The Barcelona brand Simorra digs deep into the power of roots, balance, and collective consciousness. Backstage intimacy through the lens of Ángela Ibáñez at 080 Barcelona Fashion.
At 080 Barcelona Fashion, SIMORRA goes subterranean. Arrels FW25/26 is not just a collection — it’s a sensory excavation. A story about origin, balance, and the quiet intelligence of nature told through texture, volume, and matter. Presented in a See Now, Buy Now format, the collection unfolds in real time — a living organism rather than a static display.
Arrels (meaning roots in Catalan) grows from the same fertile ground as last season’s Raíces, but this time the roots go deeper. As the brand expands internationally, it looks back — not nostalgically, but curiously — toward the place where everything begins.
“We start from the balance between El Seny (reason) and La Rauxa (passion),” SIMORRA explains. “It’s the formula for serenity.”
That equilibrium becomes the collection’s lifeblood. Drawing on Darwin’s The Power of Movement in Plants, Arrels imagines roots as thinking systems — neural networks beneath the soil, capable of communication, collaboration, even empathy. SIMORRA translates that idea into design language: tactile, collective, intelligent. This is clothing as organism. Thought made fabric.
The silhouettes pulse with contrasts — sculptural shoulders over narrow lines, generous volumes cinched by knitted belts, translucent shirts layered like sediment. There’s an instinctual choreography between softness and structure, as if each look were breathing.
Textures reference the underground world — bark-like jacquards, double-faced wools, brushed effects that feel almost alive. A print of intertwined roots drifts across vaporous fabric, while black — organic, irregular, tactile — anchors the palette. Around it, tones of earth and oxidation: deep wine, moss green, navy, rust, dust, and a hint of skin.
Every piece feels unearthed rather than made. For SIMORRA, roots don’t anchor — they sustain. They are a reminder that evolution requires memory; that intelligence doesn’t always come from the mind, but sometimes from the soil.
With Arrels, SIMORRA proposes a new kind of luxury: one that grows from connection, not consumption. A design philosophy that’s less about standing out, and more about tuning in — to the rhythm beneath our feet, to the collective pulse of all living things.
Photography by Ángela Ibañez for VEIN MAGAZINE
