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GORI DE PALMA
One of the most inspiring images I have seen lately on the runaways of the world comes  from Barcelona Fashion Week 2007/2008 Winter Collections: a beautiful model walks down the catwalk carrying in her mouth a shoe. Talk about a whole different approach to high fashion foot fetish.
      The brand Gori de Palma(Oscar and Gori)came to life during Barcelona 2004 Fashion Week. I have followed their work since the "Die Rote Rechte Hand"(Black Collection/2005) and I never stopped being inspired by it.
      Oscar and Gori met in that city; Gori had arrived in Barcelona in 2000 in order to study Design in the Catalonian Institute of Fashion and Oscar was there to finish a graduate degree in Dressing for Scenic Arts. Together they made dressing/wardrobe for advertising, cinema, music videos and some porn films. In 2004 they were offered to launch their first collection at the shows in Barcelona. The rest is history. Nowadays, Gori de Palma is formed by a fixed and stable core, which makes the most important decisions, and a kind of satellite group of collaborators, in whom they fully trust. 
      Gori de Palma has always been very attracted by the mysterious and sexy world that the black color suggest: "Our collections have always had a very strong implicit sexual baggage. From our point of view, black color can be compared, among other things, with the dark side of people, which is not normally showed, but we feel really seduced by it". Their work is very much connected with rock, puck. bondage, S/M , fetish suggestions and of course music,"Music is unavoidable; it is part of our lives. It is all around, with its implicit eroticism, and that’s why it sometimes turns a source of inspiration. Our aesthetics are a reflection of ourselves, of our way of understanding sexuality, of our sexual desires and fantasies, our music influences and our personal interests."
        After watching one of their fashion shows, you become already curios about what the inspiration for the next collection will be: "Inspiration comes from everywhere. A film, a photo, a painting, a book…Cinema is another of our sources of inspiration. Passolinni, Schroeder, Fellini, Fassbinder. In this specific moment, pre Rafelistic painters. The way of living and dressing of past seasons, clothes that have disappeared but still live engraved in our minds and are part of our way of understanding fashion. And Sex, of course, everything that means experiment with our own sexuality, with the knowledge of our fantasies, our desires and ourselves. With our projects, in a way, we are investigating them."

     I love them!
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