About Calafat
CALAFAT is a Spanish fashion house founded by Málaga-born designer Álvaro Calafat, the brand’s creative director, alongside Ana Ponf, co-founder and CEO. Since its inception, the brand has developed its own creative universe in which craftsmanship, textile research and conceptual storytelling form the cornerstones of its identity, championing designer fashion with a strong cultural and artistic ethos.
Throughout its history, CALAFAT has presented collections such as Cap. 1: Desequilibrio, Cap. 2: Recuerdo, 3LeMorte, Fiamma and Oddities Odyssey, building a recognisable creative language that has captured the interest of the industry and the specialist press.
In 2021, the brand showcased its work at 080 Barcelona Fashion and, since 2022, has been part of the official programme for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, consolidating its presence on Spanish fashion’s leading catwalk and positioning itself as one of the most distinctive emerging brands on the national scene.
At the same time, CALAFAT has undertaken projects in creative direction and costume design, as well as collaborations with institutions and companies, reinforcing its commitment to innovation, excellence in craftsmanship and the promotion of Andalusian creative talent both within and outside Spain.
On 16 September, The Palace Hotel Madrid will host the presentation of CALAFAT’s new collection at a fashion show starting at 8.00 pm, a new event with which the
The new fashion show is called ‘Burnt Rose Garden’: a garden represents that place where people lay their dreams, their fears and their identity. A seemingly perfect space which, upon closer inspection, reveals the traces of sacrifice, pressure and transformation. At CALAFAT, we understand that growth is never neat; it always leaves its mark. And it is precisely these marks that shape one’s true character.
Collection lines
Burnt Rose Garden stems from the idea of a man-made garden: a space that is seemingly beautiful, orderly and romantic, yet which, little by little, begins to reveal something strange, artificial and even unsettling.
The collection explores this tension between beauty and decay, romanticism and raw reality, nature and artifice. Roses serve as the central symbolic element: flowers that survive after being exposed to fire, transformed but not destroyed. This gives rise to one of the core ideas underpinning the collection’s universe: ‘Our roses are watered with fire.’
Drawing on this imagery, CALAFAT constructs a surrealist garden in which the codes traditionally associated with delicacy and romance clash with harsher, darker and more contemporary elements. The collection does not seek to literally represent a garden, but rather to translate its shapes, textures, colours and contradictions onto the garment.
‘Burnt Rose Garden’ continues to develop CALAFAT’s design language through a range that combines ready-to-wear, atelier pieces and accessories, establishing different product tiers within a single creative universe.
The ready-to-wear line forms the core of the collection and includes tailoring, outerwear, dresses, shirts, knitwear and lightweight garments, designed to bring CALAFAT’s identity into a contemporary and functional wardrobe. Alongside this, the atelier pieces represent the more artisanal side and experimental side of the collection.
These are pieces of greater technical complexity, developed through specialised constructions, volumes and finishes, where the atelier’s craftsmanship and savoir-faire take centre stage. These garments allow the Burnt Rose Garden aesthetic to reach its most conceptual and exclusive expression.
Accessories complete the range and expand the collection’s universe, serving as an extension of its aesthetic and material codes. Taken together, the various lines form a collection that combines commercial products, designer pieces and atelier creations, whilst maintaining a coherent and recognisable identity across all its categories.