From April 11 to April 16 2016 the 19th edition of MBFW Mexico will present in Mexico City.
23 Mexican designers are presenting their Fall – Winter 2016 collections.
This event will be taking place in some of the most beautiful places the city has:
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Vizcaina´s Institute: A nonprofit educational institution founded on the eighteenth century; it is noteworthy that in nearly 300 years has stood for working continuously towards education in Mexico, as well as the preservation of its cultural and architectural heritage.
Lake House UNAM Institution is one of the most attractive universities for its architectural beauty and its magnificent view of the Palace of Chapultepec Castle precincts. Its origin dates back to 1906, when mandated by Mexican President Porfirio Diaz the Forest of Chapultepec became a public park as part of the centenary celebrations of Independence, emphasizing the creation of lakes at the foot of the castle hill.
The Americas Movie Theater is a local non-profit organization, The Americas Movie Theater programs and operations depend on the involvement of talented individuals who volunteer time and resources to fulfill its mission. The organization’s programs are supported by the invaluable work of community leaders, industry professionals, and talented artists who serve in its Board of Directors and Advisory Board.
The building where is stablished is a legendary piece of Mexican architecture. Designed by architect José Villagrán, President of the Mexican Society of Architects (1926 – 1927) and Director of the National School of Architecture (1933-1935). Opened in 1952 as “The Americas Movie Theater” they were exhibited for the first time great films of the era making it one of the main places of entertainment for the city’s society. Today it´s The Blackberry Auditorium where major events take place.
Chapultepec Cultural Forum was born as an initiative of the Board of Directors of Chapultepec Sports Center AC to create a new cultural space in Mexico City with a strategic location within one of the areas of greatest historical tradition and heritage value of the country, the circuit Chapultepec.
The St. Regis Mexico City is heir to an enduring legacy of uncompromising luxury. It is the 17th St. Regis Hotel in the world and the first St. Regis to be built in a major city in all of Latin America. Throughout its history of nearly a century, St. Regis Hotels have invariably attracted the most glamorous, creative and intriguing personalities of each era. Designed by legendary architect Cesar Pelli and completed in fall 2009, The St. Regis Mexico City rises 31-stories above the corner of the historic Paseo de la Reforma, a magnificent boulevard of architectural splendor, plazas and monuments commemorating Mexico’s storied past.
New Polanco Zone (In Spanish, “New Polanco”) is an area of Mexico City formerly consisting of warehouses and factories. This area is undergoing an accelerated process of re-conversion and development. With a major transformation taking place, it is one of the fastest and most important real estate development areas in the country. Taking advantage of their now prime location, big pieces of land originally occupied mainly by industries are being used to build large housing, office, commercial and cultural developments with shops, restaurants, cinemas, museums, a 1,500-seat theater, a luxury hotel, etc. Many of them integrate in their name the word ‘Polanco’ thus seeking to capitalize on its reputation.
Schedule and presenting Designers
April 11 2016
Pineda Covalin
- Pineda Covalin
A company created by Mexican Designers Cristina Pineda and Ricardo Covalín with their printing designs on silk they promote the cultural wealth of Mexico, showing the world our culture and history in a avant-garde and exclusive manner.
Thus it is born a collection of scarves and ties inspired by the Pre-Hispanic Mexico, their designs being reflected in fine imported fabrics take us back to the past allowing us to know and admire Mexican mythology, science, rites and customs of the people that remain live through their art.
Currently it has more than 100 outlets including boutiques, corners in Iron Palace Department Store, distributors, and franchise stores in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Cancun and New York among others. More than 15 years of experience the guarantee.
Portugal, The United States, Greece, Russia and Chile, as well as England, Spain, Argentina, Switzerland, France, Italy, Brazil, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Australia, South Africa and Peru, are delighted with their collections each season, thanks to the international sales points of the brand.
This makes Pineda Covalin member of the GlemMx Top List of Mexican Designers.
Alexia Ulibarri
Alexia Ulibarri
Fashion through concept and functionality. After training as a designer at The London College of Fashion, Marangoni and some courses in Central Saint Martins, she returned to Mexico in 2008 seeking to create a brand that the modern woman could be identified with.
So far, she has merged stories, personal and work experiences over time, art, technology, forms and all types of material, causing a process of experimentation, resulting in a concept of her own.
Her designs made her part of the GlemMx Top List of Mexican Designers. And yes, that´s Alessandra Ambrosio in an Alexia Ulibarri gown.
Juan Carlos Obando
Juan Carlos Obando
From Barranquilla, Colombia Juan Carlos Obando is an international fashion brand for women that includes accessories. It’s based in Los Angeles California, it was founded in 2008. His work is defined by a powerful use of color and a sophisticated approach to eveningwear.
He´s a former art director of major advertising agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam, Juan Carlos began exhibiting his collections in New York City to a private audience with the Editor in Chief of Vogue USA, Anna Wintour.
Juan Carlos has played an important role in revitalizing the concept of American eveningwear, chosen as a finalist in the 10th anniversary of Vogue Fashion Fund Prize awarded by the CFDA / Vogue.
His collections can be found in the most exclusive department such as Barneys New York and Net-a-Porter. International brands such as Swarovski and M.A.C. Cosmetics have been key sponsors of his career in the international fashion industry. For this any many more reasons JUAN CARLOS OBANDO has the 1st place on the GlemMx Top List of Latin American Fashion Designers.
Yakampot
Yakampot
Mexican brand that in 2014 won the prestigious competition Who’s On Next Vogue magazine in its edition for Mexico and Latin America, which reveals the emerging designer of the year in Mexico, in addition he received the as Creative Director of the Year Award given by the International Fashion Group.
Within his work experience, the creative director Francisco Cancino has collaborated with more than 45 indigenous communities in Mexico, developing textiles and teaching methods of design, textile experimentation, dyeing craft, embroidery and iconographic rescue, workshops and techniques he taught at various foundations, such as the National Fund for the Development of Arts and Crafts (Fonart). Yakampot has been placed in major stores such as the portal Luisa Via Roma, Saks Fifth Avenue and Mexican department store Liverpool.
April 12 2016
Kris Goyri
Kris Goyri
Born in Mexico City, he began his passion for fashion since he was a little boy motivated by art, illustration and color. He graduated in 2007 where he obtained all the fashion design basis and in 2008 with only 22 years ELLE magazine, through an international jury, he was awarded the prize of the New Fashion Designer Mexican Talent. On that year he presented his first fashion shows in one of the most important fashion platforms in Mexico, where delighted the fashion editors and his work began to be published in major fashion magazines such as ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire among other.
Kris is stablished in Mexico City and he annually presents Resort, Fall – Winter and Spring – Summer Collections. His style is considered pure, delicious, fresh, subtle and feminine, each of his designs express a deep understanding of a woman’s body. Today the brand is positioned as one of the most sophisticated proposals of the fashion industry in Mexico.
José Sánchez
José Sánchez
Mexican fashion designer known for his work with leather. For over 30 years, Jose Sanchez has redefined the concept leather design on the most fashionable and classy way.
Throughout his career, his creations have been recognized for its unique and modern style. With presence in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Los Angeles and recently also Houston, José´s designs are used all over the world. His designs appear regularly in major magazines of the fashion world.
Sandra Weil
Sandra Weil
She spent her childhood in Lima, Peru among the delicate dresses her grandmother made. In this environment she developed her love for beauty, for the exquisite and delicate designs as well as the independent and creative spirit that was transmitted to her from generation to generation by the women of her family. Her sensitivity is still deeply influenced by her roots and heritage. She completed her college career at the Faculty of Arts of the Catholic University of Peru in Fine Arts with a major in Graphic Design. Years later she made her specialty in Fashion and Haute Couture Felicidad Duce School in Barcelona, Spain.
Sandra Weil Couture was founded in Mexico City in 2008 creating exquisite couture outfits, using high quality materials and paying special attention to every detail and finer textures. In 2012 the designer formed a partnership with Maru Cruz Barney, an expert in market research and marketing, so that the company reached the next level. That same year the brand launches its first Ready to wear collection with a vision of delivering luxury and sophistication of haute couture to an everyday versatile garments which are characterized by their feminine and sophisticated style with an edgy twist. Not conventional classic silhouettes cuts that reinvent each season. This is why Sandra Weil Couture is a major member of GlemMx Top List of Mexican Fashion Designers.
Xico
XICO
Mexican brand spreads the art and culture wealth of the American continent through its designs, with the main goal to become a symbol of identity for present and future generations. The magic of the character has captivated institutions, agencies, national and international manufacturers and artists.
MEXICO is present as a symbol of respect for the cultures in cities like Mexico City, Veracruz, Xico, San Luis Potosi, Havana, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, Brussels, New York, Shanghai as part of the permanent Sculpture Space Collection of that city, and they have presented in limited editions with designers such as Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, in Madrid and New York
Iván Ávalos
Iván Ávalos
A designer from Ixmiquilpan Hidalgo State, since he was a child his love of fashion was born, art and work have been their engines to bring it him at where he´s positioned today. By not having a college degree on fashion, Ivan found a different way to learn, working with dressmakers and going to study a ICATHI, where he learned the techniques and friendships with his classmates are now part of his team.
After very hard work and dedication he formed Ivan Avalos brand, that is stablished in Hidalgo State, it was formed in 2014 after his participation as a designer at the ELLE MEXICO DESIGNS contest, being one of the top 10 finalists.
CIHUAH
CIHUAH
CIHUAH mens women in Nahuatl language is a French-Mexican clothing brand, born in Mexico, which pays homage to the origins of Mexico, the creative woman, the tradition of a trade, the ancestral knowledge and a culture extinction process. The woman is the target of the brand. It´s a brand focused on the combination of fashion design and architectural concepts, as CIHUAH believes in the union of fashion and architecture, exploring the similarities between the two of them.
The fashion industry has presented throughout its history an incessant need to rely on other theoretically disciplines enabling it to strengthen its aesthetics and content, therefore Cihuah seeks innovation through architectural concepts as a lifestyle.
Jorge Ayala
Jorge Ayala
His an architect and designer; he combines both disciplines in his work reinventing movements, lines, materials and volumes. He creates architectural garments and accessories, he elaborates the concept of the products, showroom exhibition and his own marketing strategies.
Those skills have led him to collaborate with major brands such as Louis Vuitton, Franck Provost, Swarovski, Google Mexico, Alexander McQueen and United Nude among others.
At the Arab Fashion Week FW16 we were introduce to 3D printing in fabrics used to produce garments with the highest levels of innovation on the market this era with the Yu Jordy Fu Fashion Show FW16 Collection (http://www.jordyfu.co.uk/ ), Jorge Ayala is now the first Mexican designer to introduce this technique to the Mexican Fashion Industry.
Alfredo Martínez
Alfredo Martínez
He obtained a Fashion Design Degree in the Mexican city Guadalajara, he forms a deep and honest complicity with the female figure through his sensitivity.
In 2010 he founded the brand that bears his name, being a creative director who sees, hears and understands women. He has participated in major fashion platforms in Mexico and is published repeatedly in the main national and international fashion magazines.
His signature garments are a challenging balance in creating garments which are impeccable designs with handcrafted finishes and exquisite materials. For this and many more reasons Alfredo Martinez has maded to the GlemMx Top List of Mexican Fashion Designers.
April 13 2016
Jannette Klein School of Fashion Design
Jannette Klein Fashion Design Institute
Pioneer Mexican Institution on training leaders in fashion design, fashion marketing and fashion communication of the Mexican market.
Founded over 30 years ago is considered one of the strongest and avant-garde institutions of the world, on par with Parsons, New York; ESNE of Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen; Marangoni Institute in Milan; ESMOD Berlin; Fashion Design Taiwan University and the University of Buenos Aires sustained exchange agreements with University Jannette Klein.
WGSN has listed this Institution within the top 10 best collections presented in the 2015-16 edition of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Mexico, event on which the best students presented their collections in 8 occasions.
Jannette Klein School of Fashion Design is on my wish-list places to study. Maybe someday soon.
Galo Bertín
Galo Bertín
Mexican brand for men influenced by international trends and designs, always taking into account that each garment should be noted for its details, colors and textures.
This brand was founded in 2010 by designer Galo Bertin, originally from Queretaro, who began to plot his way into fashion after completing his studies as an industrial designer with a specialty in fashion design in Madrid, where he noticed wide presence of international brands on the international fashion industry and just a few brands in the Mexican fashion market. Wisely recognizing this business opportunity his brand was created.
His has excellent casting of #MaleModels that will only make you dream of his fashion shows EVERYTIME so ladies just visit his page for some eye candy binge #Babes
Every single garment of his book-look has made Galo Bertín an important member GlemMx Top List of Mexican Fashion Designers.
Pink Magnolia
Pink Magnolia
Brand created by Paola Wong who tells stories and contemporary fantasies through her collections, which are always fresh, romantic and elegant.
Every design is for a female, confident, sophisticated woman who dares to have fun with fashion. The brand has collaborated with Disney Mexico and Latam by the creation of the Minnie Mouse Collection, as well as Barbie, for which she created a couple of collections.
For me is the most girly, flirtatious, cute and fun brand of the Mexican Fashion Industry, that´s why Pink Magnolia is part of the GlemMx Top List of Mexican Fashion Designers.
Lydia Lavin
Lydia Lavin
Mexican brand that has entered the national and international markets successfully. It was born in 2005 as a proposal emanating from the research done by Lydia Lavin with the Indian Institute for the preservation of Mexican indigenous textile techniques.
In 2012 joins the company her daughter Montserrat Messeguer creating new product lines and innovative vision. The brand currently works with 10 artisan communities of various ethnic groups in Mexico, with elderly artisans of the Mexican traditional Reboso garment, with a group of urban women in Mexico City and a group of women from prison.
Currently Lydia has a Socially Responsible Company Worldcob Award, of the United States. And its mission is the textile sustainable work in Mexico.
Vero Díaz
Vero Díaz
She began designing dresses six years ago, although it was only four ago when she officially launched her brand VERO · DIAZ. Since its foundation, all the garments are characterized for the hand-made custom fabrics that are main material of all of the designs, drawing the attention of the demanding Yucatecan society.
She participated in fashion platforms such as ELLE MEXICO DISEÑA where she won the 3rd place and the 1st place of the People’s Choice of the Quién high society Mexican magazine. From then on the brand has had a national range.
Her delicate, feminine and elegant gowns has made Vero Diaz part of the GlemMx Top List of Mexican Fashion Designers.
Benito Santos
Benito Santos
Born in Tepehuaje in Morelos Jalisco State, he studied medicine at the University of Guadalajara, as well as fashion design at the Lanspiac Institute in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
His market target are all of those women who love ultra-feminine dresses and glamorous nights, positioning itself as an important character in Mexico´s fashion scene. With the use of novel, resources, using cutting techniques and especially hand embroidery.
His feminine and innovating designs has made him part of the GlemMx Top List of Mexican Fashion Designers.
April 15 2016
Children of our town
Children of our town
Contemporary brand Children of our town, born in 2013 in Mexico City, with the intention of sharing a community of Mexican talent abroad, culture and spirit. The purpose of the brand is to dress people around the world with garments carefully designed.
COOT is inspired and driven by culture, experiences, people, artists and has coexist within an urban context. Each collection is part of the knowledge and recognition of our city through different neighborhoods and districts – researching its extraordinary characteristics based on tradition and customs.
Armando Takeda
Armando Takeda
He´s one of the new talents in today’s world of fashion. Graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, he has worked as a designer for Alexander McQueen, Bruno Pieters, and for three years has worked as creative director of the Japanese Dresscamp. In 2012, Armando returned to Mexico, his native country, to undertake an ethical brand focusing on collaboration with craftsmen and small workshops to improve their living conditions. He presented his first five collections in New York, the sixth and seventh in Paris, expanding its global presence.
In 2015, The Fashion Group International Mexico awarded him as the Best Fashion Designer for Woman´s Fashion. At the same time, the brand was selected as a finalist in Vogue Who’s On Next 2015, chosen as one of the three new influential brands. The brand was selected among the ten finalists in a competition presented by IMG New York and DHL open for all brands in the in the world to present their collections in the official calendar of the Fashion Week in Milan.
Malafacha
Malafacha
A conceptual fashion brand created by fashion designer Francisco Saldana and visual communicator and artist Victor Hernal in 2006. The brand´s designers find a creative communication channel within the fashion world to create collections and experimental garments where the individual becomes a citizen of his inner core.
What we interpret with a second skin that presents us to the world, giving us a sense of belonging that expresses the essence of our social “I”. With 22 Malafacha collections it has been consolidated as a benchmark of contemporary fashion in Mexico. Creating limited editions for men and women throughout the year according to the seasonal trends of the international fashion.
Ricardo Seco
Ricardo Seco
Mexican fashion designer born in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. A self-taught designer, he was a businessman for over twelve years, until he decided to pursue his passion and what he really loved: fashion. This passion encouraged him to leave Mexico and study design at the prestigious Marangoni Institute in Milan and Paris.
Throughout his career, Ricardo has established various creative partnerships, and his work has been favorably received by critics and publications. His collections are easily recognizable by their uniqueness, the neatness on the details of the fabrics, the printing patterns and sophisticated silhouettes.
We can expect taht this edition of MBFWMx FW16 will be filled of innovative and amazing fashion shows that will only make me desire for the season to begin.
I´m working very hard to win a pass to some or all of the events. I will do my best to bring you the latest updates and material directly from the Runways of MBFWMx. If I can´t go well you can definitely still expect my reviews.
Don´t miss tomorrow the post of GlemMx Top List of Mexican Fashion designers.
All my love Maggie
Sources: Wikipedia and MBFWMX
Since 1996, Pineda Covalín enhances the aesthetics of the various forms of expression-architecture, sculpture, painting, and codices of Mexican popular culture and captures the essence of pre-Hispanic roots in textile design and fashion accessories.
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