San Sebastián (EFE).- “Josep Font. Beauty and restlessness”, the Balenciaga spirit in an enigmatic designer.
As discreet and enigmatic as Cristóbal Balenciaga, the Catalan designer Josep Font has reappeared this Thursday at the museum dedicated to the great couturier in Getaria (Gipuzkoa) on the occasion of the exhibition that brings together some of his most relevant creations for haute couture and prêt-à- porter of the last two decades.
“Joseph Font Beauty and restlessness”
It is the first anthological exhibition that is organized on his work and with it the museum opens a new line that will explore the influence of Balenciaga (Getaria, 1895-Xávia, 1972) in current fashion through the designs of contemporary creators.
“Josep Font. Beauty and restlessness” is the first proposal, which brings together 54 pieces of clothing from collections that the designer presented in Barcelona, Tokyo, Madrid, Paris, New York and London, in some cases under his own brand and in others as creative director of Delpozo , her last destination before leaving the world of fashion in 2018.
Shoes, perfumes and headdresses
The shoes, perfumes and headdresses with which the exhibition is complemented, curated by Josep Casamartina i Parasols, director of the Fundació Antoni de Montpalau, from which the pieces on display come from, also belong to the two stages in these brands.
The set is completed with emblematic photographs by Joseph Hunwick, Javier Biosca and Ernesto Artillo, as well as an interview with the creator by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
The curator and the director of the museum, Miren Vives, have presented “Josep Font. Beauty and restlessness” at a press conference with the Government delegate in the Basque Country, Denis Itxaso, and the Basque Government’s Deputy Minister for Culture and Language Policy, Andoni Iturbe.
Until January 7, 2024
They have given voice and Josep Font (Santa Perpètua de Mogoda-Barcelona, 1965) has contributed his quiet presence during the tour of the rooms where his creations can be seen from this Friday until January 7 of next year.
His words have come through the dossier that the Balenciaga Museum has provided to the press. He says that this exhibition is important to better appreciate his production.
“Lots of people saw DelPozo’s clothes in shows or on celebrities. What is really interesting is perceiving how they are made, the composition and combination of colors and fabrics, how they fall… You have to appreciate it closely”
“Lots of people saw DelPozo’s clothes in shows or on celebrities. What is really interesting is perceiving how they are made, the composition and combination of colors and fabrics, how they fall… You have to assess it closely”, remarks Font, who received the National Fashion Design Award in 2014.
bursting production
In Font’s “plethoric” production, as defined by the museum, “three great periods” can be distinguished, almost “in parallel” in addition to the three decades in which he worked as a designer.
Thus, the sample is structured around these three stages; the first of those beginnings in which Font consolidated his own brand with Luz Díaz, who had trained with him at the Escola Superior de Disseny i Moda Felicidad Duce, in Barcelona, and with which he created at the end of the 80s “an aesthetic of sober, austere and refined colors”.
“However, in 1995, Font continued his solo career and at the end of this decade he evolved towards a magical and hypersensitive world, with extensive colors, luxurious and refined fabrics, spectacular and daring embroideries, achieving international success”, says the Balenciaga Museum.
Three ready-to-wear collections
The process culminated in the three prêt-à-porter collections and the four haute couture collections —between 2008 and 2009— with which she “absolutely” triumphed in Paris.
The second phase of his career comes with the relaunch of Delpozo, because after losing his own brand in 2011 and designing anonymously for other companies for a year, Font is in charge of remodeling the firm of the late Madrid designer Jesús del Pozo.
Font directs “the entire new concept of the brand and its stores in Madrid, Miami, London, Moscow and Dubai” and “creates an impeccable, rigorous, innovative and exquisite prêt-à-couture line”.
The footprint of Cristobal Balenciaga
“It is a very refined period, with forceful and daring volumes, but at the same time weightless, in which the imprint of Cristóbal Balenciaga can be felt, as well as that of Emilie Flöge —a refined Viennese dressmaker, close to Gustav Klimt—, the world magical and hypersensitive of the Russian painter Andrey Remnev, or the chromatic proposals of the German Josef Albers”, highlights Balenciaga Museoa.
After this start, Josep Font reaches the zenith of his career as the creator of Delpozo. The Getaria Museum highlights that, between 2012 and 2018, he created nineteen collections, which are the ones in which “the influence of Cristóbal Balenciaga is most evident.”
Madrid, New York, Paris and London
“In Delpozo, the Catalan designer reaches his maturity and maximum recognition worldwide with the collections he presents in Madrid, New York, Paris and London, and places the brand among the favorites of the red carpet and celebrities such as Keira Knightley , Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Elle Fanning, Rihanna or Zendaya, creating trends and marking a milestone in the world of fashion”, he emphasizes.
But as the curator of the exhibition points out, Font’s look at Balenciaga was never “mimetic”, but the creations of the designer, who also studied Architecture, are the result of “a very personal interpretation based on the study of volume, the construction architecture and the ornamentation of the fabric itself”. EFE
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