Roberto Verino

Manuel Roberto Mariño Fernández, better known as Roberto Verino, was born on May 3, 1945 in Verín, in the northern province of Orense in Spain. After obtaining extensive experience in Paris (France), he launched a highly successful woman’s prêt-à-porter collection in 1982 and participated for the first time in Madrid’s Pasarela Cibeles Fashion Show in 1984. Ever since, he has played a prominent role in the Spanish fashion world, combining his work as a designer with his Gargalo wine cellar, created in 1996 with the Monterrei Certificate of Origin. In 1999, he was one of the founders of the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España. And in 2007, he celebrated the 25th anniversary of his brand name with an important retrospective exhibition in Madrid’s Museo del Traje that was also shown in New York at the Gabarrón Foundation.  

Roberto Verino has created a major international enterprise, with sales points in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and via his online shop. In 1997, he received the AENOR Quality Certification, and was the first Spanish company to obtain it, and in 2010, he was admitted into the Foro de Marcas Renombradas. He has received numerous awards and recognitions such as the prestigious Medalla al Mérito de las Bellas Artes, the Aguja de Oro and the T Award from the Telva fashion publication. He was also elected Gallego of the Month by the Correo Gallego editorial group in 1996 and in 2003 he received the Vieira de Plata award as the “Universal Gallego of Fashion”. 

At the beginning of 2016, he left the MBFWM (Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid) to lead the "See now, buy now" movement in Spain. In March of 2016, he presented his Spring-Summer 2016 collection in Madrid’s Platea restaurant and in September he led the Pasarela Now of the MFSHOW with the presentation of his proposals for the current season which was enthusiastically received on the consumer market. In October, he showed his collection at the Museo Balenciaga of Guetaria as a special guest at the “Gipuzkoa de Moda” festival and received a special tribute for his entire career in the Tabakalera of San Sebastián. In November, he received the Premio Conde los Andes which is granted by the Real Academia de Gastronomía as the “Best artistic creator in the gastronomic world”. 

In February of 2017, he returned to the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid as the leading representative of the “See now, buy now” movement in Spain and presented his Spring – Summer 2017 collection. 

ART has been a vital influence throughout Roberto Verino’s entire career. In the Spring – Summer 2018 collection, he was inspired by the work of painter and sculptor César Manrique and he collaborated closely with his foundation in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the artist. 

In 2020, the year of the pandemic, the company presented its new collection in collaboration with La Tecnocreativa fashion school, as an interesting exchange between the traditional and the 3D innovation. These new times clearly call for a change in mentality that is reflected in more flexible presentations and itinerant fashion shows.  

Collection lines

'UNDRESSED'

Finding what makes us feel good and highlighting it is the true formula for beauty. We shed the labels, the social standards, the conventions, the prejudices. We strip away what masks and get to what makes us shine 

Undressing artifice to dress beauty.  

Undressed is an ode to simple, silent luxury. A return to essentialism, to beauty free of artifice, to the nakedness of the soul. A collection that frees us from external barriers to reach the strength of the most special essence of each person. Garments designed to dress individualism, to highlight what is unique and special, rejecting ostentation and the ephemeral dictates of trends to embrace style, elegance and personality. The real #EstiloVerino