Cecilia Sörensen

High quality, sustainable materials and local production. All made in Spain. Cecilia Sörensen is an independent design company located in the Tramuntana mountains in Mallorca. The collection is locally produced on the island with certified organic materials throughout the collection. Low key elegance, clean minimal lines with Mediterranean ease. Crafted pieces, asymmetrical gatherings, flowing hemlines and raw finishings for summer days in the sun!

Bio

Cecilia Sörensen is a Finnish-born fashion designer who established her company in Barcelona in 2002. Currently living and working in the Balearic Islands, Spain. Sörensen studied tailoring and dressmaking in her native Helsinki. She then moved to the UK to pursue further studies in Fashion Design at the Southampton Institute but finally obtained her BA with Honours from EATM, Barcelona/Southampton University. The Mediterranean light had won her over once and forever.

After her graduation in 2001, Sörensen worked for designer Antonio Miró, continuing then to set out on her own, launching her own brand: the women’s wear collection “Cecilia Sörensen” and “Pequeños Héroes”, a line made of recycled materials. Her recognition as one of the most promising revelations in the Barcelona fashion-design scene was immediate; just one year after her graduation, in 2002, Cecilia Sörensen was awarded with the ‘Designer of the Year’, ModaFAD Prize.

Cecilia Sörensen has presented her collection several times at Fashion Weeks in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Tokyo and Paris. Since 2006, her collection has been exhibited in Paris twice a year. 2008 brought more international acknowledgement: “Inside Out”, a video based on her S/S 09 collection, was premiered at the London Fashion Week and on the online fashion platform SHOWstudio, while at the end of the year 2008, Sörensen won the ‘Barcelona Es Moda’ Prize.

Besides running her own company designing the women’s wear collection and previously also a kid's wear collection, Mis Crios, Cecilia Sörensen has been a founding member of the collective designer’s shops Comitè, Bingo Shop and the concept store Still Light in Barcelona. She also designs projects for other companies such as Snoopy/United media USA and Camper shoes/Spain.

We produce all garments as locally as possible with the highest respect for humans & nature. We produce all fabric and jersey garments here locally on the island of Mallorca in Spain. The workshop is a small, women owned, production unit that is located 20 min from our studio. This allows us to personally guide and supervise the entire production process on site.

We produce in small quantities throughout the year, to assure no unnecessary stocks and also good work pace and no unnecessary stress or time pressure for the workshop. To produce locally with people we know assures us that there is no wage slavery, no harmful chemicals or working conditions throughout the entire production process.

Big part of our collection is monofibre (making them easier to recycle), most garments 100% GOTS-certified, organic, cotton. 98% of our garments produced for the spring/summer 2023 collection season were made of GOTS certified, organic cotton.

Most of our fabrics are produced in a family owned fabric mill in Barcelona with a great tradition and knowledge in men’s shirt fabrics.

The entire collection is designed with a timeless perspective to assure a long lifespan and good quality for one or several owners for each garment. Designwise the collection is an ongoing process of building a timeless wardrobe of casual sophistication. A collection combining organic, high-end quality fabrics and a casual style, which is both modern and romantic in a northern, nostalgic way. Twisted in with the Mediterranean light and ease. Most of the collection models are carryovers and continue from one season to another. We listen to feedback and adjust and improve design, fit and sizing.

The yoga collection is made of a cotton jersey, 95% GOTS-certified organic cotton, 5% elastane. Elastane is definitely not sustainable, but it is difficult to make leggings and tight fitting activewear without elastane, otherwise there will be sacking knee cups etc. Therefore the number of uses per lifespan of these garments would be much less, making them less sustainable in the long run. We decided on the soft organic cotton jersey instead of the more durable polyester as, even if recycled, polyester is all plastic and generates microplastics with every use, with every wash and on top of that takes hundreds of years to biodegrade.

In general we are committed to do everything from design, materials, production and sales as sustainable a way as we can. We started the collection working only upcycled material such as men’s recycled shirts and antique sheets. Then to be able to do a wider collection introduced “new” fabrics as well. Now the main part of the collection is made from new, organic materials. We still do the special artisan pieces, made one by one, made on order, many times from a shirt of a loved one of the client, which makes it even more special!