The Museo del Traje, a Center for Ethnological Heritage Research, presents the Helbig Archive 96-26: 30 Years of Teresa Helbig in Madrid, an exhibit dedicated to the fashion designer’s career. The exhibit, which is free to the public, may be visited until September 27th in the Museum’s first floor.
The exhibition brings together nearly fifty runway looks from the fashion brand’s archive, along with documents, photographs, and previously unseen materials that trace three decades of work within the fashion designer scene in Spain. The project offers a glimpse into the evolution of a design language built upon meticulous detail, textile research, and a way of understanding garments rooted in craftsmanship.
The exhibition also includes toiles, cotton prototypes that are part of the process prior to final garment production, allowing the study of volume, structure, and fit. Their presence highlights a less visible aspect of Teresa Helbig’s work: the fitting time, the precision of the pattern, and the decisions taken that precede each piece.
In recent years, Teresa Helbig has received the 2023 National Fashion Design Award, the 2025 Fundación Academia de la Moda Española for Best Collection, and the 2025 City of Barcelona Award. Her collections have been showcased in New York, Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona, and the brand has developed projects such as designing Iberia’s uniformity.
