VENUS RR26
Inspired by the female figure as a symbol of creation, transformation, and transcendence, this collection explores the many representations of the feminine throughout history and the visual arts — from prehistoric Venuses to the ceremonial figures of pre-Hispanic cultures such as the Tumaco and the Muisca, whose clay and ceramic creations exalted the generative power of women. Through form, these pieces highlight her connection to fertility, the earth, life, and the sacred, evoking that energy through anthropomorphic volumes, organic silhouettes, and contrasts that reconfigure the body as symbolic territory.
Each garment is a contemporary translation of these visions — a tribute to the female figure as a mutable construct, shaped by time and context. Tailored lines are contrasted with raw textures and sculptural forms, creating a tension between structure and fluidity, between restraint and expansion. This dialogue extends through details that hint at ancient narratives: braids that trace the hair like living memory, metals that define precise edges, and materials that speak of origin.
Among these materials, tanned leather brings a deeply tactile language rooted in the land, in the noble wear of use, and in an aesthetic that evokes both fieldwork and ritual armor. Its surface — marked and alive — speaks of a history written on the skin and reinforces the symbolic bond between body, earth, and creation.
The tagua seed — also known as vegetable ivory — emerges as an emblem of rootedness and ancestral connection. Native to Latin American lands, its presence in the collection not only highlights the nobility of natural resources, but also symbolizes the persistence of life on earth and the beauty born of time, as did the ritual objects of our Indigenous peoples.
Thus, past and present intertwine in a visual narrative that gathers the ceremonial power of the ancient and reinvents it through a contemporary lens: a woman rising as a symbol of power, sacred body, and storyteller of her own form.