This workshop offers a fresh approach to fashion: a symbolic, creative, and deeply personal territory. Over ten sessions, participants will explore their relationship with clothing through memory, emotion, and identity, transforming forgotten garments into unique pieces with a strong personal touch. The process is conceived as a creative journey where clothing acts as both discourse and gesture.

Guerrilla upcycling techniques , textile deconstruction, and artisanal remaking will be explored , combined with personal styling tools and experimentation with color, texture, and form. This approach allows for questioning conventional fashion consumption and reclaiming the garment as a narrative object.

The workshop will culminate in a collective performance: a parade in which each creation will come to life on stage, celebrating the expressive power of the body and the transformative power of dressing (ourselves) from emotion.

Program

Introduction to fashion as a symbolic language.

Exploration of the textile biography of each participant.

Transformation techniques: upcycling , deconstruction, remake.

Personal styling and emotional design resources.

Plastic experimentation: color, texture, volume, composition.

Development of the total personal look.

Preparation and presentation in a collective performance.

Clara Macías Carcedo

Designer, performer , and visual poet Clara Macías intertwines fashion, body, and word from a sustainable and artivist perspective. A graduate in Audiovisual Communication (CEU), trained in acting (Réplika Teatro), and specializing in haute couture (La Tecnocreativa), she has presented experimental collections and worked as a costume designer on significant stage projects. Her practice explores fashion as a territory of resistance, desire, and poetic expression.

Information

candela.perez@cbamadrid.es / 600711242

Places available: 20 (minimum 10 people registered for the workshop to take place).

Audience: People interested in fashion, design, and creative sewing. No prior experience required.
Format: practical, creative and experimental workshop.