Tag: Madrid Fashion Week

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…

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…