’Revolutionary road’ collection for Spring/Summer 2017 by Justicia Ruano

‘Revolutionary road’ collection for Spring/Summer 2017 by Justicia Ruano

SHORT OVERVIEW

My love & passion for fashion dates back to my six-years-old. I was mad at my mother. She always looked impecable, elegant, sober at all times. She caused stares and envy at her goes with her curvilinear figure visually underscoring the waist. Recognisable manicure, pedicure, hairdresser and image.  She stepped into high-heeled shoes avoiding flat footwear and for that reason yet I was even more surprised to how it would feel fitted into those high heels and pointy-toed fashion shoes. Daily, on my return from school to eat at home, I carefully chose some pair of her wonderful shoes according to my apparel, I literally wrapped in one of her kitchen apron and I wore a wig. This is how I used to play kitchens and markets with Barbie dolls at home under my father’s welcoming picturing myself to be adult. Even with maid and nanny at home, my mommy was in charge of the kitchen by an express and exquisite requirement of my daddy. This way until my 13-years-old that I put on my first high-heels to go to school without taking into account the laughs of other girls. And I stopped to play at being adult.

I was born in November 1970, the seventies, that extraordinary decade in fashion industry, that everlasting inspiration source, the one that serves as a reference, the one that is in vogue. Consequently and undeniably, I find my mother guilty of me being, in part, a fashion chronicler.

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A glorification of feminity

During last Barcelona Fashion Week in July 2016, Justicia Ruano, who has parallels with the rebellious Dadaist mindset of the early 20th century, signed the most daring creation in Barcelona’s landscape for Spring/Summer 2017. The trigger for my inspiration is her commitment to the orchid; a constant, a powerful symbol in the construction of her identity. I was captivated by the charm with excess in all this exotic flower tones: lavender, ros, violet, aubergine, fuchsia, purple, mauve & lilac. I let the rhythm enveloped me with the ruffles allied to the immaculate white. I flirted among the exuberance of the various textures right by hypnotic geometries, a puzzle of pure forms, a whimsical & tempting trend, a burst of energy.

Dazzling Justi.  You’ve got a special attraction, as New York based Studio 54 had, the myth & the temple at The City’s 54th West. One of a kind, out of this world in which anyone on earth wanted to be.

Written by Adelaida Subías

Photo credits: ‘Ort i Bes’ y Adelaida Subías

Editing & producing by Renovatio©

 

 

It is dedicated to my lovely mother.