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About.

Portrait, Paris, 2026.
PARIS / 2026

The work looks beyond the finished object to how it is made, presented and experienced.

Fashion is the starting point — not as a category, but as a training. It teaches you that a thing is never only a thing: it is a material with a cost, a shape with a history, an image before anyone has touched it, and a decision someone makes in twenty seconds. Every project since has been a version of that same lesson applied somewhere new.

Rafael grew up in Spain and learned to make things in Germany. Fashion design in Stuttgart covered materials, construction and product development, from first sketch to production. Communication and marketing in Madrid covered what happens to an object once it has to be explained to someone. Those two educations have been arguing productively ever since.

The practice is based in Paris and works internationally, across France, Spain and Germany.

The interest is in where things are going.

New technology keeps arriving faster than anyone’s ability to use it well. The gap between what is now possible and what brands are actually doing has never been wider — most of the industry is still using new tools to do old things slightly faster.

The work sits in that gap: watching what is emerging, testing it against real products and real commercial constraints, and building the version that treats the audience as people rather than traffic.

I like the moment just before something becomes normal. When a material, a platform or a way of buying is still strange enough that nobody has decided what it’s for yet, and the rules are being written by whoever shows up.

Fashion taught me to look at objects. Commerce taught me that an object is only half of it — the other half is the encounter, and most of that half is designed badly or not at all. That is the part I keep coming back to, whether it takes the form of a glove, a showroom rack, a pop-up in Monaco or an interface.

— R.R.

Background

Independent work, ongoing projects and professional roles.
2021—ONGOING
Armèlle Independent leather-accessories brand. Product development, European sourcing, Spanish production, identity, e-commerce and physical activation. Armèlle has been featured in Tatler UK, Vogue Hong Kong, and international editions of Grazia and Numéro.
FRANCE / SPAIN
2023—ONGOING
Coperni via Tomorrow Ltd. International wholesale, showroom operations, buyer appointments, collection presentation and commercial feedback.
PARIS / INTL
IN DEVELOPMENT
Mallorca Property Platform Digital product structure, information architecture, interface development and research workflows.
MALLORCA / PARIS
PROFESSIONAL
Footwear, Brand & Commerce Brand and e-commerce manager. E-commerce and B2B development, new sales channels, marketing campaigns and brand presentation across digital and commercial touchpoints.
GERMANY
SELECTED
Editorial & creative production Styling assistant. Look preparation, sample handling and on-set support with styling teams, across personal projects for Love Want Magazine and independent editorials.
PARIS
TRAINING
Training Fashion design, Stuttgart — materials, construction, product development.
Communication & marketing, Madrid.
STUTTGART / MADRID

Press

Tatler UK Armèlle product feature
Vogue Hong Kong Armèlle feature
Grazia, international editions Armèlle feature
Numéro, international editions Armèlle feature
Vanitas Gloves credited Armèlle

Selected independent publications in Spain and internationally.

In development

Armèlle, product or material detail.

Armèlle

Ongoing product, brand and commercial development.
Mallorca platform, map and data layers.

Mallorca Property Platform

Interface, information structure and digital product development.
Prototype or study.

Research & Studies

Material studies, interface experiments and research workflows.
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