Although the exhibition is titled “Garments for Shakespeare and Cervantes” (tanto monta, monta tanto)1 it is mostly the women in the works of both classics that are the protagonists. “Cervantes treats with the greatest affection and complicity the women in his works: Dorotea is an educated woman who holds the hacienda, who provides Don Quixote with a dialectic reply; the case of Zoraida is very curious, because besides being free, she is transgressive, greatly so… a Muslim woman who frees Christians. They are in fact, precursors of feminist characters,” reports Concha Hernández, curator of the exhibition and director of Conde Duque.
This Cultural Centre and the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España (ACME) are responsible for “Garments for Shakespeare and Cervantes” an exhibit in which 14 designers dialogue with the literature of these two universal writers on the 400th anniversary of their demise. A tribute included in the schedule of the IIIrd edition of MADRID ES MODA.
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Amaya Arzuaga, Ana Locking, Davidelfin, Devota & Lomba, Duyos, Etxeberria, Juan Vidal, Leyre Valiente, ManéMané, Maria Ke Fisherman, Maya Hansen, Moisés Nieto and Úlises Mérida made a creative approach to Cervantes’ characters Don Quixote, Zoraida, Galatea, Dorotea, Dulcinea and Marcela, as well as some of the best known protagonists in the works of Shakespeare: Hamlet, Desdemona, Juliet, Titania, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth. Meanwhile, the fashion creations inspired by the imaginary spaces of La Mancha, together with Don Quixote, and Brittany, associated with King Lear, are the charge of Úlises Mérida and Moisés Nieto respectively.
“We are delighted with the initiative,” noted the Delegate of Culture and Sports, Celia Mayer, during the opening ceremony of the exhibition, “is a very original idea within the centenary of the demise of Cervantes and Shakespeare, and one of the few activities designed from the point of view of fashion “.
“Garments for Shakespeare and Cervantes”
Conde Duque lobby. From 13th to 27th September 2016.
Hours: Mon-Sat from 10am. to 21pm.; Sun. from 10.30am. to 14pm.
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