The most recent collection from Ana Locking is a testament to how much designer Ana González values her ability to create. Modernizing menswear with her use of sharp cuts and edgy skirting, while also adding the glitz of sheen and sparkle, González creates an armor of wool and silk that is realized in the way she views miracles:
MIRACLE I
“I was always told that what was considered ‘miraculous’ was relative to your level of social or individual culture. That believing in miracles rose from popular ignorance and that the latter, together with the appeal of all exceptional, form a cocktail which exercises great power over the naive and gullible spirits.
It is said that the educated man does not stagger no matter how hard he is beaten or how violent the blows are given. On the other hand, it is also said that the ignorant man fears even his own shadow and is afraid of everything! What a misconception!
It seems like emotions of sin, fault and fear are not suffered by wise men. But I don’t believe even the most trained man isn’t sometimes in need of a miracle as a means of gaining forgiveness, or, as an expression of the errors committed in the past, thus liberating him of the present and allowing him to believe in his future.”
MIRACLE II
“I try to keep a clear vision of things and seek new perceptions. I look for the evolution and pleasure in the roots of my creations.
I enjoy each collection as if it were the first, as if it were some sort of miracle. At this stage, I try to be strong in this radical simple innocence, despite the dark wisdom of life which always remains lingering around us.
I enjoy the illusive metaphor of the miracle, it’s like reinventing Life and Art.”
MIRACLE III
“I once read that the panic of waking up every day in bed is related to the thought of knowing that when we sleep, we come out of ourselves and find, that, upon awakening, everything around us remains as inscrutable as ever, even if we suspected that nothing would ever be the same.
Waking up everyday reminds us that we are something essentially mysterious. Every day we die and every day we are born.
Who is capable of denying this fact as a real miracle!
To await for miracles to occur can be a reward in itself, especially when one considers the unfathomable nature of the subject.”
The tweed coat is great!
xo