Esteban Cortázar is now not the brand new child on the block, however together with his new label Donde Esteban, he’s exploring a brand new strategy to creating garments—one which extra precisely represents his actual life. “That is an concept that has been cooking in my coronary heart for fairly a very long time,” the designer explains on a current Zoom. “Donde Esteban is known as a reflection of my private life, my upbringing, my tradition, my roots, my household, my mates, my group. It’s actually merging my life right into a model and right into a mission that feels very genuine and private.” Cortázar was born in Colombia, grew up in South Seashore within the ’90s, and has since been splitting his time between Paris and Ibiza.
Launching at this time, the primary Donde Esteban assortment—consider it as chez Esteban in French or, Esteban’s home in English—is stuffed with resortwear necessities; breezy cotton voiles button-down shirts, silk slip clothes, cotton jersey hoodies, and cashmere mix knits, all in daring panorama prints created in collaboration together with his father Valentino, a painter. “He all the time stated to me, ‘Wouldn’t it’s nice if we did plates collectively? Or a set of scarves?’ Now my dad’s getting older and I felt like I wished to do one thing that might actually showcase his legacy,” Cortázar provides. “Each time I’m going to his studio I’m all the time trying via his work and drawings and sketchbooks; and it’s form of like an encyclopedia of labor that’s his, and it’s additionally my heritage and to place that into a set and make it’s one thing that is sort of a everlasting collaboration with him, it truthfully fills my life with pleasure.”
