David Quintáns (b. 1997, A Coruña, Spain) is a fashion designer and stylist based between A Coruña and London. Following an international education, he settled in London, where he completed a BA in Fashion Design and an MA in Fashion Communication: Fashion Image at Central Saint Martins, exploring fashion’s relationship with editorial imagery.
He currently works as a womenswear designer at Inditex and has contributed to styling projects for publications including British Vogue, Vogue Australia, and NYLON Magazine, as well as for artists such as Olivia Dean. He is also preparing the publication of his first book.
WE CREATE CHANGE BY CREATING OURSELVES
“ I believe in work — in the quiet rhythm of repetition, in the patience it takes to build something real.
Talent is nothing without time. Dedication shapes vision. Perseverance reveals purpose.
For me, fashion is about evolution — of fabric, of form, of self. Each project becomes a reflection of who I am becoming.
I approach my craft like a game of precision, every detail a move, every image a decision.
I play to learn, to transform, to stay alive in the process. This is not about winning, it’s about creating something that stays. Something honest. Something that moves. “
BOOKS
COMING SOON: A Blue So Dark It’s Almost Black
There are moments that break us quietly, long before anyone notices. Moments when love arrives too late, or disappears too soon. Moments that haunt the body long after the mind tries to move on.
A Blue So Dark It’s Almost Black follows a young man caught between the echo of a first love and the shadow of a violence he’s still learning to name. Through shifting timelines and a voice both raw and tender, the novel explores what it means to carry trauma in a queer body — and how memory can be both a refuge and a wound. As he looks back on the boy who once changed everything, and forward toward a future he’s afraid to enter, he learns the hardest truth of all: that survival begins the moment we finally speak the pain we were taught to hide.
A story about love, loss, and the slow, difficult art of becoming whole again.
