That was Spanish creativity Fashion Week in the focus of the podium after his intervention Manuel Torres At the Coperni parade, creating a dress from a spray and with a mud scene inside Balenciagaartist’s work santiago sierra.
This was two of the most viral moments of Fashion Week: last Friday, top model Bella Hadid She was dressed as if by magic, by two men who had sculpted her with strokes of cloth with what looked like spray guns.
Finally, a stylist finished cutting and styling, a sensual and minimalist dress, a side opening at the leg and a bateau neckline.
The process, which took less than ten minutes, leaked to social networks and media around the world, and London-based Fabrican Ltd. The work of Manel Torres, a native of Lleida, the founder of the company. any fabric made of natural or synthetic fibers, washable and reusable.
Torres, who holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, has spent two decades developing a product that could revolutionize the fashion industry, which he applied to Hadid with the help of an assistant.
This Fashion Week recorded another stellar moment starring a Spaniard. this signature Balenciagatoday it is held by an international conglomerate and managed by Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia, recreated a huge muddy field on which models were walking.
It’s a bleak metaphor for her world of luxury, punctuated by current events that affect her, despite herself, and a reflection that may be superficial to many for Gvasalia, who was forced to take refuge in Germany as a teenager for her family. civil war in his country.
Creator of that land where the rapper parades among others Kanye WestIt was Spanish artist Santiago Sierra who used 275 cubic meters of mud transported by truck from a swamp in France.
A controversial and versatile artist born in Madrid in 1966, Sierra’s choice and Known for “performances” of political connotationhas not been undisputed.
“The liberal globalization machine works perfectly. Consume whatever comes your way and use it to sell, sell, sell. I prefer the Cold War Balenciaga of the 1950s,” art collector Stefan Simchowitz wrote in an Instagram post.