John Miranda
- "The dress must adapt to a person's movement". John Miranda....John Miranda.
He is a 'sabanero' (People from the savanna of the Colombian Caribbean coast) that left
the models and architectural drawings to enter the teaching world of fashion
design. A shy and retiring man, whose fondness for boards, chalks, sketches,
and student environment, led him to study design in Italy. His dream was to become a
prominent teacher. However due to the insistence of his students, who were bored of being limited to seeing Miranda Designs only in paper and sketches, they achieved getting this designer to brake the limits of teaching and launch into the world of
creation.
In his small workshop located in an apartment in Medellin and clinging to his old sewing machine, which seems more like a relic of a museum, John Miranda creates his garments which he considers as “vanguardist, worked under a minimalist concept." He gives vanguard to his designs through the cut, materials, daring slits, and his handling of transparencies. He gives the minimalist touch through the materials he uses: chiffon, and crepe, his inseparable companions. He handles these fabrics with great skill and have always been the basis of his inspiration.
Bored of too much monotony in summer garments, John Miranda was launched to create a trend in Colombian swimwear fashion. Transparencies combined with materials that have expanders, such as lycra, are the main secret of the collection 'Miranda-Mare', recognized in the Colombian walkways because of the striking originality.
For this 'sabanero' dreamer, being a fashion designer is not limited to creating garments. Accessories are a fundamental piece that gives the 'seasoning' to dress well. In order to rescue the ethnic from tribes as nausseau, the chocoanas, the guambianos, among others, Miranda chooses the most representative of each of them, to give a cultural touch to their designs. Despite its success Miranda cannot leave aside teaching. Each time he can, he escapes from his workshop to get into the world of the classroom and there, with his students, create and seek perfection in his designs.
Models with his designs:
Taken from Semana Magazine, August 11,1997.
For this 'sabanero' dreamer, being a fashion designer is not limited to creating garments. Accessories are a fundamental piece that gives the 'seasoning' to dress well. In order to rescue the ethnic from tribes as nausseau, the chocoanas, the guambianos, among others, Miranda chooses the most representative of each of them, to give a cultural touch to their designs. Despite its success Miranda cannot leave aside teaching. Each time he can, he escapes from his workshop to get into the world of the classroom and there, with his students, create and seek perfection in his designs.
Models with his designs:
Taken from Semana Magazine, August 11,1997.
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