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15 SEGUNDOS AGENCIA
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915 55 64 58
María MUÑOZ
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INHOME : Laura Muñiz
958 52 00 29
About Pilar Dalbat
Pilar Torrecillas CEO and creative director of the international brand PILAR DALBAT.
Flag of Andalusia, Included in the Forbes list of Most Influential Women in Andalusia 2024, Alas Award to the exporting company and AGEA excellence award among others, she is the only mother of a large family in ACME (Association of Fashion Creators of Spain).
Trained between Granada, the United Kingdom and Paris, she returned to Spain after ten years living abroad (Europe and Asia) to found her company with local roots and without borders, an ambassador of our city, she is known in the fashion world, inside and outside our country as ‘la Granadina’.
For more than two decades she has been building and exporting stories to the whole world, stories that speak about the heritage and the architectural and cultural legacy of her native city.
Her own language and her original formula for building collections have already consecrated her as an international reference for fashion, design and culture in Spain.
In the eyes of the press and specialists, committed to local and global values and to the training and development of her team through the study of her immediate environment, her leading company does not stop growing.
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Whenever someone special comes to visit me, I take them to one of my favorite places: María la Canastera's Zambra.
María Cortés Heredia, a dancer since childhood and known as La Canastera, made her zambra in Sacromonte a world-famous place. A native of Granada like me, she was born on February 27, 1913. Her father, Juan Cortés El Cagachín, worked with wicker, making baskets. Enrique El Canastero, María's son, jealously guards the artistic legacy he inherited, together with his family.
Every day, the purest form of flamenco is danced in the zambra, that of the gypsies of Granada, which has its origins in ancient Moorish dances.
The words zambra, cave, and dance are intertwined in Granada. Tradition, architecture, and culture coexist in a single voice.
The Zambra collection, rooted in local folklore, reinterprets flamenco keys, bringing them closer to the universe of Pilar Dalbat.
The sequentially ordered blocks of the collection follow a cadence of monochrome looks. Whites and raw lime colors in the gypsy cave, Andalusian green of the countryside and prickly pear cactus, golds of sun and sky, and blacks as dark as night. Copper, the heritage and richness of local culture, sprinkles the collection.
The variety and mix of fine fabrics such as silk, embroidered tulle, thread, and cotton studded with metallic sequins add richness to the collection. The brand once again relies on local workshops to manufacture its fabulous 100% recycled Alpujarra fabrics, which are original and rustic in character. On this occasion, tone-on-tone embroidery revives the classic Andalusian skirt motif so prevalent in festivities, folk dances, and pilgrimages. Today, it is valued as a symbol of local identity and textile heritage. The use of technical and metallic fabrics introduces a contemporary contrast.
Zambra is also committed to reinterpreting the silhouette and volume of flamenco dress: skirts with yokes and capes, unstructured ruffles, cotton shirts at the waist, and balloon sleeves evoke the gestures of dance. Flowing dresses and sheer fabrics accompany the movement of the body. The garments are transformed, like the zambra, into an intimate and powerful ritual interpreted in a fashion context.
The handcrafted embroidery, all made in the brand's workshop, is reminiscent of the polka dots, flowers, and filigree of antique shawls, but is presented with a minimalist and abstract aesthetic. Metallic appliqués and visible stitching suggest a fusion between the urban and the ancestral.
Granada-based artisan María Soto is responsible for Pilar Dalbat's first jewelry collection. A fourth-generation goldsmith specializing in filigree and embossing, María is now the heir to this dynasty started by her great-grandfather and continues to work with pomegranates, the symbol of the city, in sterling silver and the famous gold of the Darro River. For Zambra, the artist has developed a series of earrings, pendants, brooches, and combs in vitrified copper, with some pieces enameled, all in the purest Sacromonte style.