How did it all start for you?
I always loved fashion. It always was a reoccurring theme in my family. I grew up with a mother and grandmother that were huge fans of fashion, luxury, femininity and all things beautiful. That allowed me to aquire a good sense of taste and appreciation of beauty very early on. Not only in fashion but in objects too. In architecture, decor and everything that is beautiful in life. That is how everything started.
How would you define this past year?
Not sure if I could define it as good or bad. It has definitely been different. Rare. Never seen. The shows have been half physical / half digital. I think there is a change. A change that we will have to go through whether we want to or not. What I do personally believe is that fashion can not only live in digital. Unfortunately we can not experience something like Fashion Week, where you breathe passion, where you breathe stress, where you breathe competition, where you breathe ego, human interaction, meeting different people. We are seeing very little of it and I think this is also is fashion. Let’s see what the future brings. I hope that other brands and designers can navigate and and survive these times that have not been easy for anyone.
Tell us a bit about your journey to this collection.
I went through lockdown in Santiago de Chile where I was visiting my family. I was confined with my mother for four months and I am not going to say they were all moments of absolute creativity. I think they were moments of retrospection, of living day to day and of taking care of the ones you love. There were moment there was absolutely no creativity. I was not worried about it. My mind was elsewhere. There were other moments that I told myself fashion is absolutely necessary in times like this. I dont know how to do anything else aside from fashion design. It is part of my DNA.
Like waves, there were creative moments and not so creative ones. As time went by, the moment came where it was time to start working again and it was a process that came slowly. I based the collection on those moments in confinement with my mother. How her body would adapt to what we living. How she would pick her outfits to adapt to the situation. She would take my father’s oversized cotton shirts in order to be comfortable. The way she would wear them inspired what would become the foundation of this collection I’m presenting: the shirt.