Taiwan Tourism Award, 2016 Fashion Group International "Rising Star" (Menswear), 2015 Taiwan Tourism Award, NYIFF Best Documentary Short, Director "Malan Breton A Journey to Taiwan"; 2014 United Colours of Fashion "Fashion Icon", 2014 European Fashion Council, Bulgarian Fashion Awards, "Eirene"; and nominated for the WGSN Global Fashion Award "Outstanding Collaboration, Malan Breton and NBC". Additionally he came in 14th in the third season of Project Runway. In January 2016, CNA News Taiwan noted Breton, as ambassador to Taiwan for Tourism.