"Lo eterno", the new collection presented by the young designers of UDIT at MBFWMadrid

• UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum renew the collaboration through which students of the Official University Degree in Fashion Design reinterpret different works from the Museum's permanent collection.
• The Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles is the venue for this fashion show, which has the support of the Madrid City Council.

24 students of the Official University Degree in Fashion Design at UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, presented, as part of the 79th edition of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid catwalk, the Lo Eterno collection for the next Fall/Winter 2024/2025 season.

A fashion show that has become the finishing touch to the collaboration developed between UDIT and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza for more than a year and whose objective has been to support the talent of young designers by turning their work into a showcase for the image of the city of Madrid.

The young designers have had the opportunity to present their collection in an exceptional location, the Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles, thanks to the support of the Madrid City Council.

In addition, together with Rosa Pérez, President of UDIT and Juan Cayón, Rector of the University, the fashion show was attended by Marta Rivera de la Cruz, Delegate for Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Madrid City Council; Rocío Albert López-Ibor, Councillor for Economy, Finance and Employment of the Community of Madrid; Evelio Acevedo, Managing Director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum; Guillermo Solana, Artistic Director of the museum and Ana Rodríguez, Director of the MBFWMadrid catwalk.

A narrative that reinterprets the beginning of modernity in history

In this edition, the students of the last year of the Degree in Fashion Design have reinterpreted different Renaissance works belonging to the museum's permanent collection, giving life to The Eternal. A collection that speaks of the incessant search for truth, the meticulous observation of nature or the awareness of art as a means of connection with the sacred which, in short, were some of the obsessions of great artists of the time such as Titian, Dürer or Ghirlandaio.

For their part, the students involved in the design of the pieces that make up this collection have developed a narrative that is torn between the exaltation of divinity and immersion in threatening tenebrism, a conflict that arises as a way of contemporising the discourses of the time.

Meticulous brushstrokes, delicate forms, draperies sculpted on canvas and the characteristic slashed costumes predominant in the portraits of the period, appear deconstructed in the proposals of the students who, from their personal point of view, reinterpret a Renaissance that marks the beginning of modernity in history.

For their part, the fashion show began with a visual projection in which the University lecturers Lara Marín and José Manuel Arribas, the graduate Rocío Lerdo de Tejada and Enrique López de Andrés, deconstructed in order to reconstruct, through Artificial Intelligence, the paintings in which the young designers had been inspired to develop their creative proposals.

In this way, they managed to regenerate backgrounds and objects that were not visible in the original works, also integrating some of the textures and sketches previously worked on by the designers.

The 24 designers of the Lo Eterno collection are Gonzalo Álvarez Lucas, Irene Alonso López, Daniel Berrueco Fernández, Catalina Calvo Collado, Estefanía Gento Bravo, Madelin Leal Torres, María Moreno Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez Fernández, María Sánchez Sánchez, Miguel Alonso Frutos, Paula Anderson Ortiz, Iris Aranzana Quirosa, Sara Bezón Zoydo, Belén de Jesús Rodríguez, Andrea Díaz Cañizares, Alejandra Espada Revuelto, Laura Fernández Díaz, Rodrigo Fernández García, Sheila García Sánchez, Esther García Serrano, Adrián Koukoulis Lorenzo, Sofía Labrador Díaz del Campo, Vicente Martos Vílchez and Marta Guardiola Davó.

UDIT and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, a collaboration that supports the talent of young fashion designers

UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum have developed a unique collaboration that began at the beginning of 2023, when students in the final year of the University's Degree in Fashion Design had the opportunity to go on different private visits in which experts from the museum explained the artistic currents of the Renaissance and Impressionism.

From that moment on, the students began a research and work project that would prepare them to devise, design and make, together with the academic team of the University and the museum, the collections that would later be presented on the MBFWMadrid catwalk, the most important event in the world of fashion at a national level, in which UDIT is the only academic institution that, year after year, has its own fashion show to exhibit the creations of its students.

This fashion show, which is held in the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid, also has an exceptional collaborator, the Madrid City Council, given that the project carried out jointly by UDIT and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum aims, in addition to supporting the talent of the University's young designers, to project the best image of Madrid's heritage and cultural offer at a national and international level.