La Malpensante Moda

Published March 30, 2026

La Malpensante Moda is a special annual print edition of the Colombian magazine El Malpensante, dedicated to exploring the intersection of fashion, architecture, design, and craftsmanship. It is not a fashion brand or a retail platform, but an editorial project.

The first issue of La Malpensante Moda was published in April 2020, during a particularly adverse global moment. Conceived as an editorial experiment with no precedent within the broader corpus of El Malpensante editions, it marked a significant expansion of the magazine’s scope. Five years later, the project remains active and firmly established within the publishing group.

In this first edition, the editorial direction was led by Rocío Arias Hoffman together with Karim Ganem. Art direction was carried out by George Anderson Lozano, with design assistance by Tom Deason.

Headlines are set in Ogg Display by Lucas Sharp, while body text and paratextual elements are composed in Hoefler Text by Jonathan Hoefler.

The edition examines the relationship between design, contemporary aesthetics, and artisanal tradition. It reflects on how individuals “inhabit space” – both their physical environments and their own bodies – through clothing, adornment, and material culture.

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