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. 

The convertible dress designed by Milles Barcelona

Video: Elena Darriba

Model: Marina Corral

Milles is the feminine clothing brand founded by the Milles sisters, Fanny and Carla, two Venezuelan with Catalan roots. All their collections are made in Barcelona, and they are thought for a different and self-confident woman.

Today, in Made in Barcelona, we show you a very special dress from this brand: its convertible dress. Discover all the uses and forms an only piece can have with this tutorial video. 

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“I get inspired by the elegant French woman from the 40s and the 50s”. Elisabet Urpí, designer of [eliurpí]

Photography given by Eli Urpí 

Eliurpí is a romantic and feminine fashion brand specialized in millinery. Elisabet Urpí, the designer, and Nacho, her boyfriend, are in charge of the brand. Their clothes dress an elegant and cosmopolitan woman, inspired in the Parisian woman from the 40s and 50s.

How did “Eliurpí” start?

The brand started four years ago, although the shop became one year old this march 2014. At the beginning we only worked on millinery, and now we are working on the fourth clothing collection. The hats are 100% handcrafted, from the beginning to the end. We design the clothes and we make the drawings, although then we send them to a studio that collaborates with us.

"In fashion, doing something that sells but is beautiful and special at the same time is very difficult", Juanma by El Cuco

Photography: Natalia Garcia i Marina Corral

Juanma Granero is the designer of the brand Juanma by El Cuco. Art is very present in all his designs, but always adapted to clothes that can be dressed everyday. He confesses to be guided by his mood when creating, just this way he achieves a very personal and easy to identify style.

How would you define your brand?

The brand has evolved a lot. I started in 2008, with an aesthetic very focused to catwalks, to the image, forgetting the commerciality. The brand is so much more personal now. People from Barcelona who works in the fashion industry easily identifies my designs. My clothes have been adapted to a daily style, they are easier to wear.

Discover [eliurpí], a brand that evokes older times

Video: Marina Corral and Elena Darriba

In the number 11 of Montsió Street (Barcelona) there is hidden [eliurpí], Elisabet Urpí’s shop. The old town turns into the perfect place to discover a brand that evokes another époque. It is an enchanting place full of romanticism, which has a very thoughtful selection of clothes. Headdresses are the designer’s passion: hats and floral crowns are spread throughout the store. Clothes complete the feminine style of the brand, aimed to dress an elegant woman who resembles to the Parisian woman from the 40-50s.

Read the complete interview to her designer in the previous post.

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Alèxia Grustan, “Recycled with love. Hand made & exclusive”

 Photography: Marina Corral Roselló

Behind “Recycled with love. Hand made & exclusive” we find the philosophy of the brand Alèxia Grustan.

Alèxia Grustan plays and experiments with recycled materials, to which she gives a new life by turning them into necklace, bags, belts, shoes, and other accessories. All the pieces are unique and exclusive, 100% handcrafted. Environmental conscience is very present in her work. With her bet for trashfashion she doesn’t only give a solution to this problem but also achieves to reinvent creative pieces and original pieces that break stereotypes.

Inside Juanma by El Cuco's workplace

Juanma Granero, the designer of Juanma by El Cuco, began exposing his designs in Paella Showroom, a place in which he felt so comfortable that he eventually decided to install his own working place there. In Paella Showroom, Juanma has created a cosy space where he doesn’t just design his collections but also teaches anyone interested in the design world.

Juanma opens us the doors of his workplace and shows us in exclusive some of the clothes of his new collection. We ask him about himself and his brand, and he answers without openly to all of our questions for half an hour.

You can read the full interview in the following link.


News linked:

• Paella Showroom, "a platform dedicated to fashion objects exhibitionism and made in Barcelona design"

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"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.

El Costurero real, an international steampunk model

Photography:Mª Ángeles Guisado (Alassie) from El Costurero Real 

El Costurero Real is a fantasy clothes confection shop localized in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) from de designer Mª Ángeles Guisado (Alassie) and her partner Félix Goggles.

They’ve been dedicated to the elaboration of scenic clothing for years – audiovisual for photography, theatre, cinema, opera and television, influenced by historical models and reinventing it with a futuristic and science fiction touch. In general, the brand pieces follow Victorian, Edwardian, medieval, Renaissence and retro-futuristic era’s fashion trends, although they also offer the possibility of ordering personalized models from any other aesthetic.

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. 

An important message

This is an important message to all our readers:

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. 

Thank you so much for your understanding!

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.