080 Barcelona Fashion Week: Victor Von Schwarz

Victor von Schwarz is a fashion designer born in Sabadell in 1988. He finished his studies in fashion design in 2013 and after being part of the work team of other brands and learning a wide variety of things of this sector, he decided to create his own.

His first collection was printed in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, where he paraded three consecutive years on that catwalk. Few later, he decided to undertake new personal and professional challenges and moved to Taipei, Taiwan. Thanks to this decision, he came to dress local celebrities such as Jolin Tsai and Soda Green among others. During this experience York, Madrid and Barcelona.

Was in 2017 when he launched his fifth collection entitled “Doble vida”, which was widely accepted and recognized by Spanish celebrities and won the MODA-FAD 2018 award. Throughout his career also has styled Rosalía in some of her promotional tours and music videos as “Pienso en tu mira” or as “Millonaria”. Furthermore, Victor launched his sixth collection, “Realidad” at the same time that he was styling different Spanish artists with international projection as Lola Índigo, Aitana, Mala Rodríguez and Bad Gyal. Beside that also was part of the 15 finalists of Vogue Spain’s “Who’s on Next” 2020 contest. At last but not least, other celebrities like Eric Nam, Chai, Nil Moliner, Los Javis, Ester Expósito, Anna Castillo or Pol Granch have worn his clothes.

His last collection was launched in 2021. Disco 2000 is a collection born during the lockdown. His inspiration came due to reviewing old photos of his youth and also inspired in Asian mafia movies of the 80’s and 90’s, whose occurred in the red-light districts of cities like Taipei and Hong Kong. We can see the clear reflection of his inspiration in the silhouettes. In one hand, we find garments with volumes and games of drapes and transparencies with openings that reveal the skin. In the other hand and aversely, the designs have a much squarer silhouette and with the presence of variation of the classic tailored jacket.

All the garments are caracterizad by being made of fabrics that reflect a large amount of fantasy. Among the variety of materials, sequins have a great presence, from Vichy print to bright gradient. We also find shiny laminates based on viscose and tulle with silver prints. To sum up includes a print of typical weapons used by gangsters in Asian areas that reminds blue, purple and yellow bases.

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