Toit Volant
Toit Volant is a directional contemporary, effortless, minimal independent fashion label with an edge of distinction.
Our designs are versatile, classic yet progressive, dynamic, playful, adaptable and affordable. The styles can easily move in the context of day to night, casual daywear, office to leisure.
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
With her diverse experiences, Alnea Farahbella, the designer of Toit Volant, is a dressmaker, a fashion designer, a pattern-maker, a sewer and a woman in love with fashion.
The designer loves waking up to dress up, to explore in bodacious styles while riding motorbikes. Alnea enjoys walking with her dog in outlandish silhouettes to feel refresh. She dresses up to design, to create patterns, to sew and to work with the makers at the factories. Alnea maintains a sense of humor and lightheartedness in her everyday life happenings. Most importantly she is passionately driven with the art and craft of designing and dress making.
SUSTAINABLE EFFORTS
With a decade of living overseas, the designer’s extensive fashion background includes years of teaching in prestigious fashion design programs; Pratt Institute New York, Parsons The New School as the MFA design studio manager and Raffles Institute Asia. Her travels and professional experiences gave the designer an honest realistic view into the world of fashion and manufacturing.
The time of living overseas, exposure to luxury brands development, walking for hours in fabric markets provided an education to the reality of excess textiles, mass production, unconscionable sample productions caused by nature and extreme demands of fashion.
In 2013, the designer committed to establish a brand that supports small business owners, responsible sourcing of textiles and materials, limited mindful quantities, work hands on with small size fair labor factories to maintain her pledge for sustainability.
BRAND PHILOSOPHY & COMPANY VALUES
Our company is dedicated to being personal, intimate with the craft of dress making without the luxury price tag, engage with the makers, with the woman wearing our designs, share the ideology of investing moderately in product consumption that has equal value to longevity, good quality and exclusivity. Our brand aims for loyalty and trust in our products.
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We asked Alnea Farahbella of Toit Volant to fill in the blanks:
1. Earth is an organism
2. Outerspace is far away
3. I feel most comfortable in my Toit Volant dresses
4. My spirit animal is a horse
5. My partner makes me the happiest
6. The future of fashion is dull if we stop taking risk with styles
7. I learned the most from making garments
8. The greatest compliment I could receive would be for one of my design heroes to be wearing one of my dresses
9. My style mantra is keeping the style minimal with a statement
10. Sleep or sleep when you're dead sleep when you can
11. If only I could have designed more jumpsuits for the upcoming seasons
12. When I woke up today, I felt free
13. Most people would say I am animated
14. I shop the most at home depot
15. I think my dogs and my partner are hilarious
16. When on a crowded subway, I put myself behind people my height so I don't get crushed
17. Drones are scary
18. Fast fashion is not creative
19. My horoscope sign is Capricorn and it is spot on/so not: spot on
20. I'm certain of riding motorcycles
21. I'm not so certain of driving cars
22. My clothes are for women who want something different from the rest