The designer from Madrid, Candela Cort (1959) reveals a collection of hats at her studio in Aravaca, which stand out for the materials used. They are made out of perishable and worthless elements whilst being flexible and malleable. Headpieces, foulards, scarves, lamps, collages, portraits and jewellery can also be found there. She won the Best Avant-Garde Artist at the Círculo Fortuny Master Craftsman Awards 2025.
Graduated in Fine Arts, Candela Cort came into the millinery world by chance. After experimenting with different creative disciplines, she discovered how much she enjoyed designing hats, and her work now focuses on this activity. She makes them entirely by hand, using malleable and manageable materials that give her creations a light air, with which she has created a world of shadows and transparencies. Her pieces combine the modern and the traditional, the harmonious and the strident and are a far cry from fashion trends.
Cort's hats have travelled to New York and other major cities around the world. They have also entered museum galleries, such as the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Costume Museum and the Balenciaga Museum in Guetaria, and she has displayed them in diverse galleries. She has worked and collaborated with different artists, such as Eduardo Arroyo and she has also participated in theatrical, cinematographic and musical shows, such as the one for Bob Wilson's opera O Corvo Branco, with music by Philip Glass.
