Barbara has spent more than two decades at the heart of luxury fashion. From the fashion houses of Milan to the studios of London, she worked alongside Armani, Gianfranco Ferré and Alexander McQueen, building an eye for quality and for the kind of style that does not date.
Notting Hill has been her home for 28 years. It is where she raised her family and built a community that keeps coming back, and where, in 2019, her boutique grew into a concept store with a café at the back, a rare place where people came not just to shop but to belong. She named the label after her first daughter, Martina.
But there was one thing the great houses never solved for her. Beautiful clothes, and nowhere to put your hands. A phone, a key, a shell carried back from the water, all of it held in a bag she had to carry. So when she returned to fashion fully, she made the clothes she actually wanted.
Everything is cut from fine Italian cloth and made by hand in the same European atelier she has worked with for twenty years, the kind that produces for the great houses. It is made for a woman who dresses with intention, who values comfort as much as elegance, and who would rather walk to the sea carrying nothing.
