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Into The Darkness

ZOOZOOM designer profiles introduces Lesley Mobo, the most successful Filipino fashion designer of the moment.

Lesley Mobo won the coveted Diesel Award at ITS3 (International Talent Support) with a collection inspired by the fight for survival in extreme conditions. Titled 'Obesity in the North Pole' Mobo used different textures and layering together with exaggerated shapes to explore the conventional and unconventional form and figure of the human body. The end result was a collection that abandoned the concept of clothing that contained the body and considered it's potential for extending it.

Now with his 'own label' collection for Diesel he has reworked these same ideas and delivered a wearable collection as rich in texture as it is in metaphors.

Photography by D.Mak. Fashion Editor Annebet Duvall Code Artist Management. Makeup by Angela DiCarlo at Code Artist Management. Hair by Sarah Sibia at Code Artist Management. Shot at Go Studios in New York City and on Location in New York City. Thanks to the Mayors Office of Film and Photography and the New York Police Department.

Fashion Designers featured in this story: Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Lesley Mobo for Diesel, Marc Jacobs, Bel Air, Vera Wang, Joy vs. Happiness, Express, Alaberta Ferretti. more...