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That’s a wrap!

Another creative year ends for us successfully, this time, at Demo Eindhoven with our social design session on 29 November around an amazing crowd of thinkers and makers.

Time for the festive celebrations — see you again in a shiny new 2025.


Ocean Wearable Leg-wing (O.W.L.) blueprint for a smartly designed ecosystem and social sustainability proudly exhibited at Demo Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 2024.

​Viviana’s proposal involved an apparel softbotic leg-wing design to innovate our ecosystem and create custom accessories that require merging intelligent manufacturing and computer vision with current paradigms in materials. O. W. L. is both, a speculative softbotic scenario visioning a fashion accessory and soft machine with a moving robotic in smaller human scale that enables natural edibles and aquatic food sensing to aquatic animals. O. W. L. thereby enters aspects of the environment to provide new solutions that help solve the micro- and nanoplastic sea pollution problem in the apparel industry. This, to join efforts in advancing the science, technological translation, and societal impact of educational outreach.

Join us on Friday, 29 November as we will be joining the young creators and innovators of Demo Eindhoven PROJECT NEXTUP, with an Ideation Session platform to open discussion on social sustainability and soft skills.

O. W. L. at Demo Eindhoven during
Dutch Design Week 2024

Ocean
Wearable
Leg-wing

O. W. L. is Viviana M. Calderón de la Barca newest Fashion Futuring short production that proposes a scenario where custom manufacturing apparel accessories are only made with natural beads, and in smaller batches when customers need them. The combination of short production cycles and high demand ensures that every wearable created will find a buyer…

Gift Special

This season of giving, ​love is in the hair.

We meet young entrepreneur Luisa Isabel Coffie, who is currently an International Business student, and whose initiative in the Netherlands is about natural hair products for those looking for more sustainable ways to care for your hair through the winter — a time to nurture yourself with intention.

​“Our body is a stage.
What we wear is a social phenomenon.
Life is a runway.

Welcome to a moment in my dreams.”

​—Viviana M. Calderón de la Barca

Hello, REVIVE!

REVIVE is a handmade knitwear by stylist Eline Gommans former student of Amsterdam Fashion Institute commissioned by Viviana M. C. De La Barca on recreating conscious wearables.

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US AT OUR ART EXHIBITION

This Humble Body Part

Click on title to enter full exhibit

Photography by Niek T. Klasen

Life Is A Cultural Thread
​is now available to stream online via Vimeo.

Directly from the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands!

We’ve been invited to a special edition of Tea Talk radio program and podcast series hosted by Karishma Vij and Supriya Vij on Radio 4 Brainport.

Tea Talk is an interactive talk show reaching out the international locals in the city of Eindhoven and Brainport region. Access the podcast episode here

From the Archives | Summer 2023

Amsterdam Fashion Week

Sci-fi-artist Esmay Wagemans interviewed by art historian Cathelijn Blok FW23 Talk I: EMBRACING UNPLANNED BEAUTY at Fosbury Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Fashion Week

Esmay is known for her love to science fiction and sculptures with futuristic fragments-scenes and modern allegories.

​Lifecasting, mold making and 3D printing techniques are at the forefront of her work. Esmay’s sculptures are being worn by renown artists worldwide.

Gast Art Boutique Amsterdam

“I don’t know you but sometimes my Creative, Confident, Resourceful, Organised and Independent self, wants to wear clothes to misbehave. And go responsibly GA-GA.” – Viviana M. C. De La Barca on being respectfully disruptive.