CATALIN VALEAN

Catalin Valean is an emerging fashion designer from Cluj-Napoca that transposes the many shades of his life experiences into his work, therefore developing intelligent designs through a very personal filter.

His childhood flashbacks, his affiliation to the punk subculture, but also the feeling of being spiritually misplaced and the constant craving for an alternative lifestyle, are factors that are forced to function together in his concepts, creating discrepancies that might seem odd juxtaposed theoretically, but end up working properly in practice. His creations always tend to have a more naive demeanor, this way managing to balance and give a more unexpected glide to the usually gloomy storyline behind them.

Catalin's concept revolves around the unintentional involvement of natural elements into public spaces and analyzes the ephemeral characteristic of a certain object after having contact with certain forces. Damages become goods and the disclosure of the details around this process becomes the center of interest as physical forces affect mental, spiritual or social perception. With every moon beam, drop of rain, human touch or temporary presence, energies are being absorbed by the solicited objects, therefore giving them a new life and a higher purpose.