With a versatile and colorful style, Antonio Miro has also created clothing for plays, films, and television productions, as well as venturing into jewelry and perfume design, while also exploring interior design and luxury furniture.Īt the turn of the new century, Antonio Miró's company went into crisis and, after negotiations with several fashion groups, he sold 70% of his shares to a company in 2008 and gradually distanced himself from the business world to concentrate solely on design. In 1990, the Spanish designer signed an agreement with Ermenegildo Zegna to launch his creations internationally. Miró then worked as a designer alongside his business activity and, after several breakthroughs, he founded in 1986 the company "Antonio Miró SA" with Fernando Zallo and Ignacio Malet. The success of his first boutique led him to set up his own label, "Antonio Miró", for men and women, with which he went on to present collections on many international catwalks in cities such as Paris, Tokyo, and New York. Interestingly, among the models that presented Miró's creations, we also find undocumented migrants and prisoners.īorn in Sabadell in 1947 to a tailor father, Antonio Miró opened his first shop, Groc, on Barcelona's Rambla Catalunya boulevard in 1968, opting for an avant-garde style aimed at an alternative public in search of new trends. He also designed uniforms for Catalonia´s regional police. Unfortunately, the designer never recovered and died.Īntonio Miró's costumes were used in the ceremonies at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The information was disclosed on Thursday, 3 February, by sources close to his family, according to EFE.Īccording to the sources, fashion legend Antonio Miró recently suffered a heart attack and had been hospitalized and placed in an induced coma. He was a brilliant design specialist and businessman. As a life-long believer in “green,” practices, I think the connections between people, their creations and nature is a flow, which I am capturing.Catalan designer Antonio Miró, a leading representative of Spanish fashion, has died at the age of 74. While a lot of what happens is intuitive and process based, underlying every piece is the belief that the natural markings and natural occurrences, man-made geometry and the human disposition to put things together in contexts, is a continuum, where all parts fit together no matter how disparate. What is critical in all my work is the abstracted form, containing information and ideas. Certain techniques, like piercing, constructing and collaging forms carry over. References to nature, architecture and the body are ever-present. The challenge of working on shifting scales, moving between functional and non-functional art, and tailoring content to different forms are linked concerns for me. “My artistic practice focuses on jewelry, sculpture and functional objects because of the diverse challenges and connections between these disciplines for someone committed to working in metal. It has been featured in national magazines including Metalsmith and W. Her jewelry is in the collection of New York’s Museum of Art and Design as well as many private collections. Miro was responsible for designing the cast-metal facade of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City and is involved with other site specific projects internationally. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international contemporary jewelry galleries and has also received attention in the fashion world. Known as both a jeweler and sculptor, in addition to jewelry she creates residential and commercial sculptural installations. Darcy Miro graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in Jewelry and Metalsmithing.
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