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technical description

Crochet dress knitted with pineapple, tencel and organic cotton yarns, with a flower technique. Everything is dyed with plants with no chemicals in the process, using plant based materials fully biodegradable, to confront biodiversity issues. The fringes hanging in the garments are also made the same materials, except for the metallic cords at the end of the fringe. The hat has a visor made out of esparto dry branches collected from the mountains of spain, using an ancestral technique used by her grandmother to create baskets for the farm.

concept

Designer Silvia Acien Parrilla delves into the intricate connections between Nova Gorica and Gorizia, two cities that have coexisted for centuries. Human interventions, driven by power dynamics and jurisdictional concerns, resulted in the separation of the two cities. However, her exploration focuses on the aspects that remained intertwined despite the artificial border. Commencing from the Julian Alps and the Soča River, natural elements shared by the two cities, Silvia observes how nature transcends any border, unaffected by man-made barriers. Her project envisions a utopian world based on entirely new principles. What if all decisions were guided by biodiversity and humanity found itself under the dominion of nature? Her garment embodies this transformative idea, an entirely new perspective based on new kinds of borders that would profoundly reassess our existence.