Isabel Annaiss Yucra Mancilla

Meet the 2025 Semi-finalists

Redress Design Award 2020 All Star

Meet The Designer

“I believe it is important for my generation to create a positive impact on our planet and that a key driver behind sustainability is the empowerment of women. As a designer, I feel a great sense of satisfaction in creating in a sustainable way from step one, and exploring ways to make a better use of waste.”

Isabel Annaiss Yucra Mancilla

Bio

Isabel Annaiss Yucra Mancilla was a semi-finalist of the Redress Design Award 2020. She founded her eponymous fashion brand, Annaiss Yucra, in 2018 in her home country of Peru, with a focus on waste reduction and the empowerment of women. Through her exploration of remnant textile stocks, she has developed a new fabric called COMPOST TEXTIL, which was presented by the Embassy of Peru during Paris Fashion Week 2025. Isabel holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fashion Design from Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Region

Peru

Collection

Womenswear

Design Techniques

Upcycling

Redress Design Award Collection

Through her Redress Design Award application collection, MATRIARCADO, Isabel Annaiss highlighted the abuse of girls, lost childhoods and the oppression of women in Peru, including the stories of her grandmother and Lina Medina, a native of Huancavelica. In collaboration with a small community in the highlands of Peru whose livelihood is being negatively affected by the growth of fast fashion Isabel Annaiss creates up-cycled textiles woven from a wide range of textile waste collected from her family-owned factory.