Meet the Designer: Nicolas Staffa


1. How would you describe your brand aesthetic?

Street and equestrian

2. What is your first fashion memory?

Embellished gauchos at festivals in Argentina

3. Where do you look for inspiration?

My parents’ house, gauchos and social tensions

4. As a designer what has been your biggest challenge to date?

Starting my own project

5. What is your typical creative process?

Observing enough to get inspired, drawing a basic sketch of the finished garment and patters, and then basically changing a little the design in every step until pleased haha

6. What do you think consumers of fashion need to be made more aware of?

What is worth buying (supporting) and what not. Small brands can be as interesting as bigger brands and even have a better message

7. What do you love designing the most?

Pants and hoodies

8. How do you select your materials and fabric?

I’m colour blind so mostly by the texture (both visual and to the touch). The philosophy comes from my biggest inspiration, tiny country house I grew up in. Which was completed over the years by adding new rooms with a real Argentinian country side house due to the different kinds of flooring, walls, ceilings, curtains, doors, etc

9. What part does sustainability play in your work?

I believe the same fabric can be used in many ways and be manipulated to loss several many ways too. So, I tend to reuse a lot of old garments and stored fabrics to create new pieces

10. What is your ultimate design goal?

Get my message across the world and show that Argentina fashion has a great quality of design too

11. What do you think the future will bring to fashion?

This could be answered in many ways. The first is not such a good one: even more clothes. With tiny growing relationship between social media and costumers, the urge to get new clothes or the same ones a celebrity is wearing will increase. And the second way (the one I mostly hope for): a much more developed communication and collectiveness between designers. Helping each other, teaching each other, being there for each other. We can change the way fashion works if we stand equals with each other

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