Yris Jimenez

My principal characteristic is my ability to create new worlds, ideas, or collections in a couple of minutes; I focus on portraying the stories of the people who make a mark in my life through fashion by creating a fabric or a manipulation to express the life of the person I am presenting. I constructed these pieces using tailoring, patternmaking, and construction knowledge to last enough time to be passed through generations, maintaining the history of the pieces and creating a new one. Some of the key elements of my collection are the silhouettes I focused on, which come from my mother's body, which is also the normal Dominican body with a tiny waist and exaggerated hips. Another key element is the three colors I move toward: old pink (my characteristic color), olive green (because of the rice, which is the principal income in my city, a process I used to see), and dark brown (for all the trees I saw grow) I wish to create pieces with a strong history that connect with the people. Hence, they take care of it and cross generations with a new story they made for it, leaving a mark on a family, maintaining a memory alive, and giving a new history for the future. That's what I seek.