Valencia Fashion Week

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COLLECTION ÓPALO Y BARRO

Ópalo y Barro is inspired by the Land Art, artistic movement that it is born in The United States towards the ends of the sixties thanks to a series of artists who turned the landscape, rocks, the trees, the horizon, the land, the wind and the storms into the framework and material of their works.

The physical properties of minerals and mud are emphasized, as well as on the other hand its symbolic and mysterious character they define the aesthetics key and lines of the collection. The tendency is going to be a game of contrasts creating a universe that turns around the dichotomy between the corporeal and the metaphysical.

In an outfit there are more than three different and antagonistic fabrics among them. Natural and rustic fibers wild silk, the gauze, voile, cotton sailcloth, linen and woolen cloth are associated to the corporeal condition of rocks and mud. The sheen is one of main qualities of the minerals since they reflect the light in metallic and phosphoric sparkles creating a feeling of unreality so hi-tech fabrics, taffetas of metallic finished, knit cloth of brilliant fibers, lamé, lúrex, pvc are mixed with other materials.

The disparity in the palette of color goes from very brilliant colors as the red from the red lead, the ultramarine blue, the mauve of the amethyst, to pale colors, the neutral ones of the land and the ocher of the oxide of iron. It is important to emphasize the absence of prints in favor of monochromatic looks.

Simplicity in baggy silhouettes, ? mini skirts and dresses in multiple cuts and a matching of two pieces. Straight cuts, trapezoidal and structured shapes are juxtaposed to fluid, organic and drape shapes at the same time that volumes and rounded shapes of irregular morphology will be fundamental. The weave caps are superimposed as stratums that build mountainous reliefs. The transparencies let see the frame of the garments and add lightness making everything to work harmoniously.

The works of the Land Art make clear references to the sacred sites of the antiquity, being always present the spiritual character, and primary strokes were used: straight line, zigzag, circle, square, spiral, cross. And all this with the intention of creating reflections about the interaction of the human being - artist with the environment.

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