Malan Breton

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Malan Breton
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Malan Breton photographed by Shane A O'neill
Born (1973-06-16) June 16, 1973 (age 51)
Taipei, Taiwan
Education The Juilliard School, Circle in the Square
Website www.malanbreton.com

Malan Breton (born June 16, 1973) is a Taiwanese-born American fashion designer based in New York City. He launched his namesake label "Malan Breton" in 2005. The label is associated with menswear, womenswear, outerwear, accessories, and bridal.

History

Breton was born in Taipei, Taiwan.[1] Breton is self-taught and never went to design school.[2] He began designing fashion at the age of eleven but grew up, as a performer, in the entertainment industry.[1]

In 1996, as a model, Breton moved to New York after a request by Versus and KCD to cast for the New York fashion week Spring 1997 Collection shows at 7th on Sixth.[3] As a model, Breton was photographed by top photographers and directors Herb Ritts, Len Prince, Hype Williams,[4][5] Thom Oliphant,[6][7] Joseph Kahn[8][9] to name a few.

Breton got his start (in fashion design) as a stylist. Some of his clients included Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion, and Linda Evangelista. As Breton worked with these stars, he eventually fell into the design world.[10]

His mentors in fashion include Arnold Scaasi, also noted is his training at British heritage brand Turnbull & Asser .[11]

In 2005, Breton was one of twelve new designers to watch for on the New York runway in WWD Women's Wear Dailies "Cheat Sheet".[12]

In 2007 Malan Breton opened the first Malan Breton flagship store in NYC's East Village.[13]

Malan Breton Collection expanded in 2008 to include Malan Breton Accessories.[14]

In 2010 Malan Breton expanded to include a full line of menswear - Malan Breton Homme (Men)[15]

In 2014 Malan Breton expanded into outerwear with his first license [16]

In 2014 Malan Breton was noted as number twenty-six of the one hundred most popular people in entertainment, for his work in fashion, and costume, in television, to have been born in Taipei, Taiwan by IMDB.[17]

In 2014 Malan Breton was ranked by ranker.com as the 24th most famous person from Taiwan for his work as a Fashion Designer, TV Producer, and Journalist.[18]

TV/video game collaborations

In 2010 Breton designed costumes for NBC's prime-time game show Minute to Win It. The show starred Guy Fieri which featured "Game Agents" Petra Lauren Gilmore and Ling Ai-Li Wang each week wearing Malan Breton designs.[19][19][20]

In 2011 Malan Breton's costume designs, for the television game show Minute to Win It, were part of a packaging deal with NBC/ Universal, Nintendo Wii systems, Xbox 360, and ZOO for the video game of the same name.[21]

Television

Breton was the subject/host/co-producer of The Malan Show featured on BravoTV.com as a weekly web series. It followed the process of making it in America as an independent designer.[22][23]

The collection was featured on an episode of Australia's Next Top Model (Cycle 4). In an episode called "New York, New York" The final 3 were judged in a retrospective catwalk of Breton's fashions, their finale fashion show before the top two were chosen.[24]

Fashion columnist

Malan Breton contributed weekly to OK! Magazine's column "Malan's Musings",.[25] Breton covered the 82nd Academy Awards for OK! Magazine in a column called "Malan Breton Takes on Oscar Fashion!"[26] Malan Breton and Jeannie Mai covered red carpet fashion for the 2012 Golden Globes Awards for OK! Magazine.[27]

Charity

Malan Breton dedicates their time to amFAR[28] and Care and Share India[29] July 7, 2010 Fashion Designer Malan Breton presided over the NASDAQ closing Bell accompanied by representatives from Care and Share India.[30]

References

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  11. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/14/news/la-ar-style-fashion-week-la-kicks-off-20131014
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  13. ↑ http://www.papermag.com/2006/11/project_runways_malan_breton_o.php
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  16. ↑ http://www.nycaribnews.com/news.php?viewStory=3390
  17. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/search/name?birth_place=Taipei,%20Taiwan
  18. ↑ http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-from-taiwan/reference
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615676/fullcredits#cast
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  21. ↑ http://www.mbfashionweek.com/designers/malan_breton
  22. ↑ The Malan Show Bravo TV Index[dead link]
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  29. ↑ http://www.malanbreton.com
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