A Spotlight On Mexican Fashion Designer Carla Fernndez

Carla Fernández is one of Mexico’s finest and most successful fashion designers, having long captivated audiences through her engagement with and focus on traditional Mexican handicraft and design. Her work has been exhibited in museums around the world and her designs are sold in both her own boutiques and private stores across Mexico. Here’s everything you need to know about Carla Fernández.
Carla Fernández, born in Saltillo, Coahuila, began her first foray into the world of Mexican culture as a child, traveling with her historian father to several indigenous communities and soaking up the centuries-old practices used there. This wandering spirit lives on in Fernández today, as she continues to visit Mexican communities, borrowing techniques from the artisans who work there and collaborating with them to create exquisite, handcrafted garments. However, she doesn’t merely take inspiration and leave; rather, she collaborates with the artisans, working in conjunction with them for the length of the project and paying them for their contributions and craft. Her brand has sought to both change popular perceptions about indigenous clothing and reconfigure assumptions that working as an artisanal craftsperson cannot be a sustainable career path.

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After studying art history at Universidad Iberoamericana, she deepened her knowledge of indigenous fashion design by working for both Conaculta and Fonart. Since 2000, she has been the creative director for her namesake fashion brand, Carla Fernández. She not only is rightly recognized as an important figure in the Mexican fashion world (she was named by Quién magazine as one of the ‘Fifty People That Move Mexico’), she also has come to the attention of global fashion circles. In 2008, she was awarded the Young Fashion Entrepreneur of the Year award, and in 2009, ID magazine featured her as one of the best international designers of the moment. Since then, she’s won further acclaim: in 2013, she was awarded the Prince Claus Award for her contribution to societal development, and her designs have been exhibited at several museums and institutions including Mexico City’s Museo Jumex, New York’s MAD Museum, Spain’s MUSAC, and even Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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