The flamenco fashion recycles itself. Melisa Lozano designs a dress with 1.300 taps of bottles

El vestido de gitana está hecho con imaginación y 1.300 tapones de botellas.

Melisa Lozano

The gipsy dress is made to bright and to attract looks. Get this aim demands audacity, imagination and 1.300 taps of bottles. This is the offer that the designer from Fuengirola Melisa Lozano will present the next 6 of august in the Hacienda La Biznga of Cartama, in the first edition of the flamenco event “Polka dot is Week end”. This is an experimental fan thought to switch on the lights for the rest of the collection Dos Amores that faces up to the last fairs of the season: Malaga, Fuengirola and Torremolinos.

At 32 years, Lozano has already devoted the half of her life to her vocation. She belongs to a young generation who revolutionized the flamenco fashion. “The Andalusian- signals- is the only one regional outfit which admits fashion. The changes are inconceivable for the folk outfits from Galicia or Canarias, for instante. Here, every year we show new collections and we innovate all the time”, she says.

The iceberg point is this outfit made of taps of bottles of Cartojal. Just sewing the taps demanded six days of work of 2 people. The result is the tribute to Malaga and to one of its classic wine.

El traje lo presentará el próximo 6 de agosto en la Hacienda La Biznga de Cártamaconfeccionado con corchos de botellas de Cartojal.

Sinces years and years, Lozano is getting used to include experimental designs in her parades. This year, the collection includes models with punk wigs, breaking outfits in a most conventional style. Fizzy paper, sand, pop corn, cotton discs and nets are material are used by the artist. There are intentional extravagances that don’t outshine the rest of the collection.

They are wearable outfits but they require a lot of effort. We travel a lot to look for fabrics and we use satin, tulle and silk until wool, lace or “piqué” she explains. They dye or fade fabrics “to give them exclusivity, which is a thing that we are looking for the most” and obviously, the patterns are drawn looking for “the never seen” in the large frontiers of the tradition.

The name of “dos amores” hides a tribute to two traditions from Fuengirola like the devotion for the Virgin of the Rocio and “Nuestra señora del Rosario”, patron saint of the city. The dresses of the 2d part are the ones we could see in the andalusian parties. Maybe less than other years. The crisis affects the business of the sector, and designs. “In crisis times, we make dresses less overelaborated, to not increase the budget of a product which is not of first necessity but of luxuty”, says Lozano who wishes to share the night with the singer Celia Flores in La Biznaga.