About Cotes
Antonio Cotes is a Spanish fashion designer from a rural environment in Lorca (Murcia), trained at IED Madrid. From an early age, he showed a strong interest in art and design, an curiosity encouraged by his maternal figure, who introduced him to different creative disciplines throughout his childhood. After beginning his studies in Civil Engineering, he decided to redirect his path towards fashion. During his training, he started developing projects as a stylist and took his first professional steps through an internship at Reparto Studio. His work explores identity, cultural heritage, and Parisian historical savoir-faire, always from a Mediterranean perspective and a technical vision shaped by his previous education.
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The proposal emerges from the fascination that human beings have felt towards minerals and objects capable of containing invisible meanings.
From the earliest civilizations, where stones symbolized protection, spirituality, and power, to nineteenth-century curiosity cabinets, minerals have occupied a space between science, collecting, and mysticism. The collection establishes a parallel between those bourgeois cabinets, where fossils, crystals, and relics were accumulated in an attempt to understand the world, and the contemporary relationship with lithotherapy, where minerals become objects associated with emotional balance, protection, and identity construction.
This reflection is transferred to the present, where we continue to surround ourselves with objects to which we attribute a value beyond their physical form, transforming them into personal symbols capable of accompanying us, protecting us, or representing what we aspire to achieve. Beyond questioning or validating these beliefs, the collection observes the human need to find meaning and refuge in the objects that accompany us.
Based on this idea, the proposal reinterprets the aesthetic of Parisian cabinets de curiosités through a contemporary language that combines the precision of historical tailoring with a deeply Mediterranean sensibility. The shapes, textures, and materials evoke the presence of minerals and the accumulation of singular objects that defined these spaces.
Each look reinterprets the atmosphere of these spaces of accumulation, where the material and the symbolic coexisted, bringing their mystery and beliefs into the present through a contemporary and Mediterranean perspective, with Paris as a conceptual reference.