PORTFOLIO Carmen Gรณmez Molina
BASIC INFO Carmen Gómez Molina 21. Based in Granada, Spain. carmen.gomez.molina@gmail.com
EDUCATION 2012 C2 English (Cambridge ESOL Level 3
FASHION DESIGN
Certificate) 2014-2018 BA Fashion Design
EAG
Granada, Spain
DESIGN COMPETITIONS 2016 VI Pasarela Fortuny (finalist) Granada, Spain 2017 Mostra do Encaixe de Camariñas: XXIV Concurso de Jóvenes Diseñadores (2nd prize) Galicia, Spain.
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
NIZAKA
All photos by me Models: Marisol Pro, Eva Gutfreund, Juliet Fernández, Laura Yannone Obregón. Hair and make-up: Juanjo Gragera Fuentes All clothing designs from Nizaka collection by Juanjo Gragera Fuentes, Arancha Balcells y Conchi Rodríguez.
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LONELY BOY
All photos and styling by me Model: Luis Fernรกndez Andrade
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CABINET DES CURIOSTÉS
All photos by me Model: Estefanía López Lorente Hair and styling: Luis Fernández Andrade and myself Make-up: Amalia Gómez Molina All clothing designs from Luis Fernández’s Handgemachte Natur collection
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BAKARI SS18 CATALOG BTS
All photos by me Behind the scenes photographs of the making of Bakari’s SS18 catalog, while working as the producer’s assistant. Working with photographer Kiko Lozano, stylist and producer Fabrizzio Morales-Angulo and model Eva Gutfreund.
ARENA DE RELOJ
Arena de reloj is a word play around the Spanish word for hourglass (reloj de arena) and is a symbol of women as both a container and the content of time. My first womenswear collection revolves around my own existential concerns regarding time, body image distortion and the intuitive female nature. Guided by several readings on mindfulness techniques as well as Clarissa Pinkola EstÊs’ Women Who Run With Wolves, I start a self-discovery journey by integrating past, present and future. Nostalgic 50s silhouettes rendered in grid-like fabrics are brought back to convey the feeling of constraint of women. The pixelated Windows hourglass, as well as metallic textures and 3D printed accesories bring us to a digital present and uncertain future.
All photos by me Model: Eva AnaĂŻs Gutfreund Stylist: Fabrizzio Morales-Angulo Hair and make-up: Juanjo Gragera
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HAENYEO (Korean hangul 해 녀, means women of the sea) is a conceptual womenswear collection that emerged from my personal investigation around the theme of impossible fashion. Is anti-fashion dead, or just invisible to the system? From these questions emerge my concerns about ageism in the fashion industry, which fortright ignores older people in general, but especially women. I set my imagination free and through collage techniques I merged two very different, yet each empowered in their own particular way, groups of women. On the one hand, Korean Haenyeo (shellfish gatherers) who live from the sea while sustaining the Jeju Island community and embodying austerity and firmness. On the other hand, the stylish older women from the most fashionable cities of the world, as portrayed by Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style blog and film, bring fearlessness and boldness to the mix.
HAENYEO
해녀
(S)U
URCO (S)URCO is a menswear project radically inspired by Spanish craftsmanship. The starting point is the artisanal, cotton bobbin lace made in Camariñas, a small village in Galicia. I wanted to claim back the use of lace in men’s clothes, and did so using contemporary fabrics such as denim, scuba knit and wool knit. Volumes and colors are informed by another distinctive Spanish handicraft: Sargadelos’ unique, geometric ceramics. Drawing on the archetypes of their traditional, local fishing culture, I use workwear-ready silhouettes with a twist by re-inventing classic staples in delicate silk organza fabrics. The second pillar behind (S)URCO is the ocean life and its wise cycles. Recycling old jeans, I deconstruct them in shape and texture to give them a new life.
All photos by me Model: Esteban Freiria
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STRANGE FRUIT Strange Fruit is a womenswear collection that is still undergoing finishing processes. Inspiration comes from the natural world and its exuberant design visible in the most exotic fruits. As this project is heavily based on moulage, draping, volume and fabric manipulation, I try to recreate organic-like, imaginary shapes in silk organza and gazar as well as texture-rich velvet. David Fairchild, the American botanic explorer, and Carmen Miranda aka the Lady with the Tutti-Frutti Hat meet in this collage of vibrant, colorful shapes mixed with practical, outdoors adventure-ready tailoring.
Photographer: Laura MartĂn PĂŠrez