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Portraits of the designers showing at MBFW Madrid on 18 & 19.09, 2026
by Modem – Posted March 23 2026
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We're sharing portraits of the designers presenting their collections on September 18 and 19, 2026.

- FASHION SHOWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18:
• 11:30 AM - Maison Mesa
• 1:00 PM - Custo Barcelona
• 4:30 PM - Lola Casademunt by Maite
• 5:30 PM - Yolancris
• 8:00 PM - Alvarno

Maison Mesa. In 2017, Mesa founded Maison Mesa, with a studio and atelier in Madrid. Since then, she has established a distinctive style recognized for combining fashion, art, architecture, theater, and performance in runway shows conceived as immersive cultural experiences.
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Custo Barcelona was founded in the early 1980s by the Dalmau brothers, Custo and David, after a long journey around the world. Along the way, they discovered not only new landscapes but also a wide variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical expressions. One of the things that most caught their attention was the California style, expressed in the look of the surfers living in the southern part of the state, as well as the psychedelia of the northern part.
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Lola Casademunt by Maite. A leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of women's clothing and accessories, it is a pioneering fashion company with its eponymous clothing and accessories line, “LOLA CASADEMUNT,” and its premium line, “LOLA CASADEMUNT BY MAITE.”
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Yolancris is a Spanish brand specializing in the design and handcrafted creation of luxury wedding dresses, evening gowns, and ready-to-wear clothing.
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The Alvarno brand was born from the fusion of two creative energies, Arnaud Maillard and Álvaro Castejón. Their years of experience, both individually and together with Karl Lagerfeld, led them to a common goal: Alvarno. They chose Madrid to begin their adventure, but always with a clear international focus, reflecting their origins.
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- FASHION SHOWS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19:
• 10:30 AM - Universidad Nebrija
• 12:30 PM - Apolineo Studio / Biyeyemete
• 3:30 PM - Cotes / Isabel is my Name
• 5:30 PM - Karla Aguilar / Miss Take

Apolineo Studio. Javier Comesaña (Vigo, 2000) translates his Fine Arts background into wearable art through experimentation with volume and textile manipulation.
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Biyeyemete is Brandon Abeso, a Spanish designer of Equatorial Guinean origin whose creative identity is built on the dialogue between African cultural heritage and contemporary design.
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Cotes. Antonio Cotes is a Spanish fashion designer, originally from a rural area near Lorca (Murcia). His work explores identity, cultural heritage, and historical Parisian savoir-faire, always from a Mediterranean perspective and with a technical vision inherited from his previous training.
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Isabel is my Name is an interdisciplinary research and creation studio founded in Spain by Isabel Peña (Chile) and Mauricio Quiñones (Argentina). Their practice uses the language of fashion to develop projects that engage with contemporary art, architecture, dance, and material culture.
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Karla Aguilar Balcázar is a Spanish fashion designer whose work explores the relationship between body, emotion, and transformation. Her style combines distorted tailoring, sculptural volumes, altered materials, and artisanal processes.
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Miss Take. Matilde Bliebernicht Passanha Guedes (Lisbon, Portugal, 2003) understands mistakes, through her brand MISS TAKE, she understands mistakes as an essential part of the creative process, transforming each test, correction, and reconstruction into an opportunity to discover new forms of beauty, authenticity, and innovation.
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