Fashion Week Lima

Featuring garments by: Alexia Pedal, Anazé Izquierdo, Andrés Pereira Paz, Begoña Morales, Carlos León-Xjiménez, Daniel Tremolada, Eliana Otta, Fátima Rodrigo, Florencia Portocarrero, Gabriel Acevedo, Hiroshi Yoshimoto, Iosu Aramburu, Jimena Chávez, Juan Diego Tobalina, Liam Spak, Luis Enrique Zela, Macarena Rojas, Muriel Holguín, Natalia Revilla, Sebastián Cabrera

For the project at Kinderhook & Caracas, Bisagra is developing a subverted maquila-inspired process as a format for collaboration between artists in Lima. A maquila is a manufacturing operation in which raw materials are imported into a country under tariff-free conditions for processing (most often taking advantage of cheap labor) and then reexported for merchandizing elsewhere. Fashion Week first entailed a workshop in Lima in which twenty artists discussed and collaboratively designed garments using old clothing brought into Peru piecemeal from various trips. The finished garments are being brought to Berlin in suitcases, the same way they originally entered Peru, now transformed into an ad-hoc High Fashion collection. An immersive showroom is installed at Kinderhook & Caracas, with a spectacular runway show staged within the space, the garments later serving as wearable sculptures surrounding the catwalk.

Photos and video: Vico Casquero