clara gonzรกlez | designer
I was born in Madrid, on 1986. 27 years of history: my father is an iron and stone sculptor and my mother is a teacher; I studied both education and fashion design. During my three years at the Fashion Design High School in Madrid, I had the opportunitty to study lessons at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft.in Berlin with the fashion designer Frau Anke Schlöder. I began working for INDITEX before finishing my degree, simultaneously working both for ZARA and on my own personal project. My current job consists of designing clothes for 3 to 12 years old girls, I am a member of the Soft Department: a new project changing ZARA clients’ perception, . This is my job. · This my leitmotiv. Within all my personal projects, I look for nature. I seek simplicity and clarity. I aim to keep things as raw and as clear as possible. I work with nature, Reused fabrics and materials form the foundations of my designs. Discovering their unique qualities and the struggle with the ideas on my mind excites me. I search for alternative solutions to problems and hope to uncover the unexpected. I adapt the real to the imaginary. Or the opposite. Or both.
USED PROJECT UPM MADRID
Fashion Show 1st Course High School of Fashion Design UPM Madrid
Used This project is based on reusing materials. By recicling them we gave them a new life. I reused a piece of aluminum I found in a dump a few kilometers from Segovia, my hometown. With my father’s help and his tools I pulled it and I gave it the shape I wanted, bearing in mind it was going to be worn by a person. I combined this piece with a silk organdy pants, to offset the heavy look of the top. So the silk was floated as a weave while the aluminium flew over it.
JEANS PROJECT HTW BERLÍN
KAOS UND ORDNUNG PROJECT HTW BERLÍN
Kaos und Ordnung Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
Kaos und Ordnung This project has its roots in the philosophic concepts of chaos and order. I looked for the kaos within the order. I looked for the order within the chaos. I found it in something as simple and natural as the fabric itself. I found the simil of the “order inside the kaos” because I used real technic climbing knots and real climbing cord inside natural fur which i consider to be chaos. Assuming nature is chaos, and the man-made tools to reach it are order, my project is the mélange of the two. For this project I create bothan EXTREME outfit and its COMERCIAL version.
Camera: Lubitel 166B Film: ILFORD PAN F 50ASA Photographer: Iñigo Gracianteparaluceta. 23.02.12 @ Kreuzberg. Berlin
MÉLANGE SERIES CSDMM MADRID
Geometry
Abstraction
Expiration
Life
FINAL PROJECT WABI SABI
ZARA KIDS GIRL SOFT DEPARTMENT INDITEX
Segovia 2014