MELANIA FREIRE - fashion portfolio

MELANIA FREIRE

C/ Juan Castro Mosquera 72 - 4

Corunha 15005

La Corunha (Spain)

EDUCATION

MELANIA FREIRE

Birth place / date: Lugo, 1991

Nationality: spanish

mail: melania.freire.v@gmail.com phone number: +34 679 530 197 website: melaniafreire.com

2014-2017 2023 Graduated. Higher Studies in Textile Design and Fashion. ESDEMGA. University of Vigo - Galicia (Spain) The complete Fashion Business short course (12 weeks). CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS (online)

2009-2014

SKILLS

Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts. University of Vigo - Galicia (Spain)

Drawing / painting / 2d patternmaking / experimental draping / sawing / research & concept development / art direction / digital and by hand print design / machine knitting / photography / deep art and fashion history background / trend setter

Creative / team worker / high capacity to work under preassure / strong sensitivity for details / multitasking / problem solving capacity.

LANGUAGES: SOFTWARE:

English (fluent) Spanish (native) French (basic)

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

FASHION

Adobe Creative (Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign) Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

Final Cut Pro

2018-21 Fashion designer ZARA WOMAN - INDITEX (3 years).

- blouses design team coordination from 2020 to 2021 (1 year)

- concept and trend research - sourcing of fabrics - tech files

- digital and hand drawing sketches - garment development - garment fittings to production

2019 2019

Winner - MBFTalent Allianz EGO. MBFW Madrid. Award winner of the contest for fashion talents at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid with my collection “I bought a David Hockney postcard” inspired by my visit to the Hockney’s exhibition at the TATE BRITAIN. Season: A/W 19

Guest designer. PRAGUE MBFW. Czech Republic. Collection: “I bought a David Hockney postcard”

2017 Internship - CHRISTIAN WIJNANTS (5 months). Pattern making and creative dpt. Antwerp. Seasons: Resort 18 and A/W 18.

- hand drawing and digital sketches

- creation of 2d and 3d patterns and its translation into patterns ready for production - experimental moulage - sample fittings - machine and hand sewing with high standard on finishings - development of prototypes and final garments for the show - assitant on the show in Paris

CINEMA

Art director . “Rye horn” by Jaione Camborda. Feature film in postproduction.

Production designer. “Pepe, studies on imagination” by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias. Feature film in postproduction - Colombia 2022 2022 2021 2021 2020 2018 2018

Art director . “Matria” by Álvaro Gago. Feature film. Premiere at the Berlinale Film FestivalPanorama (Berlin)

Art director / costume designer. “Sen ti” by Feyrouz Serhal. Shortfilm. Art director / costume designer. “Rompente” by Eloy D. Serén. Shortfilm. Art director / costume designer. “Endless night” by Eloy Enciso. Feature film. Premiered at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland)

Art assistant. “Fire will come” by Oliver Laxe. Feature film. “Un certain regarde” award-winner at Festival de Cannes (France)

THEATER & MUSIC 2022 2022 2021 2016

Costume designer. “Amantis” by Tamara Canosa. Currently on tour. Art director / costume designer for the 2022 tour of the music group Aliboria & Xose Lois Art director / costume designer. “O que non se ve” by Faia Díaz Costume designer (collaboration). “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by the theater company VOADORA

INVESTIGATION

WORKSHOPS

2021 2021

Conference call: “Art, fashion and their borders”. FADC. Fashion and Design International Congress. University of Vigo (Spain)

Design & Fashion Future LAB. Associated to the investigation group DX7. University of Vigo (Spain)

PUBLICATIONS

. New textile materials with Robert Thompson (MATERFAD). Design & Fashion Future Lab. Univesity of Vigo (Spain)

. Workshop The Knitted experience, with Sara Coleman and Jose Bravo. Eugenio Granell Fundation. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

. Seminary with the costume designer Yvonne Blake. Galician Audiovisual Academy (Spain)

. Wearables and smart technologies with the MIT former Elena Corchero. University of Vigo (Spain)

JURY

Calorrr. PAP magazine (editorial)

FASHION Caresse. METAL magazine (editorial)

Traveler. Condè Nast (editorial)

Vogue Spain (collection review) Harpers Bazaar Spain (collection review)

Open Studio 4. Catalogue.

ArtistAS. Catalogue.

XVIII Cerveira Biennial. Catalogue. Festival Miradas de mujeres 2014. Catalogue.

2015

Young Jury CURTOCIRCUÍTO

International Film Festival Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

ART

I bought some David Hockney postcards. About his pool paintings. I visited the TATE Britain and I bought the exhibition catalogue, a notebook and a pen at the museum store. I kept my ticket just because I really enjoyed the exhibition and I did the same with the explanation leaflet. I bought the reproductions of his paintings as if I was buying a small sample of his artwork.

The exhibition showed the different perspectives and periods on the artist’s career, organized in different exhibition rooms. His polaroids with fragmented perspectives, his sketches, the digital landscapes he created by using his ipad and his pool paintings.

Conceptually based as if it were a great apropiacionist painting, the prints that appear on the garments are entirely painted by hand with textile painting, reproducing extracts of his artwork. Fragmented and displayed in overlapping panels like his polaroids compositions or his landscapes divided on triptychs.

In the collection, three perspectives intertwine: the visitor’s way of experiencing the exhibition, where there are references to the museum’s own branding; Hockney’s personal style as a fashion icon; and that of his Los Ángeles paintings.

The textiles are mainly lightweight and plastic-looking fabrics. Linings, wind screens… Mixed with cotton poplins and silk shirt-like fabrics in the tonalities of Hockney’s pool paintings. This game of hibridation is also part of the patterns. The garments are built by overlapping squared panels and details. The silk scarves are exhibition tickets, TATE’s store envelopes, the back of the postcards I bought.

The collection is a small personal “Piranesi”. An approach to the figure of David Hockney through his way of recreating vegetation, the water, the midday light.

The smell of chlorine and pool.

BOUGHT A DAVID HOCKNEY POSTCARD2017

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The artist as an icon itself. In the collection his dress codes become a support for his artistic work, creating a constellation of personal and artistic elements. His trench, suits and eclectic color combinations, or his weird shoes are the formal basis of the collection.

Conceptually based as a great prints that appear on the hand with textile painting fabrics, reproducing extracts pectives, the vegetation, the

great apropiacionist painting, the garments are entirely painted by on silk, cotton or waterproof tech extracts of Hockney’s artwork. His persthe water...

The branding codes make up the context. It definitely on the visitor’s experience of the exhibition in a very way. The postcards, the entrance ticket, the dotted they are scanned, re worked and printed on silk.