Anciela

ANCIELA is a London-based sustainable luxury womenswear label that celebrates South American folklore and experimental tailoring through the lens of migration and childhood memories. Founded by London-based Colombian-Chilean Fashion Designer and Tailor Jennifer Droguett Espinosa in 2019.
ANCIELA designs with circularity from the beginning of the process, using and applying recycling, upcycling and regenerative techniques, delivering beautifully hand-crafted designs taking inspiration from art, literature and historical costumes. The brand offers re-worked tailoring and eccentric Ready-To-Wear interwoven with a hint of the magical. 

Anciela empowers consumers and makers to embrace conscious consumption practices through education and innovative technologies like AR, workshops and panel talks. The brand actively supports diverse Latinx creatives by using fashion as a platform to showcase Latin/British culture and working closely with charities and non-profits from the diaspora.
The brand has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, L'Officiel, Metal and Forbes, among other independent publications and was a panellist in Billie Eilish’s Overheated event in 2023. 

Anciela gets its name from Jennifer's Colombian grandparents, ANgel and GraCIELA. She graduated with a BA in Fashion Design and Technology from AMFI in Amsterdam in 2015 and worked at the acclaimed Atelier of Viktor & Rolf before moving to London, she then worked at House of Holland and emerging designers such as Richard Malone, Supriya Lele and Phoebe English.