Nana is a Japanese designer. After gaining experience and design skills at major fashion houses such as Issey Miiyake, she launched ARRO in 2017. Each piece is embroidered using programmed machines and assembled by hand. The three-dimensional and colorful figures are inspired by the plants and animals of a personal imaginary paradise.
Her embroidered jewelry is very light and is worn with extreme comfort. The bright colors inspire a feeling of peace in the person who wears it.
All the studies of the Italian Renaissance, the Fibonacci series, the unbridled search for forms at the base of the wonder of life, find a perfect continuation in the work of Nana Watanabe, in her ARRO project. The shapes of shells and animals of the sky and the earth are meticulously studied, revealing their mystery: a perfect regularity that transforms a flat surface of fabric into a three-dimensional solid through a dense system of cuts, embroidery and stitching.
A surface becomes volume, but remains a surface: the interior of the pieces, empty and light, seems to be its true essence, hidden from view and its pure emanation.
