Johanna Ortiz Spring/Summer 2027 during Paris Fashion Week

Johanna Ortiz Spring/Summer 2027 / SS27 during Paris Fashion Week on 4th October 2026 in Paris.

Johanna Ortiz presents SS27 / Spring/Summer 2027 inspired on what we inherit & what we choose to carry forward “Heritage becomes instinct, and memory becomes movement”. Presented on October 4, 2026 at the Maison de l’Amérique latine during Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2027

Johanna Ortiz, the Colombian-born luxury house presents the SS27 / Spring/Summer 2027 collection, on October 4 at the “Maison de l’Amérique latine” in Paris. For over two decades, the house has built a creative language rooted in Latin America itself: its biodiversity, its light, its way of turning the everyday into something worth celebrating. This season, that language turns inward, toward a question that goes beyond the things we hold: what do we carry within us from one generation to the next?

THE MAISON DE L’AMÉRIQUE LATINE: A LATIN AMERICAN HOME IN PARIS. Some places seem to have been waiting. On Boulevard Saint-Germain, behind the walls of two eighteenth-century hotels, the Hotel de Varengeville and the Hotel Amelot de Gournay, a garden opens onto one of the most beautiful corners of the Left Bank. Since 1946, this house has had a single purpose: to bring Latin America and France closer. Paris has long been a second home for Latin America. Its writers, painters and musicians came here carrying their land with them, and from here they looked back at it with new eyes. For eighty years, the Maison de l’Amérique latine has kept that door open. It is here that a house from Cali chose to present a collection about inheritance. Not as a guest, but as someone returning home. Between salons that hold almost three centuries of memory and a garden that has heard the accents of an entire continent, spring Summer 2027 finds its natural setting: a house made to keep what Latin America carries with it.

Johanna Ortiz presents SS27 / Spring/Summer 2027 – AN INHERITANCE THAT LIVES WITHIN US. “We carry memory. We carry gestures. We carry the knowledge of the hands that came before ours.” SS27 looks at what remains of that inheritance today, not as nostalgia and not as a recreation of the past, but as something alive. It appears in the way color is used, pattern is mixed, the body is wrapped and beauty is understood. Heritage becomes instinct, and memory becomes movement.

THE OBJECTS: WHAT THE HANDS REMEMBER. In Indigenous traditions across Latin America, objects and textiles hold meanings far beyond their function: a pattern can hold knowledge, a color can carry meaning, and weaving can pass memory from one generation to the next. In Colombia, the collection found its starting point in three of them. In Jericó, the carriel carried the essentials of a journey through the mountains of Antioquia, its many pockets keeping certain things close and protected. In the hands of Wayuu women, the mochila is as expressive as it is useful. In Nariño, iraca palm becomes baskets through gestures passed down from one generation to the next. These objects are not the story itself. They are proof of how culture can be carried, and of how something inherited keeps living through transformation.

THE GESTURE: WHERE THE SILHOUETTE BEGINS. Johanna became interested not only in what we carry, but in how we carry it. The body changes when it holds something: a shoulder drops, a hand gathers fabric, weight moves toward the hip. Those simple gestures shaped the proportions of the collection. “I wanted to think about fabric before it becomes a conventional garment. Cloth can wrap, gather, protect, and carry. That gave us a much freer way of creating silhouette and movement,” says Johanna Ortiz.

Instead of beginning with a fixed silhouette, the collection begins with the cloth itself. Fabric gathers at the waist, falls from one shoulder, wraps and releases. Generous volumes meet pieces held close to the body, and the tension between the two gives the collection its sensuality. The clothes need movement to become complete: a panel opens as she walks, a fringe follows the body when she turns. The woman gives her form to the clothes.

PATTERN AND COLOR: AN INHERITED CONFIDENCE. Johanna Ortiz presents SS27 / Spring/Summer 2027 collection also looks at the confidence with which pattern and color are worn across Latin America, particularly in Maya dress, where stripes, checks, woven geometry, embroidery and intense color live together on the same body, guided by an inherited intelligence that finds harmony where others might see contrast. There is something deeply Latin American in that freedom. The exuberance of the jungle and the starkness of the páramo exist within the same geography, and neither needs to be contained for the other to belong. In SS27, prints meet prints, geometry meets florals and color is given free rein, in a harmony that feels less composed than deeply known.

“The Maya references taught me something very different about pattern. I loved the confidence of mixing geometry, stripes, checks and color. It reminded me that something can be exuberant and still be sophisticated.”

MEMORY AND TRANSFORMATION: THE INTELLIGENCE BEHIND THE OBJECT. The carriel, the mochila, the woven basket and the wrapped cloth never appear as literal references. What interests Johanna is the intelligence behind them: how something useful becomes beautiful, how a technique carries memory. Those references move through the language of Johanna Ortiz, through print, proportion, sensuality and the female body.

Johanna Ortiz SS27 Spring/Summer 2027 is about the invisible inheritance that moves through us. A memory, an instinct, a rhythm we recognize before we know where it began. Perhaps our Latin American identity lives in that pulse, deeply rooted, always moving, and ours to carry forward.”

Collaborations Johanna Ortiz and Guanabana: The Bags. Founded by Almudena Espinosa, Guanabana was born from a simple idea: contemporary design can coexist with traditional craftsmanship. Each of its pieces is designed in Madrid and brought to life by artisan communities across South America, from La Guajira in Colombia to alpaca artisans in Peru. For SS27, Guanabana translates Johanna Ortiz’s prints and creative language into Wayuu weaving. The result is a series of exclusive bags inspired by the traditional mochila, each one handwoven in Colombia by Wayuu artisans: a dialogue with one of the very objects that inspired the collection. No two are alike.

Collaboration Johanna Ortiz and Mar, Paraguayan designer Mar Filártiga and her brand, Mar, work hand in hand with local weavers and artisans. For this collection, her woven pieces bring a distinctly Latin American flair, adding movement and individuality to the looks. SS27 is, ultimately, about inheritance without nostalgia: what remains with us, what we transform, and what we choose to carry forward.

ABOUT JOHANNA ORTIZ, Johanna Ortiz designs with elegance and festivity, always true to her Latin roots. Her work pays tribute to exquisite design, craftsmanship, women, and her vision of a better world. Built on a foundation of community and purpose, the brand fosters social inclusion and positive impact by nurturing local talent, preserving artisanal knowledge, and celebrating unique craftsmanship within a framework of inspired creativity.