TWISTED BELTED PANTS

For its Fall-Winter 2020–21 collection Lemaire is deigning a wardrobe based on drawings by Mexican folk artist Martin Ramirez. The wardrobe is composed of a leather breastplate, a blouse dress, a pair of boots ad aware skirt, a blanket-like cape a blouse and a handkerchief skirt. Both figurative ad abstract, his obsessive production of hundreds of full page drawings bears the nostalgia traces of his roots, the meanders and mazes of his painful journey — transitional and introspective — and the vernacular elements of his native country, from la madonna to Bandidos, forest animals, tunnels and trains. It’s these recurring motifs with sinus and angular repeated lines, defying the laws of perspective, that have imprinted the collection with a warm tone atmosphere of dream-like landscapes. Created from five of the artist’s artworks in the original formats, the wardrobe reveals fragments of wondrous topography where creatures, hair-like matters and moving figures emerge from a mad Garden of Eden.