Miguel Adrover was one of the most controversial designers of the past decade, always positioning himseld as an outsider of the fashion scene. Six years after his last catwalk show in New York and having moved in Palma de Mallorca, Spain he was interviewed by Industrie magazine and gave his own definition of the term "avant-garde" today; "I think what was avant-garde before is not avant-garde today. When people talk about avant-garde 25 years ago it meant risking something: you risk being excluded from society, being pointed out. But today it's the other way around: it's to be accepted. We need to turn around once again and start from fresh."
Failed businessman or not (he still designs eco-friendly clothes for Hess Natur, a mail order brand), Adrover remains a true warrior in the Surreal Real world he lives in, (title of his 2004 collection-photos above) and a contemporary theorist of fashion always focusing on its social aspects, without selling himself cheap.
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