Cristina Pedroche has once again fulfilled tradition and expectations. One more year, the presenter joined Alberto Chicote on Antena 3 to experience the New Year’s Eve Chimes at Puerta del Sol, and she did so with a new and striking dress. On this occasion, a creation by Paula Ulargui from Navarre and in collaboration with Greenpeace, which sought to raise awareness in society about the drought. However, along with the memes, criticism also came just as quickly.
As happened in previous years, the woman from Madrid has once again been accused of plagiarism through multiple social networks. Some of the evidence provided includes images of a very similar dress worn by singer Becky G in 2022, similar in colors and shapes. “Pedroche’s dress was already predicted by Becky G in 2022. What a crappy plagiarism!” read a message on social networks. Now, once the New Year’s Eve storm has passed, her designer wanted to clarify.
“No, it has nothing to do with it, it is not the same material, we wanted to do what we wanted. It is an event that is fantasy, catharsis… People throw a tomato or a carnation, it’s like that. You use a series of codes that are used. Before Pedroche, all the fish were sold and now everyone copies what we have done,” explained Josie, the person in charge of creating these dresses over the last few years, on It’s Federico’s Morning, on esRadio.
“If I was worried about criticism I wouldn’t be here… I try to create the concept that each year deserves this unprecedented media focus that I have contributed to creating and this year life, water and its care and the support of Greenpeace I think was what was appropriate.” . This is fashion, spectacle and fantasy but above all it is an event with enormous potential for communication and we cannot pass up that opportunity to make a wish for all of humanity,” he also commented in an interview with Huffington Post.
The native of Manzanares confessed that he was “very satisfied” with the dress, and kept in his memory the multitude of sketches and prototypes that they created in the previous months. Regarding the collaboration with Greenpace, Josie explained to Huffington Post that the idea arose from her Save the Water campaign, in addition to a multitude of events that marked both of their lives this year, from the birth of their daughter to the recovery of Villa Josie in La Stain.
The outfit in question is made up of three pieces: cape, dress and shoes. The cape, created from recycled wool, incorporates hydroponic cultivation that allows plants to take root in the fabric, displaying a blanket of red amaranth and nasturtiums. In parallel, the dress is made with an organic and biodegradable fabric made of gelatin, agar, glycerin and water. Molded with heat, it transforms into a dress of green tones with transparencies, transmitting the need to protect the water.
