TOTEM TABOO - Founding Artist

  • Cristina Morales
Totem Taboo | 2012 - Present, International. Totem Taboo is the first Spanish-born Situationist brand designing political scenes + scenic artifacts building new collective imaginaries through the visual narrative of the symbol.

Founding Artist | Designer. Maker. Producer. Stylist. Art Director. Communication.
Key achievements:
-First brand designing militant ethnic fashion in Spain since 2012, making it to being portrayed in Barcelona's street art by SM172.
-First Spanish brand present in the most outstanding contemporary ethnic art & design shows in Europe such as Labo Ethnik - Paris, 2012; Ethno Tendance - Brussels, 2012 ; Afropunk - Paris, 2016 or Africa Utopia - London, 2017 to mention a few.
-First contemporary ethnic fashion brand dressing the contemporary free jazz scene with a Sun Ra's inspired collection with the likes of Zap Mama and Sun Ra Arkestra.
-First contemporary ethnic fashion brand creating Debord-inspired performative 'Situations'.
-Stocked at the biggest museum of anthropology in Europe -Quai Branly Museum's boutique in Paris, and the biggest African fashion hub in London, Soboye .
-Part of the  itinerant scenic fashion collective exhibition Parures organised by Paris-based conscious fashion organisation Universal Love exhibited to date at Klimafestivalen in Oslo - Norway, 2018.