“Art mystification is finished. We don’t like artists’ categories. We are painters, and we have chosen fashion because it is a very, very lively manifestation, and we want to make free things, to create all the possibilities, in the language of fashion.” Pablo and Delia, looking like creatures of Bavarian fantasy, made to live in Mad Ludwig’s castles, come, in fact, all smiles, irrepressible, from Argentina. “But what we do is not necessary there,” so they have wandered through Paris, New York and now London, with their vision of a splendoured exotic world, inhabited by “caricature people”. They make belts and bags of imaginary land-scapes, rainbow-coloured shoes and leathers. They met at art school in Buenos Aires, and were doing environments, which Laurence Alloway praised, of craters and clouds, stars and flowers and girl astronauts. They started an underground fashion magazine, which must have been very much the first of its kind, and plan to do the same here in London. They are craftsmen, “If you can’t make with your hands what you want, you must be an industrial manufacturer, and that’s bad for your face —you lose it.” They are, as they say in Spanish, very “yiyish”. “That means,” says Pablo with a smile, “very groovy.”

Model is Grace Coddington.

Illustration by Delia and Pablo.

Photographed by Barry Lategan.

Scanned from Vogue, April 1st 1970.