SPRING / SUMMER 2016

“You can’t take a picture of this, it’s already gone.” This is the last line of the series Six Feet Under which summarizes life in just one blow: you can’t capture moments, you can only live them, insignificant but unique moments that trap you without you noticing, in which everyday things become fantastic, strange and enigmatic.

“FOREVA” attempts to remind us of life, to remind us of what surrounds us everyday, to appreciate it, love it and to feel that there is a type of love in life that is forever, and that it is a type of spirit that is eternal and immortal.

It deals with love in all of its different forms, from the incomprehensible and exciting side to its most exhausting and stimulating side. In one way or another, it is enthralling to feel attracted by a feeling that we don’t ever get to fully understand. Just like in those movies in which nothing is explained but it turns out that, surprisingly, you understand everything, because there is a tendency which some of us have to deem the unexplainable as a startling or even sensible feeling, in its most enigmatic form.

Sometimes I think of love as a McGuffin, something that you don’t understand, but that inevitably attracts you because of its mysterious meaning, filled with, amongst other things, a great sense of humor. Without its incomprehensible magnetism, love would lose all of its magic and interest, like in a John Ford movie in which they talk about love in the following way:
-”Mac, you ever been in love?”
-”No, I’ve been a bartender all my life.”

There is a strange mechanism which we don’t understand because the little moments in our daily routine with our partner enamor us even more and make us happy, but without that blissful ignorance, we would surely flee from boredom.

I try to live and love the little moments each day, and although I always try, I have to admit that sometimes I forget to do so.

• SILHOUETTES, FABRICS AND COLOURS •

I like to combine two ideas to create the silhouette that identifies the Ana Locking style; on the one hand, contemporary culture in regards to the search for our personal expression, and on the other hand, the development of garments in which research of new materials and fabrics with innovative finishes are pivotal aspects of the collection.

Fabrics that combine tradition and technology, finishes that are anything but conventional that always have unfinished effects and small imperfections as a result of the fabric making process; a powerful romanticism full of strength and character with an unprecedented sophistication.

Small crystals embroidered in degradé on light muslin; development of seamless denim decontextualized as a light and airy neoprene; faux floral lace done on neoprene mesh; white faux snake skin painted on cerulean nappa leather; imperfect embroidery that creates the effect of wrinkled fabric; irregular micro pleating; paper fabric with micro perforations; leather sequins embroidered onto georgette; imperfect patchwork made with strips of muslin on Chantilly lace and mesh; controlled fraying in black and white stripes on delicate organzas;

The whole collection is a visual journey, a soft chromatic transition of those daily moments that capture us without us realizing it and that lightly caress us; peach, coral, beach sand, sea salt, parakeet green, cerulean, sky blue, chartreuse, lemon, ivory and onyx.
These instances always arrive as well as others that blindside us interrupting our pleasant routine which in this case is represented by fire orange

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• INSPIRATION •

Contemporary pop iconography is always present in my imagination; Takashi Murakami’s flowers, Jeff Koons’s inflatables, Paul McCarthy’s sarcasm, the romanticism of New Order’s “Power, Corruption & Lies” and Sia’s “Breathe me”, the simple, honest and exciting soundtrack of the brilliant final epilogue of “Six Feet Under”.