There is no one chosen by Cristina Pedroche (Madrid, 37 years old) and her creative team to give the Chimes on December 31 on Antena 3. Every year, for 12 years now, the presenter manages to monopolize all the attention – both for good and bad -, and aware of this she takes advantage of that speaker for: an, an allegory about and the request for . To say goodbye to 2025, Pedroche looks back and has united in the same style all the previous outfits that managed to make her an essential figure on television on the last night of the year. And to do this, it has joined the (AECC) to launch a message with which they want to recognize the work of supporting and accompanying people with cancer and their families, in addition to promoting research. “Cancer not only impacts those who suffer from it, but also their family. And it does so without warning, without schedules, without understanding zip codes. There is something that can rebuild the support network,” he stated a few minutes into the new year, sending a message of support to those diagnosed with the disease.
“It’s not just any night and it’s not just any dress. I want to dedicate this dress to each of the 300,000 people who this year are putting their lives back together after a cancer diagnosis. Because cancer has a cruel way of breaking life into pieces, routine, calm and it needs all of our attention,” she explained at the same time that
under the name 12 bells, 12 dressesthe presenter has recovered elements of her previous outfits for the cape and dress with the aim of remembering what these years have been like. “It is a scrum of unfulfilled desires, of elements that are part of the collective memory of millions of viewers. This exercise has been possible thanks to the generosity and detachment of Cristina, who has forever renounced many of them as she showed them in her first life, but now she has given them a new one with this first upcycling presented in some Campanadas”, some explanations that now make us understand the video that Pedroche published a few days ago on his Instagram account, where he has three million followers, in which
The result is a look which incorporates a series of already iconic elements that come together in a recycling exercise. On the front of the cape, different fabrics extracted from this outerwear garment are mixed with those that have been saying goodbye over the years, such as the and the , adorned in some sections with crystal applications from the Pronovias dress that she wore in her first Campanadas de Antena 3. The different splashed blacks and the bow on the head come from the dress that accompanied the golden sculpture in 2019 and her first dress for La Sexta by Charo Ruiz, which has It has been cut into pieces to make a fan from which hang the angel callers that Pedroche carried during the Bells of her two pregnancies.
The base of the cape is the quilt that Nacho Aguayo created for Pedro del Hierro and. The asymmetry of its sleeves stands out: the right one is taken from the fuchsia and lime green coat from 2016, with chains of rhinestones coming from the headdress that decorated her ponytail in 2020; The left is one of the cascades of tulle that made up the train of the dress with which she said goodbye to 2018.
Both the golden breasts and the buttock that can be seen on the side are an exploded view of the sculpture that Jacinto de Manuel made based on the presenter’s body in 2019. This same artist has versioned the Dove of Peace, which was a top in 2022, which now crowns the chalk pink taffeta bustle taken from the 2017 cape and which this time spreads its wings.
Another element that is part of this anthology is the scattered flowers from the 2019 style and that have been customized with fabrics from other editions, the wing created by BUJ Studio and that accompanied Manuel Piña’s 2021 dress or the circular patch that comes from the refugee tent that he wore in 2023 as a coat and that was made by Garaizabal Studio.
The suit rescues the embroidery that Johan-Luc Katt made for the 2021 boots and that now revolves around the hip of a minidress that includes a necklace of stars and chains on the chest, taken from the bustier blue velvet from the 2016 style. This connects with the one that frames Cristina Pedroche’s face and that is based on a tiara made with the mask she wore in 2020 and is finished with a bouquet of feathers from Vivas Carrión’s helmet, as well as the crystals made from her breast milk created by the Morir de Amor jewelry that come from the look 2024 and which are distributed throughout the set made for this new year. To promote the health and natural movement of the feet, in line with Pedroche’s fidelity to the philosophy barefootthe sandals have been made completely custom-made and respecting the anatomy of your feet.
In total, there have been months of working against the clock that have forced Josie to start sewing and participate in the creation process. “People assume that this last dress is an epilogue and perhaps they are right, because I think that next year all this semiotics that were new, but that have been copied from us ad nauseum deserves a change of direction. It leads us to reinvent ourselves and I have an idea, if Cristina Pedroche sets out to be one more year the queen of chimes”, he explains to this newspaper.
The idea arose months ago, when Josie wanted and layers of the previous years. “Not to look for conventional beauty and discover the messy, or sometimes even dirty, side of fashion to talk about the chaotic world that we have had to live in and be the imperfect counterpoint to digital imperfection,” he adds to his explanation. But getting to this point has not been easy, because “the difficult thing was to convince Cristina, who flatly refused”: “I did not want to lose the dresses that mean so much to her. That has been the most difficult job: convincing with a stopwatch on. One day she wrote to me and told me: ‘Prepare everything because I’m going to do it.’
But it is not just about collecting all the previous ones in a single style, there are two important messages behind it: detachment from material things and farewell. “There are pieces of the collection that will never be reconstructed as they were. Also another part of saying goodbye to what you are every day and that is breaking into pieces that you often have to assemble to shine again,” notes the stylist. This is when the AECC comes into play, with those who have wanted to collaborate on this occasion: “There are vital circumstances in which, when everything seems broken, there is something that can be put back together. That is where the support network comes into play to assemble the vital pieces that, like this year’s cape, represent patients, survivors, family members, caregivers, health professionals, researchers… Each piece counts, is part of oneself and, together, they add up, making it possible to shine again and a new life.”
The commitment to the claim together with the AECC was clear from the beginning: “There cannot be an association whose message is more compatible with what the dress itself expresses: it speaks of renunciations, of elements that break into a thousand pieces, of detachment from the possessions that matter to us and even detachment from good health, because we are changing elements in a process of transformation, in an evolution that sometimes leads to very serious illnesses that force us to take a turn of the helm and ask for help, to seek support and accompaniment,” says Josie.
The Spanish Association against Cancer has one of the most important networks of professionals and researchers in Spain, who are responsible for supporting patients and their families and leading society’s efforts to reduce the impact of the disease. Therefore, it is essential to allocate resources to finance research. “We do not want there to be anyone who does not know that we can help them with everything they need and we do not want there to be a time of the day or night in which a patient or family member may feel alone, neglected or have nowhere to call,” says Ramón Reyes, president of the AECC. And he adds: “That Cristina Pedroche has chosen us to launch this message allows us to remind all people with cancer that the cancer telephone number exists and that it is available 24 hours a day to offer unconditional support and help those who need it most.”
