Autumn collection of the patriarch ... Carlos Campos fall collection 2012. Photograph: Andy Kropa/Getty Images
Gabriel García Márquez's bestselling tale of the long-drawn-out love between Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, Love in the Time of Cholera, has captivated readers for more than 20 years. Now the influence of the Nobel prize-winning author's novel has reached even further, after the fashion designer Carlos Campos said it lay behind his new clothing collection.
Campos, whose autumn line was shown this weekend during New York fashion week, told Agencia EFE that "García Márquez's book is a very romantic love story, about a man who waits 50 years to tell a woman that he loves her" (Florentino and Fermina's love is only, eventually, realised when Fermina's husband dies). "We wanted to take that and mix romance with realism within the fantasy," said Campos, who first read the book as a teenager.
Accents of red on earth tones such as camel, terracotta, wine, cream and blue are used "because it is the colour of love, passion, blood," said the Honduran designer, whose collection was praised by the New York Post for yielding "clothing as poetic and nuanced as the novel".
"Natural fibres — wool, cashmere, silk, cotton — dyed in mellow tones took form as covetable separates that meshed seamlessly in the collective whole," reported the paper. "The beautifully constructed outerwear options are sure to be sell-outs on the sales floor come fall, but best in show goes to the colour block suits that seemed as comfortable on the models' bodies as a second skin."
Márquez is not the only author to inspire Campos: last year it was the writing of Pablo Neruda which lay behind his designs, with his fabrics drawn from Uruguay, Peru and Italy (places Neruda lived or travelled to), and his colour palette from the green ink with which Neruda wrote. "Each year I return to what is the origin of who I am as a person. This collection is inspired by Neruda in every sense – from the way he tilted his hat to how he wore his coat," Campos said at the time.
Campos, whose autumn line was shown this weekend during New York fashion week, told Agencia EFE that "García Márquez's book is a very romantic love story, about a man who waits 50 years to tell a woman that he loves her" (Florentino and Fermina's love is only, eventually, realised when Fermina's husband dies). "We wanted to take that and mix romance with realism within the fantasy," said Campos, who first read the book as a teenager.
Accents of red on earth tones such as camel, terracotta, wine, cream and blue are used "because it is the colour of love, passion, blood," said the Honduran designer, whose collection was praised by the New York Post for yielding "clothing as poetic and nuanced as the novel".
"Natural fibres — wool, cashmere, silk, cotton — dyed in mellow tones took form as covetable separates that meshed seamlessly in the collective whole," reported the paper. "The beautifully constructed outerwear options are sure to be sell-outs on the sales floor come fall, but best in show goes to the colour block suits that seemed as comfortable on the models' bodies as a second skin."
Márquez is not the only author to inspire Campos: last year it was the writing of Pablo Neruda which lay behind his designs, with his fabrics drawn from Uruguay, Peru and Italy (places Neruda lived or travelled to), and his colour palette from the green ink with which Neruda wrote. "Each year I return to what is the origin of who I am as a person. This collection is inspired by Neruda in every sense – from the way he tilted his hat to how he wore his coat," Campos said at the time.
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