Last week 12 emerging designers attended a unique learning experience with two professors of the London College of Fashion within the context of the first Madrid Design Festival. Under the wing of the MBA in Fashion Artefacts professors, the designers where challenged to use leather to build an artefact that enabled them to carry an object, but not any kind of object, but something that kept a symbolic meaning for them, After three days of hard work, the different creative points of view, together with the diverse range of techniques and experiences, resulted in 12 varied artefacts that started with the same premise: jewels, making and the body.

We introduce the 12 designers

Nuria Altimís

In love with fashion and jewelry since she was a little girl, she defines her work under the terms quality, creativty and versatility.

Marta Arocena

Passionate about craftwork due to the hand work, the design and, most importantly, the redesign; and about luxury dueto the self-demanding quality it implies.

Julia Barrueco

An architect in love with design, she gets her inspiration from nature and its interaction with the human body.

Andrea Génova

Keen on researching and experimenting with new materials to use them in unprecedented ways and test their limits.

Teva Guibal

Creative and a non-conformist, she loves challanges that makes her question herself.

Chloé Herrero

Straight into action, she loves to get her hands dirty, to experiment and to creat. Metalsmith and jeweler, she seeks to create designs that are an extension of the body.

Linar Martín

In search of a balance between functionality and design. She loves to research on how design han be applied to the human form.

Deborah Mellado

In a constant search for challanges, a multidisciplinary artist with a vision about objects that goes further than the norm.

Irene Mintrone

From a family of metalshiths and artists, design runs through the veins of this young Italian.

Myrian Moreno

She works in search of the combination of the creativity of visual arts and performance with a focus of women and their femininity.

Laura Perdomo

Trapped by her passion towards product design, she works on, not only jewelry, but ceramics, furniture and even some experimental projects.

Amparo de Ramón Garrido

Specialist in the sculpting of gemstones, she fell in love with jewelry while working in the studio. An entrepreneur, she loves to experiment with forms, dimensions and materials.