Selected as an interesting designer and a dedicated shooting.
My name is Cecilia Juarez Balta.
Arrived in Italy at four, my eyes suddenly felt in love with this country of art. Italy gave me the opportunity to appreciate the beauty and the importance of perfection of forms. Meanwhile i was studying I also attended art and sculpture classes. I started doing art
by literally copying famous painters techniques and modified them with my own point of view. During my art studies I improve my techniques with collages and realistic drawings. The result are superimposed and cutted images which create what i call “logic-chaos”.
I live for art, cinema is my secret world; by seeing movies everyday I learnt to find the inspiration from film director’s views. Some of them are able to coniugate images, music and freedom of expression in a very inspirational way.
That is what I need from garments; not only seen as clothes but also as personal feelings.
In IED (my fashion university), I learnt to work with fabrics manipulations, knitwear and leather, filling all my sketchbooks until they explodes. Then I start to elaborate my BA collection, which should be not only the end of a school period but also the realization of a world which was born a while before.
In my thesis research “Trasfigurando in fin la meraviglia”, shapes are filled with material substance, which makes everything undefined. Starting from the distruction of the conventional beauty of the form, I will create a a subtle border between what is considered beautiful and what is considered ugliness.
The defined form will be filled by wonderment: we are talking about substance that will embellish and, at the same time, warp, the appeareance. I will obtain a transfiguration of garments and body.
This are a few details of my way of thinking and aesthetic.
Fashion Show
DRAWING
Painting
Technical drawing
graphic
rendering
Fabric manipulation
Hand knitting
KNITWEAR
womenswear
Menswear
Hand Weaving
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Bridge
Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel...)
Teaching
Italian
Bilingual
Spanish
Native language
English
Professional knowledge
Selected as an interesting designer and a dedicated shooting.
insert of the September issue of vogue italia, with selection of the best students from the fashion universities.