After designing for high street retailers such as labels Zara and El Corte Ingles in Spain, the UK and Australia, Nieves decided it was time to launch her own label that satisfied her own creative passion and fulfilled her ethical ideals.
Nieves discovered a project in Mumbai that helps to train women from deprived areas so that they can earn their own income to support themselves and provide for their families. Using her design background and her ethical fervour, Nieves lived among the families, getting to know the women at the co-operative and experience first hand their everyday struggle, and so together they created the bibico spring/summer 09 collection. Inspired by the colours and fabrics of long Indian summers and the hot styles of the Mediterranean, the bibico SS09 collection features easy-to-wear smocks, tops and dresses all made using fairtrade processes.
