Originally from South America, Martha Ccolque acquired Italian nationality and grew up in Turin, Italy.
From an early age, she developed a deep sensitivity to image and visual languages, which she further explored through the study of photography and cinematography.
She later collaborated on various productions for RAI and Mediaset before moving to Paris in 2001 to pursue studies at the Fine Arts School, driven by research into mimicry and mechanisms of perception.
At the same time, she studied physical engineering, guided by a fascination with the photoelectric effect and certain concepts of quantum physics.
Through these years of research, Martha Ccolque discovered in fashion design a territory capable of uniting these two worlds: matter and image, science and emotion.
In contact with designers from Italian fashion and French haute couture, she gradually committed herself to this path.
A first journey back to her roots in South America marked a decisive turning point and gave birth to the founding vision of her project “Codex Atlanticus”: an exploration of new territories of thought, a language where art, science, memory, and magic engage in dialogue.
Today, this research evolves into “Codex Magick” an approach that moves from the realm of knowledge toward that of transformation.
Through this vision, Martha Ccolque seeks to reveal the energy of materials, the memory of cultures, the symbolic power of clothing, and creation as a true act of manifestation.
In this sense, Codex Magick becomes a contemporary weaving of invisible memories within creation: a singular language in which fabric, matter, movement, and the architecture of garments rise to the level of artistic expression, between memory, metamorphosis, and transmutation.
This vision, nourished by her deep interest in the cultural origins of peoples and their craftsmanship, has led her to develop new methods of garment design.
Through textiles, materials, and the structure of silhouettes, she seeks to reveal what she calls:
“The Present of the Future”
that moment when an idea emerges for the very first time through a gesture, a movement, a form…
like an invisible seed already carrying within it the memory of the future.
In 2015, Martha Ccolque launched her eponymous fashion house.
One year later, she was selected by Vlisco among Africa’s emerging designers.
Through her capsule collections, she gained recognition during Central African Fashion Weeks before expanding her creative universe between Milan and Paris. In 2018, her brand became a finalist for the Green Carpet Talent Award organized by the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana.
Inspired by encounters across multiple cultures, Martha Ccolque now develops a contemporary vision of fashion at the intersection of art, heritage, and innovation.
She creates a singular language shaped by three essential dimensions: cosmopolitan, nomadic, and responsible.
From this alchemy emerges a style with a deeply cultural, sensory, and contemporary identity, conceived as an invitation to “walk toward new worlds.”
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