Ireré

Reinterpretation of the cover of the exhibition in homage to Alexander McQueen ‘Savage Beauty’. In it, Jorge de Luis combines elements from three of his collections, mainly Irere, but also The Widows of Culloden and his posthumous collection.

The Irere collection is based on images of the Age of Discovery and the people and animals of the Amazon rainforest. Its name means ‘transformation’ in an unspecified indigenous Amazonian language. In Portuguese, however, Irere is the name of a bird native to the Americas and Africa.

In the work, the author applies the shades of this bird's plumage to the headdresses, inspired by the collection of The Widows of Culloden, as well as to the body of the costumes. Referring to the meaning of Irere, De Luis manages to make the dancers not look like human figures, but as if they were immersed in a process of metamorphosis into a bird.