Juan Vitto Couture, Uruguay
as part of #IDFW22 #AIDFW season 2022 (6th JAN 2022) https://aseanfashiondesignersshowcase.wordpress.com/asea.../ and https://thehomeground.asia/.../asean-international.../
They say that I am a haute couture designer, well that's fine, but I think there is much more to that, although clearly haute couture is what has somehow made me known in public.
Tell us about your steps in this fashion path until you become what you are today.
I have traveled fashion from a very young age, from the age of 12 I started modeling and that modeling path took me until my twenties where I began to connect with the world more specifically of design. I began to study, train and develop escalati ngly in different areas until I got to start fully in haute couture. This has been a path of many years of travel, what I always underline and see as positive in this is that I never left the way of fashion doing things that had to do directly and indirect ly, but always in the same way. I knew that fashion was my thing, I didn't know perhaps where exactly I was going to develop or be more successful, but I did know that I was going to do fashion ... I always knew that.
What inspired you to become a designer?
I don't really know, I don't think there is an inspiration, I grew up in an area where the sewing machine was something common, accessible and for me it was transformed in the first years of childhood as if it were also a toy, so somehow it was already boy I had a lot of fun with sewing, with the use of that machine, I had a
grandmother who was a dressmaker so I had access to all that, she kept the fabric cuttings where my first haute couture creations came out from that time, and You know that I emphasize this a lot because a few years ago I made a collection called "Altiplano" that was all cooked by hand and when I was making it it was like a
feeling so similar to everything that I experienced since I was a child that it was very emotional for me.
special thanks: Neva Weber of Dressed AU ; Hayden NG of ASEAN Fashion Designers Showcase