Manifesto

LAKRAS comes from the Spanish slang word “lacras,” used to describe
outsiders — people who don’t fit the norm, the rebellious, the marked, the misunderstood.
In some contexts, it also refers to scars, flaws, and the traces life leaves on you.

LAKRAS reclaims that word and turns it into an identity:
a celebration of the imperfect, the playful, the experimental, the absurd and the beautifully “other.”

Although LAKRAS is directed and founded by Alek (Ale Caicedo), the word itself is intentionally collective — a label that belongs to many.
The brand works through a hybrid model where original design, collaborations, pop-ups, performances, and curated pieces coexist, expanding the creative universe beyond a single hand.

✴︎ LAKRAS — BODY ERROR BEFORE HUMAN

born from the glitch — but also from life itself.
from the moment fabric becomes skin and skin becomes the preset we’re living.

LAKRAS exists between error and rebirth —
where the body is no longer human, but symbol, rebellion, spell.
each piece is a portal — a lucky charm, a fragment of memory,
a wound turned into beauty (or ugliness, depending on the light).

we believe in touch as language, in care as creation — or just high.
our garments are not trends — they are signals, they are play,
sometimes serious, sometimes not sure what they are.

crafted by women in colombia, carried across worlds.
we don’t build worlds — we chase them with desire.
fashion, more than consumption, it's a passage to encounter oneself.

we are cyborgs: funny, half intuition, half circuitry, half bad wifi
haunted by ancestors we had to invent,
building the language we’ll one day inhabit (or delete).

there is no promised land — only vulnerability, very colorful.
only moments to share — like dinner with friends.
no hay futuro pero hay imaginación.

✴︎ THE LANGUAGE OF LAKRAS

LA1 Ready-to-Wear
Everyday garments infused with the Lakras spirit — small-batch pieces designed for movement, access, and global wearability. Poetry you can wear.

One-of-a-Kind
Unrepeatable artworks crafted through experimentation, ritual, and hand-made processes.
Each piece exists only once.

KR2 Jewelry & Charms
Amulets and small powerful objects — 950 Silver, memory, and Latin magic shaped into protection.

AS3 Accessories & Objects
Bags, straps, objects, and experimental artifacts that expand the Lakras universe beyond the body.