The last interview of Manuel Wolf, the great of fashion in Ecuador has left
As he sat down at the table at Tijuana Mexican Food (in Guayaquil) on July 20, no one knew that it would be his last interview. He believed in energies, in destiny, and the latter was the one that had brought him to Guayaquil on a fleeting visit, since he was based in Quito.
A goodbye to Manuel Wolf, acquaintances remember him and say goodbye with a few words
The conversation was about the fashion book that he was about to launch in October this year , according to what he said excitedly. It would be the first fashion book that collects the history of the city of Guayaquil in that aspect. The work had been intense, they were between five and six months of full dedication to capture the most interesting data along with images and illustrations that complement the written content.
A goodbye to Manuel Wolf, acquaintances remember him and say goodbye with a few words
Designer Manuel Wolf dies suddenly of a heart attack
He was the son of teachers and he maintained that he had the chair “in his veins”. “My life has always been in that task that crosses the boundary of the workshop and the little machine”, he said with confidence, since he dedicated himself to being a professor at Eurodesign, as well as carrying out adult education programs, advisor, event producer, among other activities throughout his life, developing an extensive curriculum, but always hand in hand with fashion.
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In the pandemic “we all had another side of daily life”, he said and indicated that it was there in the void, in the unemployment that he had the inspiration and determination to start what at some point he had already visualized, his book . For the realization of the piece he had the help of whom he called "friends".
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“I want to dedicate this little essay to four special women who supported my work and impacted my life: Yela Loffredo de Klein, who encouraged me to navigate this magnificent journey of a lifetime; to Jenny Estrada Ruiz, who with her transcendental journalistic work motivated me to never give up my efforts; to Adela Morán Bustamante, my first dressmaker and dressmaker of art; and especially to Rebeca Rodríguez Arce, the exemplary teacher of all my lessons, my devoted mother, whose memory is my greatest blessing”, this was noted between the first pages of the work not yet published.
While the coconut candy that rested on the table was the only companion, he stated that the table book would be a limited edition, that few would have it and that just as it would be limited, it would also be a luxury. As he mentioned before, Manuel Wolf believed in destiny and to that he also attributed the endorsement that the Municipality of Guayaquil gave to his creation of him. He wasn't looking for him, but that label ran into him during the sudden and short stay he had in Guayaquil this July.
“Perhaps you and I are dead and it can be considered over time as a historical book on Guayaquil fashion, something that definitely flattered me,” he said that Yela Loffredo had told him, a name that appears in the acknowledgments for promoting it in the writing experience. Perhaps both of them thought that this scenario would be a long time away, but nobody knows with certainty the paths of life (or rather those of death) and Manuel Wolf died on the afternoon of July 25 due to a sudden heart attack.
We managed to talk about fashion as such. He said that Guayaquil, with respect to fashion, has always had a preferential location. "For the sole fact of being a port, everything arrived in Guayaquil." He mentioned several of the data found in his book that by title would bear his surname in large "Wolf" and further down "fashion and Guayaquil" as a complement. An interesting fact that he expressed was the creation of the skirt in Guayaquil, a garment that was a kind of long vest that was embroidered with beautiful designs. From there, what he was able to conclude is that fashion always returns, that "there is nothing new in fashion" and he calculated an average of 25 years for the cycle of trends to repeat itself, of course adapted to the needs of society. . He also made it clear that fashion is not only made by clothes or an outfit, he argued that fashion is attitude.
His text has 392 pages full of history. In one of the sections, at the end, he collects the names of 25 designers who have been part of the history of Guayaquil. Nino Touma, Luis Tipán, Verónica Uribe, Eduardo Villamar, María del Mar Proaño, Gustavo Moscoso and more are the select names that appear in the book. (I)
