MARTIN RAMIREZ SKIRT

For its Fall-Winter 2020 collection, Lemaire is designing a wardrobe based on drawings by Mexican folk artist Martín Ramírez which is composed of a leather breastplate, a blouse dress, boots and a wrap skirt, a blanket-like cape, a blouse and a foulard skirt. Both figurative and abstract, his obsessive production of hundreds of full-page drawings bears the nostalgic traces of his roots, the meanders and mazes of his painful journey — transnational 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 sinuous 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 their original formats, the wardrobe reveals fragments of wondrous topography where creatures, hair-like patterns and moving figures emerge from a bizarre Garden of Eden.