Bardo

Grey Sheep

https://www.instagram.com/unbardo/

Location

buenos aires / argentina

University

u.b.a. university of buenos aires

Born in Argentina, in a small town, she moved to the main capital to study fashion design in University of Buenos Aires. While studying fashion design she discovered that fashion could be a new way to understand latin american perspective and how politic and social issues can be transformed in sources of inspiration. She is interested in the mixture of different universes, mix texts, books, movies and art with cultural issues, always trying to transmit a fragment of the context that surrounds her. To Catalina, what matters is the creation of experiences, that the relation between the person and the cloth were a way to alter his/her daily reality.
From this concepts, she creates her brand "BARDO", which she doesn't try to create an absurd reality. Actually, she suggests another way to view it, where the consumer feels happy and can be transported to another world, a surreal one in order to create it owns reality.
Bardo is a brand that raises the idea of the power of ritual outfits and their ability to alter daily life. Combining the idea of infinity and the way we see the world as such with the shamanic belief of simultaneous coexistence and parallel realities, creating a universe of a modern, urban shaman, with a fusion of ancestral, mystical, urban and contemporary concepts. Looking at the past, present and future as well as a possible parallel reality.
The fantastic, the surreal, the dreamlike do not open a passage to lead us to discover other worlds rather the contrary. They are a unique opportunity to see ourselves in another way.
The brand does not attempt to construct an absurd reality, but to create a way to look at it differently.

Latest Collection

Initiation to shamanic universe

CONCEPT
It’s an ironic view of the SHAMANIC world taken from the deconstruction of retro garments from the 60’s analized with a surreal and kitsch eye.

MORPHOLOGICAL IDEA
We can see deconstruction and counterposing of retro garments from the 60’s, taken from SHAMANIC outfits, that reach their volume by drapping and overlapping material as well as counterposing silhouetts to generate a new relationship between the body and the garment and as a result a sculptural silhouette, which has a straighter line contrasted with its volumetric aspect.
THERE IS A STRONG MIXTURE OF MATERIALS AND TYPOLOGIES, WHERE ORNAMENTS START TO BECOME PROTAGONISTS AND TRANSFORM THEMSELVES IN ACTUAL GARMENTS.
THE GEOMETRICAL FRAGMENTATION DECONSTRUCTS AND CONSTRUCTS THE COLLECTION

INSPIRATION
Rituals and shamanic costumes, the 60’s and geometrical fragmentation

1)Rituals and shamanic costumes
Outstand over silhouettes, they become protagonists. They express tradition and culture with a deep sense of marvelous mystic.
They focus on ornaments, accessories, colors and the mixture of materials.
As I am from Argentina, I chose the poncho which is a typical garment representative of my country, used by natives and which is constantly re-designed and given a new meaning for modern contemporary everyday use

2) The 60’s
I basically mixed in the A line silhouette and the variety of colors used in the 60’s to bring my collection to a more contemporary stage, so, hints of the 60’s are present in my collection, but the shamanic characteristics always outstand.

3)Geometrical fragmentation
Geometrical fragmentation is present in my collection, through shamanic influence and different pieces of art, where collage and overlapping of different materials is used.