Defines them as daring designs, daring, cheeky, but without losing that boyish look of retro designs.
I love that young firms and creators are interested in my blog, because I want to make it clear that everyone who has a dream and an idea will have a place here. That's why this interview makes me excited, because it is about a young girl who with enthusiasm makes great dresses. I'm sure you like them, not only for their designs, but also because of his personality. In addition, through the photographs, he presents the new collection of Yiddish Chutzpah.
– ¿Who are you and how did you get into the world of moda?
My name is Gem, I am from Cáceres and I live in Salamanca. I studied computer science and I work on it, but because I am a very creative person and in this job I couldn't express all my creativity as I would like, a year ago I decided to study dressmaking and pattern making. Years ago I had already flirted with this world of patterns, but with the help of my mother and it didn't really work out such a bad result. My idea back then was to go study design but due to life circumstances I didn't decide to do it.
– ¿How the firm was born?
Well, a cluster of circumstances. I loved making sketches on paper of many design ideas that came to my head but I did not have enough tools to bring them to reality and because I was a bit frustrated at work and my creative vein wanted to escape somewhere I started doing Tshirts, then I bought a sewing machine and studied dressmaking and pattern making.
It so happened that while going shopping at a little store here, Salamanca, I was wearing my first design, the one I had made with the help of my mother and the owner of the store asked me if I could bring him more things, that I was looking for other different firms and of course I accepted. So from that moment I started taking things to his store.
– ¿What is the name of the firm and why did you choose it??
The signature is Yiddish Chutzpah, a very peculiar name and difficult to pronounce, true, but I found it on a website that talked about enneagrams and they had told me that I was an eight. These two words come to say something like daring,dare, nerve…all these adjectives summed up a bit of my character and that is what I want my designs to identify with: bold, daring, cheeky, originales…
– ¿what is your philosophy?
The philosophy of the brand is to make versatile garments, es decir, that you can wear the same garment to go to work, al cine, of the scene or of hearts. And of course do original things, funny, cheeky but at the same time a touch of innocence (ese yiddish chutzpah) and of course I love to mix the new with the retro.
-¿where inspiration comes from?
I love to watch old movies, since the decade of the 50, 60 y 70, aesthetics is wonderful. It's where I usually get the most ideas., especially for the shapes and cuts of the garments and even if it is a hackneyed film for everything that has been used in different campaigns, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” It is undoubtedly one of the great sources of inspiration for many designers., I think.
I also like to look at children's clothing, I got the idea of the shorts gathered at the bottom from the frogs that are put on babies so that their diapers are not visible! jajaja!
Después, things come to mind, ornaments, mangas, ideas…that maybe I've seen them out there and unconsciously remember them
– ¿What makes it different from other brands?
Well, it's quite a difficult question for me., I had never thought about it, but so reflecting, I think they are very original designs, They are handmade and the materials are of quality., I choose them.
– ¿Have you thought about doing something for boy?
You are right, but I can't find the right pattern and it's harder for me to imagine boy's clothes, because it seems more limited. Perhaps it is easier for girls because I know what I like and what I would like to find if I were the client., but think about what it might like for guys…and I think you buy less :Q But if I want and have in mind to carry out an experiment, although for that I have to learn to make boy patterns too, you have to study it…
– ¿What is Yiddish Chutzpah preparing already? Short term plans…
Well, right now I'm sewing everything I can to supply the orders from the stores, they are few at the moment, pero bueno… and I present the collection next 7,8 y 9 October at the Nomad Market. I would also like to participate in different showrooms and the Ego, but that's all up in the air…
– Tell us about a medium or long-term plan…
In the medium term I would like to continue training, develop myself as a professional and gain a foothold in the market, very difficult thing being the way things are. and long, muy, muy, very long term I would like create a fashion research and development space, something like a fashion lab, type to what they have done those of the restaurant the bully.
– Where can I get your designs?? – About what prices round
- Muñekes d´rag (Avda. the constitutionº 5. Lena pola) – Asturias
- Doris Day (C/Santa Joaquina de Vedruna nº 1) – Cáceres
- The Dressing Room of Susa (C / Library nº 13) – Valladolid
- Divina Martina (Alameda Urquijo No.º 59) – Bilbao
- Coming soon in:
- Tea Coffee Sewing (C/ San Pedro nº 7 (Metro Anton Martin)- Madrid
- The fair (C / Espiritu Santo 25) Madrid
and the next 7,8 y 9 October at the Nomad Market
Yiddish Chutzpah prices range from 40 y 100 euros, depending on the work that the garment entails
– En general, what you like most about fashion and… the least
What I like the most is that I can give free rein to my imagination, which is not a limited field but a very, very extensive one and I believe that everything, it is worth it, has a place. I mean that it is not black or white but it depends on the eyes with which you look, It's art and I love it.
What I like least is that it is about selling a stereotype that is not real at all and I am not only talking about the image of women, but also of man, that some brands try to sell to a successful man, pero bueno, I guess that is linked to fashion itself, that it is something collateral and that for me it has nothing to do with what design is, even if it all boils down to business as usual, try to sell a «product»
- Fotografía: Jesus Garcia
- Modelos: Teresa Mayoral and Maria de Miguel
- makeup artist: Begoña Penalba Carbajo
- Scenography: Hostel Revolutum – Salamanca
Wow wow wow!thank you very much!It has made me excited and I liked it!!thanks, Lord of the yellow glasses ;)