Fashion Nerds

Mexico

Carla Fernández

  • Artisanal collaboration
  • Craft-led clothing

Carla Fernández builds her fashion practice through sustained collaboration with artisans across Mexico. Her book Manifesto of Fashion as Resistance documents work spanning numerous communities and craft techniques, connecting garment production with cultural heritage and feminist questions.

Five looks to know

Carla Fernández — Look 1 — Carla Fernández, Mexico Spring 2024

Collection selection

Carla Fernández — Look 1

Mexico Spring 2024

Representative look from the Mexico Spring 2024 collection.

Israel Esparza / Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week México
Carla Fernández — Look 10 — Carla Fernández, Mexico Spring 2024

Collection selection

Carla Fernández — Look 10

Mexico Spring 2024

Representative look from the Mexico Spring 2024 collection.

Israel Esparza / Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week México
Carla Fernández — Look 19 — Carla Fernández, Mexico Spring 2024

Collection selection

Carla Fernández — Look 19

Mexico Spring 2024

Representative look from the Mexico Spring 2024 collection.

Israel Esparza / Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week México
Carla Fernández — Look 27 — Carla Fernández, Mexico Spring 2024

Collection selection

Carla Fernández — Look 27

Mexico Spring 2024

Representative look from the Mexico Spring 2024 collection.

Israel Esparza / Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week México
Carla Fernández — Look 36 — Carla Fernández, Mexico Spring 2024

Collection selection

Carla Fernández — Look 36

Mexico Spring 2024

Representative look from the Mexico Spring 2024 collection.

Israel Esparza / Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week México

Collections & archive pieces

1 collections represented · 1 piece

Spring 2024

1 piece

About Carla Fernández

Clothing becomes part of a wider artistic and political practice in which the knowledge of makers is central to design.