La Casa de la Moda Jenny Polanco presents on 14 November 2020 its Spring-Summer 2021 collection. The collection is a tribute to late designer Jenny Polanco, one of the first victims in the Dominican Republic of the Covid-19 virus. The designer caught the disease when traveling in February in Spain.
Now heading the designer house, Carla Quiñones Polanco, Jenny Polanco’s daughter, says the decades of the 80s and 90s served as inspiration to start this first collection without Jenny Polanco. 40 looks inspired by the 40 years of the Dominican designer’s career will be on the runway on Saturday. Jenny Polanco is regarded as one of the most emblematic fashion professionals ever in the Caribbean.
“Jaez” is more than a fashion show, it is a tribute to the retrospective of Jenny Polanco’s work, as well as the reaffirmation to the public that her legacy will continue to be part of the national and international catwalks with pieces and handcrafted elements that exalt Caribbean women,” says Quiñones Polanco. Jaez was the name of Jenny Polanco’s first store.
The designers Carolina Socías and Solange Jiménez, both disciples of Polanco, have participated in the preparation of the collection. Quiñones explained that the collection came about as the designers were going through their own grief for the loss of their mentor. This led them through a process of recognition of the career and teachings of Jenny Polanco and how there is a before and after in Dominican fashion marked by her art and style.
She says: “Jaez” is a collection that is born from the feeling of gratitude. The pandemic has allowed us to value the essential, the quality of the well done, the timelessness, the necessary and the simple without losing sight that women want to feel flirtatious and always present their best version despite the circumstances.”
The runway exhibition will be in person with a limited capacity of 150 people in two courtyards of the Casa de los Vitrales in the Colonial City. Covid-19 protocols are mandatory.
Those who wish to enjoy the runway from a distance, can purchase tickets and access the live stream by YouTube.
The funds generated by the parade will be used to support the program Amando La Vida of the Fenix Foundation, educating and preventing the consumption of alcohol and psychoactive drugs in teenagers and young pregnant women, as well as young mothers, between 12 and 25 years of age.
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11 November 2020