SPRING / SUMMER 2013

There has been much talk about the modern approach of the new woman, about her relationship to the serenity
of the moment in which she is destined to live, about the commencement of a new era
of voluptuously peaceful talent.

This approach requires a dialogue between a forced austerity as a reflection of life today and the need to introduce touches of controlled and always attractive opulence.

I like to think that a voluptuous sobriety has acquired a leading role in "The Talk", with the entire collection being imbued with a balance between idealism and romanticism, and between moderation and sensuality.
This conversation must address the risks entailed by heterogeneous combinations, as well as taking into account that, today, these must be extremely moderate.

This is a new face in which the hedonistic half represented by Marilyn, full of sadness, radiance and anxiety, converses with the half represented by Jackie, who is made up to be strong, resilient and restrained. This makes me think of Diane Vreeland, who, in her haughty elegance, glimpsed the future of this new idea of femininity when she declared that a woman's beauty never resides in her skin, but in her scars.

This is an intimate dialogue between the creator and the onlooker, one in which we can discern the gestures of the participants, thus forcing our eye to acquire a taste for details, which are not simply adornments to be regarded from afar.

This confrontation of opposites inspired in the John Stezaker works does not entail a fight for survival, rather a relaxed chat between unity and plurality, between presence and representation and between transcendence and imminence.

One of the most difficult things to achieve within the realm of fashion is to consider that the future resides in our interpretation of what has been done in the past; the second most difficult thing is to then forget the past.




• SILHOUETTES •

In "The Talk" we can observe the designer's search for a sense of balance between opposites. In effect, she maintains a dialogue between the upper and lower parts of the body, creating a silhouette that can be read from head to toe, a seductive oversized style that gives way to a decidedly emphasised waist, thus creating a pencil silhouette that is entirely seductive and sensual.

On the one hand, we come across a series of blouses and upper parts of women's dresses, or shirts and T-shirts for men, that have been designed to fill out the body, describing a geometric space of sensual comfort and sober balance with regard to design. On the other hand, skirts and trousers are gathered in to create a straight silhouette from the hips downward, resulting in a voluptuously serene gesture.

Flounces are once again called upon to play a role in the feminine side of "The Talk", being introduced into the collection in a timid fashion in their most rigid and structured formats through the undulating line, then giving rise to a more independent and free-and-easy movement in the sleeves and taking on a more substantial and significant role in skirts and dresses.


• COLOURS •

Coral red, coral pink, petroleum blue, navy blue, olive, smoke grey, fingerprint, leopard print, coral print, white, black and stripes.


• FABRICS •

Triple organza, washed satin, crêpe de file, raffia knits, digital prints in stretch satin crêpe, silk jacquard, leopard-skin prints in silk gauze, spider's web Chantilly lace, washed satin silk, striped silk lamé knits.