Calafat

Álvaro Calafat is a Spanish fashion designer, founder of the brand Álvaro Calafat 1995. He was born in the mid 90's in Málaga, in Torremolinos, a coastal town in the south of Andalusia, where he spent his youth close to the sea, the culture of the region and flamenco. 

After a very lively youth, he decides to study fashion design, in his second year he presents his first collection, ‘Tobalo’, where he begins to develop as a young designer; months later he presents ‘Qarmida’ an extension of the first collection where he lays the foundations of knitwear, among other techniques. The years of career went by and in his final thesis ‘Chapter 1 Unbalance’ was born, where he exhibited the toxic attitudes that affect the fashion world. This professional collection opened the doors to 080 Barcelona, a platform that professionally trained the designer and with which, months later, he presented ‘Cap 2 Recuerdo’. This collection presents the designer, showing his personal museum of memories, as if they were kept in his head as works of art. At the same time, he studied his master's degree in Womenswear at UAL. 

After a pandemic, he worked to embark on his next project and that was presented at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid: "3LeMorte", this collection full of symbolism, quality and change, laid the foundations of the house, going from being a boy who made collections to a profitable company, with future and international projection. 

Alvaro Calafat's debut on the MBFW MADRID platform showed how the brand has evolved and how we will discover a new universe. 

Last year, the bridge cascara de matadero lived one of the most important moments in its history. We presented Fiamma, a collection that described a mafia family, the kind to be respected. This is nothing more than an allegory of what Alvaro Calafat stands for. We are a team, that works, that feels and that aims to make a place for itself in the national scene. It was a personal project, without any platform where we did what we considered.