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Femme Eté 2006

Véronique Branquinho
…… Garage Génie de la Bastille

Rectangular capes hanging from a collar or gathered at the neckline, trapeze sheaths and skirts over mint-green leggings and body suits: Véronique Branquinho’s garments have a Cubist collage quality, with their flat shapes creating volume distortions without actually adding thickness. Dry or light fabrics, geometric patterns; a putty, slate, clay and chalk palette; the odd inlay of macramé embroidered: Branquinho displays her art in an introverted vocabulary laced with a quivering sensuality of diagonal, nearly faded knife-pleats, clavicle-grazing décolletages and long glove-sleeves masking the arms, all the better to attract the eye…

Denyse Beaulieu
Photos : Olivier Roller

Press : Totem / Kuki de Salvertes