Atlas of Fashion Designers

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Sergio Pastor and Ismael Alcaina form one of most interesting and promising duos on the

Spanish fashion scene.  ey are one of those creative unions that, without much hullaba-

loo, is not only making an international name for itself due to the designers’ hard work

and quality creations, but is also contributing to the reinvention of a masculine aesthetic

identity.

 e Spastor man suggests a frontier, extremely alluring masculinity, a somewhat androgy-

nous identity with a slightly melancholic, occasionally sinister air that gives rise to the

fi gure of a distinguished yet rather disturbing male: a kind of dandy out of an Edgar Allen

Poe tale that situates himself between the darkness and the light in the desperate search for

beauty. A radical proposal in which sensitivity does not imply eff eminateness or weakness,

nor does it require any explication whatsoever regarding sexual orientation.

 e Spastor label was born in 1995, and the following year the design duo presented its

collection on the Pasarela Gaudí fashion runway in Barcelona. Since then, these two de-

signers have been working nonstop. In Spain in 2001, they were awarded the L’Oréal prize

for the best collection. Beyond their national borders, they have presented their pret-a-

porter collections at the Galerie Gilles Peyroulet & Cie, in 2003, and the Espace Hexamo

in París, in 2004, as well as at Paris Men’s Fashion Week in January 2005. Currently, the

focus of their work lies beyond native frontiers in the search for wider vistas that will allow

them to continue growing in the manner they wish.  e success they have had with singers

such as Marilyn Manson, who wore one of their suits to his wedding with Dita Von Teese,

Patrick Wolf and Rammstein attest to the fact that they are on the right track.

Photography by Daniel Riera

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Collection “From Behind” (Spring/

Summer 2007), presented at Paris

Menswear Fashion Week and Cibeles

Madrid Fashion Week, in which

the color black, the highest quality

material, details in red, balls, crystal

buttons, and silk linings abound.

Photography by Biel Sol

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Photography by Biel Sol

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- What inspires you?

As Felipe Salgado said, our collections are a fragmentary yet consistent refl ection of our personality—of our tastes,

myths, phobias—presented as an indeterminate and relative truth.

- What is your dream as designers?

To continue enjoying our work.

- What has been the most important achievement in your career?

Learning what we want and, more importantly, what we don’t want.

- How important are trends?

For what we do, they’re insignifi cant.

- Fashion has always refl ected a certain era. What does fashion refl ect in the twenty-fi rst century?

 e time of revisions, mythifi cations and globalized individualizations.

- What book would you recommend to every fashion designer?

One that we keep on our nightstand: The Foolish Children, by Ana María Matute.

Spastor

Méndez Núñez, 1, 2º, 2ª

08003 Barcelona

Spain

www.spastor.org

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Photography courtesy of Spastor