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LEYRE VALIENTE
+ Haute Couture meets Art and Science Fiction +
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Leyre Valiente entered University Rey Juan Carlos in 2003 to study Audiovisual Communication, and during this period she worked as a costume designer and production assistant in several audiovisual productions, while she attended to courses in Photography, Drawing, History of Clothing and Textiles, and Costume Design for Movies by Gumersindo Andrés, twice Goya (Spanish Movie Awards) nominated.
After graduating in 2008, she entered the Instituto Europeo di Design to study Fashion Design, and she attended to courses and workshops in Leather Design with Rob Goodwin, Chainmail with Anillarte, T-shirt Illustration Design with illustrator Iván Soldo, Print Design with Suturno, and Millinery with Justin Smith.
On 2009-2010 course Leyre won the school’s best luxury collection and best image diplomas, and in 2010-2011 she received an Honourable Mention for her final project. With this project, she been finalist in contests such as ModaFad, Who’s Next, My Own Show, Special K and Murcia Open Design. One of her dresses has been featured in Little Black Dress (A & C Black Publishers Ltd), a book from Isabel Sanchez published in five different languages. On september she was included in VOGUE ITALY TALENTS supplement as one of the 180 emergent talents of 2011, after which she has been featured in publications, blogs and webs around the world.
On summer 2010 she joined YONO TAOLA for two months as an intern, and in 2011 she spent another two months in ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, in London, after which she came back to Madrid to enter LOEWE, again as an intern, too for six months.
Last june, after leaving LOEWE, she was invited to show her capsule collection "Santa Sangre" at South 36-32N (Cadiz Fashion Week) and in July she was invited by Fier Management to show her creations in their showroom during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, where she was also nominated to an award in the Berlin Fashion Film Festival.
Afterwards, in September 2012, Leyre Valiente was selected by the EGO platform to show "Chimaera", her first full collection, in the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid with great public and press reviews. She repeated with "Malleus Maleficarum" in the February edition.
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C H I M A E R A
Leyre Valiente Spring Summer 2013
A fantastic and metaphorical journey from fetus (when we all are pure and simple) to chimaera; the complicate yet beautiful monster we get to be when we grow up.
C H I M AE R A (From lat. chimaera, and this from gr. cimaira, fantastic animal)1 Greek Mythology a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail.
2 something hoped for but illusory or impossible to achieve.
3 Biology an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation.
(Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press)
CHIMAERA by Leyre Valiente from Leyre Valiente on Vimeo.
PICTURE CREDITS:
Photo: Miralla y Calf
Hair & makeup: Raquel Álvarez
Model: Mariela Vasileva.VIDEO CREDITS:
Photography: Davinci White
Video camera operator: Jose María Luxán
Video colour grading: Javier de Prado
Atrezzo: Maya Pixelskaya Fetus sculpted by Ricardo Acosta
Hair & makeup: Berta García
Direction and editing: Leyre Valiente
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- Dec 02, 12
Collection Chimaera designed by Leyre Valiente and remixed by Michael Ostermann.
Pictures originally by Marcus Rico and Davinci White.
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11/July/2012
A post by Erea Louro in her blog "All That She Wants" from Hola.com. Read the full story (in spanish) here: http://lookandfashion.hola.com/itsallthatshewants/20120711/jovenes-talentos-leyre-valiente/
Según sus propias palabras: “Para mí la moda es una manera de expresarme como un pintor expresa a través de sus pinturas. Cosemos en lugar de pintar, pero es lo mismo. Es arte. Como amante del cine y el arte, mis diseños están altamente influidos por ambos”
Al igual que a mí, su pasión por el cine le llevó a estudiar Comunicación Audiovisual, pero el gusanillo del diseño seguía allí, por lo que durante la carrera trabajó en el departamento de vestuario en varias producciones audiovisuales, al mismo tiempo que asistía a cursos de Fotografía, Dibujo, Historia de la Moda y los Textiles, Diseño de Vestuario para Cine,etc. Después de graduarse en el año 2008, entró en el Instituto Europeo di Design para estudiar Diseño de Moda.
En el curso 2009-2010 ganó muy merecidamente el premio de la escuela a la mejor colección de lujo y el de la mejor imagen por el proyecto con “I want a pair of glasses”. Además, en junio de 2011 recibió una mención especial por su proyecto final de carrera. Con este, ha sido finalista en varios concursos como: ModaFad, Who’s Next, My Own Show, y Special K. En septiembre fue incluida en el suplemento TALENTS de VOGUE Italia como uno de los 100 talentos recién graduados de 2011.
Pero no solo eso, y es en el verano de 2010 hizo prácticas de dos meses en YONO TAOLA, y en 2011 pasó otros dos meses como becaria en ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, en Londres. ¿Qué pasada verdad? Más tarde volvió a Madrid para hacer prácticas en LOEWE, puesto que ha tenido que dejar para poner en marcha su propia marca.
Como podéis ver en esta pequeña selección de fotografías, sus diseños son impresionantes. Tienen una elaboración muy precisa y estudiada que solo pueden ser realizados por un verdadero talento. Por ello, estoy segura que Leyre Valiente dará mucho que hablar, no solo en nuestro país sino en la moda internacional. Espero poder disfrutar de sus diseños muy pronto sobre grandes pasarelas porque se lo merece má que nadie. ¿No creéis?
Si queréis saber un poco más sobre ella aquí tenéis su página web. ¡No le perdáis la pista!
http://www.leyrevaliente.com/ - Nov 26, 12July 2012
Chimaera video has been ominated to Best Fashion in the Berlin Fashion Film Festival.
You can see the official teaser here. - Nov 25, 12
July 2012
Invited to show my work at Fier Management during the Berlin Fashion Week. Read the full article here: http://fiermanagement.com/2012/06/28/leyre-valiente-a-metaphorical-journey/ - Nov 25, 12
19/June/2012
Article in the magazine Madriz.com (in spanish). Read it here: http://www.madriz.com/leyre-valiente/ - Nov 25, 12
June 2012
Complete review (in spanish) here: http://www.artedigest.com/Newsletter/2012-06_ArteDigest/2012-06_ArteDigest-Fashion/2012-06_ArteDigest-Fashion.htm - Nov 26, 12
24/May/2012
Read the full article (in lavtian) here: http://www.kleoo.lv/blogs.php?id=4426&name=noslepumainas-butnes-zurnala-faint - Nov 25, 12
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- Nov 26, 12"Cuarto Milenio" editorial for Ohio magazine http://issuu.com/revistaohio/docs/ohio7
- Nov 25, 12
13/April/2012
Featured in Poupees des Chiffons (in french). Read it here.
Salut les minettes !
Aujourd'hui, on vous parle d'une créatrice qui nous vient d'espagne, elle nous a tapé dans l'oeil tout de suite, grâce à un style organique & futuriste. Ce qu'on aime, c'est cette touch' un peu alien, voir Mad Max sur les bords.
Quand Leyre Valiente vous embarque dans son univers imaginaire si fascinant, on se laisse emporter, sans résister ...
Si jamais vous n'en avez pas eu assez, allez faire un tour sur son site.
Merci à Neako qui nous a fait découvrir cette créatrice.D'ailleurs ce petit monsieur a aussi un blog, vous pouvez aller y faire un tour ici.A mon avis vous n'allez pas entendre parler de nous ce week end vu qu'on fête les 30 ans de notre petite A. ce soir, et on compte faire ça correctement .Donc perso je prévois de faire la croute pour récup' hi hi hi !!!!!Bon week end les girlz.XoXoA & S. - Nov 25, 12
15/March/2012
Featured in Inspire First. Read the full article here: http://www.inspirefirst.com/2012/03/15/chiamaera-leyre-valiente-michael-ostermann/ - Nov 25, 12
15/March/2012
Read the full article here:
In italian http://www.lanciatrendvisions.com/it/576/la-chimaera-di-valiente-e-ostermann
In english http://www.lanciatrendvisions.com/en/576/chimerical-clothes-and-visions - Nov 25, 1230/December/2012Complete interview here.Immersa in una dimensione di arte, scienza e alta moda, Leyre Valiente è una giovane designer ancora libera dai condizionamenti commerciali del fashion system. Come si nota osservando le bellissime creazioni della sua prima collezione “Chimaera” che le ha fatto vincere parecchi premi nell’ultimo anno. Gli abiti (forse poco portabili nella quotidianità, ma bellissimi) esplorano il cambiamento di una donna, dalla nascita fino all’età della maturità, emulando le sembianze delle chimere, animali mitologici dall’aspetto ambiguo in cui si fondono bellezza e mostruosità. Come sempre il gioco di forme e aspetti contrastanti crea un’estetica più affascinante e singolare, ma i capi di questa collezione rivelano anche una notevole abilità sartoriale e uno stile già molto definito. Leyre, che attualmente sta portando a termine il suo stage presso l’ufficio stile di Alexander Mcqueen a Londra, sembra molto risoluta nel proporre presto la sua linea al grande pubblico.L’incipit della tua collezione?
Invenzioni scientifiche ispirano capi realizzati con tecniche di alta moda.Come descriveresti il tuo stile?
Audace (tra l’altro il mio cognome, Valiente, vuol dire “coraggioso”).A cosa ti sei ispirata per creare “Chimaera”?
Al processo di maturità della donna.Materiali dominanti?
Pelle, seta, maglia e ottone.Il pezzo che meglio rappresenta la collezione?
Un abito nero di pelle con le ali.Qual è il tuo rapporto con la moda?
È un rapporto di amore e odio. Amore per la parte creativa, odio per alcuni aspetti del sistema.Un must have per questo inverno?
Qualsiasi cosa ci faccia sentire belle. Non ci sono regole per la felicità o per la moda.A che tipo di persone dedichi i tuoi capi?
A chi ha una forte personalità.Ciò che più ami del tuo lavoro e cosa invece non sopporti?
Mi piace cucire a mano, mi rilassa molto. Non sopporto invece realizzare i capi con la macchina da cucire.La qualità che ognuno di noi dovrebbe avere?
Il coraggio di essere se stessi! Non mi piace chi cerca sempre l’approvazione degli altri, assumendo atteggiamenti poco naturali.Un’ispirazione quotidiana?
Film e arte.La virtù che ami?
Pazienza e perfezionismo.Progetti futuri?
Iniziare a vendere le mie collezioni.Dove possiamo comprare i tuoi capi?
Per ora soltanto facendo degli ordini speciali, ma presto i miei capi saranno disponibili in alcuni negozi e online.Le immagini che ritraggono gli abiti di Chimaera sono state immortalate dal fotografo Davinci White. - Nov 26, 12January 2012Spanish actress Vanesa Romero looking stunning in the golden wings Chimaera dress for LANNE Magazine issue#10
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- Nov 25, 127/December/2012An amazing editorial with some of my dresses made by the talentfuls Fran Barrero (as photographer) and Beatriz Ferro (as stylist). You can see the complete editorial here.
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CONTACT
- For information about the brand, asking for lookbooks and garment lendings for shootings.
press@leyrevaliente.com
manu@tdicomunicacion.com
For making orders, and sale information.
sales@leyrevaliente.com
For colaborations, offers of sponsorship, fairs, showrooms and events.
communication@leyrevaliente.com
manu@tdicomunicacion.com
For other inquiries
info@leyrevaliente.com
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