Karla Vieira is a designer whose universe revolves around the colors that paint our daily lives. It is a network of minute tones intertwined with each other creating unusual patterns full of personality. It's a vibrant world that attracts our attention and which are reflected in accessories, from rings, earrings and necklaces.
How the accessories appear in your collections?
Karla Vieira: I use the accessories as a complement to the collections. I started when I arrive to Madera with the accessories because it was a way to reach the public quickly and after that jump for clothing. Accessories have always accompanied the collections when I'm drawing clothing I always think about what will be the piece that will complement this coordinated. It is very important.
I know you do them manually.
KV: Each bead is handmade, one by one. It is quite a long process, may take twenty minutes to one hour each, and depends on the model that I will apply in every sphere. The process involves creating a pattern, which is what I found more enjoyable. I first draw, or have a mental idea and from there do a mixture of modeling paste and start to build the so-called round reeds where I mix one of white tape, one green and so on. I imagine the model in a geometric space, then is cut and applied to the sphere. This material is greatly diminished because it can be purchased at newsagents, but not everyone mastered the technique. It is the creation of patterns that lays the art, because anyone can use and shape the dough. The beads previously done by hand are stuck, baked, painted and assembled at the final in the necklace. One of my first collections is cobblestone, which is already a trademark of Karla Vieira. It is one that has greater acceptance, even among tourists; each piece has a brochure with pictures that people like. Then I have another inspired by flowers, where all patterns are mixed and the latest collection is called laurel, inspired by our nature. There is always an issue with a connection to nature.
Your accessories are created only in terms of the collections, or individual patterns offspring?
KV: In most cases the accessories are connected to the collections, but also I create other standards for those who want to acquire them on their own without having to resort to the garment. I draw these from nature, the very essence of the colors and create something that calls the attention. Sometimes I'm walking and the tints of a flower suggest me an idea.
How many patterns you have in all?
KV: Well, I have the cobblestone pattern that I mentioned. After the summer blue, which is a collection created exclusively for xik shoes are more silvery patterns with black and blue. It was even thought for the store, the decor and a type of client that is more sophisticated, more elegant, not as hippie as some pieces I have. I still have the red carnation, spring collection, the laurel and two more that I have not launched that are inspired by the Madera embroidery and that I will present shortly.
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