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2014 · Moda en Palermo, Valeria Mazza runway
Bringing Back the Elegance
Featured designer at the 20th edition of Moda en Palermo. Artisanal work on pleating techniques and tailoring pieces.
03 — Studio
Studio.
Work for the body — in fashion, in clinic, in craft.
The Studio holds the design work across the years — capsule collections developed in design school and for established Argentine brands, Italian haute couture training in Florence, image consulting in clinical contexts for bariatric surgery patients, and crafted accessories across hatmaking and shoe design. Every project here is a different expression of the same instinct: design serves the body, and the body is where every brief begins.
Collections
Capsule and runway work, 2014 onward.
Collections from design school at Universidad de Palermo, including a featured-designer slot at Moda en Palermo and capsule projects for established Argentine brands. Each collection explored a different problem in textile manipulation, pattern construction, or sustainable material sourcing.
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2013–14 · Universidad de Palermo
Le But
Prêt-à-porter collection focused on textile intervention and artisanal textures.
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2013–14 · Universidad de Palermo
Sagrada Familia
Couture garment using upcycled upholstery fabrics, with detailed artisanal textures.
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2014 · UP industry project
Capsule for Kosiuko
Capsule developed for the established Argentine brand Kosiuko.
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UP industry project
Capsule for Yagmour
Capsule developed for the Argentine fashion house Yagmour.
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UP industry project
Capsule for Ritex
Capsule built using knit materials from Ritex, a leading Argentine knit-fabric specialist.
Couture
Italian haute couture training and craft.
Foundation in Italian patternmaking and tailoring at FLEGO in Buenos Aires, then a return to Florence two decades later for leather goods at one of the world's premier programs. The couture line of the Studio is where the hand stays trained.
Scuola del Cuoio — Florence, 2024
Intensive program in leather bag and accessory design and craftsmanship at one of the world's premier leathergoods training programs, housed in the cloister of the Basilica di Santa Croce. Covered cutting, stitching, finishing, and the design of a personal capsule collection. The program is the same school that has trained generations of artisans for the Tuscan leather industry.
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FLEGO Institute — Buenos Aires, 2008–2011
Associate Degree in Patternmaking and Tailoring. Italian haute couture techniques applied to womenswear, knitwear, swimwear, menswear, children, and bridal. Foundation patterns for foundation garments. Grading. Hand sewing. Tailoring techniques. Mass-production pattern making. Custom prototype development using haute couture methods.
[ FLEGO · credential carries this entry — sparse archival photography ]
Featured · 2014–2018
Daniela Rondinone Image Consulting.
Design applied to bariatric surgery patients across six of Buenos Aires's most respected hospitals.
Founded in 2014 immediately after graduation from Universidad de Palermo, Daniela Rondinone Image Consulting was the practice's first business. The work bridged fashion expertise with the medical care of morbidly obese and bariatric surgery patients — a category whose bodies are transforming so rapidly that conventional fashion advice cannot keep up. The protocols were unusual enough that they generated academic publications, hospital workshops, and a continuing legacy in how this work is taught to other image consultants.
Over four years the practice ran across the British Hospital, Güemes Medical Center, La Trinidad Clinic, Posadas Hospital, the Severe Obesity Treatment Center (CETOS), and the Obese Surgical Rehabilitation Center (CRQO). I delivered more than twenty individual patient consultations on colour and style techniques, more than twenty institutional workshops for healthcare professionals on style and personal image, and contributed academic work on body image in post-bariatric care that was presented at the X International Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Congress (2016, Mendoza), the III Psychological Aspects of Obesity and Eating Disorders Congress (2015, Buenos Aires), and the II International Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Conference at Alejandro Posadas Hospital (2016).
The work was selected for an Academic Feature by Palermo University in 2015 (275 Emprendimientos Creativos DC) and led to an invited webinar for the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI Argentina) on Image and Health in 2021. It is, in retrospect, where the practice's thesis was first articulated — that design serves the body, and that bodies in clinical contexts deserve the same considered approach as bodies in editorial ones.
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[ AICI Webinar promo · 2021 ]
All visual material drawn from public events, institutional documentation, and consenting workshop contexts. No identifiable patient images shown.
Accessories
Millinery and shoes.
Hand-crafted accessories at the edges of the practice — hats and shoes, each developed during specialised training programs and exhibited at national industry expositions.
Millinery — FLEGO Institute & Cesar Couture, 2016
Hatmaking program covering shaping, blocking, trimming, and the design and construction of custom hats from scratch. Work exhibited at the La Roche Posay Hat Exhibition at the Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires (2013).
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Shoe design — Clothing Museum, Argentina, 2012
Hands-on training in footwear design principles, pattern making, material selection, and handcrafting techniques. Designed and manufactured pairs combining leather and discarded fur scraps, presented at the 76th Argentinian Fashion and Leather Manufacturing Exposition (Centro Costa Salguero, August 2015).
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Creative-practice engagements.
For collaborations on collections, technical-design briefs, leather-goods development, or image consulting in clinical contexts — the Studio side of the practice is available for engagements.