Dance Meets Fashion
Pascalle Paerel of The Fashion Composers
Noticing the potential of a perfect marriage between the amount of beautiful and talented pro dancers and the needs of fashion brands, The Fashion Composers fills a unique gap in the industry. The result has been spectacular. The Fashion Composers has worked with brands such as Gucci, Armani, Burberry, Coty, Louis Vuitton and many others.
Zena sat down with cofounder, Pascalle Paerel, to speak about dancing, running a business across various countries and changes in the fashion industry. Today we see many applications of elevating/levitating in videos; being suspended or floating. Of course what better way to portray this kind of movement than a dancer. The athleticism and poise of the dancers represented by The Fashion Composers continually ‘wow’ us here at FBC. It was a pleasure to get a snippet of Pascalle’s world in dance and high end fashion imagery on this episode.
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