BORJA ROMEA

The collection presents the comparison between a child and an adult through the lyrics of an Aragonese jota (traditional song of Aragon) “A la voluntad del aire”; allowing to observe the process of personal maturity through this song.

By the words “tendiendo” and “aire” of the lyrics of the song, the child imagined a woman hanging clothes on a balcony in a delicate and united way. How can we hang clothes on people? How can we hang garments from other garments? How are laundries going to change depending on where or when they are hung?
These questions form the backbone of the first of the two themes that create the collection, giving rise to two concepts: "invertible garments" and “multipositional garments”. These concepts come from the idea of studying how we can hang garments, through the work of Moulage with second-hand garments, previously observing how garments are hung on balconies; how are they folded, where we put the clamps or the volumes that are generated through them; looking for the interventions that we must perform on garments to recreate the position of the garment when it is stretched out. All of these now translated to how they can be hung on a person.
Garments are transformed in a way where bottoms become necklines of new garments (such as jackets, dresses or t-shirts). Created to have various functions (such as a shirt that becomes a skirt or pants that work as a jacket) or incorporate characteristic elements of other garments (as is the case of a pair of pants created by parts of a jacket).

The second concept comes from the adult reasoning on the jota’s lyrics, whose moral comes to say that each person is free, that nothing and no one should condition the tastes, the concerns or the impulses of each individual. Is a man free from its own masculinity? What roles are imposed on men as soon as they are born? What is expected for men? What makes a man move away from the manly figure that society demands? Are garments gendered and stigmatized? How can a man be free?
These are the questions that bring us to the second theme that structures the project, leading to the need to free a man when it comes to dress, giving him the opportunity to dress freely, without thinking about the social associations that have been established between clothes and gender. In this way, it is promoted to destigmatize and make genderless garments, getting these to be plain and non gendered, such as a table or a chair, without stopping to think about the social and gender associations.

The project is presented as a timeless collection, which chooses to rescue fabrics without production/recycled fabrics from other garments or other elements from the past such as sheets, tablecloths or blankets. Creating a game between the patterns and the limitations of footage presented by the textures. The proposed color way is committed to diverse and vivid colors, presenting an explosion of color, remarking the difference seen on each balcony. These leads us to the mixture of colors and prints in most looks, giving special importance to the striped and oral prints.
On the other hand, white takes a special place in the looks, due to the references taken from the garments interiors.