Take inspiration from Lady Gonzalez, as we hear how she arrived in London aged 19 and worked her work up through costume design to create her own fashion label.

 

You can find her fashion line with Twisted Loot until 24th December.

 

 

Name: Lady Gonzalez  

Discipline: Fashion/ Art

Where did you study? Goldsmiths University 

 

Tell us a little bit about your practice? 

Lady Gonzalez is a unique Fashion and Lifestyle brand created by the textile-artist Celia Arias. Using bold body imagery, vibrant colours and powerful symbolism, Lady Gonzalez offers a range of high-quality limited edition accessories and one-off handcrafted fashion and homeware pieces. Her signature digital textile manipulation printing techniques form the core of each design. The explosive combination of her methods and ideas has earned her the accolades ‘Neo-surrealist’, and ‘Digital Print Storyteller’.

 

 

How did you find yourself in your trade?

My trajectory started when I moved to London and started styling at 19 years old. It followed by undergoing an apprenticeship at the Costume house Prangsta Costumiers and continued working there for a few years until I decided to go into university. By that point I wanted to dig into my consciousness and look into more profound existential questions that excited me so I decided to do an art based course instead of a fashion one. I found this Textile course taught in a Contemporary Art context at Goldsmiths, which had a great balance between concept and craft. After graduating I took part in many art shows and slowly started coming back to Fashion designing one-off items under commissions until eventually Lady Gonzalez was born.

 

What advice would you give to anyone starting out?

To persist even when times are hard, juggling jobs and life, if ones passion is strong enough and you continue on the same path relentlessly it will eventually pay off.

Enjoy every step and to polish and better piece after piece, look at quality over quantity.

 

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Written by Curious Duke Gallery blogger Sinéad Loftus.

Lover of all art and fluffy cats.