Alex Sobrón Turns Flamenco Motion Into Silver for “Duquelas”
INYIM Media Accessories: Spanish jewelry designer Alex Sobrón unleashes Season IV, “Duquelas” I: Baile — the first chapter of a collection built as a love letter to the art, movement and emotional force of flamenco.
For his fourth collection, Sobrón divides the concept into a flamenco triptych: baile, cante and toque — dance, singing and playing. This opening chapter belongs to the dancers, translating movement into metal through one of the designer’s recurring signatures: the butterfly.
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The butterfly is more than decoration here. Sobrón uses its flight as a visual parallel to the sweep of a flamenco skirt’s ruffles, the movement of a Manila shawl, the lift of a dancer’s hair and the controlled rise of the hands. The lightness of the wings becomes a way of capturing the breaths, sighs and quejíos that carry so much of flamenco’s expression.
Each piece is modeled by hand in wax and cast in silver, continuing the artisanal process at the center of Sobrón’s work. The designer’s fourth season also marks a noticeable technical evolution: the forms feel more resolved, but they still carry the organic irregularity and storytelling that make his jewelry immediately recognizable.
The collection pays homage to major figures of flamenco dance including Antonio Gades, Matilde Coral, Pastora Imperio and Farruco. Sobrón imagines the metal butterflies almost as dancers frozen in time — still in motion through the memory and history of the art form.
And the title Duquelas carries its own weight. The word is rooted in the language of sorrow and hardship associated with flamenco, while one of Sobrón’s key sets combines thorny bougainvillea branches with butterflies: fragility meeting hardness, beauty answering pain.
It’s exactly the kind of jewelry we love seeing move beyond “accessory” territory. These pieces aren’t simply there to finish an outfit — they are tiny sculptures carrying references to dance, history, memory and the Mediterranean world that continues to shape Sobrón’s visual language.
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Source: Alex Sobrón / FY Magazine! / VEIN Magazine. This archived INYIM fashion post was restored and reformatted for readability.
