Paloma Gonzalez Fontanals – Spain

Gaudi’s Dream

Category: Traditional

Description

Gaudi’s Dream is inspired in the catalan modernist architect, Antonio Gaudi and one of his best works: Park Güell, considered a Heritage of Humanity site by UNESCO.

Visited by millions of tourists a year, the main idea is to represent the quiet and green park we can see when we are in front of the main park gate. There, them just see the green space, the lung of the city but you need to enter in the heart of the park to discover the world of Gaudi, the great constructions he designed inside to create his own world in the middle of nature that is, at the same time, in the middle of a metropolis.

Full of color and details, and using his own technic of “trencadis”, his great mosaics characterize this stunning work.

This fascinator represent more or less that feeling: at the first view (the front of the piece) you find a great green mass that shine with different greens and vegetation, but you need to delve in the piece to find the jewel of the “park”, a world of color and subtlety that represents Gaudi’s Dream, that only a few can admire (this would be the back or lining of the fascinator).

At the same time I feel this is the kind of subtitle we have in millinery. Not everything is shown in a work, most of the times you need to investigate and study carefully a work to discover the real essence ot it, its soul.

Materials

• buckram, as a principal element for the structure.
• crepe silk
• chiffon
• sequins
• crystal and different feathers (Hackle, coque and goose feathers) are used to finish the creation.

Techniques

The fascinator is all made using traditional millinery techniques.

• Blocking in a traditional buckram stiffen
• Simple covered with crepe silks in the front face
• French plated for the lining
• The fascinator is standing in a wire structured finish with silk thread and a invisible headband.
• Everything, each part is hand sewing with no glue or silicone at all.