Constantine Menendez and your brand made by Köswhich is included Yolanda Gonzalezbehind the locker room singer Rodrigo Cuevas. If his music also represents the destruction and cult of the folkloric tradition, Kös’ creations follow the same path, but through fashion. For your new tour CrossCuevas is wearing two models created for this event by the designer, born in 1976 Avilés, a trained psychologist and director of a geriatrics center living in Pillarno (Castrillón), where his workshop is located. There are two teams, red and black. They are looking for a “festive and cheerful” image that continues to embody a “wink to tradition”. – without being as obvious as in the wardrobe of the previous tour – with the latest fashion trends”.
It was a process where Constantino and Yolanda made their offer. Then Rodrigo enriched himself, “whose very personal creative and aesthetic capacityThe artist and graphic designer also played a key role in this process. Ricardo VilloriaArtistic director of the concert tour of Cuevas’ latest work “Manual de pilgrimage”.
Constantino Menéndez details each of the two models used by Rodrigo Cuevas throughout the show:The red look is a strappy jumpsuit.. This is a single piece that shares the current trend of flared trousers with a black look that pops up strongly. It consists of a lycra velvet lycra overall with silver appliqué. The jumpsuit itself has fitted sleeves made of organza, a sheer but very tough fabric. We wanted to make very voluminous sleeves, and we wanted it to remind a bit of the aesthetics of the 70s, when bell bottoms were popular and these suits were seen in fashion shows. This Inspirations from Elvis, Raffaella Carrà, ABBA…”
salute to tradition
“We also thought here about how we can greet the tradition that has always defined what we do. Well, in two ways. One was the vest that overlapped with the red look with a traditional vest with a cut-off collar and collar. A vest inspired by traditional costume but covered with sequins on the neck and neckline”.
“There’s another detail we’d like to include in red: a little collaboration with other craftsmen from Asturias. That’s why jacket brooches are a bit of a pingo. We suggested them to Josefina Fernández, who is known for her llanisca costumes. Those pingos, those hanging brooches with Jet glass rips, in dengue fever. You see the dress and you see it very festive. But you see those hanging brooches and those who know the tradition understand that these are a bunch of lanisca costumes.”.
The other model created for the tour are variations of the same stylistic principles. “The black is made up of four pieces. Instead of betting on the jumpsuit, we’re betting on trousers that tighten the hips and calves a lot. With a black sequined fabric. Going back to the bell-bottomed trousers, we give them a flair. connection with the other model. She wears an all-black see-through lace shirt over the body. He’s wearing a black elastic faux leather jacket again.We’re back to Llanes with the cut of the jacket.It’s part of Llanisca’s costume, looking like a bullfighter. It has no collar or collar, instead it wraps both the collar and neck with a velvet ribbon. To complete this, the sash “I’d still wear a leather corset with black velvet edging. Finally, to give it a little more walking stick, more of a rocker touch, we put tassels in the seams of the sleeves, which gives it a lot of mobility and gives the suit a lot more stage presence.”
Menéndez was also the author of the busgosu costume, the faun of Asturian mythology, where he appears dressed in the video for Rodrigo Cuevas’ song “Casares”, one of the songs that integrates with “Manual de pilgrimage”. The costume was a complex process that required importing a special structure to simulate a ram’s legs and making a custom-made orthopedic helmet to which the mythological animal’s horns could be fixed.
Constantino emphasizes that the process, which is a slow and meticulous process, is a very important part of his work style and the clothes he sews. “It lagged behind years of trial, error, and getting it right. In these times when everything pops up, you click quickly and request, we forget about processes. Fix what’s behind it, which is usually nonsense: 80,000 identical T-shirts are ordered from a factory in Bangladesh. “We forget that the fashion industry is what it used to be. It’s born, it has another philosophy, and that’s the philosophy we want to bet on. To be able to offer the most ecological material possible, calmly, conscientiously and above all.” things done”. Made by Kös already has orders until the summer of 2024.