ALBA VICARIO

INTERVIEW WITH ALBA VICARIO

Alba Vicario, was born in Burgos, a small city in the north of Spain, and later moved to Barcelona to continue her studies and career in the fashion industry. Sh’s had different roles but finally chose to focus on being a fashion stylist and creative director working with brands like: Bimba y Lola, Armani Jeans, Pull and Bear, Hackets, and Missoni... other inspiring independent brands like AleyOle, Project Lobster, Sonia Carrasco, Weekend House Kids... and has collaborated wth magazines like: L'Officiel, Vogue Spain, and one of our favourites, Schön.

She recently started her own project as a result of the pandemic’s lockdown measures: Atsixam, a handcrafted metal jewelry deco brand we love!

Your greatest inspirations or influences?

I get really inspired with vintage and retro inputs, they can come from anywhere, markets, antiques, old pictures not even professional ones but familiar.

Tell us a bit about your creative process? Work you are most proud of, things you are looking forward to in 2021?

For me the creative process is always different. It really depends, it can start out of a brainstorm for a specific project, or from a particular research I could be working on, sometimes its just an idea that I propose to a magazine and we go from there…

The thing is that my work is a type of lifestyle, you never start and it never ends. Its constant. The process is quite mixed and influenced by your own life and creative inputs, that's why I try to keep active and positive. As much as you see, as much you can give.

Right now, I'm very excited with my baby project, 6AM, and I'm focused on its development which is very exciting!

How has this year changed your creativity or how you see the industry changing moving forward?

Well this year has forced the industry to turn 360º, to the point we needed to go.

Plenty of independent brands launched this year with the values of: sustainability, km0 philosophy, zero-waste, pre-order model. And I´m so proud of it because it was time and was necessary.

The lockdown gave me the chance to stop and think about what I really wanted, and which kind of projects I wanted to be involved in. Hence why I started to put into practice my jewelery lessons, and did my first collection.

Anything else you'd like to share?

Yes I am really excited to share with you my brands and portfolio, I invite your readers to check it out and get in touch, i love feedback. :)

www.albavicario.com - @albavicario

www.atsixam.com - @sixam.sunrise