Mar García is the founder and creative director of Marlota, a Spanish contemporary fashion brand that explores (and collaborates with) artistic disciplines such as dance, sculpture, literature, video and photography.

A graduate of fashion studies in Madrid, UK and Germany, García’s passion for art allowed her to create a brand that strives for a balance between different artistic disciplines and opposites. Her designs are impossible to label and often evolve in contradictory ways, from idealism to pragmatism, from feelings to intellect, from feminine to masculine.

Marlota’s garments allow us to project what is not seen. A disembodied sensation that materialises in the void between the fabric and the skin; the ‘Ma’, as the Japanese call this pause in time. García believes in the transformative power of garments and the emotions produced through beauty. She converts fabric into silhouettes and volumes that respect the human figure. Her pieces connect symbolically and physically with nature, representing a constant search for the origin of things, where less is more and always enough.

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