Vogue Talents, the Awareness Issue
Feb. 2020
The New Frontiers Of Awareness
Paris, France
Manuel_Manufactures is a creative design studio and consulting agency founded by Swiss/American fashion designer and artist Mariel Manuel.
A fashion graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, she has imagined concepts and materialized stories for Paris runway shows for almost a decade.
At the crossroads of textile, garment and sculpture, she crafts pieces in 3D, bringing to life stories for clients in fashion, textile, cinema and music. She also paints and illustrates.
She develops her singular language in textile and embroidery by reusing waste textiles with local craftspeople in Chennai, Southern India.
New Delhi, India
Mariel Manuel on residency in India and Sri Lanka.
A Swiss artist and fashion designer, Mariel Manuel works mainly by materializing ideas in 3D, on the body or in space, sometimes at the crossroads of sculpture and design.
“Ten dresses under my bed” is an ongoing research project by Manuel that ques
tions the values and use of textile, craftsmanship and the disposal of fabrics that produce waste. Through an extensive research and appropriation process, Manuel collects textiles from around the world and numerous found plastics and objects, combining them into what appear to resemble finely hand-worked cocktail dresses. Both geometric and organic, the dresses are presented as wall textiles that tell their own story in their own time.
During her three month residency, Mariel will be conducting workshops for designers at Bengaluru ByDesign, followed by a research visit to Sri Lanka where she will interact with students at https://www.aod.lk/ . The last leg of her residency will be in Delhi where she plans to research around sustainable design practices.
Jaipur, India
Talk and conference for the students of IICD Jaipur about story-telling in design and creativity.
Paris, France
Workshop and talk
Labo art et design : La mode autrement, avec Mariel Manuel
Paris, France
Creative Design Consultant on a show theme. Creative drape research and model making
Ferrara, Italy
Creative Design Consultant, Alyx womenswear.
Defining DNA pieces, volumes and details, used overall in the collection plan.
Paris, France
Custom made prototypes for Nike Air 720 campaign
Paris, France
Womenswear designer, ready-to-wear and precollection. Working on iconic mesh, leather, jersey and knit. Sports capsule and commercial collection
Paris, France
Assistant Designer / Junior Designer.
Show pieces and experimental projects, leather and commercial pieces. Working with Nicolas Ghesquière and Alexander Wang
Switzerland
Swiss Design Award 2012
Londres, United Kingdom
Exhibition in the windows of Selfridges London.
In support of Project Ocean, the exhibition highlighted the consequences of over-fishing. Twenty-six ocean-inspired couture garments and accessories were displayed alongside historic dress in Victorian cabinets, all set within a landscape of dead coral
recovered from UK customs.
Switzerland
Swiss Design Award 2011
Anvers, Belgium
Marie Manuel wins the MoMu Award for her exceptionally motivating course of study at the fashion department of the Royal Academy in Antwerp.
Antwerp, Belgium
Master degree Fashion Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
Bachelor degree Fashion Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Londres, United Kingdom
Short course at CSM in experimental fashion illustration
Fashion
Luxury
Sustainability
Education
Creative Direction
Draping
stitching
3D Creative Pattern Cutting
Illustration
Fashion design
Leather
Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
French
Native language
English
Bilingual
Italian
Fluent
German
Fluent
Dutch
Fluent
Tamil
Professional knowledge
Green card holder / US working permit
UE working permit
Potentially open to relocate
Mariel Manuel
Published article about Mariel Manuel's work and residency in India.
Paintings of artists Gurunathan Govindan and Mariel Manuel on display
The chance meeting of two artists from different continents at the Mumbai airport brought them all the way here to the city to showcase their works.
Custom made recycled blow it up plastic dress for Novembre Magazine
Portrait of Mariel Manuel, published in l'Officiel Suisse, 2016
Mariel Manuel: This 22-year-old Antwerp student of Walter van Beirendonck has already worked for Jeremy Scott and produced her own line for Swedish brand Weekday
