We are delighted to announce that Rafael Urquizar will present VERTIGE Collection AW 2026/27 on 7 March 2026 during Paris Fashion Week at the Hôtel Le Marois.
Rafael Urquizar is a Spanish designer with a career spanning more than four decades, whose work is rooted in a fashion practice understood as a craft, a construction, and a cultural expression. Trained in Paris at ESMOD International Fashion Group, he develops his creative language from a solid technical foundation linked to pattern making, structure, and atelier work. Since the early 1990s, he has presented his collections within the official schedule of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid and Atelier Couture, maintaining a constant presence and a coherent evolution of his creative research.
The Maison
The activity of Maison Rafael Urquizar revolves around bespoke haute couture, prêt-à-couture, and bridal creations. All pieces are developed using artisanal processes that prioritize time, precision, and technical excellence. The atelier occupies a central place as a space for creation and the transmission of know-how.
Creative Identity
His aesthetic is characterized by structured silhouettes, refined elegance, and a continuous dialogue between tradition and contemporary design. Cultural, artistic, and lighting references are integrated indirectly, resulting in a restrained and controlled formal language.
Vision
Departing from the logic of immediate trends, Rafael Urquizar proposes a lasting vision of design, in which form, material, and construction define the garment’s value. His work is rooted in a conception of fashion as a discipline, culture, and contemporary craft.
VERTIGE Collection AW 2026/27
In that suspended second where the body hesitates, the mind trembles, and the attraction to the unknown becomes inevitable. Vertigo not as fear, but as impulse: a force that destabilizes in order to transform. The collection inhabits that threshold. A territory where tension and beauty coexist, where imbalance becomes language and fashion an emotional experience.
Suspension
The silhouettes remain in a state of contained floating. Volumes that envelop the body and lines that tension it converse like opposing forces, evoking bodies suspended in a fragile, almost unreal equilibrium. Each garment seems to hang in the air, defying gravity.
Depth
The material acquires emotional depth. Velvets, brocades, and crystals construct landscapes of shadow and brilliance—surfaces that absorb light and return it fragmented. The textures suggest abysses, overlapping layers of mystery, brilliance, and silence.
Couture Precision
The structure acts as an anchor. Defined waists, sharp cuts, and handcrafted finishes evoke the haute couture of the 1950s, not as nostalgia, but as discipline. Technique orders the vertigo, giving it form and containment. Tradition becomes the support for risk.
The result is a universe where tremor transforms into elegance, and uncertainty into a powerful and conscious aesthetic.
VERTIGE is not merely a collection: it is an emotional state elevated to form, a contained impulse between structure and drape, translated into fabric, light, and movement.
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www.rafaelurquizar.com