COLLECTION: “FREE TOWN – A BIRD’S EYE VIEW”
AUTUMN-WINTER 08-09
We know that nature offers us everything – colours, shapes and material and it is from here and particularly during a trip to the Enrique Montoliú foundation where I began to feed myself with experiences to initiate the start of the collection. In this way I combined the ideas of nature and large cities.
PHILOSOPHY
They say that birds are the only living beings that are capable of travelling thousands of kilometres without making any stops, but it is not this that interests us most about them. It is majestic flying and rich plumage that has served us well in inspiring this collection.
As free as one of those birds, we “fly” through a city freely, where one is not subjected to conventional rules and where comfortable garments that are adequate for the present moment are mixed with other garments that are richer and more elaborated.
We have not tried to make a collection with a set of marked rules, we have attempted to make an atemporal collection of garments that do not go out of fashion and that are not subjected to a determined trend but which are inspired by day to day urban life and people’s needs.
This world of birds and specifically their plumage helps us to create a collection that has a great optical effect, created by strands of wool and silk and silk hair. This mixture of materials and shapes that nature offers us alongside the diversity of its own colouring stimulates us to recreate the aforementioned visual effect and we avoid using the natural plumage of these birds in this way.
We also adapt the strands to other tissues, (such as cold wool, hair knitwear, etc.) with long and fine strips of re-meshed tissue on their edges to achieve more effect, thus creating our own material, and they are also useful for being mixed in their turn with strands of silks, bestowing a more enriching effect to the garment. We work with these strands and the combination of tissues using them not only in collars, sleeves and cuffs but also in complements such as hats and bags and even in small accessories created for shoes.
There is also an important contrast between garments which have a large volume and are strangled with strips of the same tissue and buckles with others which are skin-tight but comfortable and offer freedom of movement. For this reason we will use knitted as well as smooth tissues as printed fabrics.
The colouring is also important to create this visual effect. We take raw colours as a base, such as a neutral colour that enables us to search for purity in the rest of the colours such as blues, greys, browns, reds and black, with this last one being taken as the most urban colour. |
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