Curious, transgressive, free of stereotypes and taboos. MARLO is committed to independent fashion, free of limits and borders, projected towards the future. The concept of a new tomorrow is defined and driven by optimism and hope. The brand founded by MARCIO LOPES
and ZSOLT NAGYVÁTI
in 2019 offers an alternative for those who wish to put freedom of expression and self-identity at the forefront, and who don't pay attention to the established and the clichés that remain in today's society.
MARLO was born with the purpose of offering an unprecedented experience, and whose maximum expression, results in a huge dosage of autonomy and self-confidence. The brand's risky style incorporates technological elements and materials, strategically integrated into a proposal that, far from resembling a costume, aims to become a second skin.
It’s unique pieces, impregnated with powerful meaning, show that technical advances can and should contribute to forging the fashion of tomorrow. A fashion based on well-being, beauty and self-confidence, in which gender, age or race issues have no place. Experimentation and the refusal to perpetuate the clichés that do not allow society to advance constitute the two main pivots of the work of MARLO.
Through an ode to functionality and practicality, the brand corroborates the need to act urgently to combat climate change. That is why its alma mater, MARCIO LOPES, produces in a sustainable way opting for a circular and proximity economy, caring for the quality of the fabrics and the synergies between the different elements that make up the work chain; from the approach and development, through to the elaboration of the collections and their subsequent production.
Strongly influenced by transhumanism, cultural and intellectual movement whose ultimate goal is the development of technologies that allow for improving human capacities on a physical and intellectual level, the MARLO brand conceives fashion under a trial and error approach, repeatedly questioning what is historically accepted in search of new alternatives and meanings.
Convinced that the fashion landscape will continue to evolve at a dizzy pace, the brand is constantly searching for still unknown formulas, from which to extract the elixir that responds to the needs of tomorrow. However, MARLO retrieves certain codes of the past and presents and merges them with the most revealing developments, giving rise to a proposal that retains the best of yesterday and incorporates it into the society of the future.
MARLO debuted its first collection MAJESTIC
in 2019. The next collection was the
ZERO POINT
in January 2020, and then in September of the same year they presented online the
ARETTI ARENA
collection. The video presentation attracted a lot of attention throughout Spain, because this type of combination of online parade and video game format was pioneering. The fourth collection
SOUR CANDY CHRISTMAS
presented in December 2020, a bittersweet and dark reflection of the Christmas holidays in times of social distancing and anxiety. The brand unveiled the non-seasonal
ILLUSION
collection in May 2021, is inspired by the dark side of life, in which cherubim converge with the protective angels that accompany us at every step we take. In March 2022, presented on the catwalk its latest collection,
LAST DAY ON EARTH.
What if today was our last day on Earth? Under a gothic-futuristic appearance hide the most primitive and wonderful essences of humanity.
MIDNIGHT SUMMER,
MARLO's 7th collection, presented in Brazil in August 2023, comes with a lot of strength and a utopian story of a summer night. Characters based on real life enjoy an endless night, experiencing an ecstasy of emotions, with no limits to express themselves... like night bugs and insects that dance between light and darkness in search of aliment, company and protagonism.
Schön!, Fucking Young!, Sicky, Neo2, Vein, Metal, Notthatbrand, Highxtar, WAG1, SHIT Magazine, COPE Cool, KOOSS, MANIFESTO and Antena3 are some of the
national and international media
that have decided to echo the work of MARLO, covering their presentations and backing the emerging brand.
David Alarcón Castejón
Translation by Neil Fruen