'Dress is dreaming', a journey to the heart of Spanish fashion and its creators of success

From Balenciaga to Alejandro Gómez Palomo.

From Balenciaga to Alejandro Gómez Palomo. Tour the Basque coast, stopping in Madrid and arriving on the city of Posadas (Córdoba). The e-book Vestir es soñar (Turner) by LuisSala covers the clothes workshops of the good dressmakers who during the last 100 years have woven and given their identify to Spanish vogue.

The historical past of leaders within the trade reminiscent of Manolo Blahnik, Roberto Verino or Paloma Picasso, their beginnings but additionally their milestones on the catwalk and within the store home windows, come to life within the pages of this e-book that, by historic pictures, establishes a visible narrative about textile artwork with a Spanish seal.

“It has all the time been simpler for me to see myself mirrored in somebody born in Posadas or Alicante than in Paris or New York”, says the writer, who assures that the e-book doesn't search to be a information to Spanish vogue however a tribute to his personal idols. A private train that delves into the standard of the approach and the material, but additionally into essentially the most visceral a part of vogue.

“As an apprenticeship, I want the concept Dolores Cortés factors out within the prologue: ardour. Right here there aren't any half measures, otherwise you really feel a ardour for vogue, a real vocation, or higher not begin in it. It's overwhelming and in the event you do not find it irresistible, you possibly can't stand it ”, she acknowledges and warns that making made in Spain develop because it does is just doable due to the eagerness of its protagonists. "The one place the place success seems earlier than work is within the dictionary," she says, paraphrasing the good Jesús del Pozo.