Juanma by el Cuco’s new collection

Photography: Juanma by El Cuco

Today 17th of March 2014 we present in exclusive for Made in Barcelona the images of the new collection for the winter season 2014 – 2015 by Juanma by el Cuco.

This is a collection designed for a young, dynamic public who also likes sports. The designer’s passion for travelling can be seen in its style, which is inspired by one of his trips in Glasgow, Scotland.  He exported the influence of the wools, the squares, the patchwork, and the neckwear’s tissues, etc. He also put into the pieces of clothing the British atmosphere, those grey days with little light, and with dark tonalities…

“It is all pretty eclectic and it mixtures a classic look with a futuristic touch”. Juanma, for example, has designed one piece based in the typical commercial sweater and he has plasticized it with an oilskin tissue, specially created for rainy days. This way, he has created original pieces aimed to a daily use. 

"A walk through Barcelona's fashion", Elisanda Albertí's new book

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.

April's Downtown Market will be based in the concept made in Barcelona

Photography from the event Downtown Market Collection SS14. Maremagnum

After the success of the Downtown market Collection SS14, a very special new edition of this market has been prepared. This one will be only dedicated to products designed and produced in Barcelona. It will take place, again, in La Terraza of Maremagnum’s shopping center and it will go behind the title of Downtown Market Made in Barcelona. It will offer fashion from all different styles and also all sort of different things like curious gadgets. Although the event hasn’t the list of designers who will participate in it yet, we do know all the proposals must be 100% made in Barcelona. The calendar of the Downtown Market Maremagnum events has also put a date to the Downtown Market Vintage: it will be between the 31^st of May and the 1^st of June 2014.

Last days to see the exposure “Barcelona prêt-à-porter, 1958-2008" at Palau Robert

Phtography: Marina Corral

The exposure “Barcelona prêt-à-porter, 1958-2008. Medio siglo de industria y moda. Colección textil Antoni de Montpalau”, will end up the 30th of March 2014. More than 300 pieces have been exposed during the ten months the exposition has last, changing the clothes for new ones three different times.

The exhibition proposes a journey through Catalan fashion history in the last five decades, a history marked by the consolidation and the rising of the prêt-à-porter. During this years the Catalan textile industry has lived a huge transformation, turning into an international model.

All the material exposed comes from the Colección textile Antoni de Montpalau (Antoni de Montpalau’s textile collection) and a huge part has been given by the designers themselves. With this initiative the collection has grown to be the most complete and representative one that exists in Spain about Catalan fashion from the XXth century and the beginning of the XXIst century. 

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. 

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.

Oscarleon’s proposal for the winter season 2014/15

Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

Oscarleon has presented today (31^st of January 2014) in the 080 Barcelona Fashion his winter collection for the season 2014/2015. The collection goes behind the title “Rien n’est fini avant que tu sens que ce soit fini”, which in French means “Nothing is over until you feel it’s over”.

Georgina Vendrell shows “DUALISM”, her idea for the next season

Photography: 080 Barcelona Fashion

Designer from Barcelona Georgina Vendrell has presented this morning her collection “DUALISM” in 080 Barcelona Fashion Week’s catwalk.

It is a masculine clothes collection which mixtures different materials and textures whose principal colors are black and different ranges from blue and grey.

Georgina Vendrell studied in the Institut Català de la Moda (“Catalan Fashion Institute”) and debuted in 2007’s ModaFAD, where she won a price for her collection (which in that moment was already just for men). This allowed her to create her own brand, which she called Georgina Vendrell Menswear.

Manuel Cruzcastillo presents “M.G.”

Photography: 080 Barcelona Fashion

Manuel Curzcastillo has shown today for the first time his desings in the 080 Barcelona Fashion’s catwalk. His collection goes after the title “M.G.” in honor to his father, Miguel González, and it explains the public the designer’s vital story. “It is one of the most intimate and more personal implicated collections of all the ones I have ever designed”. The very personal line tells the public a loss, a goodbye and a reunion, all of it using cold colors.

The key of today’s catwalk has been Cruzcastillo’s goodbye to his father in an attempt to understand his death and “close the circle”. Although it might seem a very sad line, it is actually a happy goodbye which shows Cruzcastillo’s relationship with his father. 

Aldomartins in the 080 Barcelona Fashion's catwalk

Núria Bisbal, the daughter of Aldomartin’s founder, has presented today in the 080 Barcelona Fashion’s catwalk her proposals for the next autumn-winter season. Models as Alba Carrillo and Malena Costa have been in this catwalk.

The brand is exclusively aimed to an urban and feminine public, pretending to dress a woman who is in her 20s, 30s or 40s “worried for her image and with purchasing power. This woman has a young spirit, is elegant but daring at the same time daring, and doesn’t want to go unnoticed. The brand gives her a difference with its clothes”.

Catalan Fashion Week starts

Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

The 080 Barcelona Fashion starts today its thirteenth edition, which will remain in constant activity until this Friday 31^st of January. This time, the chosen place for the event has been El Born Centre Cultural, for its emblematic relationship with fashion and trade.

The 080 catwalk is the best way to internationalize the catalan fashion. It is for this reason that the number of fashion shows has increased this year, coming to a total of 34. In the five days that this event last, the new clothing ideas for the winter season 2014/2015 will be shown. 

Welcome!

Behind the title “Made in Barcelona” (“Hecho en Barcelona” in Spanish) we want to create a space where the fashion from the catalan city is the main protagonist. With this target, we will cover all those events related with the textile sector, a sector which has been working really well this last years in Barcelona.The events will go from the most important ones, like the 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, to others like the opening of little shops of designers from Barcelona who are, for now, still unknown.

We are very happy to start this initiative and we hope you are as interested as we are in this subject! 

Thank you for reading!

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