For his fall collection, Patricio Campillo began to reflect on the passage of time and how to control it. And controlling it was something that he was able to achieve with his craft.
Campillo found in oxidation processes the ideal medium to explore his recent obsession; he did it in various ways to find the same result. The first was the simulation of oxidation, a treatment that he gave to the denim pieces of the collection through several phases of washing that managed to give it an aged but very contemporary appearance. The second was the alteration of the water with which they wet the iron plates where the cloth rests to absorb the rust; a process that he carried out in collaboration with Mexican artist Elena Valdés from L7 Estudio and with which he achieved different intense shades in delicate silk organza shirts.
A third technique was the one that Campillo applied to the new ceramic buttons that supplanted the classic metal ones, typical of charrería. He put them in an oven that absorbs all the oxygen, then, instead of being a cooking process, the oxidation was achieved through a fossilization process, which turned each of the pieces into unique rocks in record time. For this he worked with the ceramist Emilio Gómez Ruiz.
