TAN LINE x Taquen
About sunsets and sunrises. My collaboration with the aesthetic and sustainable cycling apparel based in Madrid, Spain.
The bike has always been part of my life, since I was a child. Until recently I only used it to move around the city and my daily workouts were focused on kilometers by foot and three or four days of climbing.
Sport and movement are axes on which my life and my work are based. I understand movement as a basic form of knowledge, of oneself and our environment; and knowing where we live is essential to respect it.
Madrid, where I live, is not a friendly place to get around by bike, those who use it know it, but maybe that makes it a bit more fun. Every morning after training, I cycle the scarce 10 km that separate my house from the studio north of the city. I go down to the center, go home, go up to the climbing wall, visit my parents, my friends, do the shopping or go to the physio, always by bicycle. For me it is a breath of freedom in the middle of a maelstrom.
Living in a big city is complicated, but being able to sneak between cars through traffic jams, choose the shortest or longest route, wake up with the air in your face, move your legs, sweat and reach your destination with a different energy, makes me feel a bit more free and alive.
Last winter I bought my first road bike and my day-to-day vehicle became another way of training, another hobby. I started go cycling with Jorge, founder of TAN LINE and also my friend, with whom until then I had only shared a few races running.
I always looked at him jealous. The bike, the clothes, the designs, the colors... everything attracted me, but I didn't make up my mind, until one day we were already cycling together. Shortly after we were already talking about what this collaboration is today:
TAN LINE x Taquen.
TAN LINE is a sports fashion brand, pioneer in the use of sustainable and recycled fabrics with minimalist designs for use in endurance sports.
Inspired by the first and last lights of long summer days.
Going out to train at dawn or dusk is almost mandatory and Madrid usually offers us colored skies in warm, pastel and violet tones while the sun appears or hides behind the Sierra de Guadarrama, mixing its tones with the blues of the mountains.
This is the result of our collaboration.
From all this the design of my latest collaboration with Tan Line was born, a jersey from his SuperB collection, faithful to its minimalist style, on which these mountains are drawn that are lost among the colors of the sky.
It is a limited edition, accompanied by a hand-printed tote bag at Ruda Studio with the original design.
