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= Carla Fernández = Carla Fernández Tena (born January 29, 1973) a Mexican fashion designer from Saltillo, Coahuila, in Mexico. She is best known for her Brand Carla Fernandez where she is inspired from traditional Mexican textile, and her plan to preserve it and it's process that comes along with it. She also Pushes for the idea that clothing should not be disposable but rather to be something irreplaceable.

Brand Twitter: https://twitter.com/CARLAFdesign

Brand Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carlafernandezMX

Brand Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlafernandezmx/

Early life and career
As a child Since her childhood Carla had a was introduced into Mexican Culture and then grew a likening to the culture. Her father was a Historian, traveling to different parts of indigenous communities. During travels her mother would visit centers of fashion. Inspiring her to pursue a career in fashion to preserving traditional Mexican textile she went to the University of Iberoamericana where she studied art history. Past lecture at (MIT) Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she lectured on traditional clothing where she taught techniques which included hand looming, dyeing in mud, and wool felting.

Brand
Carla is also owner of her clothing brand "Carla Fernández ". Fernandez's brand preserves traditional Mexican Textile and it shows in her work. She has mentioned in past interviews that she will work from start to finish using traditional methods like how in her pieces she will only use squares or rectangles because those were the shapes that were worked with. She not only designs them to look like traditional items and gives them a modern twist.

Exhibitions and Awards

 * 2014 The Barefoot Designer: A Passion for Radical Design and Community - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
 * 2018, at the International Folk Art Market Santa Fe
 * In 2008 she was given the Young Fashion Entrepreneur Award by the British Fashion Council
 * In 2013 Prince Claus Award from Amsterdam
 * Fashion in Motion series of Victoria and Albert Museum in England.
 * 2015 "Design. Culture. Mexico" - Boiler Room at Heath Ceramics
 * 2015 "The Future is Handmade! Fashion + Art + Home" - Red Desert, Downtown Los Angeles CA
 * "Design from 5 Continents" - The New World UK
 * 2016 "The Barefoot Designer: A workshop to Unlearn" - Museo Jumex, Mexico City
 * Museum of Craft and Folk Art
 * Cultural Centre Spain