Eduardo Miera Explores Lorquian Purity in Marie Claire España November 2020

Photographer Eduardo Miera (IG) captures models Romina Lanaro, Lorena Guitan, and Marta Tamayo Martin in ‘Pureza Lorquiana’ (Lorquian Purity’. Stylist Chicho Gavela chooses feminine but modest looks for the fashion story in Marie Claire España November 2020. / Hair and makeup by Miguel Á. Gómez

After considerable research, AOC has determined the the fashion story references the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca and his play ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’, a play that premiered in March 1945 in Buenos Aires. Wiki reports that this third play is often grouped with ‘Blood wedding’ and ‘Yema’ as a “rural trilogy”.

Lorca referenced the play as a “drama of women in the villages of Spain”, and it was his last, performed two months before the playwright’s death during the Spanish Civil War. The play’s atmosphere reflected a period of mourning. Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 years old), Magdalena (30), Amelia (27), Martirio, (24), and Adela (20). The housekeeper (La Poncia) and Bernarda's elderly mother (María Josefa) also live there.

According to Wiki, “the deliberate exclusion of any male character from the action helps build up the high level of sexual tension that is present throughout the play. Pepe "el Romano", the love interest of Bernarda's daughters and suitor of Angustias, never appears on stage. The play explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity, and inspects the effects of men upon women.”

AOC is putting us in intellectual overload over a simple set of fashion imagery. Who the heck does this!!!

I am quite certain that there is an unintended connection between the facts of this play and the wailing women of ‘Sangu di rosa’, explored in depth as the lynch pin of Maria Grazia Chiuria’s Spring 2021 September show, posted early this morning on AOC

On the face of it, a seemingly random, fashion story choice may lie in a historical web of female lament and significantly deeper connections. But then, life is like that for women. Our journey continues. ~ Anne