Photography: Un passeig per Barcelona book frontpage
Editor and graphic
designer Elisenda Albertí has published a book titled A walk through Barcelona’s fashion. The book explains Barcelona’s
fashion history from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenties from the last
century.
When reading it, you
travel through the Catalan capital’s fashion history. This way, you acknowledge
events which marked a crucial moment in Barcelona’s trade development and you also
learn many things about Catalan society’s fashion trends, trends which
obviously still affect the young designers we talk about and interview in this
blog, because this fashion trends are already a part of the Catalan culture nowadays.
The book is
illustrated with 100 images from the editor and designer, who has explained in
an interview for the Spanish newspaper El País that “Barcelona’s dressmakers
worked their patrons from what they saw in miniature dresses that came from
Paris and London. They dressed a kind of small dolls with the new fashion
trends that came from the rest of Europe and they showed these dolls to their
costumers so that they could see their order before asking for it definitely.
Nowadays these dolls are demanded by collectors”.
The book pays
tribute to women who worked on making clothes and it walks the streets where
the first measured dresses were sold.
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