Carla Fernández

The Denver Art Museum - 2022 “a Mexican Fashion Manifesto”

The brand has been recognized simultaneously by two strengths: being at the forefront of design and a business model for its social vision. Fernández was awarded the international prize Young Fashion Entrepreneur in the Year 2008 by the British Fashion Council and the magazine ID in 2009 presented her as one of the 40 best designers of the moment internationally. Moreover, the revolutionary idea of craft-industrial production has been exhibited in lectures at universities such as Harvard, MIT, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Universidad Iberoamericana and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Along with her eponymous line of ready-to-wear clothes — which Fernández began in 2000 and which is inspired by traditional Mexican textiles and geometric patterns — Fernández is the head of Taller Flora, a mobile design laboratory that brings together Mexican designers and indigenous artisans to create lines of couture and ready-to-wear garments. Their goal is to show the world an at once modern and ancient Mexican style that pushes the boundaries of fashion while remaining true to its roots.

Carla Fernández Tena (born January 29, 1973), known as Carla Fernández, is a Mexican fashion designer from Saltillo, Coahuila, based in Mexico City. She has gained international recognition for her precise approach to documenting and preserving the rich textile heritage of Mexico's indigenous communities by transforming it into abstract contemporary clothing, and proving that tradition is anything but static.