Donde Esteban
Emerging · $400–$700 · Cartagena, Colombia
Silk resortwear with vivid artist-designed prints, the unisex line where every piece is a wearable painting.
Think: endless summer, artist prints
The buy: the artist-print silk dress
What to buy
the artist-print silk dress
Categories
Occasions
Why Donde Esteban is worth it
Donde Esteban turns artists' paintings into silk resortwear, easy unisex pieces that carry a Caribbean summer wherever you wear them.
The prints are the point: florals painted by his father, the Colombian artist Valentino Cortázar, and works by Ana Mercedes Hoyos, laid onto bias-cut silk dresses, shirts, skirts and pareos. The shapes stay loose and unfussy so the art does the talking, and the line is almost all silk, viscose and cotton, with barely any synthetics.
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Is now a good time?
The sale pattern
From 1 months of sale tracking.
Something is nearly always marked down here, so there's no sale worth waiting for.
Donde Estebanalmost always has something marked down — there's no point waiting for a sale. Markdowns usually top out around 50% off, and we've seen 50% off at the deepest.
About Donde Esteban
Colombian designer Esteban Cortázar launched Donde Esteban in 2024, more than two decades after showing his first collection in New York. In between he led a storied Paris fashion house before turning to this more personal label.
The name means at Esteban's, and the clothes map his world: Cartagena, where his family lives, plus Miami, Ibiza and Paris, in prints made with his father and other artists from his community.
- Founded
- 2024
- Founded by
- Esteban Cortázar
- Based in
- Cartagena, Colombia
- Made in
- Turkey, for its silk dresses
- Made of
- Mostly silk and viscose, plus cotton
- Shipping
- Ships to the US from a US warehouse in 2-3 days, free over $500, with duties included and free returns; ships worldwide from its international store, with duties covered for the UK, EU, UAE and Switzerland.
- Where to buy
- Donde Esteban's own site · Our Donde Esteban picks
What shoppers say
From reviews and try-on videos, in our words.
- Fit
Most styles are marked true to size, but women's sizes stop at XL, about a US 10, so the range is narrow.
- US shipping
American orders go through its US store and ship from a US warehouse in about 2 to 3 days, free over $500, with duties already included in the price.
- Returns
Returns within 14 days are free with the brand's prepaid label, though some sale pieces are final, so check before buying a markdown.
- Care
The silks are dry clean only. The brand suggests putting on perfume and letting it dry before you dress, since it can mark silk.
- Prints
The site lets you shop by print, and most prints come as several matching pieces, from dresses and shirts to skirts, pareos and swim, so a full look is easy to build.
What Donde Esteban is made of
Silk · Viscose · Cotton
- Natural
- 58%
- Plant-based
- 35%
- Synthetic
- 7%
Works most in: silk, viscose and cotton
- Low syntheticNo more than 10% of the fabric is synthetic, stretch included.
From the fabric listed on 130 pieces · 100% of the range lists it · Checked October 2026
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Donde Esteban, answered
- What is Donde Esteban?
- Donde Esteban is a resortwear label from Colombian designer Esteban Cortázar: unisex silk dresses, shirts, skirts, pareos, knits and swim in prints made from artists' paintings.
- Is Donde Esteban a good brand?
- Yes. We like it for wearable art: prints from paintings by Valentino Cortázar and Ana Mercedes Hoyos on bias-cut silk, almost no synthetic fiber in the line, and a designer with over 20 years in fashion behind it.
- Who founded Donde Esteban?
- Esteban Cortázar launched it in 2024. The Colombian designer showed his first collection at New York Fashion Week in 2002.
- Where is Donde Esteban from?
- Colombia at heart: its story centers on Cartagena, where the designer's family lives, along with Miami, Ibiza and Paris.
- Does Donde Esteban run true to size?
- Most styles are marked true to size. Women's sizes run XS to XL, about US 0 to 10.
- Does Donde Esteban ship to the US?
- Yes. Its US store ships from a US warehouse in 2 to 3 days, free over $500, with duties included and free returns.
- Where can I buy Donde Esteban?
- On the brand's own site, which has a separate US store, or through our Donde Esteban picks.
- When does Donde Esteban go on sale?
- Something at Donde Esteban is almost always marked down, so there is no big seasonal sale worth holding out for.
- How much does Donde Esteban discount?
- Their sale emails consistently advertise about 50% off. We have not measured it on the rack.
- What is Donde Esteban made of?
- Across the 130 Donde Esteban pieces we could read in October 2026, about 58% of the fabric is natural fibers, 35% plant-based fibers like viscose and 7% synthetic. The most common fabrics are silk, viscose and cotton.
- Which brands are like Donde Esteban?
- If you like Donde Esteban, look at Roame, Palm Noosa, Cala de la Cruz and SIGAL.