My Paloma: Bridging Peru and Australia through stories in fashion

Peru and Australia both hold my heart - Different in pace, yet equally important to my creative practice. Peru, rooted in ancestral knowledge, textile traditions, and symbolism, has shaped my sensitivity to material, narrative, and the language of pattern. It is where I learned that cloth is never just cloth; it is memory, identity, and resistance.

This foundation informs my appreciation for bold, expressive design languages, including the work of Florence Broadhurst, whose patterns echo a similar intensity—unapologetic, and timeless.

Australia, on the other hand, represents a space of reinterpretation and expansion. It is where diasporic identity takes form—where inherited traditions meet contemporary expression. Here, My Paloma emerges not only as a brand, but as a cultural bridge: translating stories from the South into a new context, while engaging with Australia’s own design legacy and multicultural landscape.

The collaboration with Florence Broadhurst becomes symbolic in this sense as it becomes a dialogue between geographies, between histories, between ways of seeing and making.

Eliana Gamboa