Johanna Ortiz Spring Summer ’27: An Inheritance That Lives Within Us
At Paris’s Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Johanna Ortiz looks to Colombia and the wider Latin American landscape to explore memory, movement, craftsmanship, and what we carry forward.
PARIS — October 4, 2026 — For Spring Summer 2027, Colombian-born luxury house Johanna Ortiz turns inward. After more than two decades of building a creative language rooted in Latin America’s biodiversity, light, color, and celebratory spirit, the designer asks: What do we carry within us from one generation to the next?
Presented at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine, the collection transforms ideas of inheritance and cultural memory into movement, proportion, print, and craftsmanship.
A Latin American Home in Paris
Located on Boulevard Saint-Germain within the historic Hôtel de Varengeville and Hôtel Amelot de Gournay, the Maison de l’Amérique Latine has connected Latin America and France since 1946.
For Ortiz, the setting offered a sense of return. A house born in Cali presented a collection about inheritance within a space dedicated to preserving Latin American connections.
An Inheritance That Moves
“We carry memory. We carry gestures. We carry the knowledge of the hands that came before ours.”
For Ortiz, heritage is not nostalgia. It is instinct.
The collection explores how cultural memory survives through the body—in the way fabric is wrapped, gathered, carried, and allowed to move. Rather than beginning with fixed silhouettes, Ortiz begins with the cloth itself.
Fabric gathers at the waist, falls from one shoulder, wraps around the body, and releases. Generous volumes meet closer silhouettes, creating a sensual tension.
“I wanted to think about fabric before it becomes a conventional garment. Cloth can wrap, gather, protect, and carry.”
The clothes come alive through movement, with panels opening as the wearer walks and fringe following the body.
What the Hands Remember
The collection draws from Colombian traditions, including the carriel, the Wayuu mochila, and iraca palm weaving from Nariño.
Rather than reproducing these objects, Ortiz looks to the intelligence behind them: how function becomes beauty and how craftsmanship preserves memory.
Pattern, Color and Inherited Confidence
Ortiz also explores the confidence of pattern and color found across Latin America, drawing inspiration in part from Maya dress.
Stripes, checks, woven geometry, embroidery, florals, and saturated colors coexist throughout the collection.
“The Maya references taught me something very different about pattern. I loved the confidence of mixing geometry, stripes, checks and color.”
The result feels exuberant yet sophisticated, reflecting a visual language where contrast and harmony naturally coexist.
The Collaborations
Johanna Ortiz x Guanabana
Guanabana, founded by Almudena Espinosa, translates Ortiz’s prints and creative language into Wayuu weaving. The exclusive bags are inspired by the traditional mochila and handwoven in Colombia by Wayuu artisans, making each piece unique.
Johanna Ortiz x Mar
Paraguayan designer Mar Filártiga and her brand Mar contribute woven pieces created with local weavers and artisans, adding texture and movement to the collection.
Carrying It Forward
Ultimately, Johanna Ortiz Spring Summer 2027 is about inheritance without nostalgia—what remains with us, what we transform, and what we choose to carry forward.
Presented in Paris but deeply connected to Colombia and Latin America, the collection suggests that identity can evolve without losing its roots.
Collection: Johanna Ortiz Spring-Summer ’27
Venue: Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris
Date: October 4, 2026
Collaborations: Guanabana, Mar
