There is no more curious picture than that of the Convent of Santa Isabel in Seville , headquarters of the Congregation of Religious Philipenses Daughters of Maria Dolorosa, converted into a flamenco fashion catwalk . The reason was none other than the presentation of the X edition of We Love Flamenco. Thus, what was the cloistered courtyard in which the cloak of the Virgen del Rocio was cleaned, as the director of the catwalk, Javier Villa, has confessed, has served as the stage to present the next edition of We Love Flamenco, the Week of Flamenco Fashion.
Thus, under the watchful eye of the nuns, Laura Sanchez and Javier Villa, directors of GO! Events and Communication have revealed all the keys to the X edition of We Love FlamencoWithout a doubt, the most special of all. In addition, during the presentation, the poster for We Love Flamenco, the work of the illustrator Carlos Buendia, was unveiled, and a parade was developed with which the flamenco trends that will be seen on the catwalk next 2022 have been advanced
. , from January 15 to 21, 2022, the X edition of We Love Flamenco is celebrated , which, one more year, is held in the wonderful Gothic hall of the Hotel Alfonso XIII. Never has a place with so much history felt so devoid of polka dots and frills, although, luckily, the 10th edition of We Love Flamenco will once again turn the Gothic hall into a constant flurry of frills.
During the presentation, both Laura Sanchez and Javier Villa have not failed to thank the nuns for having given them the space to publicize the X edition of We Love Flamenco. ” The congregation needs our help because it needs resources to continue with its active social action , such as distributing food daily to more than 200 people, and its shelters for women and minors”, explained Javier Villa.
The advertising poster for We Love Flamenco
A daring woman with personality, this is the woman who has inspired Carlos Buendia when illustrating the poster for We Love Flamenco. In it you can see the eight Andalusian provinces represented, each and every one of them, cradles of flamenco fashion and inspiration, as well as its evolution over time.
“It was clear to me that I wanted to extol the flamenco dress and talk about flamenco fashion in capital letters . The woman who inspires me is a woman who comes from the past, but whose present remains the same; who is just as much a muse of Julio Romero’s Torres than Laura Sanchez herself”, explained Carlos Buendia once his poster was revealed, which has remained hidden behind a spectacular Manila shawl.
Some thirty designers will participate in We Love Flamenco
The X edition of We Love Flamenco, perhaps the most special of all, has the participation of 28 flamenco fashion firms and spread over 27 parades, in which there is no lack of solidarity. One more year, the flamenco fashion catwalk has the already traditional charity parade of the Sandra Ibarra Foundation Against Cancer , where the models are women who fight against this disease.
As a novelty, this year the We Love Flamenco parades for children , whose profits are destined for different causes such as Unicef ​​or Save the children, will also be integrated into the calendar of the week of parades. “In this very special year we could not forgetall those girls who have not yet known what it is to dress as a flamenco ; for this reason, in this X edition we did not want to leave out We Love Flamenco Infantil”, they explain from GO! Events and Communication.
In the same way, Viva by WLF , the little sister of We Love Flamenco, will do it for emerging firms and designers, whose parade collective will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 18.
Ten years of We Love Flamenco, ten years defending flamenco fashion
“Ten years is a decade, a decade in which many things have happened; a decade that had a year one, where the first thing was the illusion. The illusion of creating something new, something different, a format that reminds us of Haute Couture in Paris and those parades of the 60s and 70s. A format that, to this day, is still what we see at We Love Flamenco , because that is the true essence of our catwalk”, declared Laura Sanchez, at the beginning of the presentation.
” Fashion that does not stop growing and to adapt to different media, in addition to being an inspiration for other great designers; but, above all, it is ours. Ours and exportable, for all its facets: it can be partying and in mourning, colored and sober; it sums up our body, our being, it highlights beauty”, added the model and businesswoman from Huelva.
A parade as a preview of the proposals that will be seen at We Love flamenco 2022
The Santa Isabel Convent has been the first place where the first flyers created exclusively after the pandemic have been seen. After a two-year hiatus, the presentation of the X edition of We Love Flamenco has seen the advance of the new flamenco fashion proposals that will be seen on the catwalk in 2022.
Thus, the central patio of the convent, called the Patio del Oro, It has become an improvised catwalk on which different flamenco proposals have been seen with a common characteristic: all the designs have followed the chromatic line of the poster. Thus, reds, blues, blacks and whites have been paraded before the attentive gaze of the sisters of the Congregation of Religious Philippians Daughters of Maria Dolorosa.
Each design has beenfaithful to the essence of the designers , that is why proposals have been seen with volumes in skirts and sleeves, voluminous petticoats, many flutters of ruffles and flamenco roots in their full splendor. Red carnations adorned the outfits of the We Love Flamenco models, among whom we could see Alma Cortes Bollo, a student of the GO! Events and Communication.
“We really wanted to see what designers have been creating in their workshops in these two years. If it is true that we were the first catwalk to take the step and celebrate the 2021 edition, in addition to making the leap to the online world, with our fashion films, nothing compares to being able to sit in a front row and enjoynew collection flamenco dresses in an incomparable setting like this convent”, they have declared from the organization.
Giving institutional support to the act and accompanying the GO! Events and Communication team, designers and firms have also attended Juan Marin , vice president of the Board of Andalusia and Minister of Tourism, Regeneration, Justice and Local Administration, Ricardo Sanchez , delegate of the Government of the Junta de Andalucia in Seville and Rosa Hernandez , territorial delegate of Tourism in Seville.In addition, this new edition has the support of the firm Aromas
We Love Flamenco 2022 Parade Calendar
Tickets for the parades will be available on the We Love Flamenco website starting next November 9 and this is the schedule for the parades of the X edition of WLF.
Saturday, January 15
4:30 PM JOSE HIDALGO
5:30 PM EL AJOLI
6:30 PM JOHANNA CALDERON
7:30 PM SANTANA DISENOS
8:30 PM MONICA MENDEZ
9:30 PM NOTELODIGO
Sunday, January 16
4:30 PM CARMEN ACEDO
5:30 PM LUCIA HERREROS / DANIEL ROBLES
18 :30 JAVIER MOJARRO / VENTURA
7:30 PM JOSE MANUEL VALENCIA
8:30 PM JAVIER ORDONEZ
Monday, January 17
6:00 PM GALA NOVELES
8:00 PM FORONDA & RAFA DIAZ
Tuesday, January 18
7:00 PM ROCIO PERALTA
20:30 VIVA BY WLF (collective): ANTONIO ARCOS, ENGALANA, GUZMAN, AND ANA FERREIRO.
Wednesday, January 19
6:00 p.m. WELOVEFLAMENCO CHILDREN (I)
8:00 p.m. WELOVEFLAMENCO CHILDREN (II)
Thursday, January
20
7:00 p.m. ANGELA AND ADELA
8:00 p.m. FLAMENCA POL NUNEZ 9:00 p.m.
PEPA GARRIDO
Friday, January 21
1:00 p.m. SANDRA IBARRA FOUNDATION
4:30 PM MERCEDES DOBENAL
5:30 PM PACO PRIETO
6:30 PM ROCIO MARQUEZ
7:30 PM PITUSA GASUL
8:30 PM ROCIO OLMEDO
9:30 PM PABLO RETAMERO & JUANJO BERNAL
