ANTONIO MIRÓ FLIRTS WITH AMISH DRESS

ANTONIO MIRÓ FLIRTS WITH AMISH DRESS

ANTONIO MIRÓ FLIRTS WITH AMISH DRESS

22II17 – BARCELONA. During the runway shows of the fashion weeks ballet, the choreography that captivates viewers around the same stage calls attention to the mise en scène & performances that show the trend hunter’s explored curiosities to issue guidelines. Confidences that drive their ideas will sail this week in Barcelona to decode a little bit of Catalan fashion in its 19th edition. We will play part in it, cross world with Miquel Suay, dress in long gowns with Justicia Ruano, turn in the sun on the beach with TCN, dance with Escorpion, drink couturier Antonio Miró’s influences & climb with VM La Siberia.

Organized by the ‘Departament d’Empresa i Ocupació’ through the Consorcio de Comercio, Artesanía y Moda de Cataluña (CCAM), this great fashionable event could not be held at iconic locations of the city lacking the support of out-standing sponsors. A platform for the internationalization of the CatalanoSpanish designers participants in the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. Within the frame of this 19th edition of the fashion exhibition closing ceremony, the National Prize of the Government of Catalonia to the Best Collection went to the significant Antonio Miró’s brand with its talked-about ‘Orígens’ one.

With a broad and very long four decades history upon its shoulders, the fashion retailer Antonio Miró (1979) would return to the Barcelona runway in 2016, ten years after from walking down the Gaudí Show last time. The coming Fall/Winter 17.18 season different garments will hang on hangers already together with potential lovers.

Albert Villagrasa, Antonio Miró’s designer and creative director, staged Amish culture’s ancestral traditions by inspiring on their characteristic lifestyle, away from any comfort and no technology.

The Amish are a North American Protestant religious group of Anabaptist doctrine strongly linked, remarkable for their simple lifestyle, their modest and rooted outfit and their refusal and resistance to embrace amenities and modern technologies that do respect austere rules of coexistence among them and also with the rest of society.

If Albert had not taken the metro that day and the baffling disconnection from the moment all absent travellers kept with their gruel heads playing around with their phones without control had not been called his attention, ‘Orígens’ is another collection. And his restless creative mind moved this particular community’s cultural experience to the progress of our society today, sentenced to be dam technologies. His view isn’t as outlandish as it may sound, that he then outlined and developed the concept of ‘Orígens’ about how he would dress an Amish.

His collection integrates sensationalism, growth and local mores, everlasting allied with a jealousy guarded handcrafted manufacture process and making emphasis mostly in the range of blacks, whites and greys and combines all jointly with vibrant gold details that symbolize the spiritual richness of the Amish clan, an own vision of the designer, favoring the project proposals.

Unequivocal, limitless, the white shirt, ageless, yesterday, today and always, to include all kinds of gowns, that one of which Antonio Miró, by the hand of Albert, has become the second lawyer and protector (the first one is, irrefutably, Carolina Herrera). This so simple garment, versatile, vital, timeless, classic and basic wardrobe. Albert’s interpretation of this fashion spoiled piece, the shirt and white blouse, adopts it in an Amish contemporary key made of woven silk and cotton with different necks: completely closed, with large volumes, maxi inlay ruffles and bows. He designs it with and without sleeves combining with skirts, tube or pencil and lady or palazzo pants (high of wide leg fits and tight at the waist) and ends up combining with maxi belts that enhances your feminine curves and add the right blend of sobriety.

Antonio Miró for Orígens man pays tribute to the amish personality, whose uniform are dark colors suits mixed with wide-brimmed hats, and helps you understand freedom of expression while keeping the style of straight and simple lines that define the firm with polished costumes tailored perfectly cut with tight pants (Slim fit) in cool wool fabrics, cotton and denim, outerwear flared neck, embroidered shirts, knitted sweaters and jackets in black, white and gray tones, essentially.

Women looking for Orígens of Antonio Miró, ‘claims their key role in the amish community and the society’, the company emphasizes. This (last) summer from New Yorkers newsrooms corridors of reliable magazines, as ‘Fortune’ and ‘Vogue’, the rumor was that this 21st century is going to proclaim the century of women, those feeling proud to be so, those who are multitask and try not to die, whose social businesses contribute with an extraordinary ability to face challenges and  demonstrate their capacity to adapt and overcome these challenges they face today to provide balance daily. I do join this amazing clan.

Whereas in the Amish group women are limited wearing long skirts, simple dresses in apron and a cap, Albert praises our femininity with abundant transparent tulle, taffeta and silk and wraps us in long tulle skirts and midi on skinny pants and shorts. It happen to be that every time tulle runs catwalks I always do remember the picture of the number 306 on Bowery Street in New York, powered by the transgressive and feminist septuagenarian Patricia Field in its emblematic store, today closed. Who doesn’t remember the white tulle skirt that Sara Jessica Parker carried giving life to her mythical character Carrie Bradshaw in ‘Sex and The City’? Patricia originated the most admired vogue in television history and tore off tulle from the dancers wardrobe and the fiction to dress the street up.

As if to be rolled up with tulle were not enough in a sea of trends for an Orígens’s woman by Antonio Miró, Albert supplemets the up-to-the-minute princess gene the manes dressed up in texturized hair ornaments in velvet, laces and wicker since the Barcelonian ‘suiteBrontë’ teamwork for the show, remarkable in handcrafted headgear creations.

All of them invitations to merge usage and growth for the world’s crucial icon today: women. How much have we changed? If we were to gather a great-grandmother, a grandmother, a daughter and a granddaughter around a table, we would enjoy very different and opposite 4 translations of our history of Spain. And Orígens woman of Antonio Miró furnishes us with a primary role and also gives us that space of the role of first lady in our paper towers.

For both genders, men and women looking for Orígens of Antonio Miró, it’s all in the detail and the common thread is to risk raising intensity of the appearance by taking advantage of the power of embroideries, colors and their combinations.

More and more often, brands represent their universes originally related to art, architecture or cinema to spread emotions and leave fingerprint. Anything goes to express the message of the designer in the visual language of a too reported planet. Antonio Miró’s simplicity, authenticity and sense of fashion are fuelled by direct contact with environment. For this reason, the evocative collection ‘Orígens’ is an exercise in fine elegance without stridency and clean-cuts-pure-lines.

To this day, since I dress words and give them shape, I must admit that at the premiere of ‘Orígens’, with straw hats and oil lamps of gas admitted, I got drunk of the dialog established by Antonio Miró when drinking Albert Villagrasa’s mennonites socio-cultural influences, whom I blame meanly. Thus I encourage you to take the time to view the show video at the end of Spanish version.

 

Written by Adelaida Subías

Photo Credits: 080 Barcelona Fashion & Adelaida Subías 

Editing & producing by Renovatio©