Danielle Lafaurie (Colombia) | Designer from Colombia

Danielle was born into the fashion world, which she inherited from her mother, Olga Piedrahita. As a child, she used to observe closely with special attention, and then decided to study industrial design at the University of the Andes. Her natural tendency towards creation and multiple creative disciplines also led her to enter the world of literature. After completing her undergraduate studies, she went to live in Jaipur, India. There, she worked with Sanjay Kasliwal of "The Gem Palace" and found her other passion: jewelry.

In 2007, she returned to work at "Casa Olga Piedrahita", where she created her main activity platform: Design and production of creative projects around fashion, photography and jewelry.

Among the projects she has worked on, she has collaborated with the photographer Ruven Afanador for more than 7 years. Together they organized 3 photography workshops in co-production with the University of the Andes and the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University; also, they photographed great Colombian musical talents such as Carlos Vives, Aterciopelados or Chocquibtown, produced a campaign for Marca País, among many others.

Working from the "Olga Piedrahita house" and in co-creation with the designer, they produced photography and fashion events with the work of the master Leo Matiz, or Beat Presser and collaborated with other talents, such as Rohka, Carla Fernández, Bazz de Grant, etc. It is a wardrobe space, a crossroads between imagined fashion and so many other creative languages: illustration, culinary, art, painting, jewelry, etc.

Danielle is an all-round creator, who is talented enough to have her soul in the sky and her feet on the ground. In some projects, she is the executive and creative producer and in others, she does textile design or styling. Each of her pieces has more than one story to tell; stories of the country and roots that contribute to the GLOCAL concept (Global + local).