Raquel Buj

Elena Zapico and Raquel Buj have a background as architects and fashion designers. In 2015, they met each other in postgraduate studies in Architecture, Fashion and Design at ETSAM. There they learnt tools such as parametric design and pattern making and began to unite interests. In 2016 they found ZAP&BUJ fashion and architecture and, after participating in several competitions, they won the Samsung Ego Innovation Project (September 2017 edition) and they became finalist of Vogue Who´s on next 2018. This same year they are selected to show their last collection at EGO-Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid again. Nowadays they are preparing the Master New Skins: Smart Fabrics & Wearables at Innovation Lab-IED Madrid and developing specific  proyects upon request.

Raquel Buj has co-founded her own architecture studio with Pedro Colón de Carvajal, Buj+Colón Arquitectos, whose works have been awarded internationally and she has done Final Master Thesis in Advanced Architecture Projects on the relationship between architecture and fashion.