06/03/2026
When I get inspired for a new season, almost always I’m consumed by the concept, diving deep into the ideas that percolate into the materialization of my vision onto fashion reality. It’s when a feeling becomes a color, a shadow becomes a shape, and the movement of the sun becomes the sweep of a dress. I submerge my surroundings into the holistic world that I yearn to create. It inherently forces these images and things to influence my conscious and subconscious process. Making my concept my world for the many months that I develop it.
As I began the voyage into my next collection, Spring/ Summer 2027 , I went back into the archives to one of my all-time favorites… Calatrava Fall 2014.
Inspired by a bridge I crossed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Santiago Calatrava, I became obsessed with his work and took a trip to his hometown of Valencia, Spain, where his architecture is prolific.
I was in awe of it all. In particular, a train station he created. As I sat and watched the way the hot, July sun light pierced through the negative space of the white wrought iron beams of the “organic mechanical” structure, I was flooded with ideas….the vision for my collection, and from that point forward, I was fully flowing. My challenge was how I would channel Calatrava’s power and strength into couture.
Here are some images of my process and my world when I made Calatrava…. In particular, how I translated the negative space of the roof of the train station into a graphic, and then into the multi-metallic foil coupé textile that ultimately defined the collection.
