GUILLERMO JUSTICIA

“I am at an uncertain personal moment, feeling alone in the middle of an immense, inhospitable, and unknown world. I don’t know where to go, what to do, or how to do it. It’s an overwhelming feeling, so much uncertainty, so much immensity, so much emptiness; it’s frightening.
Still, I see beauty in that world. It scares me, it makes me suffer, but it’s beautiful.”

“VOID” begins with a feeling. It comes from everything I felt after presenting my first collection. During that time, I wasn’t sure what to do, how to do it, or where I wanted to go. I was lost, and it was a solitary path where everything depended on me. I felt a lot of pressure to move forward and establish myself, but I didn’t know how to do it, and at the same time, I wanted to go at my own pace.

I started imagining all those feelings and giving them shape, as if they were a place, to better understand how I was feeling. I visualized a cold, vast, unexplored, and unknown universe. A dark, rocky, and desolate world. When I imagined myself in it, I could feel those same emotions: loneliness, uncertainty, unfamiliarity. That’s when the concept for the collection was born. I wanted to create that universe, make the audience feel the same, immerse them in it. Then, I imagined the characters that would inhabit this world. I created them to better understand it and to share it somehow, so that we could all travel to that place together.

“VOID” is a conceptual collection that includes a wide variety of garments and fabrics. Among them, there are suits, coats, trench coats, dresses, shirts, sweaters… and materials such as denim, tailoring wools, organza, tulle, linen, lace, and twill. All fabrics used are deadstock, and some unconventional materials, such as curtain and upholstery fabrics, are included for certain garments. Special attention has been paid to pattern making, working with different volume methodologies such as pleats, tucks, godets, gathers, and panels.