Creative expression
Colortherapy
- from 12:00 to 21:00
- Location: Espai Buit
COLORTHERAPY
Sybilla returns to Palma with a new Pop-Up Store, presenting her latest collection: Color Therapy. Fresh and surprising garments designed to bring strength and joy.
A collection created for women of all kinds, with only a few pieces in each series. Versatile clothing, for everyday wear as well as special occasions, and introducing for the first time her collection of handbags—crafted in leather using artisanal techniques in her own leather workshop.
Sybilla seeks to create pieces that make life easier and empower women: seductive yet comfortable, uplifting, playful designs… Vibrant, intense colors, noble and airy fabrics, and sophisticated patterns born from a long process of research and craftsmanship.
We return once again to Espai Buit, a house from the early 20th century in Palma’s former shipyards. A bright space that reflects the Mallorca which has always been present throughout the designer’s career. In this environment, created for self-discovery and culture to coexist, Sybilla’s admirers will discover new interpretations of her iconic designs.
Art Dresses — Sybilla + Elvira Amor
Sybilla constantly seeks new ways to create and present fashion—stepping off the beaten path and collaborating with people she admires and who inspire her.
One of these new ventures is the Art Dresses: a series of dresses where prints take center stage. With intricate and flattering patterns, they bring to life the paintings of Elvira Amor.
This collaboration between designer and painter is conceived as a playful dialogue between different ways of creating—a wink at the boundary between what is Fashion and what is Art.
Light silk pieces that celebrate subtlety, sweetness, freedom, and sensuality, designed to spark joy and delight. This collaboration also becomes a wonderful excuse to celebrate summer together.
Quotes:
“I deeply admire the work of painter Elvira Amor, and I feel very connected to her sensitivity. ‘I’m a Painting’ is the name of this game, this dialogue between our different ways of creating. I believe collaborations are the future—and, above all, they are great fun.”
“The Art Dresses were the first pieces I designed when I decided to return to fashion, striving to be coherent with what I wanted to wear as a woman and what I longed to create as a designer—even if it meant moving away from what I had been recognized for in the past. I was ‘hungry’ for ultra-light dresses, easy to wear, with exciting color combinations. That’s how this collaboration was born.”
Pop-Up at Espai Buit
July 23 – August 9
12:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Sybilla
Sybilla was born in New York in 1963. In 1983, she began her career as a fashion designer in Madrid, creating the brand Sybilla, distinguished by its elegant, flattering, and sensual shapes and colors. Her innovative style, combined with the classical values of craftsmanship, brought haute couture standards into the prêt-à-porter market.
In 1986, following her first appearance at the Gaudí Fashion Show in Barcelona, she collaborated with the Italian company Gibó, which propelled her international reputation. At the same time, she developed accessory collections—shoes, handbags, hats, umbrellas—as well as knitwear, bed linens, and lingerie.
In 1991, she opened stores in Paris and Tokyo, becoming over the years one of the world’s most admired designers. In 1992, she continued her career exclusively in Japan, where her clothing and footwear collections were successfully marketed, while also launching fashion accessory lines such as watches, jewelry, and scarves. In 1993, she introduced her youth line Jocomomola to the Japanese market.
After a ten-year pause from fashion—during which she was actively involved in environmental projects and participated in special collaborations such as designing costumes for ballet and film—she worked with companies including Alessi, Santa & Cole, and Nani Marquina, and signed multiple licensing agreements.
She returned to fashion in 2013, receiving Spain’s Gold Medal in Fine Arts in 2014 and the National Design Award in 2015. In 2022, Madrid dedicated the first major retrospective of her work at the Canal de Isabel II gallery.
In 2024, she returns with “La Revuelta de Sybilla” (The Sybilla Uprising), a creative laboratory and experiment designed to reconnect with people and work hand in hand in the creation of garments. She also reopens her bridal and bespoke haute couture atelier and launches pop-up stores in Madrid, Mallorca, Ibiza, Mexico, and Miami.
Elvira Amor
Elvira Amor was born in Madrid in 1982. She studied in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where her artistic practice began with drawing but also with batik. Later, she returned to Spain to complete her Fine Arts degree at the University of Cuenca, and afterwards traveled and studied in Argentina, Mexico, Belgium… It is worth noting that her training took place at one of Spain’s most distinctive art schools at the turn of the century. In her later journey, she absorbed influences from the places she lived in, leaving their mark on her painting.
“It is a painting more connected to the senses and the sensory, one that seeks to strip its elements of a univocal and classifiable meaning or reading, to open them up to an experience of the intangible and the undefined.”
— Joaquín García, from the exhibition Salmon Coral Brick at García Galería.
Here, form is understood as a fragile and ambiguous zone situated between linguistic structures and accidental strokes, between bodies and geometric figures—a space open to not-knowing, which, in turn, calls for a mode of apprehension that does not reduce meaning to what is already known.
