Nixia Varela LaMar

Monday, August 2, 2010

FriChic: Varela LaMar

Fashion Week Panama: Bridges and Beyond

For Fashion Week Panama, Nixia challenged herself to find creative inspiration in Panama Canal bridge imagery believing these special features of Panama deserved celebration. She was inspired not only by what the bridges offered aesthetically, but by how they might function symbolically as Panama introduces its art and fashion to the world. To begin, the below photographs reveal how Nixia borrowed elements of bridge structure and incorporated them into Varela LaMar designs for her FWP collection.

The elegant collar style of the below pieces mimic bridge suspension cables. The provocative visual similarity is augmented by the fact that the unique collar features serve the same purpose as the bridge cables, offering support and ensuring proper alignment of the apparel.

Other creations showcased in the Varela LaMar Fashion Week Panama collection focused on the networks of support beams beneath the bridges. Nixia incorporated net fabrics into these ready to wear evening pieces, either to adorn or as the essential material of the clothing.

Nixia's other thematic interest in bridges is their metaphorical significance both for Panama and herself. Nixia insists the wealth of Panama's culture--in dress, in food, in tradition--must be shared internationally. She believes as an artist, she bears a personal responsibility to reach other countries. In the days after event, the news of Nixia Varela LaMar's Fashion Week Panama collection was covered in Argentina and Italy. And today, she continued bridging Panama to other nations as her recent collection was covered in Spain and Chile.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Thank You!

While vacationing, Nixia received news that special friends covered her Fashion Week Panama collection. She wishes to thank:

Nobody Knows Mark (Italy)

From Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Moda Rosa (Netherlands)

Monday, July 26, 2010

Fashion Week Panama: The Black and White

These items from the Varela LaMar Fashion Week Panama collection reflect Nixia's interest in the elegant simplicity of black and white combinations. The designer's willingness to experiment allows her to showcase a range of style from formal to playful using the most basic color schemes.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Newest Varela LaMar Clutch Bags

Nixia is not resting after Fashion Week........these are the latest Clutch Bags and they are on the way to stores now.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Thank You Supporters Around the World!

CAMILL HEY--Republic of Panama

Thank you to my dear friends in Panama and to generous fashionistas around the world !!!

With love,

Nixia Varela LaMar

Fashion is criticized for its celebration of physical beauty without attention to the human element, its subjugation of spirit to external pulchritude. More seriously, fashion is denied a place among the finer arts for its commercialization, for being compromsised by advertising budgets and for sponsorship commitments.

Fashion has been called a soulless business.

Paola Guillen, Diana de Webster, Olga de Leon Pimentel,
Nixia Varela LaMa

Nixia Varela LaMar was touched as she discovered kindness and generosity in fashion among dear friends and new acquaintances from around the world who supported her in the months and days before Fashion Week Panama. Some offered her coverage, others gave of their time and still others sent encouragemenent and well wishes.

She is grateful to each of you!