Fernando Gutierrez graduated at fashion accessories design at CCS, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, USA in 2021. He founded ‘Haute Fernando’, handmade objects for those who feel foreign. Small scale production of shoes and bags designed in Detroit, USA.
The work of Fernando Gutierrez is a reflection of the places he has seen, touched and lived in and the cultures that exist there. His artwork addresses the feeling of being a perpetual foreigner, leading him to a search for others who have felt the same, and as such he has been influenced by rebels, leftists, punks, poets and people who find themselves thoroughly out of place in the world around them. His work often highlights and addresses differences between hard and soft, light and dark, loud and quiet, old and new to create a sense of tension, conflict, and unfamiliarity within elegant design.
Fernando Gutierrez participated in the Craft the Leather workshop at Consorzio Vera Pelle Italiana Conciata al Vegetale, in San Miniato, Italy in 2019. And received the Graduate Fashion Week 2021 International Artifact Innovation Award in Materials and Embellishment.
