ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN DE MODE OF LITERATURE JAN-FEB-MAR 2022 (Vol V, Issue XXV) | Article Published on: 9TH JAN 2023 | www.demodemagazine.com
"Chptr X" {Remixed} Spring-Summer 22 collection by CHRISTIAN COLORADO at THAILAND FASHION WEEK was a new chapter for their brand after 6 years of exploring their identity between searches, silhouettes, fabrics, zippers, non-conventional materials, ups and downs, spikes, loss, and glories. Their designs started to make statements in the past season with a new beginning for them as a brand; understanding how the world is changing and how they have to roll with it. We're living in a brand-new world with new identities, new individuals, and new needs. In their past collections, they explored and materialized childhood dreams, political issues, doubts, and joys. For the Spring-Summer 22, they have turned around something very important for their Latin culture: the telenovelas, giving them a new twist with very deep and superficial questions:
What if we did a telenovela back in the '90s with the issues, and identities and acknowledge that we have in the present? What about a non-binary main character? What would be the subject of the whole Drama? Which will be the personalities of the people involved in the drama? What would be the name? Which aesthetic they will have? How do the roles fight between the main characters, what it's good, and what it's bad??
Those were Designer Christian Colorado's breakpoints at the beginning and intend to answer all that questions with their very self-aesthetic vision. They break down too many clichés and give them a new twist like taking all that “kitsch” that they would see on TV and giving them a new life like a white tuxedo, the theme song, the “Galan” the villain, the furniture, sexiness, Big hair, big shoulders, big drama, etc.
In this research, they realized how a white suit made an impressive statement for a “Galan Latino”. That's why they take as the protagonist of this collection, and they reinterpreted the collection in different ways and different materials such as Linen, corduroy, PVC, and Rayon, and deconstruct and construct them again for the new identities (GalanX, Galana, Galane).
Another statement piece that they found very important was the corset, used on a lot of important occasions such as quinceañeras (also called quinceaños or simple quinces). It’s the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, marking her passage from girlhood to womanhood, weddings, and using a lot for female villains in telenovela dramas. They switch the rhetoric and made it for male or nonbinary ones in our iconic industrial mesh. For the shirts, they have played so many roles bringing the sexy as the starting point, they can be used as an oversized shirt, a kimono, a light jacket, or a dress, made in raw linen.
This collection was showing during the NYFW SS22 season, for the THAILAND FASHION WEEK, they mixed and matched with their FW21/22 collections, bringing back some of the most iconic pieces of that collection and trying to make some points that they have in the CHRISTIAN COLORADO brand, “fashion don’t have rules”, no gender or season ones.
