COLLECTION LA PROVENZA / SPRING-SUMMER 09
A trip to French Provence, to the mythical Riviera with its immensely beautiful coves and beaches that emerge from nowhere alongside winding roads, to the fields of Grasse with the colour of olive trees and the aroma of the growing of flowers.
All of this is seen through a kaleidoscope in which the orange-coloured tones of the earth are fused together with the deep green colour of the sea, the blue of a clear sky with the intense colour of beds of jasmines and roses along with fruit fields, just like in a Monet canvas.
Days of grape-picking combine with lavender plantations with luminous landscapes as a background for tables of olives, figs and red wine arranged in a way that portrays dead nature.
And the aroma of the dampness of the earth when it mingles with fresh air fills everything like an eternal springtime.
A well-studied pattern design gives shape to this collection through which voluminous effects are sought for the upper parts of the garments, emphasising the shoulders, playing with generous collars in plunging necklines creating false pieces and reinterpreting others like the short capes worn by sailors. Skirts and trousers appear which raise the trunk measurement to the waist with very voluminous skirts living happily alongside others which are tube-shaped and, in the same way, Capri trousers reside with wide “camal” ones, as a counterpoint to the evening dresses.
It is a pattern design which is also exploited in the knitted garments in which the backs can be turned around to become fronts to which a falling neckline is added. There are oversize knitwear garments which are entangled with others which have a short trunk measurement in which the volume is focussed around the sleeve with ladies clothing, whilst in menswear everything is focussed on the quartering of the pattern design to create new shapes over the most delicate of knitwear, cotton and silk, as well as in the thinnest “galga”.
There are men who combine knitted garments with tiny-collared hallmark shirts, jackets with French sleeves and trousers whose pockets take on immense importance as they are the centre of the garment.
With the dominance of natural tissues such as batiste, poplin or linen, which are renewed with treatments that bestow resin-style finishes and pearly effects on them, in menswear there are serge suits whilst in ladies garments there are silk gauzes, macramé applications and coarse silk for the morning and the afternoon while at night-time they are added to silk gauzes, shantung, satin and “gazhar” to give a touch of sophistication.
Colour
There is a set of colours in three families that transmit all the luminosity and shades of Provence. There is a first part in which light colours, reddish tones and beiges reflect the entire force of the earth. In the second part the blue and white colours dominate with grey tones and this is a reflection of the sea. We finally reach the last family which is brimming with colour and is a mirror of fields where flowers are grown: yellows, greens, oranges, coral and mauve combined with small black touches.
Collaborations

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