Olaya de los Palos
6 May 2024 – 31 January 2025
Olaya de los Palos Fernández was born in 1993 in Gijón. A few months later she moved to Galicia. Since she was a child she has been passionate about the world of fashion and in 2014 she graduated in Fashion Pattern Making and Fashion Design at CIPF Paseo das Pontes, A Coruña. After this training she moved to Barcelona where she began her training in the Degree in Fashion Design at LCI-Barcelona. There she began to develop her facet as a fashion designer and stylist. Two years later she was selected as a finalist in the Young Designers Competition of the XXVI Mostra do Encaixe de Camariñas.
In 2019 she won the Fashion Design Contest created by the fashion brand Hemper. In 2020 she finished her degree at the Escuela de Arte y Oficios Mestre Mateo, Santiago de Compostela. In September of the same year, she began to work as a teacher in the field of pattern making and dressmaking.
In 2021, she returned to Gijón and was awarded the prize for young designer of the Principality of Asturias by the Asturias Fashion Association with her collection “Once Upon a Time”. In 2024, she finished her Master’s Degree in Industrial Pattern Making and 3D Fashion at Tecnocreativa.
Project in residence
Tornar
Tornar is a project to conceive a capsule collection that reflects the diversity of garments present in a person’s wardrobe, thus addressing different aspects of their daily life.
The essence of this collection is inspired by three fundamental concepts:
- Return to the land where I was born after years away from Asturias.
- Return to the family: By returning to Asturias I reconnect with my origins and roots, as my family is originally from the western and coastal area of Asturias (El Franco).
- Return to tradition and roots: The richness of the traditional Asturian costume for men and women as a sign of identity, reinterpreted from a contemporary and innovative perspective, based on the volumes, details of the garments and accessories.
Innovation in digital and physical fusion, this being an indispensable pillar for the world we live in. The garments will be created both physically and digitally.
Generating the garment first in the digital world and then moving on to the physical plane.
