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January 3, 2013

Aire Retro: Stories in a garment







It's been ages since last time I posted, roughly half a year, when I had just arrived from my research stay in Valencia. And over this period I've been experiencing all dimensions of life in a way I could barely remember since I was a teenager. Don't know what happens with me, ignore the place where all this excitement and delight for life (I'd say lust) comes from. But there it is.

As a result, I haven't managed to get any time to reelaborate all that stuff. I've working like a happy fool during the last six months and celebrating life at the very same time, living faster and faster, daring every new challenge to appear, taking in as much as I could, for I felt I could it all. And, by now, it seems I can.

So today I'd like to start the new year posts with the story of a pretty talented young woman who I know has experienced a considerably similar trajectory of excitement and creativity during last year. Precisely when everything around us was shouting the word "crisis", whispering "desperation", "defeat", even "death". Meanwhile, she was celebrating life, she was fighting against fear of change, and she was giving birth to her first child and her first own worklife project at the very same time.

And maybe that's the reason why her designs are so full of strenght, so radically different of everything you may expect in this context of general despair: they bear a message of defying joy.

When I saw the sweater "Bang" which features this post, I inmediately felt in love with it. I saw a story and decided to become its main character. Everyone who knows me also knows that I'd never ever dare to shoot...But this is precisely one of the greatest pleasures of fiction: It entitles you to daydream without limits...

So here is my new year present for my dear Viole, and for all of you as well...I hope you'll enjoy the pics and the sweater...Find many more dreamy designs at www.aireretro.org  

Parece que hayan pasado siglos desde el último post que publiqué, aproximadamente hace medio año, aún recién llegada de mi estancia de investigación en Valencia. Durante todo este tiempo he estado viviendo con una intensidad que no recordaba haber tenido desde que era una adolescente. No sé bien qué es lo que pasa, desconozco el lugar del que proviene todo este entusiasmo, este disfrute (casi diría lujuria) de la vida. Pero lo cierto es que ahí está.

En consecuencia, no he tenido tiempo para reelaborar nada...He estado trabajando como una loca feliz durante los últimos seis meses mientras celebraba la vida a cada momento, he estado viviendo cada vez más rápido, acometiendo cada nuevo reto que aparecía,  abarcando tanto como podía, porque sentía que podía abarcarlo todo. Y, por el momento, parece que puedo.

Así que hoy quisiera comenzar los posts del nuevo año con la historia de una joven artista que sé que ha experimentado una trayectoria muy parecida de entusiasmo y creatividad a lo largo del último año.  Precisamente cuando todo a nuestro alrededor gritaba la palabra "crisis", susurraba "desesperación", "derrota", incluso "muerte". Mientras tanto, ella celebraba la vida, luchaba contra el miedo al cambio, y daba a luz a su primera hija y su primer proyecto propio de vida laboral al mismo tiempo.

Puede que sea esta la razón por la que sus diseños están tan llenos de fuerza y son tan definitivamente diferentes de todo lo que uno podría esperar encontrar en esta coyuntura de desilusión generalizada: transmiten un mensaje de desafiante alegría.

Cuando vi  la sudadera “Bang”, que protagoniza este post, me enamoré inmediatamente de ella. Vi una historia y decidí convertirme en su protagonista. Cualquiera que me conozca sabe perfectamente que jamás me atrevería a disparar…Pero aquí se encuentra precisamente uno de los mayores placeres de la ficción: Te autoriza a soñar sin límites…

Así que aquí va my regalo de año nuevo para mi querida Viole, y para todos vosotros también…Espero que os gusten las fotos, y la sudadera…Tenéis muchos más diseños maravillosos en www.aireretro.org  

February 14, 2012

Diseño al cubo




During my first contact with Valencia City I had time enough for a quite long walk around my prospective new neighbourhood and I realized I was on the real melting point of fashion and leisure. I found some alternative locals which were actually art galleries where you could have a delightful cup of whatever...
However, I specially loved a place called Diseño al Cubo, which was not a pub but an art and design gallery where creators of all sorts of beautiful things (from crafts to paintings, including catchpenny, bags made of recicled tins, clothes, etc) could expose and sell their work. Each creator is given a cube (I mean: a cubic space in a shelf) to show its production for a month. Then, the cubes must be delivered to new artists coming. In addition, they have a central space where they install the main gallery show. Each new show is celebrated with an opening ceremony which seems to attract a pretty good amount of interesting people around. You can see some images and learn more about this iniciative in www.disenoalcubo.com.
Finally, I'd like to show you the skull bracelet I bought: it was made by a girl called Patricia Fontes, whose brand name is Nipatinipami (Mediterranean Catchpenny). I kind of like the feeling of knowing who has created something I'm wearing...



Hope you all have had a pretty good monday: mine has been quite long but finally I could accomplish an amount of things to do before definitely leaving in a couple of days...
I promise to report all my new discoverings!!


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