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PORTO AZUL
​​This season, Memoria Falsa takes us on a trip to the Iberian peninsula, to a city called Porto Azul.
Everything here is split between two tones, blue from the sky and the sea, white from the sand and ocean spray.
Houses are covered in beautifully painted faience tiles, which are the visual inspiration for this collection : Azulejos.
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This new collection is made using french hemp and coton, in different shades of sand color, with blue Azulejos tiles print.​
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I chose the Cyanotype technic to create the azulejos motifs on the garments. This artisanal process uses the UV present in the sunlight to reveal the print and gives it this specific blue tone, reminding me of the hand painted blue tiles.
CIVITASOLIS
In the late 16th century, an Italian dominican philosopher published “The City of the Sun”, describing an utopian city, based on common ownership, uniformization, and a rigid yet balanced social structure.
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With this collection I imagined a modern version of this utopia : Civitasolis, a monochrome city, stuck between past and present, not exactly modern or outdated, straight out of the 1960’s futurism movement.
The city is characterized by a brutalist architecture : “Béton Brut” buildings, devoid of ornaments, with recurring geometric shapes.
Here, everyone exists through its function in society and expressing your true self and singularity is done against the norm.
