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Fashion, Art & Nature chez Oscar Carvallo

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Fashion, Art & Nature chez Oscar Carvallo explores the intricate relationship between art, nature, and fashion through the creations of Venezuelan designer Oscar Carvallo. Renowned globally for his innovative and playful designs, Carvallo collaborates with key figures such as Op art artist Carlos Cruz-Diez to produce groundbreaking collections like "Kinetic Journey." His work celebrates the fluidity of silk and satin while reflecting his deep passion for nature, transforming feminine silhouettes into evocative forms like women-flowers and women-fish. Themes of time, decay, and renewal are central to his collections, which aim to celebrate and preserve beauty in all its forms.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in the intersections of fashion, contemporary art, and environmental themes. It appeals to those who appreciate innovative design, artistic collaboration, and the cultural significance of fashion within social change.

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The relationship between art, nature, and fashion in the creations of the Venezuelan designer that conquered public and critics around the world.

Fashion and art have always had intimate and fruitful relations, accompanying social change and, in particular, the role of women in the world.

Oscar Carvallo is a fashion designer who challenges things with his original and amusing content and who, among his numerous artistic collaborations, is associated with Carlos Cruz-Diez, a key Op art artist and colour theorist, to elaborate new collections.

This extraordinary encounter has given life to creations titled Kinetic Journey. Silhouettes and colours occupy space-time, accompany the fluid motion of silks and satins, or sculpt bodies in an intermingling of colours that make the senses vibrate and deceive the gaze.

Carvallo's passion for art is linked to his love of nature, pursued with true dedication. Born in Caracas, near the sea and lush landscapes, the designer extols the silhouettes of women that become, each time, women-flowers, women-feathers, women-fish...

His vision of the world is reflected in his collections Save Our Soul, Caribbean Sea, or Neptune; he reveals the anxiety of being in Melancholy or Eagle Eye; he questions the passing of time that withers and decays things and living beings. Carvallo tries to fight this decay—with artists, designers, craftsmen—and to build beauty, freeing it, displaying it.

This incredible creative inclination sublimes nature that can renew itself and which must be safeguarded.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788857242415

Publisher: Skira

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 March 2020

Country: Italy

Imprint: Skira

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 1680g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Hélène Farnault is a consultant on crafts and artisans. She worked for the French Ministry of Culture for the Mission des Métiers d’art. She is the author of Les Maîtres d’art and Les Métiers d’art.

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