Growing up in Mexico, Nadia often spent her weekends horseback riding with her parents on their family horse farm, a memory she holds near and dear to her heart. “As an ode to my family and my culture, I wanted to use my parent’s horse farm as the backdrop for my Spring 2025 Collection.” Nadia Manjarrez shares.
As her vision for the collection expanded, Manjarrez drew further inspiration from the feminist movement of the Escaramuzas, a team of sixteen women who ride horses and perform synchronized choreography to music while sitting side saddle. They wear traditional outfits featuring full skirts, large ruffles and classic charro hats, inspired by Adelitas, women fighters in the Mexican Revolution.
Translating elements from the Ecaramuza’s costumes, Nadia incorporated voluptuous skirts with giant three-dimensional florals, ruffles and flounces as seen in the Liny Gown- a ball gown, with vertical organza ruffles easing into the bodice creating a seamless effect. The Gema Dress features a fully textured skirt, made flower by flower, using silk nylon organza. The silk strips, complete with picot edges were sewn onto the Italian tulle skirt, creating a dramatic ball gown effect without the weight of the traditional ball gown. The look also has a hand-draped bodice and two ultra-feminine bows.
Nadia Manjarrez
The Michelle Gown took over two hundred hours to weave and hand stitch the cross-woven effect on the bodice, inspired by the waist loom weaving techniques seen throughout Mexican culture. The silk organza flowers adorned on the Esperanza Gown are each made by hand in Nadia’s atelier. The embellished motifs on this look are an ode to the traditional Mexican suits that often have a simpler top and embellished motifs on the bottom of the removable overskirt.
Emphasizing femininity this season, gowns like Cecilia feature faille flounces, inspired by the Escaramuza flouncy skirt. Other styles in the collection have transforming aspects: removable underskirts, overskirts, trains and bows. The collection also includes a five-piece set, the Marlen, which features a bustier that can be paired with a gazar skirt, a lace ball skirt, or a mini lace skirt and comes with a matching veil.
In collaboration with Eduarda Salmi, of Via Sketch, custom artwork was created for the embroidery on the Charra Gown, which featured roses, the most used flower in Mexican suits, and Bugambilias, inspired by Nadia’s parents’ home where she grew up. Similarly to the suits Charras traditionally wear, the dress is black and features sharp, contrasting white embroidery over the certified, ethically sourced silk gazar.
With each collection, Nadia aims to highlight her Mexican heritage and culture, often turning to female trailblazers as an underlying theme and source of inspiration.
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FWO
