About Adolfo Domínguez
Adolfo Domínguez Fernández is a proprietary director and the principal shareholder of Adolfo Domínguez S.A., holding a 31.5% stake in the company.
Chairman of the Adolfo Domínguez Group from 1992 to 2020, he is the most highly awarded fashion designer from Galicia. His distinctions include the National Fashion Award (Spanish Ministry of Culture, 2019), the Golden Needle Award (Spanish Ministry of Culture, 1997), the Lifetime Achievement Award (Miami Fashion Week) and, most recently, the Honor Award of the Spanish Fashion Academy (2026), among many other distinctions.
An entrepreneur, intellectual, fashion designer and author, he has devoted his professional life to building, from Galicia, an international fashion group.
Under his leadership, the company became the first Spanish fashion business to open stores outside Spain (1980), the first to launch its own fragrance (Agua Fresca, 1990), and also the first and longest-standing Spanish fashion company listed on the stock market (listed since 1997). His determination, independence and resilience enabled him to successfully overcome challenges such as the fire that destroyed the company's factories in Ourense in 1991 and the hostile takeover bid launched by the Cortefiel Group in 2001. After leading the generational transition to his three daughters, he now supports the company's transformation into a new era from the Board of Directors, led by his eldest daughter, Adriana Domínguez, as Executive Chair.
Adolfo Domínguez Fernández was born in A Pobra de Trives (Ourense), in the apartment above the first store his parents opened in 1950. A few years later, the family moved to Ourense, where they opened the El Faro tailoring shop, which became a benchmark for men's fashion.
In 1974, his father, who shared the same name, founded Adolfo Domínguez e Hijos S.L., which he transformed into Adolfo Domínguez S.A. in 1976, the origin of today's company. In 1984, during a period of international expansion, he launched the brand's best-known slogan, "Wrinkles are Beautiful", dressed the leading actors of the television series Miami Vice, and prepared his first major international fashion show, held in Paris in 1986. In 1997, he became the company's sole principal shareholder after his siblings sold their shares when the company was listed on the stock market.
Adolfo Domínguez has always combined his work as an entrepreneur and fashion designer with his dedication to writing. In 2018, he published the second edition of his novel Juan Griego, which he presented at the Cervantes Institute. Since then, he has focused on promoting the book and meeting readers, giving more than 200 presentations in cities across Spain and abroad.
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Chroma
Where Color Is Born
Adolfo Domínguez's Spring/Summer 2027 collection explores color through science, matter and emotion.
Chroma is Adolfo Domínguez's new Spring/Summer 2027 collection. A proposal that places color at the center of creative research and approaches it from three dimensions: scientific, material and emotional.
The collection begins with a simple question: what is color, really? The search led the design team to study its physical properties and discover an idea as surprising as it is revealing: color does not exist as an inherent quality of objects. What we perceive as color is the portion of light that a surface reflects rather than absorbs. A tennis ball is not yellow; it reflects that wavelength and absorbs the rest. In the same way, a yellow garment does not add color to the world: it reflects part of the light so that our eyes perceive it as such.
This reflection led the creative process to the very construction of the fabrics themselves. Through natural dye workshops, the team experimented with fibers and pigments to understand how matter modifies light and, with it, our perception of color. A handcrafted process, close to alchemy, in which color ceases to be a surface and becomes the result of a dialogue between light, fabric and the observer.
Each designer then developed their own interpretation of this idea. The result is a collection that moves between scientific observation and emotional memory. The childhood kaleidoscope reappears transformed into embroidery and geometric patchworks; everyday objects with a strong chromatic identity inspire prints that evoke a shared memory, from the orange of a traffic cone to the green of a scouring pad or the yellow of a tennis ball. Color thus becomes a shared language, capable of awakening memories even before being consciously recognized.
The Chroma palette starts with ecru, neutrals and black, illuminated by pastel tones created by desaturating primary colors and increasing their luminosity. Greens, pinks, blues and, above all, a soft and radiant yellow build a fresh proposal that changes according to the way light falls upon it.
This research translates into lightweight, transparent and iridescent materials, including gauzes, organzas, taffetas and crinkle fabrics, which filter, reflect and nuance color through layering and veiling effects. The silhouettes alternate between straight, deconstructed tailoring and low-waisted dresses and skirts inspired by the 1920s, while shorts and Bermudas bring lightness to the collection. Key pieces include trench coats, vests, bomber jackets and organza trousers conceived as layers that transform the perception of color; scarves transformed into a construction resource for dresses, shirts and skirts; geometric patchworks inspired by the kaleidoscope; and embroidered details and sequin applications that intensify the dialogue between garment and light.
With Chroma, Adolfo Domínguez proposes a reflection on the way we look at the world. A collection that understands color not as a certainty, but as a constantly evolving phenomenon in which light, matter and perception come together to complete each garment.