Category: Spanish Fashion & Photos

Colleen Murphy’s photos and fashion anecdotes. A visual history of Spanish fashion designers featuring Pasarela Cibeles. A review of fashion shows since 1983 reflecting the history of Spain’s current Fashion System. The ideology behind her approach to fashion and photography.

FRANCIS MONTESINOS A FASHION SHOW IN 1983

FRANCIS MONTESINOS A FASHION SHOW IN 1983

English / Español Francis Montesinos is a leading designer from Valencia credited for using traditional attire from his hometown as a recurring inspiration in his fashion collections. He introduced staging concepts in a key fashion show that lit up future runways, held in 1983, in Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid. Francis Montesinos is currently preparing his eponymous fashion brand’s 50th anniversary. He began his fashion career in the 1970s in the barrio El…

ROBERTO VERINO’S FIRST FASHION SHOW

ROBERTO VERINO’S FIRST FASHION SHOW

English / Español 1983, Madrid. In the mythical flamenco venue, Café de Chinitas, a young Galician designer, Roberto Verino, presents his first women’s wear collection breaking rancid fashion codes in a post-modern style statement. Deconstructing garments and restructuring set ideas are the concepts behind the postmodernism current that represented the creative path followed by many fashion designers at the time. Roberto Verino’s first fashion show, at the popular flamenco venue Café de Chinitas, was hailed…

KARL IN PASARELA CIBELES

KARL IN PASARELA CIBELES

English / Español Fast forward to Pasarela Cibeles in September 1993, the year that Karl Lagerfeld sat on the front row with his signature fan, and famously stated: “I am more interested in the fashion seen off the runway.” In fall 93 Pasarela Cibeles was going strong, and a new generation of young Spanish designers such as Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Sybilla, Devota & Lomba, Duyos Paniagua, Roberto Torretta, Angel Schlesser, Isabel Berz, Maria…

PASARELA CIBELES

PASARELA CIBELES

English / Español Cybele was originally a Phrygian goddess. The Greeks made her a mother of the gods, the mother of Zeus and other relevant deities. She is represented in an 18th-century emblematic monumental sculpture situated in the center of Madrid, and she also brands Spain’s first official runway established in Madrid in 1986, Pasarela Cibeles. The name was implemented by Cuca Solana, Director of Pasarela Cibeles for over 30 years, and this, my first…