QVIPA: designing from what endures

QVIPA was not born as a collection. It was born as a question.

How do we design without disconnecting from the territory?
How do we create from memory without falling into nostalgia? 
How do we give the process as much value as the result?

These questions marked the beginning.

QVIPA is Agustina’s womenswear collection for Spring Summer 2026, but at its core, it is a process. Its name comes from the runasimi word qhipa, a concept of continuity: what comes after, what remains, what continues to exist even as it transforms.

For over eight months, the collection took shape through decisions, changes, and countless learnings. It was not a linear path. Rather, it was a process of constant adjustment, listening, and understanding. Not only in terms of material, but also from an energetic perspective.

Throughout this journey, one thing became clear: we could not create without first acknowledging.

From a more personal exploration, we came to understand the importance of honoring the wakas—sacred and energetic spaces within Andean cosmology—and recognizing everything that exists before us. Not as a symbolic gesture, but as a practice of respect, a principle that has always guided the brand.

Climbing the Kipa hill, asking permission from the waka, observing, listening, and choosing not to intervene without understanding—guided by the knowledge of Zadir Milla from the Kontiti School. That moment transformed the way we approached the collection. QVIPA begins there: in the awareness that design is not only a creative act, but also a relationship.
From that point on, the process became deeply collaborative. We worked with artisans from the Colca Valley and Manchay—women who have sustained embroidery and weaving as part of their everyday lives for years. Their knowledge is not merely a technique; it is a way of seeing the world.

We also incorporated materials that speak to the territory. Linen and cotton as a foundation, allowing us to rethink the value of resources and their potential within a more conscious framework.

The coastal landscape was always present, along with its five elements (air, water, earth, wind, and spirit). Not as a literal reference, but as a true presence translated into movement, texture, and silence.

QVIPA speaks of fluidity, lightness, and transition.

And within that duality, IAYA emerges.

If QVIPA represents what flows, IAYA represents what holds. It is Agustina’s menswear line, developed as a natural counterpart rather than an extension. Its name refers to a protective presence connected to the land and the greater pacha.

Both collections are best understood together.

One from movement.
The other from structure.
One expands.
The other contains.

Yet both are born from the same place: territory, craft, and the need to create with meaning.

QVIPA does not seek to impose an aesthetic.
It seeks to open a way of making.

Where design is not separate from culture.
Where process holds value.
And where creating becomes a way of remembering that we are part of something greater.


AGUSTINA