Tag: Spanish fashion shows

MADRID FASHION WEEK, SLOW FASHION MADE IN SPAIN

MADRID FASHION WEEK, SLOW FASHION MADE IN SPAIN

English/Español Slow Fashion is the concept under which the Spanish design sector, led by ACME, plans to present their fashion collections during Madrid Fashion Week in the era of “learning to live with COVID”. The Made in Spain slow fashion presentations are framed in two events, MBFWMadrid and Madrid es Moda, both in a hybrid format described as a mixture of fashion shows and digital presentations. MBFWMadrid has just presented the official calendar for the…

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…