TROPICAL DELUSION FLESHION COLLECTION
Fleshion comes from Flesh and Fashion
TROPICAL DELUSION COLLECTION Imagine an encounter between Isadora Duncan and Flávio de Carvalho. Two visionary souls. From another time and space. One in North America and another in the South. In another century far from ours. Apart from each other but closes enough as transgressives artists. Isadora gave to dance its freedom and emotion. Dance became an inner expression of the self. A dive into the body and listen to feelings and emotions in search of the desire to move. The dance was not the same anymore. Carvalho was restless and disagreed with social conventions. Desirous of a tropical culture. Questioner of the forms of apartheid, European domination, even though he was a white man. Isadora was also white. Both in their gestures did not accept the models of gender behavior imposed in their time. Their actions, performances, works have always declared freedom to bodies and minds. TROPICAL DELUSION is an imaginary frame that embodies their libertarians’ thoughts and translates it into clothing. In especial thinking of women’s liberations to genderless modes of being. The freedom of body movement comes first. Right ahead, the sense of skin concerning air and wind. The touch of the textile while moving, while air passing, refreshing, and cooling down. Reveals parts of the body, as much each one is comfortable to show. For any shape of the body. For any gender or gender identity as well. A collection made with pure cotton handkerchiefs. Exclusives patters, multiple combinations. Designed one by one by the artist’s hands and finalized by machine. It is a very unique collection with almost exclusive pieces. Fair price. It is an art-relational-clothing-piece. It is clothing as an experience. Made for the touch and to be touched. READY DELIVERY OR ON REQUEST.
POETICS AND POLITICS OF APPEARANCE In the words of Flávio de Carvalho , fashion announces the time in which we live and what lies ahead. For example, the sick appearance as veins painted in blue, red eyes and, white hair heralded the end of an era and the advent of the French Revolution. The morbid event already “predisposed” by those dressed as dying people. And, he continues, “it is the fashion of the costume that has the strongest influence on man because it is that which is closest to his body and his body always remains the part of the world that most interests man”. I rather say, regarding gender, how the dressed and undressed bodies remain fascinating us! An example of how fashion and the body can be powerful influential agents of changes in the body and in society, think of the action of burning bras during the second wave of the feminist movement in the USA. This action not only had a surface effect but also changed the postures, the gestures of women and released their bodies for new experiences in the world. The power of visual images and their political complexity was well exposed in the book “Images Matters”, by Tina Campt, a researcher on women’s studies. Campt presents us with an extraordinary reflection on how the photography of family albums has allowed black Europeans to speak about themselves and their communities. Also as it is explained by Richard Wrigley in his book, “The Politics of Appearances”, about the changes in fashion made by the new regime in France post-French Revolution: “Translating the new revolutionary order into the realm of external appearances was effected by the complementary processes of, on the one hand, the abolition of inherited orders, signs, and decorations, and on the other hand, their replacement by signs which expressed the social and political principles of equality and patriotic virtue.”
Tropical Delusion Collection
Collection designed by the artist and choregrapher Thelma Bonavita. It was presented at Miani’s House, a reference of Brazilian brutalist architeture. Designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha with a Burle Marx’ garden, in 1963. It is a Cultural Point curated by the couple artists, Beth Bastos and Sandro Miano, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. performance by: Daniela Pinheiro Isabel Costa MaĂra Rocha Machado photographers: Carol, Fig Sandro Miano Kiko Ferrreti
Sao Paulo, 2019.
Tropical Delusion combines the libertarian impulse with pleated handkerchiefs. Unfolds a series of garments to please the skin, allow movement, refresh and feel good. Evoking a better future to live in. Felling timeless and genderless.
Tropical Delusion combines the libertarian impulse with pleated handkerchiefs. Unfolds a series of garments to please the skin, allow movement, refresh and feel good. Evoking a better future to live in. Felling timeless and genderless.