Category: SPOTLIGHT

From law to weddings. Isabel Ruiz built a window onto the international bridal world that Spain needed. It all began with a personal search that led nowhere. Ruiz was getting married for the second time and wanted an international designer dress — not a made-to-measure commission, but a piece with its own identity, carrying the…

A pattern maker from Almería made her own wedding dress thirty years ago. The label born from that moment has since gone on to dress Spanish royalty. The first dress María Barragán ever made was her own. After studying industrial pattern cutting in Barcelona, she returned to her hometown of Almería and, when it came…