A fantastic and metaphorical journey from fetus (when we all are pure and simple) to chimaera; the complicate yet beautiful creature 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)

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.