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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada
Recycling and humor are the two basic principles on which this Spanish designer’s ready to wear collection is built. The pieces are made out of ecofriendly materials, with asymmetrical shapes, draped on the models, and at the very extremes, tunics that are either very long or very short.
Agatha has progressed beyond fitted shapes and she gives her women the freedom to become super heroines that are never down trodden. She dresses her clients in an explosion of color and patterns, some in the shape of flowers or moons, while others use hand painted fabrics, which together perfectly express the ecological theme adopted by the designer.
Ailanto
The fashion house created by twins Iñaki and Aitor Muñoz in 1992, which incidentally won the prestigious Glamour Magazine’s Best Designer award, has stayed true to its philosophy of reflecting in its designs a dedicated obsession for avant garde art.
Their collection for this summer is based on the painter Matisse, and the designers describe their own particular perspective as follows: “He is a chess player engaged in very subtle and complicated game, where the woman is the winner.” A woman, who in this context is dressed in multicolored Arabesque styles.
Alma Aguilar
If the Muñoz twins went for explosive shapes, Alma is the counterweight. Her offering called Ship to Venus is a tranquil collection where the color white assumes a leading role, only interrupted by the occasional appearance of sailor themes such as stripes and handmade patches edged with gold and silk thread.
In this season’s collection, Alma Aguilar dresses her models in soft fabrics like silk organza, muslin, raw silk and poplin, all meeting her objective of displaying a bohemian, dreamlike quality, even to a certain extent surreal.
Amaya Arzuaga
The designer who enjoyed the privilege of creating the dress for the legendary Cruella de Vil, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Disney in Paris, also showed her work at Cibeles this year. And why was she chosen for such a high calling? Because only her designs are sufficiently irreverent to dress such a huge personality.
This same irreverence is clearly represented in her summer collection, where voluminous shapes and rigidity give way to dresses that are without doubt intended to be eye catching for any woman wearing them. Her work even includes elements such as fiber optics in colors ranging from white to plum, blue and black.
Andrés Sarda
This designer certainly presents women in the most romantic light at this season’s show. He presents her as a nymph. But a modern, sophisticated nymph, who takes the forces of nature and reinterprets them.
This leads to designs that wrap his models in silks, organzas and toile, placing them as it were in the natural habitat of any mythical being: the forest dominated by fire, water, earth and wind. It has been called fashion with a strong dose of romanticism.
Beachcouture
Minimalism and sensuality are the two elements that define this fashion house’s swim wear collection. The result is a collection of clean, fluid silhouettes, strictly geometric but not to the extent that they are not voluptuous.
Beachcouture takes you to the beach or the pool in white, purple, grey or coral. The collection does not shy away from using military themes or playing with voluminous shapes: however the designers take care to ensure that even these characteristics retain an exquisitely feminine look.
Louis Vuitton
Marc Jacobs, designer for the fashion house of Louis Vuitton, is the one responsible for bringing back the mini skirt to the summer season, and he included it in his latest collection, where it shared pride of place with wide legged trousers and tunics.
Jacobs dresses women in bright colors to catch the eye, and this is reflected in the bold choice of colors used in his collection: we see shades of orange, greens, purples, maroon and earth tones, which offer an almost inexhaustible series of combinations, but which from start to finish, bear the unmistakable stamp of LV. |
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