Genaro Rivas unveiled “A Glass to Break” on London’s February runway schedule
Genaro Rivas, a Vogue Business x Visa Young Creators Award winner, unveiled “A Glass to Break” as part of the official London Fashion Week evening schedule.
Conceived as a meditation on fragmentation and resilience, the collection traced its origin to two quiet moments in Berlin: a photograph of a glass pane marked by a bullet impact, and shattered glass discovered on the ground during a walk with Rivas’ astrologer. The images became metaphors for navigating an industry shaped by invisible barriers — and for rebuilding through rupture rather than romanticising destruction.
“A Glass to Break” comprised 26 looks, predominantly womenswear with selected menswear silhouettes. Exaggerated tailoring introduced architectural volumes, while deconstructed garments were reassembled with technical precision. Extended sleeves, elongated proportions and jackets ruptured with bursts of fabric created a language that felt emotional and structural at once.
The palette stayed stark and charged — deep black, slate grey, luminous silver, punctuated by sharp red accents. Materials carried the narrative forward, combining printed silks, mohair and denim with next-generation textiles developed with biomaterial partners including Ponda, Savian by BioFluff, and Banofi.
Ponda’s plant-based insulation, including BioPuff® wadding, appeared across lightweight pieces and padded outerwear. Those padded jackets paired reclaimed ocean-sourced nylon with Ponda insulation and Savian plant-based bio-fur engineered by BioFluff. Sculptural dresses and accessories used Banofi’s plant-based leather alternative, extending texture innovation into hand-crafted garments.
Accessories entered Rivas’ runway for the first time. Headpieces were developed by Roberta Cucuzza, with some integrating biomaterials, while hair direction by Richard Philipart and lead makeup by Manuel de Castro reinforced the collection’s tense beauty — a collision of light and dark that set out to “break” the glass ceiling, not simply name it.
