FASHION AND VISUAL ARTIST Leyre Valiente
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+ Haute Couture meets Art and Science Fiction +
For me fashion is a way of expresing myself as a painter expresses himself through his paintings. We sew instead of painting, but it’s the same. It’s art. As a movies and art lover, my designs are highly influenced by them.
I graduated from Audiovisual Communication in 2008, and I'm currently studying last year of Fashion Design at Istituto Europeo di Design Madrid. While I was studying Communication I worked as a costume designer and production assistant in several audiovisual productions.On 2009-2010 course I won the school’s best collection diplomas for my two collections, and last year I received an Honourable Mention for my final project. With this project, I have been finalist for contests as ModaFad, Who’s Next, and Special K. One of my dresses has been featured in Little Black Dress (A & C Black Publishers Ltd), a book from Isabel Sanchez published in five different languages. This september I was included in VOGUE ITALY TALENTS supplement as one of the 180 emergent talents of 2011.
On summer 2010 I joined YONO TAOLA for two months as an intern, and in 2011 I spent another two months as an intern in ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, in London. Right now I'm living in Madrid, where I try to keep designing for my brand while I work as an intern in LOEWE.
Artistic Education• Last year of FASHION DESIGN at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED).
• Graduated in COMMUNICATION and Media (Comunicación Audiovisual) by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), in 2008.
Other courses
• Chainmail Workshop with MAKU MARTÍNEZ from Anillarte (25 hours, April 2011).
• Leather Design Workshop with ROB GOODWIN (25 hours, January 2011).
• T-shirt Illustration Design Workshop with illustrator IVAN SOLDO (25 hours, march 2010).
• Print Design Workshop with Julia Vergara and Javier G. Bayo, designers of SUTURNO (18 hours, November 2009).
• Free Design Workshop with Spanish fashion designer CARLOS DÍEZ (25 hours, march 2009).
• Millinery Workshop with JUSTIN SMITH (25 hours, January 2009).
• Costume Design for Movies and Theatre at ECAM (School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Madrid). Taught by GUMERSINDO ANDRÉS, twice GOYA (Spanish Movie Awards) nominated. 90 hours, February to April, 2007.
• History of Clothing and Textiles at Museo del traje CIPE (Costume Museum of Madrid). May to June 2008.
• The New Managment of Fashion Events by Fundación de la Universidad Complutense (Complutense University Foundation) and Museo del traje CIPE (Costume Museum of Madrid). October 2011.
Professional Experience
• Internship in Loewe from january 1012.
• Internship in Alexander McQueen from november to december 2011.
• Internship in Yonotaola from june to august 2010.
• Work in Costume Design department in various audiovisual productions from 2005 to 2008.
Professional Abilities
• Experience in CAD: InDesing, Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Modeling and pattern making ability. Good understanding of the body shape, capable of deconstructing it into planes and creating complex patterns and structures.
Languages
Spanish: native tongue.
English: profiency level.
French: intermediate level (currently studying).
Hobbies and Interests
Photography, martial arts (ninjutsu), dancing (ballet), drawing, cinema, travelling, reading...
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- Oct 21, 11
C H I M AE RA
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)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
Chimerical animal, fantastic, bizarre. Taboo became flesh. Light sketch of our nature, hidden, terrible, magical. A mutant made of scars, indelible traumas, experiences, fears, desires... Built from parts of itself or from others, sewn without an anesthetic. Unic in its species. Beautiful on its complexity. The monster is different and superior. That is why it produces fear and the need of having it under control. Made equally of dream and nightmare. It seduces and attracts because it is strange and misterious, ethereally intangible. It is splendid, hypnotic, although being fearful. It is as part of this world as good and evil, but it is quite above it and can fly overhead with its dragon wings. It sinks imaginary ships with its tentacles and devours souls with its jaws. It is carnivorous, cruel like a kid burning ants. It hides in the shadows like a cursed creature because of its fear of being hunted, judged. Its soul is dark, because it has seen the light.
The chimera laughs, mocking the human being, “And you dare to judge me?”
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION:
The human being suffers along all his life, a series of emotional and conductual modifications that lead to self-reeducation of the character, and sometimes, to traumas that change (mutate) the personality creating a new being.
The fetus is clean and pure, and is educated to stay that way, educated to tame the creature beneath. But his experiences make him react and learn, making the monster show up in some occasions. This monster does not have to be something ugly or negative. He is just different, and because of that, he causes rejection. That rejection can make the creature grow apart from his environment and the way he is supposed to be, becoming something dark and gloomy. That's when he learns to build shields around himself to block the sadness out, and only when he feels comfortable in his new form, will he be strong enough to emerge proudly as this complex and beautiful new creature: the chiamera.
The mutating skin: Skin-tone silk and knit fabrics. Textures like veins, tendons and bones showing up under the skin, translated to dresses by chords sewn beneath the fabric. Simmetry. Stitches imitating scars.
The slithering body: Shiny black leather pleated and overlaped creates the shape of a dark slippery sea creature.
Saint George and the dragon: A contrast between the strengh of the brass armor parts and the soft silk that imitates the wings of the dragon.
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- Apr 15, 12"Cuarto Milenio" editorial
for Ohio magazine
"Cuarto Milenio" editorial for Ohio magazine
http://issuu.com/revistaohio/docs/ohio7
Clothes: Leyre Valiente
Photo: Maria de Miguel.
Styling: Mila García
Make-up: Carmen Montoro - Jan 01, 12
Spanish actress Vanesa Romero looking stunning in the golden wings Chimaera dress for LANNE Magazine issue#10 - Dec 12, 11Featured in an editorial for NEO2 september issue because of the Special K Fashion Contest.
- Jan 05, 12An 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.
- Dec 12, 11You can read the complete article (in spanish) here.
- Dec 12, 11
"Dear Leyre, It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been featured on NJAL’s front cover." So now I'm also at http://www.notjustalabel.com/ - Dec 12, 11Featured in VOGUE TALENTS 2011 as one of the 180 emergent talents of 2011, one of the 100 recently graduated.
- Dec 12, 11
Selected as one of the finalist in the Special K Fashion Contest that will take place during Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week.
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