Ana Locking unveiled her Fall/Winter 2014 collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid.
Ana González have worked as a creative director for her first brand Locking
Shocking (1996-2007), acclaimed by public and critic and awarded with
the `L’Oreal Paris´ for the best young SS’03 collection in 2002 of the
Madrid Fashion Week, and the `Gran Prix of Fashion Marie Claire´ for the
Best National Designer in 2004.
In 2008 she founded her new label Ana Locking and
with her first collection ‘Reentry’ FW08-09 won the `L’Oreal Paris
Award´ for the Best Collection of the Madrid Fashion Week.
In September 2009 she presented her SS’10
collection (Clothes exhibition and video art) in New York’s Public
Library during the NY Fashion Week with the project ‘4Eyes’ (four
spanish designers).
In November 2009 she won the `Cosmopolitan Award for the Best Spanish Designer of the year.
Since 2011 Ana practices fashion teacher in the
Polytechnic University of Madrid at the same time she continues working
as creative director of her own brand Ana Locking.
Ana keeps herself updated of the new artistic
disciplines, as she studied in the University of Fine Arts of Madrid.
That’s the reason why she has also collaborated with different cultural
institutions and artistic organizations through exhibitions,
installations, video-art, photography, seminars, conferences, classes,
etc.
MNCARS (National Museum of Art Reina Sofía de
Madrid), MUSAC (Museum of Modern Art of Castilla-León), IVAM (Institute
of Modern Art of Valencia), DA2 (Museum of Modern Art of Salamanca),
Museum of the Costume, ‘Casa de America’, ‘Casa Encendida’ of Madrid,
‘Canal de Isabel II’ of Madrid, ‘INJUVE’ (Youth Institute of Madrid),
‘The Factory Gallery´ in Madrid. NY Public Library.
All this projects help her to grow and evolve
through what she considers should be the grounds of every sensitivity
related to creation.