Sophie Knapp:
DÉBUT COLLECTION: Sophie Knapp will have her fashion line displayed on the catwalk at New Zealand Fashion Week. CHRIS SKELTON/The Dominion Post
DÉBUT COLLECTION: Sophie Knapp will have her fashion line displayed on the catwalk at New Zealand Fashion Week. CHRIS SKELTON/The Dominion Post
JESSICA SUTTON
3rd August, 2011
Dreams of seeing her own fashion line on the catwalk have become reality for a young Ashhurst woman.
Sophie Knapp, 23, has just been named one of the new generation designers to showcase her high-end fashion label Two Wonders at this year's New Zealand Fashion Week.
Knapp and co-designer and mentor Sophea Son, have spent the past year considering whether they would enter Fashion Week.
A former Palmerston North Girls' High School student, Knapp stumbled across a job at Coco Wellington, which Son owns.
"It was about three and half years ago that I started working here part-time and within two weeks Sophea asked me to go overseas with her to buy for the store," she said.
"She has offered me so many opportunities and because I have dreamed of having my own fashion line I jumped at every opportunity I was given."
Knapp graduated in interior design at Victoria University last year. Since then, she has been working seven days a week at Coco and has travelled, with Son, to Asia twice looking for inspiration and fabrics for the collection. The 12-piece collection is based on the Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia.
Knapp also plans to create a ready-to-wear line, which will be part of this collection, but not for the stage.
She said once the collection is complete it will have cost her around $10,000.
This will be Knapp's debut collection and will be sold at Coco.
"There's a lot more to it than the clothing and design. There's the makeup, accessories, models, lighting, DJ, back stage, and media. It's full-on."
She hopes buyers will invest in her pieces and sell them in stores around the country.
"Within the fashion industry you've got to be prepared to lose out but it can also go the other way. I'm really looking forward to getting my dream off the ground."
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- Manawatu Standard
3rd August, 2011
Dreams of seeing her own fashion line on the catwalk have become reality for a young Ashhurst woman.
Sophie Knapp, 23, has just been named one of the new generation designers to showcase her high-end fashion label Two Wonders at this year's New Zealand Fashion Week.
Knapp and co-designer and mentor Sophea Son, have spent the past year considering whether they would enter Fashion Week.
A former Palmerston North Girls' High School student, Knapp stumbled across a job at Coco Wellington, which Son owns.
"It was about three and half years ago that I started working here part-time and within two weeks Sophea asked me to go overseas with her to buy for the store," she said.
"She has offered me so many opportunities and because I have dreamed of having my own fashion line I jumped at every opportunity I was given."
Knapp graduated in interior design at Victoria University last year. Since then, she has been working seven days a week at Coco and has travelled, with Son, to Asia twice looking for inspiration and fabrics for the collection. The 12-piece collection is based on the Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia.
Knapp also plans to create a ready-to-wear line, which will be part of this collection, but not for the stage.
She said once the collection is complete it will have cost her around $10,000.
This will be Knapp's debut collection and will be sold at Coco.
"There's a lot more to it than the clothing and design. There's the makeup, accessories, models, lighting, DJ, back stage, and media. It's full-on."
She hopes buyers will invest in her pieces and sell them in stores around the country.
"Within the fashion industry you've got to be prepared to lose out but it can also go the other way. I'm really looking forward to getting my dream off the ground."
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- Manawatu Standard
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