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.