In a powerful meditation on fragmentation, resilience, and the courage to break through invisible barriers, Young Creators Award Winner Genaro Rivas (Vogue Business x Visa) unveils ‘A Glass to Break’ at The London Fashion Week official evening schedule.
The genesis of A Glass to Break began with two quiet yet striking moments in Berlin: a photograph of a glass pane marked by a bullet impact, and, weeks later, shattered glass discovered on the ground during a walk with his astrologer.
These images became enduring metaphors for Rivas’ own journey: a self‑taught designer navigating an industry shaped by invisible barriers. From those fragments emerged a vision not of destruction, but of reconstruction, a fashion language built from rupture, healing, and strength.Genaro Rivas
The collection consists of 26 predominantly womenswear looks, with selected menswear silhouettes, exploring the act of rebuilding from what has been broken. Exaggerated tailoring introduces architectural silhouettes, while deconstructed garments are reassembled with intention and technical precision. Sleeves extend dramatically, proportions elongate, and jackets reveal bursts of fabric that emerge like wounds making it emotional and structural at once. The palette is stark and evocative: deep blacks, slate greys, luminous silvers, and sharp accents of red that cut through the darkness like flashes of exposed emotion. Materials are central to the narrative. Printed silks, mohair and denim are combined with innovative textiles developed in collaboration with forward-thinking biomaterial partners including Ponda, Savian by BioFluff and Banofi.
The aesthetic navigates a space between beauty and force, delicacy and rawness, classicism and modern rebellion. Hair direction by Richard Philipart and lead makeup by Manuel de Castro amplify the emotional intensity of the silhouettes. For the first time, headpieces co-designed by Genaro and milliner Roberta Cucuzza, all handcrafted by Roberta, crown the looks, sculptural extensions of the collection’s shattered‑yet‑rising spirit.
‘A Glass to Break’ is a defiant collision of light and dark, a collection that doesn’t just acknowledge the glass ceiling but dares to shatter it.
