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María (Vigo, 1996) explores feminine identity and the duality of opposing forces that inhabit it through contrasts of materials, textures, and concepts. Her creative universe draws from 1990s anime and manga, Japanese subcultures, and Baroque and Victorian aesthetics reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Her work dwells on the edge between fantasy and reality, between fragility and resilience. In 2025, she received the Debut Award for Design and Creativity from the Bimba y Lola Foundation.
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Crystal Angel
Crystal Angel explores femininity as a space of fantasy, longing, and contradiction through the imagery of shojo, magical girls, and the lolita subculture. Inspired by 1990s Japanese manga and anime, as well as the aesthetics that emerged from Harajuku, the collection builds a narrative around the desire to become the protagonist of one’s own fantasy.
The collection revolves around the concept of The Dreamed Dress: a white dress that embodies an unattainable ideal of purity, beauty, and perfection. From this central piece emerge garments inspired by Lolita and Gothic Lolita styles, combining ruffles, petticoats, and romantic silhouettes with a black-and-white color palette and fabrics that are manipulated, crystallized, and encapsulated. These pieces materialize the tension between innocence and emptiness, desire and frustration, refuge and disillusionment.
Appearance is conceived as the first step in constructing identity, but also as a limit—an always incomplete attempt to embody this hyperfeminine fantasy. The collection inhabits an ambiguous space between the ethereal and the dark, where the dress becomes promise, shelter, and disenchantment.