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.