{"id":2482,"date":"2011-09-19T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=2482"},"modified":"2011-09-19T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:25:06","slug":"parisian-fashion-starting-a-rev_eliek_tion-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/parisian-fashion-starting-a-rev_eliek_tion-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Parisian Fashion Starting a &quot;REV_ELIEK_TION&quot; in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afric-1673984926\" class=\"afric-before-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-Banner\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad>\r\n<\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/09\/RECTO9.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2483 lazyload\" title=\"RECTO9\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/09\/RECTO9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"686\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, the New York fashion scene was introduced to Parisian designer Elie Kuame&#8217;s premier couture collection at New York Fashion Fest.\u00a0 The line is named REV_ELIEK_TION,\u00a0 and was inspired by the words revolution, addiction and luxury. &#8216;Rev&#8217; for dreams or revolution, &#8216;Eliek&#8217; for Kuame&#8217;s addiction to the female body and &#8216;Tion&#8217;<em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>for science and spirit of the art.\u00a0 Kuame spoke about the line and said, &#8220;This collection is for the elegant, cultured professional woman who needs to transition from day to evening wear effortlessly.&#8221;\u00a0 Already an accomplished wedding gown and evening wear designer that often features delicate hand-embroidery, his designs are influenced by a melting pot of cultures.\u00a0 With his family lines leading back to the Ivory Coast, being born in Belgium, becoming a big part in the Parisian fashion scene and having won awards for his designs all over the world including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, China he draws inspiration from worldwide culture.<\/p>\n<div id=\"afric-4112684217\" class=\"afric-after-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-bottom\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the New York fashion scene was introduced to Parisian designer Elie Kuame&#8217;s premier couture collection at New York Fashion Fest.\u00a0 The line is named REV_ELIEK_TION,\u00a0 and was inspired by the words revolution, addiction and luxury. &#8216;Rev&#8217; for dreams or revolution, &#8216;Eliek&#8217; for Kuame&#8217;s addiction to the female body and &#8216;Tion&#8217; for science and spirit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[103,704,705,706,333,707],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afw","category-made","category-news","tag-african-designer","tag-elie-kuame","tag-ivory-coast","tag-new-york-fashion-fest","tag-paris","tag-rev_eliek_tion"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}