Basso & Brooke
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Basso & Brooke is a fashion label formed by Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke.
Industry | Fashion |
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Founded | 2001 |
Founder | Bruno Basso, Christopher Brooke |
Bruno Basso was born in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.[1] Christopher Brooke was born in Newark-on-Trent, UK.[2]
After meeting in 2001, they produced their first collection in 2004, and were the inaugural winners of Fashion Fringe,[3][4] a UK talent competition to search out for the next big thing in fashion. The label is noted for their pioneering use of the digital print technique within the fashion industry.[5][6] Tim Blanks of Style.com described them as the Pixar of clothes.[7] They have also been described as "the masters of fantastical digital print."[8]
Since then, they have launched numerous ready-to-wear collections from 2005–present.
In 2006, The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan museum of art in New York acquired the Swarovski crystal-covered finale piece of their Autumn/Winter 2005 collection.[9]
In May 2009, Michelle Obama wore a piece from their SS09 collection at an informal evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word within the White House.[10]