The last day of the 080 Barcelona Fashion It has started strong. A long queue of guests waited half an hour before the ‘show’ began, in the end one of the novelties of this 30th edition in which it has returned to normal. It was the newborn 080 Reborn, a parade 100% with second-hand clothes, which has left the level even higher than expected, and which has been followed by the proposals of the firms Eiko Ai, Habey Club, Reveligion, Yolancris and Menchen Tomas.
080 REBORN
Within the framework of the wager Government for the circular economythe parade has had the support of the Agència de Residus de Catalunya, the CCM and Girbau LAB and has had the stylists and art directors Fermin + Gilles Stylist (Fermin Serret and Gilles Saint Martin). With clothes recovered from textile waste classification plants and second-hand clothes from stores such as Humana, Las Pepitas, Love Vintage, Victoria, Gi Joe Surplus, Flamingos Vintage Kilo, Fred Perry, Cóndor, Dr. Martens and Armand Basi. In total, there has been a thirty looks who seemed to have just come out of the ‘atelier’, judging by the admiring faces of a ‘front row’ full of authorities, from the ‘conseller’ d’Empresa i Treball, Roger Torrent; and the ‘consellera’ d’Acció Climàtica, Alimentació i Agenda Rural, Teresa Jordanto the director of the Consorci de Comerç, Artesania i Moda, Agnes Russinoland the director of the Waste Agency of Catalonia, Isaac Peraire i Soler.
The first model to parade was the Catalan trap singer Lildami, which has been followed by a varied ‘casting’ claiming diversity, from ‘curvy’ models to others who combed gray hair, and of different sizes and races.
EIKO AI
the romantic collection ‘underwater life’, of the project of Gloria Llado, which began by reinterpreting the kimono as an emblematic piece of the brand, has been expanding its universe to present this series inspired by the depths of the sea. A weightless and ethereal fantasy about underwater life full of vaporous silhouettes. Transparencies, ultra-soft satins in bright colors, glosses in warm tones, volumes in all their formats and jacquards, cast in aquatic prints. Almost first cousins from the fishing collection of Martín Across.
“There are many ruffles that emulate the movements of jellyfish; we love ruffles,” explains Gloria, who has presented a whole palette that breathes positivism, light and summer, with a range of turquoise, lavender and silver, and neutrals, pink and a touch of red to evoke the richness of the seabed. Extra-feminine ‘looks’.
HABEY CLUB
Then, they paraded for the first time in Barcelona the young people from Madrid David Salvador and Javier Zunzunegui. “We studied together at the CSDMM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and since then we started with this project,” they explain about their ‘slow fashion’ brand, although with two collections a year. Admirers of firms such as Loewe explain that they are delighted to debut in Barcelona, where after this parade they will start selling in the multi-brand Vasquiat.
In addition to conceptual feminine designs, “where humor has an important weight”, they say, they also design avant-garde and delicate footwear -which they produce in factories in Elche- and their own jewelery and bags (“which are very successful among our clients” ).
They say that after the pandemic they did not want to consider an excessively serious collection, and in ‘Reunion‘ imagined that, precisely, those weddings and family parties where you have to sit down to chat with some distant relative. “We wanted to reflect the diversity in the clothing of the protagonists through different finishes of the fabrics: rough or rough fabrics, satin and gauze with transparencies. We’ve also added different lengths and necklines, as well as a trench coat mix of classic suit fabrics with casual sleeves constructed from rib knit,” says Zunzunegui.
Among his achievements, that gabardine and dresses with openings under the arms, those rude and structured stoles in denim that who would say it is denim, and those dresses that carefully unravel in the silhouettes as if they had been lent to you for the event by a friend who does not share your size. Originals to rage.
REVELIGION
Maria Rodriguez, the designer and creative director, has presented ‘Outsider’, a collection that deals with the search for being, the commitment to oneself and those who do not find their place or space to grow. On the catwalk, the models and the models will wear exceptional pieces marked by the volumes and the tulle that, once again, will manage to break with our limits.
YOLANCRIS
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MENCHEN TOMAS
the mark of Olga Menchen is in charge of closing this 30th edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion. It is a brand that designs, produces and makes its own ‘prêt-à-porter’, party and bridal collections, as well as exclusive designs from haute couture and for custom-made brides. His proposal ‘The Rat Pack’, is inspired by a group of American actors and musicians. The lines of the executive dresses, the diplomatic stripe, wool, twill, Swarovski crystals, 3D volumes, whites, limes, porcelain blues are the elements that make up this collection, which fuses streetwear pieces with party pieces.