Designers’ Intrigue

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Designers’ Intrigue is a fashion agent specializing in emerging designers working with luxury natural fibres such as wool, silk, alpaca and pima cotton.  Designers Intrigue wants to promote; guide and help up-coming designers to have a presence in the world market and bring fresh new ideas to the fashion world.

The focus is on great design and quality clothes that are manufactured ethically from sustainable sources.  The agency represents an exclusive range of designers creating unique collections, often using hand processes and artesanal techniques, the look is effortless style with unusual detailing, natural easy to wear clothes that are contemporary and work well with both classic and fashion forward styling.  Where possible fabrics and yarns used are either in natural un-dyed colours or use natural ecologically sound dyes.

Designers’ Intrigue is headed by Dante Chiappi and Rupa Ganguli.  Set up with investment from Clothing Connect, Designers’ Intrigue has a permanent show room based in the Netherlands for sales to stores and boutiques, as well as an online service.  The current collections are from Dante Chiappi’s home country of Peru, which he is very excited to tell the world about:

“For several years Peru has been changing and as a country and we are finding our identity.  This new found pride has given Peru and its designers the confidence to invent, risk, dare and show the world that Peru is not only a sourcing country but we are ready to make a step towards design.”