The Valencian firm Isabelle Sanchis won the L’Oréal Paris award for best collectionwhich is inspired by sculpture, with silhouettes of pure and geometric volumes, during the 80th edition of the prestigious Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid catwalk. This is the second time they have received this award.
Isabel Sanchis and her daughter Paula Maiquescreative directors of the firm, have created for next summer 2025 a collection inspired by sculpture, a feminine and powerful collection, with silhouettes with pure and geometric volumes, where flowers, ties and bows with a trepanned effect appear on mini-dresses. more imposing coats and dresses that play with folds made with fabrics that simulate a ceramic vase.
A collection with a revival of the tuxedo, symbol of the purest style, with touches of lingerie in some garments that bring a feminine detail as well as bows.
Regarding the color, although black and white are predominant in the collection, they played with soft, light and romantic tones such as lilac, purple and yellow.
In short, it is a collection where craftsmanship is valued combined with new techniques such as micro pleated sun handmade and enveloping dresses to create special pieces, a collection where excellence is reflected in each garment carefully crafted by expert hands.
Volume and feminine silhouette
Isabel Sanchis was born in Valencia in 1956. During her adolescence, she made various models for her friends and soon opened a small workshop where she designed and made custom-made clothes.
In 1990 he presented his first collection and began working with stores close to his place of residence, and very quickly began a prosperous expansion on a national scale, reaching more and more points of sale in specialized boutiques.
The brand is present through its participation in international fashion fairs in New York, Barcelona by participating in Bridal Fashion Week, MBFWM and in Paris, where it presents its two annual Spring-Summer and Autumn-Winter collections, in the private showroom that it organizes in the exclusive Ritz Hotel, where its national and international clients come. Isabel Sanchis, the flagship store in Valencia, and with plans to open in Madrid.
The result is the creation of dresses closer to haute couture than ready-to-wear, with the aim of making people see and feel the importance of well-made clothes.
“The goal of Isabel Sanchis couture has always been and will be to magnify femininity by carefully working the best-chosen materials, with exclusive embroidery and a very precise pattern and appreciate the importance of well-made clothes,” he explains.
Isabel Sanchis uses traditional techniques with a modern sensibility, creating impressive and very feminine pieces for a contemporary woman.
On the occasion of her 30th anniversary, Isabel Sanchis organized for the first time a spectacular and exclusive fashion show to present her Fall-Winter 2020 collection at the Embassy of Spain in Parisin the presence of the international and national press, more than 300 guests, personalities from the world of fashion such as the president of Condenast France, the director of Vogue Fr, the former president of the Chamber of Haute Couture Unions Donal Potard, and the model Inés Sastre, among other participants.
Isabel Sanchis’ couture creations are featured in the fashion editorials of the most prestigious press titles in the world such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Hola Fashion, Vogue Arabia, Telva, Glamour, Hola, Elle, Marie Claire…etc. Celebrities from all over the world and names such as the great internationals Nieves Alvarez, Mar Saura, Isabel Preysler, Alejandra Gere, Tamara Falcó, Anne Igartiburu, Mar Flores, Jaydy Michel, Helen Lindes, Sonam Kapoor, Yoanna Hambury, Laura Whitmore, Paula Echevarría, Elena Sanchez, Blanca Romero, Nicole Kimpel and influencers such as Nonoska Vasquez, Silvia Zamora, Macarena Gomez, Kira Miró, Raquel Sanchez Silva, Ana Moya, Melodie Peñalver, among others, have worn their most exclusive outfits.
The inspiration for their collections comes from different themes; painting, art, design, cinema, natureand each of them is projected in current and elegant dresses without an expiration date.
All of its collections are made in its own workshop, which has 50 employees, where collections full of fantasy are created that adapt to every type of woman, while maintaining elegance and sophistication. One of the brand’s goals is to make people feel the importance of well-made clothes.
The company’s head office is located at BenaguasilValencia, where the designs, production and shipping of each piece are developed, customizing each design for each of its clients from anywhere in the world, offering a carefully revised, finished and immediate service.
Excellence, exclusivity, harmony and femininity are the unmistakable characteristics of a superbly made and finished work. Isabel Sanchis believes that the key to success lies in creating garments that are closer to haute couture than ready-to-wear.
The Isabel Sanchis firm was awarded several timeshaving received various distinctions and having received some of the most prestigious awards in the fashion world, such as the Golden Thimble 2015 and 2017, the PRENAMO Honor Award 2015 for Excellence in Fashion and Business, the Gold Star Award of the Institute of Professional Excellence 2018, and the Bankia Award for the Best SME 2018 awarded by Bankia, the newspaper Expansión and El Mundo, the Tendencias Award 2019 and the Award for the Best Collection and Designer L’Oréal Paris in the 79th edition 2023 of MBFWMadrid, the Award for the Best Cocktail Dress at BBFW 2023, the Isabel Ferrer Award, awarded by the Valencian Generalitat, and the Award for the Best L’Oréal Paris Collection at the 80th edition of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid in 2024.
