I carry within me millennia of refinement.
I come from the radiance of Persia, from the courts of Damascus, from high poetry, from the Arab Empire, and from the illiterate man capable of the most beautiful, most stripped-back hyperbole. From a people able to summon collective catharsis through solemnity. I bear the authority to create, to set things vibrating, and to explode.”
There is an Andalusia that exists before the cliché. A land that has always been a frontier and, because of it, both bounded and overflowing.
Un Chien Andalou is the collection Leandro Cano imagines as the expression of an inheritance that cannot be seen, yet still bites. A territory where civilizations met for millennia, leaving behind a way of inhabiting the world that embraces hyperbole and accepts surrealism as a natural condition. A place of perpetual encounter that Europe reduced to a postcard.
UN Chien Andalou
Photos: Juan Jerez Studio
The collection begins with an Andalusia understood as a form of sensitive authority. A place capable of bending reality until it becomes raw emotion. A place of sung truths, twisted verbs, and sharpened metaphors that reveal what lies beneath. A place where passion burns openly and rage is carried with tenderness. Where the sacred becomes flesh, sorrow becomes jubilation, jubilation becomes trance, and trance becomes ritual.
How do you stitch together an impossible territory? How do you build the mountains of a landscape you were taught to see as nothing more than a still garden?
Leandro Cano reconstructs the history he was never told. He proposes a journey toward a place that cannot be reached by sight alone.
Satin, cotton, wool crepe, lace, natural hair, hand embroidery, and antique Spanish textiles give the collection its body. Its most radical gesture lies in scale: sacred mountains become portals into another space and another time. Ceramic couture speaks the language of the impossible, shaped as though it were cloth. Combed felt unfolds entire worlds that ask for hours of contemplation. Silver jewellery and crocheted masks evoke imposition, penance, and silence.
Each material carries time within it. Each technique reconstructs a memory that was never spoken.
Is Andalusia not that gesture of stripping away the bark? That excess, that overflow?
Hands carving hollows into the earth. A wound. A gateway through which the Mediterranean escapes.
Two rocks pointing toward the Atlantic that roars and devours. Toward the kingdom of the forge and the golden apples. Toward the last land before the beyond. The threshold of the underworld crossed by Charon. The home of Medusa, of the three-headed giant Geryon and his red cattle, of Argantonio and the Hesperides.
The guardians of the gates of hell smile like kings and embrace like brothers.
“I carry rage within my body. I come to bite.”
— Leandro Cano Luque
@leandrocano
SHOW CREDITS
Venue — Fondazione Sozzani
Creative Director — Leandro Cano
Press — Alexandre Malgouyres, REP Agency
Styling — Riccardo Terzo
Project Manager — Itsaso del Rey
Pattern Making — Estanislao Solsona
Hair — Priscila Cano
Make-up — Chio Jiménez
Casting — Tamara Carabaca
Art Direction — Julia Valencia
Production — Atril Events
Ceramic Pieces — Fran Agudo
Textile Art & Felting — Sandra Vila
Jewellery — Gorobei Studio
Special Pieces — Bruno Fito
Crochet — Hilando el Tiempo
Print Design — María Melero
Lace — Sophie Hallette
Music — Flamante
Graphic Design — Aníbal Garcia
Photography — Juan Jerez
Video — Kike Lanes
Candles — Cerería Salvador
Acknowledgements
To my mother, María del Carmen, for her unconditional love and unwavering support.
Special thanks to Sara Sozzani Maino.
To my team—Sophia Hecht, Jenifer Megía, Pilar Fabián, Montserrat Padilla, and Elena Durán—and to every friend, collaborator, artisan, and partner whose generosity, talent, and dedication made this collection possible.
Founded by Carla Sozzani in 2016, Fondazione Sozzani is dedicated to the promotion of culture through photography, fashion, fine art, and the applied arts. Continuing the public mission established by Galleria Carla Sozzani in 1990, the Foundation fosters exhibitions, research, education, and cultural exchange. Sara Sozzani Maino curates and develops projects focused on education, responsibility, and supporting the next generation of creative talent.
