The Brazilian fashion designer Yuri Pardi's thoughts about unisex high heels and fashion

UNI
“Neither feminizing the man, nor masculinizing the women,
but an equilibrium point.
Black, white and shades of gray in their brightness, opacity
and transparency, hiding, revealing and decorating a
body, only human, with the ability of shifting between
genders, being sometimes one, sometimes another, sometimes both and sometimes
neither.
This is the contemporary gender, translated into
rectilinear, achromatic and neutral clothing.
UNI, for UNITY”


Background of the Conceptual
The incredible scansion of the image promoted in fashion over
the twentieth century begins to reveal its effects, it can now be
observed in its total volume and it is eagerly analyzed by a
youth who essentially want freedom.
Over one hundred years the transitions were numerous. The genders
have been set up, consolidated and redefined several times, obeying
the interests of the current image broadcasters,
carrying associations we now perceive as transitory
and not mandatory.
This youth has an excused sexuality,
gender is a state of mind.
The aesthetical lenguage applyed to this collection was createde so that this way of
being gets explicited. Colors and shapes must be disconnected from the definitions of
masculine and feminine, but rather, a phase
neutrality should be faced. So black, white and gray
appear, for they are historically less tied to the definitions of gender;
and rectilinear forms that remove the implicit allusions to the corporal characteristics.
What this proposes is bluring the lines between genders. The recall through perception
that we are all human and
we express ourselves according to the context of our time.
It is not about androgyny,
its about freedom of sexual expression.
These clothes are not timeless, nothing is. They are the expression of the
beginning of a change, latent in society walking towards unity.