LCI Barcelona collaborates with ESTAE to present a fashion show

The Higher School of Performing Arts Techniques (ESTAE) of the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona collaborated with the Higher Artistic Education in Fashion Design of LCI Barcelona School of Design and Visual Arts to present a fashion show on 3 March at the Teatre Alegria in Barcelona.

ESTAE’s second-year machinery, scene and sound students assembled the show while LCI Barcelona’s third-year fashion design students presented their designs and the university’s fashion photography master students were in charge of taking the photographs.

Gabriel Torres, project director and teacher of fashion design, said in a statement: “For many students, it is their first parade, the first time they can show their pieces on a catwalk without having reached the final project. They are right in the middle of their studies of Higher Artistic Education in Fashion Design at LCI Barcelona.”

Torres continued to explain that the projects are done in the subject of styling and creativity: “that recover traditional techniques turning them around to make them contemporary: smock stitch, lanterns, embroidery, deconstructed patterns, multipositional garments... All this from new and surprising points of view.

“It is a way for the student to understand that the avant-garde is not at odds with tradition, the key is to turn it around and approach it from new perspectives.”

Estel Vilaseca, head of the school's fashion area, discussed: “For us, as a school and from the fashion area of LCI Barcelona, with more than 90 years of experience teaching fashion, it is very important to preserve all this knowledge to do, which after all is cultural heritage, and put it in the hands of students so that they can reinterpret it in a current key and with an eye to the future. We believe that the dialogue between tradition and the present context is very enriching.”

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