Gustavo Lins is passionate about complex research to create perfect basics, a quest for simplicity and beauty within concealed technicality. Noble fabrics melt amongst themselves and the original materials fuse, offering a piece of clothing that is both evident and complex, uniquely feminine. \u201cWhen I take up my pencil and a question arises, it\u2019s still the kimono that helps me to find the aesthetic solution. Through its simplicity and rupture with bourgeois codes, (…) it translates and imposes a contemporary connotation,\u201d he confirms. He describes his creative process as work done around a single common thread. \u201cI always have tons of references, and the kimono helps me to funnel my design, my attention, and especially the proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The kimono\u2019s timeless shape has always been fascinating, ever since 1900, when undulation and exoticism defined \u201cnouvelle vogue\u201d. Paul Poiret showed off colors, prints, and Japanese-inspired cuts. Madeleine Vionnet constructed knowingly sumptuous wrappings, hymns to movement. The kimono, a vague Japanese robe with ample sleeves and a large sash, became a key piece for the era. Gustavo Lins has been able to ingeniously reinvest this flourishing legacy in his workshops ever since 2003; he releases and deconstructs the kimono in numerous and multiple unique pieces, constructed directly on the models, in three dimensions. Translating a great technical mastery, his creations reflect never-before-seen experimentation with volumes: the body is the only constructive principal, the fabrics and their folds carry out a perfect symbiosis with its curves and lines. Gustavo Lins admits to only choosing noble materials for his creations; ever conscious of the environment, he confirms that he doesn\u2019t want to work with polyamide or polymers.<\/p>\n
For his latest collection called 020, the artist-couturier invites us into a universe where intimacy reigns and fluidity is structured. The evening kimono shows off twists and turns inspired by those of the human body. The round and subtly denuded shoulder is a nod to the Japanese belief that the neck is the most sensual part of the female body. This authentic simplicity conceals a complexity that is barely acknowledged. The fluid silk becomes sculptural, perfecting the female body with sound and light, in between layers of fabric and slivers of silk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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