Martin Lamothe

Who is Martin Lamothe?
Martin Lamothe is the High End brand created by Elena Martin, ex Saint Martins MA graduate and ex assistant for Vivienne Westwood and Alexander Mc Queen. The brand is seen as the most International avant-garde designers firm from Spain. Last year its collections had successful reviews at Madrid Fashion Week, at Rendez-Vous Paris and at London Fashion Week at “The Exhibition”. She also teaches at the various design universities in Spain, Mexico and UU EE.

Martin Lamothe markets take Europe, Asia, Middle East and North America. Next step is the new South American market.

Why buy Martin Lamothe? Is it Social Responsible?
Martin Lamothe is a Social Responsible brand that controls all the production stops of their garments. Some are handmade by technical experts; others are hand crafted by artists. All of them are made in North Spain following European quality standard. All fabrics and compounds are European. Our providers are well paid and we keep a close relationship with them.

Why some Martin Lamothe garments have uneven fabric finishes?
Martin Lamothe is well known for its great research in new fabrics and leather goods. This develops into unique fabrics with stone wash feel, rusted feel, used FEEL, wax feel, knitted fell. In any case, it is specify on the fabric description tag of each garment.
Usually Martin Lamothe skin colour leather garments are hand crafted and sculptured in 100% raw calf leather. This is leather that has the minimum process to keep the scars and marks and effects to gain this natural animal look so successful in Martin Lamothe collections. As well as denim, this leather is so natural that can change its colour shade thorough time and use. All 100% natural calf leather does and this is its real beauty.

How do I care for my Martin Lamothe garment?
Most of the Martin Lamothe articles are handmade with High End fabrics and need special care. Usually has to be dry clean or hand wash. Anyhow every article has their own washing instructions to be able to follow them.

Presentation Martin Lamothe

MARTIN LAMOTHE is a Barcelona/London based company specialized in unique fashion for men and women.

Our aim is to compose a conceptual, fresh and colorful line of products with a high social responsibility base; we only use prime European materials and we collaborate with the finest ateliers. Martin Lamothe is a High-End avant-garde fashion brand with design, print and textile research as main goals. All our garments are non-mass-produced and all our fabrics are original from Martin Lamothe.

We like to mix the modernity and the craftsman ship in our collections. We complement a prêt à porter collection with a hand sculptured calf leather line and a couture feel made to order line.

Martin Lamothe believes in partnership back and forth. We follow the inspirational work of many: photography, video art and music; as we collaborate with artists and craftsmen to enrich our collections.

Since April 2011 Martin Lamothe is represented by Felipe Salgado Showroom next to Raf Simons, Maria Cornejo, Bernhard Willhelm, Bless, New Balance and Pelican Avenue.