The Santoña Palace will host a large representation of Spanish artisans within its historic walls on October 17 and 18. Bridal, ceremony and party fashion shows, along with accessories exhibitions, will present a sample of creations from different places in Spain, which will converge in Madrid to celebrate the tenth edition of Atelier Couture. Aluminum weddings in which we are committed to preserving the tradition of the trades and promoting quality Spanish products. A tribute to the tradition of Couture and the diversity of Spanish fashion.
Lorena Formoso will be in charge of giving the starting signal. The Galician still remembers with nostalgia the leftover fabric that she asked her grandmother to dress her dolls with. From those sweet childhood memories, when carnivals turned her mother’s kitchen into a real sewing workshop, her vocation was born. But Lorena Formoso’s love affair with the bridal world occurred the day she made her sister’s wedding dress. Since then, this creator has not stopped receiving commissions in which they usually request her elaborate manual embroidery, some of them with the Luneville haute couture technique, in which a crochet needle is used.
They also know a lot about artisanal embroidery at BREA, a genderless fashion brand in which they maintain almost all processes manually. «Many finishes of the dress in sewing finishes. Also embroidery details, fraying the fabric…” explains its founder, Juan Brea. «What they request most are special, quality and different fabrics. As for techniques, I would say personalized embroidery,” details the dressmaker, who honed his style in the workshops of Spanish fashion masters such as Lorenzo Caprile and polished his knowledge with Shingo Sato, considered the best pattern maker in the world.
Finishing, embroidery and trimmings can take around 100 hours to work on a single garment, as is the case with the wonderful convertible dresses made by María Baraza, with clients as relevant as the international influencer Alexandra Pereira; or those of the designers who are part of the Adlib Ibiza collective, a brand with a designation of origin. «If something sets us apart from the Ibiza workshops, it is precisely the artisanal techniques that do not exist in industrial conditions, for example, custom pattern making or garments with more personality. In Ibiza there are no lost techniques. The objective of Adlib fashion is to keep them alive and revalue the artisan process,” they explain from the group, which includes Ibimoda, Ivanna Mestres, Monika Maxim Ibiza, Tony Bonet, Vintage Ibiza and Virginia Vald.
An artisanal trade for which one does not have to “give up technological innovations”, as veteran Félix Ramiro explains. “Everything is compatible,” says the Malaga tailor, who has sewn with his own hands the suits of many celebrities, such as that of the footballer David de Gea at his wedding with Edurne or those for David Bisbal’s world tour. Rafael Urquizar, also from Malaga, keeps alive in his workshop various crafts such as fringes or the manual creation of ornaments in minimalist styles that have enamored clients of the stature of Nicole Kimpel, partner of Antonio Banderas or Manuela Velasco, the elegant wife of the president of the Junta of Andalusia.
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