Romanian designer Alexandra Popescu-York’s new collection to be unveiled at Couture Fashion Week

Newsroom 04/09/2014 | 14:30

Alexandra Popescu-York is a Romanian-born and New York-based visual artist,who is offering unique runway shows. According to ICR New York, her spring/summer 2015 collection will be unveiled at Couture Fashion Week New York on September 7.

Alexandra Popescu-York is the only participant at Couture Fashion Week who is both a designer doing a runway fashion show as well as an artist having an exhibit in the same forum. Her Spring/Summer 2015 collection is inspired by the artistic works in iconic museums around the world, with a concentration on the paintings of world-renowned artists in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, informs the official press release of the event.

“My inspiration for this collection was to recreate, while wearing my designs, the feeling one experiences in such a beautiful museum. As an artist, I incorporate my murals as the background of my fashion show so the audience can appreciate the designs in the context of the inspiration from which they came,” says designer Popescu-York. “Since I was a young girl growing up in Romania, it has been my dream to combine the art of painting with the art of fashion”, notes the same source.