Indigo Intentions: Neim’s Quiet Icons of Identity and Transformation

Within Enchanted Transitions, two bespoke denim jackets by Colombian label Neim stood quietly yet powerfully – tactile symbols of identity, duality, and transformation. Created exclusively for the installation, the garments, one male and one female, featured a printed image of the Next Place Hotel on the back, turning fashion into architecture, and wearability into metaphor. “These pieces reflect the collaborative spirit between two friends who share a deep passion for design,” Neim tells us, referencing the longstanding creative relationship between their artistic director Pilar Rodríguez and Giraldo himself. “César’s vision – a future of hospitality that balances technology with human emotion – resonated with us immediately. We wanted the jackets to mirror that emotional balance: purist, minimal, and deeply sensory.” Crafted in raw indigo denim with almost no treatment, the jackets preserved the honesty of the material, allowing it to speak for itself. “César was clear – he wanted fabrics in their most essential form, unadorned, expressive,” they explain. “Just like the space itself, the garments had to embody the material truth.” The choice of indigo was no coincidence: rooted in Colombia’s textile legacy and central to Neim’s identity, the fabric was selected as a living material, one that evolves with time and touch. “Indigo is responsive – it changes, it remembers. It tells a story the more it’s worn. We love that idea of clothing as a quiet narrator.” 

Under Pilar’s creative direction, Neim is known for blending fashion, art, and architecture – a philosophy that shaped these jackets from concept to execution. “We don’t see garments as separate from space. In this context, they became sculptural elements, part of the installation’s physical and emotional architecture.” Indeed, whether hanging in stillness or worn within the environment, the jackets acted as grounding elements – pieces that embodied presence. But their impact ran deeper than aesthetics. “These are not just jackets,” Neim insists. “They are symbols of individuality, ritual, and care. The rawness of the denim, the absence of decoration, the preservation of texture – everything was intentional.” In a space designed to heighten the senses, they served as quiet provocations, asking us to look, to feel, to slow down. “That’s what we try to do with every Neim piece – make something honest, something lasting, something that becomes more itself over time.”

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