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Palomo Spain, man fashion without complexes

In 2021 he fulfilled his fifth anniversary.Feminizing and releasing man, claiming his coquetry, has been the maximum of this Cordoba that has risen to the international scene, applauded by the quality of his garments, the audacity of design and especially for his worldview free of gender gender.

Alejandro Palomo (28 years old) is a romantic Cordoba.Suacento contains the slow breath of that child who hid from heat in his house of Posadas.In less than five years he has managed to strengthen his brand, which was born with a firm will: to bring haute couture to male fashion.

Baptized his effort ‘Extreme Couture’.And it was the result of years of search: the clothes that arose while tracking its own identity.His friends began to become muses;Palomo and his models broke into the Madrid scene with an electricity that had not been seen since the time of the move.

The brand

Palomo Spain was born with the firm will to bring haute couture to male fashion

Pale and squalid creatures, with hair on the armpits, dressed in fluid skirts on pants, flying or polka dots and heeled boots.They were immediately blessed by Almodóvar.And Alejandro Palomo's personality overflowed the fashion scene.In June 2017 he was semifinalist of the LVMH award for young designers, and the following year he won the Who's on Next 2018, granted by Vogue magazine.His Instagram profile is full of virgin processions, and in its Celebrite catalog, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus or Harry Styles stand out.His baroque maximalism has evolved, and has received the applause of international criticism, with his parades in New York and Paris.During the pandemic, he has reinforced his DNA, and especially his message: "sexual fluidity", because the body is never a prison.

Always knew what kind of clothing I wanted to create?

I always knew the passion I felt for clothes, but many years passed until this type of man's clothing was offered ... in my head it was a man, this type of man, but the fashion of a man was very silent.I wanted to interpret the history of fashion and take it to my friends, who speak the same language as me.

I wanted to interpret the history of fashion and take it to those who speak my language

Palomo Spain, moda de hombre sin complejos

How would you define that language?

With the word freedom.Absolute freedom.Men must dress in a more fun way, they have to take a step further.Mine are detailed garments and enjoy.

Do men have to fight skirts today just like women did it in their day to wear pants?

It is not necessary.Everything sits at the time naturally.You have to normalize it: day by day we see more men who dress with a skirt.In the world of music, for example, there are cis [cisgenero] or heteros who wear flamboyantly.We are normalizing that a man puts heels ...

I have finally been able to make some boots with heels that come to you by the groin

What happens when they see you with heels?

I put them on a child, when I got into my mother's closet.From three years to 18 I always dressed in all the carnivals.I had fun and transported me.I planted a double C of Chanel and put it in my bag: then they told me "but I have seen this model in the Vogue".But, returning to the question, they look straight ... although I like to lift curiosity.I have finally been able to make some boots with heel that come to you by the groin that make you feel very strong.They were already taken in the 18th century.Heels, diamonds, wigs, brocades, drizzle, flyers ... you just have to look at the history books.To understand what I am doing I have to understand where we come from.Analyze what we have left behind.

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Do you work with different patterns for men and women?

I work on the basis of male tailoring, although then we transform it into female tailoring.Not all garments work the same: there are morphological differences and strictly feminine garments, and others that are unisex.

What do you think 'Unisex'?

It is a rare thing;It sounds like an inner t -shirt ... but it is more Spanish than ‘Genderless'.

Hopefully we soon get rid of the word 'trans', which is a stigma

And of the controversy arising by trans law?

I think it will cause a change.In the end those who are least giving their opinion are the trans, a concept that must be forgotten.You want to be recognized as a man or as a woman ... Trans is understood as something pathological, something that denounces to WHO.It is a matter of freedom and human rights.Hopefully we soon get rid of the word ‘trans', which is a stigma.

What gave him his went through the London College of Fashion?Was you interested in Savile Row's tailoring?

It was a awakening, finding myself.Understand who I am.I opened my mind to understand the way you saw people.There I acquired the technical knowledge of fashion.I worked in the vintage department of Liberty de Haute Costura, Yallí I learned everything.We sold a garment per day, and I knew the story of each dress.By Saint Laurent, Chanel, Hermès, Schiaparelli, Dior ...

What designers do you consider teachers?

Flipa Saint Laurent, the Union of Marrakech and Paris.From Balenciaga we are proud, and we learn every day.From Lacroix I love that living in a better parallel reality that exists.And I also admire Nicolas Ghesquière and Oliver Thyeskens.

Collaborating with Rosalia was special.It was very nice to be part of his birth

That characters like Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Rita Ora or Rosalia take their garments, and that Carine Roitfeld is interested in what she does, has made him enter a privileged circle.What is it for you?

All this has been a validation, an answer to questioning, five years ago, whether this boy is going to arrive or not, whether it is a day candy ... Collaboration with Rosalia has been very special.It was nice to be part of her birth, we were with her doing all the costumes when she prepared "the bad want".He has been at home, in Posadas, eating salmorejo with his very long nails and wetting flamenquin with family ...

Around them many artists and creatives are concentrated, would you like to create a kind of the factory of yours?

That made everything built and was so fast.When I arrived in Madrid I made friends with modern and equally ambitious people as I.Of course I would like to have a factory in Madrid and surround myself with people who have added their contribution to the brand: Kito Muñoz, Phillip Kustic, Adrian Bernal, Alilla Rosales ...