In 2016, Carolina staked her claim in the Lower East Side, where she and her partner opened the doors to a boutique. This space was more than just a store; it was a manifesto in retail form, a riot of creativity that attracted the city’s stylists, musicians, and celebrities. Carolina's distinctive style has won over icons like Madonna, Solange Knowles, H.E.R, and Troye Sivan. Her studio/store became a cathedral of her ethos, with her designs as its hymns, establishing her as a key figure in downtown fashion and art.
Carolina Sarria’s work is unapologetically subversive, drawing from punk and street culture to interrogate power structures and reframe the Latino and Queer experience within the arts and fashion communities. Her collections reject conventional gender binaries, favoring an aesthetic that is both confrontational and deeply personal.
Carolina Sarria’s fashion collections are currently available at Dover Street Market in New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, Upstairs on 7th in D.C., Lingua Franca in NYC, and Maxfields in LA.
THE WAR OF THE THREE KINGDOMS
In the shadow of a divided land, where the clash of empires bled into every village and field, the Clubmen rose—not as soldiers of the crown, nor mercenaries for hire, but as defenders of home, of dignity, of the right to exist beyond the ruin of war. The War of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) saw England, Scotland, and Ireland locked in a brutal struggle for sovereignty, a conflict that devoured the common people with unrelenting force. Yet among them, in the hills and woods, the Clubmen carved out their own rebellion, a resistance not for conquest but for survival.
Carolina Sarria’s Fall/Winter 2025 collection breathes new life into their defiance—reimagining a world where the dispossessed become the arbiters of style, where the scars of war are transformed into declarations of power. Distressed and charred textiles evoke the scorched earth of ravaged towns, while gleaming silver and gold thread recall the flashing of blades in moonlight, the glint of armor before battle. The collection’s disparate tartans nod to the Scottish clans—once fractured, now momentarily bound together in opposition—while raw-edge tailoring mirrors the haphazard assembly of garments marked by war and necessity.
Here, rebellion is reimagined. The war is not over.
