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Ports 1961's first New York City store, designed by architect Michael Gabellini, was conceived as a private boudoir. And scattered among designer Tia Cibani's downtown clothes and accessories are objects from the global treks that inspire her collections: art books and intricate wooden sculptures from Germany. The second floor of the boutique, located in the Meatpacking District, hosts artists' events and features a private lounge for VIP appointments. Just like home...
...Take Tia Cibani, the Canadian-born designer of Ports 1961, a line that is produced in southern China and shown in New York. While Cibani commutes between New York City and Xiamen, inspiration can come from as far away as East Africa, as it did this season. Her collection, called Safiri, pays homage to African women's spontaneous sense of style and their imaginative fabric treatments such as tie-dyeing, rolling and wrapping...
...also belonged to a handful of outsiders who have come to New York to strut their stuff. Tia Cibani of Ports 1961, a label based in Xiamen, China, showed a soft, pretty collection inspired by the gauchos of Argentina. And Diesel honcho Renzo Rosso pumped up the volume with his 1980s-style high-waisted skinny jeans and blousons - all in white and gold. Finally a trio of California surfer dudes who go by the name of Trovato presented their collection of preppy chic polo shirts and cotton canvas clam-diggers in a tableau vivant that was meant to evoke...
Ports 1961 is the brainchild of Tia Cibani, 33, a designer of Italian-Libyan parentage and Canadian citizenship whose international background and itinerant lifestyle inform the look of her eclectic and coolly modern clothes...
Like Ports itself, Cibani arrived on Seventh Avenue via a 12-year detour in China. She was 19 when she decided to join her elder sister Fiona, then a menswear designer, at a Canadian company called Ports International. The company had its heyday in the '70s and early '80s when its clothes were carried by stores like Bergdorf Goodman. But by 1989 the brand had lost some of its stature and was purchased by Alfred Chan, a Canadian entrepreneur who was born near Xiamen and raised in Hong Kong. Chan married Fiona and made the unlikely decision to move...
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