On the runway, which was none other than Córdoba’s Roman bridge, dating around 2,100 years old, Rocío Herrera, Oriol Elcacho, Aida Artiles, Nuria Rothschild, Davinia Pelegrí, Javier de Miguel, Marta Ortiz, or Beltrán Lozano, among other renowned models on the national scene, walked the catwalk.
A total of 27 models showcased last night 54 looks that demonstrated the strength of the Córdoba-based brand Silbon, a tailoring house with millimetre-precise patterns and construction, a tailoring house for both men and women that forms part of the autumn/winter collection of its Limited Edition line Unique, with which the brand founded in 2009 offers a highly competitive market proposition in design, quality and price.
Silbon closed a stretch of this historic bridge in front of the Renaissance-style gate that leads to the Plaza del Triunfo to present a collection whose central focus is contemporary tailoring with a youthful character; and pieces designed for morning, afternoon and night. With the collection, Silbon boasts having a design, cut and sewing team that masters the technique of the founder’s great-grandfather and grandfather, Pablo López Carmona.
Guests and models at the Silbon show.
His great-grandfather, José Lopez, opened the tailoring shop in Lucena in 1906, a tradition continued by his grandfather, Antonio López, and which he has resumed after the paternal generational leap, devoted to university teaching. Precisely this year, Pablo López has recovered the family tailoring in Lucena to open a new Silbon establishment, one of the 150 stores the brand already has nationally and internationally (with stores in Paris, Lisbon, Porto, Miami and Mexico). It has been the great-grandson of that first tailor López from Lucena who has brought that tailoring to international success, boasting enormous quality in fabrics, discernment in patterns and prints, and mastery in finishes.
The Silbon looks on the runway
The collection presented in Córdoba draws on complete ensembles of overcoat, tailored suit, and waistcoat in the same fabric and print. Prince of Wales checks, diplomatic stripes, Scottish plaids, cheviot herringbone, or small tweed checks, among others.
In the patterns, a variety that demonstrates that tailoring maintains its current pulse and proposes solutions with single-breasted jackets, double-breasted blazers, safari-style jackets, bomber jackets, long coats or coats with a straight line and cross-cut. And in both men’s and women’s options, in addition to outfits with slim and wide trousers, others proposed tailoring with a straight skirt or slightly flared below the knee.
The overall polish of all the looks, in which there were also some more casual proposals with sweaters, cardigans and ankle-length trousers, leaves a very pleasing sense of the craftsmanship, quality and meticulousness that characterizes the brand, though also the certainty that it chose to play it safe, without offering a bolder and more imaginative option for the dynamics of a fashion show.
