Alvar Alcalde

Álvar Alcalde is an interior designer and illustrator whose work bridges the worlds of spatial design and fashion illustration. After graduating, he founded his own interior design studio at a young age, offering a fresh, youthful, and accessible approach to design that has sustained his practice for over a decade. His studio reflects his eclectic, personal philosophy—a space that embodies what he himself would want to discover.

Parallel to his design work, Alcalde creates fashion illustrations that capture iconic moments from the fashion world: Vêtements-clad nuns, Fernanda Ly's signature pink hair, and Martin Margiela's Tabi boots rendered in his distinctive digital style mixed with pencil work. His illustrations are born from a lifelong habit of drawing—mantles, school desks, and margins filled with sketches since childhood—now channeled into a serious artistic practice that serves as both creative outlet and passionate engagement with fashion.

Inspired by couture masters like Cristóbal Balenciaga and Christian Dior, as well as visionaries like Margiela, McQueen, and Galliano, Alcalde finds himself particularly drawn to the boldness of emerging Spanish designers including Palomo Spain, Euphemio Fernández, and Peter Sposito. His work seeks to transmit that ineffable "something"—the feeling you get when you look at someone and realize you like them, or stand before a painting that stops you in your tracks.

Currently based in Spain, Alcalde continues balancing his established interior design career with his evolving illustration practice, remaining open to collaborations that merge his dual creative passions.