The beauty of a treasure

I, Moon, want to tell you about the night in which three women discovered a treasure.

They lived in a city that was famous for having a huge abandoned house into which nobody wanted to enter.

One night, the three friends decided to venture out and explore it. They asked me for help, in case something happened to them, and I agreed to accompany them with my light during their adventure.

The women entered and, lamp in hand, began to move, listening to the creak of the wooden floors as they went.

—”There’s nothing here,” said one of them.
—”Let’s continue,” answered another.

They went up some wooden stairs that took them to the second floor and walked through a corridor with cobwebs on the ceiling. Suddenly they saw a light trickling down the floor of one of the rooms. It was different from the light of a bulb or a candle. The door trembled, as if it was moving by itself, and they pushed it open.

Upon entering, they discovered dozens of rolls of bright fabrics, with fantastic colors and designs, with textures and patterns of flowers, nature, and animals. They were scattered all over the place.
“It’s a treasure,” said one of them.

They took everything they could and headed home.

The next morning they continued to admire the beauty of the fabrics and continued to be surprised by what they had seen.

At night, I spoke to one of them in a dream and told her about what she had to do with them. “They’re fabrics from all over the world. Gather as many as you can and unite them in a single garment”, I told her.

The woman told her friends about the dream and for weeks they dedicated themselves to creating and making the design that I myself suggested. When I finished them I wanted to take it for myself. They accepted.

Today, our creations live on the Moon.

Process

The story of Loona’s Collaboration 22 begins when Sharon Drijanski, Loona’s founder, and María Dolores Uribe, creator of Studio84, an interior design showroom in Mexico that works with prominent home interiors labels, such as Jim Thompson or C&C Milano, ran into each other casually in a design magazine’s event.

Upon meeting, Maria Dolores told her that she had a lot of upholstery fabric from past collections that would go to the trash. Immediately, Sharon thought of giving a new life to those materials: “They’re pieces and samples of the most beautiful fabrics in the world; they’d been used for curtains for different projects, but nothing could be done with them anymore, and they were in a room.”

María Dolores puts these materials in context: “The fabrics used for this Collaboration are fabrics from different European brands that are used especially for upholstery fabrics and special products for interior design.” To which Sharon adds: “When she told me, I thought a Mexican designer had to do something with them.”

Sharon then called the renowned Lorena Saravia, who immediately accepted the proposal. It was something totally new for the designer, as she states: “I’m a very structured and analytical person. I never have a surplus of materials. For me, waste is something that stagnates you energetically so I calculate everything very, very well”.

Later, Saravia took all the material to her workshop where the final pieces of the collection were shaped. “We built a kimono with various cuts. A patchwork. We had to find an equilibrium so that these fabrics had a balanced weight on the front and back. It was like putting together a puzzle with the combinations of different materials and colors”, says Lorena of this Collaboration and adds that it was also a novelty in terms of her vision of design: “I’m very monochromatic and I use a very well defined color palette. When I saw what we had, I found an ocean of colors. It was very interesting to see how my very ‘square’ head was mixed in another universe”.

To unify this Collaboration, however, Lorena added an interior satin lining that is a hallmark of this project, and points out that these pieces will form part of her brand’s seasonal collection presentation event, where she’ll show this upcycling exercise to buyers and specialized media.

Regarding the result of this collaboration, María Dolores is punctual: “It fills me with great enthusiasm since these products remain alive but in something very different. These samples were stored and I didn’t know what to do with them since many things were out of collection. I wanted to use them for something special, so when Sharon told me about Loona, I was excited. I knew that this was the perfect project.”

For her part, Sharon is also satisfied with the result: “At the end of the day, what I want is for all the designers to do something with Loona, so that the people who follow them know this universe and start to discuss and explore the importance of sustainability”.