Barcelona Roca Space Gallery hosts until October 16 the exhibition “20 Dresses dialogue between fashion and literature,” an exhibition in which the body takes litertaura by design.
The exhibition, organized by Rock and the Fashion Designers Association in collaboration with ICEX, the Ministry of Culture and the Cervantes Institute, shows works created by designers and 2 0 prestigious Spanish designers have international l “dress” 20 pieces of Russian and Latin American literature, coinciding with the Dual Year that brings these two cultures.
The connection between fashion and literature are realized through the personal interpretation of some of the most prestigious designers and designers of the Spanish scene. Loewe, Victorio & Luchino, Hannibal Laguna, Duyos, Roberto Verino, Ana Locking, Juanjo Oliva, Lemoniez, Devote &Lomba, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Jesús del Pozo, Davidelfín, Miriam Ocariz, Ailanto, Custo Barcelona, Miguel Palacio, Roberto Torretta, Amaya Arzuaga, Angel Schlesser and Lydia Delgado.
Among the Russian authors highlight s Chekhov, Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, or Anna Akhmatova, and, among the authors highlight selected Spanish Cervantes, Ana Maria Matute, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among others.
Thus, Loewe saw Dulcinea, a character created by Miguel de Cervantes in his most renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, Roberto Verino create a spectacular costume for Lot’s wife, Anna Akhmatova, and Devota & Lomba hundred dresses Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
With words like “It was too beautiful to be true […]” Duyos inspired to dress Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, whileAngel Schlesser embodies the Nevsky Nikolai Gogol, among others.
The exhibition has previously been in cities like T Okio, Beijing, Istanbul, Milan, Brussels, Budapest and Moscow.