Men's fashion brand OTEYZA, founded by Paul García de Oteyza and Caterina Pañeda, received yesterday the Culture Award in the Fashion category from the Community of Madrid. The ceremony, chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, took place at the Teatro Auditorio of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
This recognition, of an honorary nature and without financial endowment, is awarded to personalities, institutions or entities whose work has had a relevant impact on the region's sociocultural reality. This was highlighted by Mariano de Paco, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Community of Madrid, during the meeting with the Governing Council on September 25th, the date on which the fifteen winners of this edition were announced.
"We are very happy to receive this prestigious award surrounded by these great artists whom we admire so much. It is a privilege and an honour that today all the creativity, strength and sensitivity that we have placed into ground-breaking paradigms, while opening new paths of value for Spanish fashion, is recognised. We have to continue moving forward to position it where it deserves, at the top of the international scene”, declared Paul García de Oteyza and Caterina Pañeda.
This year the brand has pioneered a new frontier, the one that separates fashion from the performing arts by creating the Merina Show, a tribute to merino wool through the disruptive codes of electronic music, dance and fashion. A work they have created, directed and produced, becoming an artistic entity, and for which they obtained six nominations at the 2023 Max Awards and another during the first edition of the Fundación Academia de la Moda Española (FAME) for Best Presentation.