Natalia Antolín made her debut at SAC, Haute Couture Week by Elina Costantini, presenting a collection created especially for the occasion and drawing major inspiration from Frida Kahlo.
Across 38 runway appearances, the designer reinterpreted the world of the Mexican artist in her own language, avoiding a literal reading. The collection was permeated by color, textures, artisanal embroidery, and a strong symbolic charge.
Corsets took a central place as a reference to the orthopedic elements that accompanied Frida for much of her life, while flowers, hearts, and feathers appeared as some of the collection’s most recurrent motifs.
There were three-dimensional flowers, appliqués, transparencies and volumes that transformed the runway into an exuberant garden, threaded with reds, burgundies, greens, and black.
The collection traversed a range of silhouettes, from tailoring and jumpsuits to skirts with corsets and dresses both short and long, always bearing that feminine, sensual and strong imprint that characterizes Natalia Antolín.
Feathers added movement and reinforced the idea of wings as a symbol of freedom, while embroidery and flowers revived Mexico’s artisanal and visual wealth, a culture with which the designer has maintained a long-standing connection through her work trips across the country.
Rather than reproducing Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe, Antolín aimed to capture a bit of her spirit: a strong, expressive woman who is conscious of the power of her own image.
Her SAC debut thus left one of the most colorful and theatrical snapshots of Haute Couture Week, with a collection where fashion, art, and identity met on the runway.
