Thirty emerging voices. One collective mission. Sustainable Challenge 2025

This year in Barcelona, the SUSTAINABLE CHALLENGE returns like a quiet jolt to the system — the kind you feel before you realize something is shifting. For its seventh edition, MODAFAD dives into Collective Mending, a theme that sounds soft on the surface but cuts deep: a reminder that fashion’s future depends not on endless novelty, but on how we repair, rework, and reimagine what already exists.

Across four intense, unruly days inside the Disseny Hub Barcelona, 30 students from schools all over Europe met in a space humming with energy — half workshop, half laboratory, half controlled chaos. They sifted through discarded garments like archaeologists of the present, turning forgotten pieces into raw material for a new aesthetic language. Thread by thread, they built a dialogue where sustainability isn’t a trend but a tool, and mending becomes a creative rebellion, a small act of defiance against disposability.

These final looks are the culmination of that shared experiment — part manifesto, part metamorphosis. Every stitch feels like a conversation between hands, ideas, and techniques; every silhouette, a reminder that transformation doesn’t require starting from zero. In their work, you can sense a collective rhythm: the tension of tearing apart, the tenderness of repairing, the thrill of making something once discarded feel urgent again.

This is fashion as renewal, as resistance, as reawakening. A future assembled from remnants — and imagined together.

Maeve wears «Demending» created by Catalina Gómez, Iván Martín Paz, Jacky Lambrichs, Midori Gamez Majima and Sumeja Osmančević

Cio wears «Shūri» created by Ada de Dalmases i Pedró, Elcke Hartjes, Laura Camila Velasco Ortega, Nikola Vranić and Pelayo de Bernardo.

Matias wears «Intrusive Thoughts» created by Darío Toré Vázquez, María Rey Rubio, Michelle Wu, Renske de Meijer and Sofija Krsmanović.

Santa Maria wears «Glimpse of Hope» created by Aramide Gillett, Ella Döringer, Jeanne Roest, Juan Manuel Pérez López and Martina Dot Grau.

Coral wears «Motion» created by Blén González Costea Llamas, Berke Rizalar, HuanTsun Su, Martina Otero Jeandrevin and Maya Ceplen.

Riri wears «Healed by Yarn» created by Francisca Latapiat Cabrera, Matylda Wlodarczyk, Melanie Cieslinski, Victoria Rusu and Xavier Tejero Azorín.

Credits:
Photography: Anne Galán @annegalanphoto
Casting: Victor von Schwarz @victorvonschwarz
Make-up and hair: Allison Caranton @allison.caranton and Pablo Serna @tepblito
Talents: @maeverc__ @cio.vives @matiosale @santamariapvta @mommytaai @bugarrxn
Mediapartner: VEIN MAGAZINE and FUCKING YOUNG!
Thanks to Modafad, Disseny Hub, and all the experts and students part of this edition.

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Thirty emerging voices. One collective mission. Sustainable Challenge 2025