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About María Lafuente
María Lafuente is a Spanish designer whose work connects fashion, material research, and cultural commitment to territory. Since her debut at Cibeles Fashion Week in 2006, she has developed a distinctive language based on the integration of craftsmanship, textile innovation, and sustainability.
Over two decades of creation — articulated through more than 40 collections — her work has established fashion as a system of thought capable of linking nature, knowledge, and contemporary design. Her proposals incorporate sustainable materials, applied research processes, and collaborations with artisans, scientists, and innovation centres.
María Lafuente’s creative universe is defined by a careful attention to natural cycles and processes of transformation. This perspective translates into garments that combine lightness, structure, and movement, creating a balance between aesthetics, ethics, and functionality.
Her work has been presented on international platforms and in projects that promote new models of responsible production within the fashion industry.
In 2026, she celebrates twenty years of presence at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid with AURA MANIFESTO, a collection that revisits her creative archive and opens a new phase of aesthetic, material, and sensory research.
María Lafuente at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid
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AURA MANIFESTO takes the butterfly as its central symbol and unfolds a proposal in which metamorphosis is expressed through light forms and silhouettes that envelop the body like a halo.
The garments explore the relationship between matter, movement and light. Fabrics create transitions between transparency and density, structure and fluidity, generating a sensation of continuous breathing around the body.
The project integrates material research, craftsmanship and territory within a single creative process. Among the materials featured is Musapiel, a biomaterial developed from banana plant fibre in the Canary Islands, alongside sustainable fabrics such as cotton, tulle, lace and PEFC-certified Tencel. The collection also incorporates Añino, merino wool from an indigenous breed certified for animal welfare, waterproof and breathable, a pioneering innovation that brings together tradition and functionality.
The collection is completed through artisanal collaborations that expand its cultural dimension.
The author jewellery by Elena Larrén introduces precise geometries and points of light that resonate with the narrative of AURA upon the skin.
The crochet pieces created by Las Arte-sanas de Madrid bring tactile texture and depth, preserving techniques transmitted across generations and reinforcing the human dimension of the collection.
The author millinery by Nana Golmar introduces sculptural presence and contemporary elegance, extending the architecture of each silhouette.
AURA MANIFESTO proposes a vision of fashion as a space of cultural sensitivity and environmental responsibility, where memory, territory and knowledge are woven into a creative language oriented towards the future.