Mus&Roew presents its new collection in Ivori

Phtography: Natalia Garcia Ariño

Mus&Roew has presented today 27th Frebruary 2014 its new shoes collection for spring-summer 2014 in the shop Ivori made in Barcelona, at Mirallers street. In the event, it has been important the discount until a 25% in all the models. The highlights of all the pieces exposed at the shop have been the bet for rounded corners, the use of buckles and laces, and also the use of copper colors: silver, gold and pale pink. 

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We know you can see there are more posts in the blog in Spanish. We try to keep both blogs updated at the same time, but we are from Spain so we write our posts in Spanish and then translate them to English and not the other way round, and sometimes it is difficult to translate as fast as we prepare posts. We want you to know we try to do it the best we can and we care as much for you as we do for all our Spanish readers. 

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Ivori, a romantic and cozy space dedicated to Catalan fashion

Video: Elena Darriba

In the number 7 of Mirallers street(Barcelona) we can find the shop Ivori, owned by the designer from Barcelona Carola Alexandre. The shop is hidden between small streets from the Catalan city, but it is very easy to find thanks to a sign placed in a very busy street near it.

The shop’s name is followed by a subtitle which already indicates what we can find in it. This subtitle is “made in Barcelona”, and this is because in Ivori you can only shop clothes made by Catalan designers.

Craft and vanguardism in The Avant

Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

In Enric Granados Street, 106 (Barcelona), we can find The Avant, Silvia Garcia Presas’ brand.

The singular space has a Mediterranean inspired decoration which shows the timeless and artisanal style of the brand in a perfect way. You can find very special clothes, made in a very caring way. They don’t follow fashion trends, The Avant’s key is creating clothes that, although being of the present time, are also timeless. Their clothes are addressed to an exigent and cosmopolitan woman who bets for quality, the use of natural materials and manual work.

Interview to Patricia Benitez, La Chica de Papel's founder

Photography: Natalia Garcia 

We meet with Patricia Benitez in “Galeria Cosmo”, a place that harmoniously combines a café with an exquisite art gallery. Its decoration is extremely beautiful and colorful, and it offers an ideal environment to talk about the brand La Chica de Papel, for its similarity with the young and sweet artistic concept… 

How would you define what fashion means for you?

I define fashion as a way of personal expression: it is what you wear, what you are and the image you give to the world. I think about fashion as a way of absolute free expression, and that’s why I love it when people adapt their closet to their personalities and they dress as they want, not caring if it is trendy or not. The important thing is to dress it the right way, I mean, you have to feel comfortable in it. For me, this is fashion.

New edition of the Downtown Market

The following 1st and 2nd of March 2014 a new eddition of the urban bazar Downtown MarketCollection SS14 will take place in La Terraza of Maremágnum’s shopping center.

During the whole weekend it will be possible to find a great variety of brands – many of them made in Barcelona – with their fashion proposals (woman, man, children clothes…), accessories and decoration objects.

Information about the event:

Day: Saturday 1st of March 2014 / Sunday 2nd of March 2014

Hour: 12:00 h – 20:00 h 

Place: Second floor of the Maremagnum (Moll d'Espanya, 5)

Price: Free entry

Photography: oficial poster of the event

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Las Amigas del Coco starts selling its products in The VLP Concept

The brand from Barcelona Las Amigas del Coco has started to sell its creations in The VLP Concept, an online concept store of emergent design products.

This web bets for young designers’ ideas, and it offers a platform where the public can easily buy their creations. The requirements The VLP Concept asks the designers in order to be able to sell their product in its website are creativity, quality and exclusivity. All brands sold by The VLP Concept are mainly located in Madrid and Barcelona and are just a few years old, and all the products it sells are, as it has already been mentioned, originals and creative. 

You can follow The VLP Concept in Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. 

Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

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La Chica de Papel's new collection

Photography: La Chica de Papel

La Chicade Papel presents her new collection of dresses for autumn and summer. Although maintaining herself in her characteristic line of vintage-retro inspiration, Patricia Benítez, the designer, this time impresses the public with the predominance of dark colors and the lack of the typical pastel ones.  

Nora Tollesson of Scounting Model, the model of this new season, has posed for the photographer Cintia Barragán in Barcelona’s gothic district. In the session she’s wearing a blue dress tight in her waist, decorated with golden buttons in both neck and cuffs. The young style is accomplished by the white details found in the cuffs and in the neckline in u. The second outfit remains to a scholar one for its white shirt, the plaid skirt and the high black tights.

CIRE exposes a denim line created by catalan prisoners

Photography: Elena Darriba

The spring-summer “Colección Tejana” (“Denim collection”), elaborated by prisoners of the catalan jails, was exposed in the Expohogar salon, celebrated this past January 2014 in Montjuïc, Barcelona. El Centro de Iniciativas para la Reinserción (CIRE), the public company of the Departamento de Justicia de la Generalitat which takes care of the working initiatives in jails, presented in Barcelona the prisoners’ creations. A part from the “Colección Tejana” (composed by a basket, a bag and a pirate hat), this creations also included aprons, bags and scarves.

Assistance record in Barcelona’s Fashion Week

Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

A new assistance record has been reached in the 080 Barcelona Fashion Week’s thirteenth edition, which counted with more than 40.000 people: general public, blogers, buyers, the media… One hundred twenty of the eight hundred journalists who covered the event were from international media.

The impact in the 080 Barcelona Fashion’s official website has been significant: it has increased its visits in a 43% in comparison with the last edition.

 

Josep Abril wins the award for best collection in the 080 Barcelona Fashion

Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

Designer from Catalonia Josep Abril has won the award of the 080 Barcelona Fashion Week thirteenth edition for his collection “REFLECTIONS”. He has received a 20.000 euros price. 
In this edition, the international jury is formed by the international sales and purchases' adviser and jury president Song Pham;  Holt Renfrew’s fashion consultant Victoria de la Fuente;  stylist, fashion brands’ consultant and journalist Anna Vallés Recanses; Moda Standard Magazine’s director and founder of Modaclic.com Perrine Muller and the Plataforma de Escuelas de Moda de Barcelona founder Oscar Heredero. The collection facts in which the jury has put their focus had been its sobriety and elegance, as well as the fact that the collection itself is a combination of the three special best valued qualities: creativity, quality and its marketability and international projection.

SSIC AND PAUL’s minimalist works

Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

SSIC AND PAUL, the duo formed by Paula Boadas and Jessica Raya, made its debut in the Barcelona fashion week yesterday morning with the collection “Tesitura Orgánica” (“Organic tessitura”).

True to their style, the catwalk was dressed with geometric forms and pure lines, always counting with functionality. Oversize pieces and overlaps and contrasts between colors were the main characteristics of this catwalk.