Sanchez Alleno

Grey Sheep

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Location

buenos aires / argentina

University

Institute abm

Graduation year

2014

Contact

After graduating with honors, Mailén became Assistant for Visual Artist and Fashion Designer Delia Cancela. They worked together in her atelier and also in ABM, teaching, and coaching last year's students along the process of their projects.

Her work began as an experimental process to explore self-expression, but soon she developed her commitment to creating long-lasting fashion.

She took part in different internships in two Argentinian fashion brands. Here, for the first time, she gained insights into the creative & productive process from an industrial perspective. This experience reinforced her will to work consciously and slower, aiming for quality.

Currently based in malmö, Sweden, she is still focused on developing crafting techniques to apply to her work and also raising awareness about the need for a more conscious, constructive, and smarter fashion.

Latest Collection

Abiding

A carefully crafted collection with a total of 34 hand made pieces, using mainly up-cycled materials gathered from donations, waste fabric from a local chair factory, second-hand stores and Salvation Army.

In this process, she perfected her previous hand draping, embroidery and loom knitting skills to use them as powerful, embellishing & transforming tools. This research and experimental period led her to build these history-resembling garments, based on the long-lasting quality of the chosen materials.

"Abiding" is inspired by daring to link the legacy of fashion and textile history, with this present we are currently writing.

Before starting the constructive process, there was a conscious choice to work with tapestry fabric, due to its quality and intrinsic intention to last through time.

The collection consists of 34 individual combinable pieces, most of them based on a unique maxi size that fits each body uniquely. The pieces welcome the user to comfortably inhabit them. The pattern selection sets the mind free from gender structures. Tunics, over-shirts, coats and leggings were chosen for its unisex features, and made from zero waste patterns.