COLLECTION: THE LITTLE GIRL IS WORTH IT AND SO IS THE LITTLE BOY
AUTUMN-WINTER 08-09
The collection is inspired by experience and constant work in the fashion world as well as sculpture and what comes with it, but this time the material comprises winter tissues and its “wrapping” is made up of ribbons, embroidery and printed fabric of images that have been transported from traditional craftwork to technology.
The gives birth to the “Little Girl” that every woman has inside her, forgetting about the passing of time. It is an idea that comes from the film director Truffaut and his film “Jules and Jim”, which starts off from a real experience that the artist has lived and is firstly transferred to drawings on paper.
To this end, use is made of garments to narrate the vital process of any woman in her life. From her first love, the changes that are progressively produced within her are expressed from the colours and the shapes. With the possibilities of “The Little Girl getting married” being one in a thousand, it is not to be forgotten that she has her whole life in front of her.
For a woman who always lives her days with freedom of movement, it is essential that this is done from the versatile elegance of off-the-peg garments that show lines that are sober but fun, with the woman’s body inhabiting them. She can wear them in a natural way and it is not the dress that transforms the life of the woman wearing it with her becoming very much its owner. Being prepared for autumnal walks proposes ampleness in coats and ponchos to us and gives a playful wind towards high fashion. At the same time, the superimpositions of “cyber” pets on the t-shirts take us from the post-modern present of Japan and its drawings to the “cool sleeve” to remind us that the woman who dresses in this way crosses the borders of the Western World.
So the thread that joins this second collection with the previous one is black and red, reminding us of the French writer Stendhal, and suddenly takes a jump so that we find ourselves with the whole chromatic spectrum and the matching of cadmium yellow, bluish colours, fresh leaf greens and violet, which although harmonised, do not go unnoticed, so that a woman is seen as she passes by feeling comfortable and wrapped in soft and warm textures. The colouring is not a question of a pure concession to fantasy but is rather chromatic contrasts which are well-measured and pondered.
The fact that the feminine waist is situated in its place on the body is not forgotten, so exposed navels disappear, setting the dark woman to one side and portraying a new happy and vital woman who is full of colour. In reality it can be said that “the wardrobe speaks”, and what it tells us is that a woman is ageless if she is considered as a woman of her time.
The designer wraps the cotton tissues and woollen felts, with water embroidered ribbons and felt details that combine the “overset” and, at the same time, the part that is dedicated to the “college” British people experiments with a new interpretation of “tartan” and the Argyle square patterns. All of this is also joined with a rather ironic but innovating version of the “clean-cool” look.
In the end it is all about avoiding stereotyped models that reign so much in our society playing with the colours at the “Polytechnic University of Love” and involves what is impossible to teach. The chromatic aspect is so important in the collections that one of them is named “Of colours”, because the mixture of post-modernity is to be seen in all of them just as in Jay Jay Johason’s theme which also forms part of the representation of autumn and winter in “…How I wish the rain could fall like pearly dewdrops from the sky….”. |
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