Juan Vidal’s newest assortment, “Me quiere, no me quiere” (“They Love Me, They Love Me Not”], attracts inspiration from the tender act of plucking daisy petals as an ode to vulnerability and wonder. “That harmless sport is, at its core, a metaphor for the worry of creating choices,” the designer defined. “It’s a spot the place we depart destiny to determine what the guts can’t bear to face. That’s the place this assortment begins—the will to inhabit the query endlessly reasonably than rush towards the reply.” Embracing uncertainty as a supply of creativity, Vidal reclaimed “the uneasy in-between, from which most of the most lovely concepts usually emerge.” He added, “It’s a deeply emotional assortment, the place contradiction and doubt should not hidden, however as a substitute they turn out to be the language. It’s about fragility with out worry, turning it into power”.
The ensuing items convey a conflict of contrasts: washed and satin silks, outsized trench coats, floral woodcuts from an vintage print he present in Kyoto, and satin fits adorned with taffeta bows that evoke the normal Japanese obi. The gathering unfolded throughout 32 appears to be like he showcased throughout the Barcelona 080 Style Week, the place opposites converged harmoniously: straight and curved, inflexible and fluid, matte and glossy, masculine and female. “There was no moodboard to information our method. The artistic course of was extra impulsive, permitting randomness to take the lead,” Vidal defined.
