How to sketch a map of your talent
The Hotel Vincci The Mint located on Madrid’s Gran Vía, is the place chosen to celebrate a new breakfast within the cycle “60 minutes of fashion with EFE Style”. The meeting enjoyed the presence of Pepa Bueno, Executive Director of ACME; Ignacio Sierra, Corporate CEO of Cortefiel Group; Magali Yus, Communications Fashion & Beauty El […]
Moisés Nieto, winner of Who’s on Next 2016
Designer Moses Nieto has raised winner of the 2016 Who’s on Next Vogue award. This event is a unique initiative that each year rewards the designer revelation. Yolanda Sacristan, Director of Vogue Spain, and the fashion team of the magazine are responsible for selecting the candidates, among which the winner is chosen. The delivery of […]
Lemoniez and Etxeberría participate in Bogotá Fashion Week
The Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España collaborates with Bogotá Fashion Week, through the Commercial Office of Spain in Colombia, for Spanish brands Miss Lemoniez and Etxeberria to participate in the second edition of the Colombian fashion week. Etxeberria shows his spring-summer 2016 creations in Bogotá Chicó Museum. His collection, titled “In plein air” […]
Four years bringing Spanish fashion closer to the world
Modesto Lomba, president of ACME, and José Antonio Vera, president of News Agency EFE, have signed the renewal of the agreement that ACME maintains with EFE Style since four years, by which value is placed upon Spanish fashion and Brand Spain. Modesto Lomba expressed being “very satisfied” with the results of this collaboration as […]
Modesto Lomba, sponsor of UFV students
“Today you enter a large family, that of the artists and creators, of the “labourers of beauty”, with these moving words ended his speech last Friday, May 6th, Modesto Lomba, President of the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España, who was in charge of sponsoring students from the degrees in Design and in Design […]
Inuñez
Isabel Núñez founded her own brand, Inuñez, in 2013. Despite her youth, the creator from Madrid is one of the leaders in made-to-measure bridal fashion in Spain. From her ateliers in Madrid and Vigo, more than 200 bridal gowns emerge each year. Isabel Núñez studied at ESNE design school, where she was a student of […]
Schweppes and Maya Hansen
Madrid designer Maya Hansen has collaborated with the global brand Schweppes to create two exclusive garments, one male and another one female, inspired by Schweppes Ginger Ale. They are, two bikers made in synthetic leather fabric respecting the environment, metal laminates, neoprene and high quality trimmings, giving a couture finish to an urban garment […]
María Escoté
After participating for three seasons in the EGO platform of Madrid Fashion Week, María Escoté was selected by Mercedes-Benz and Luisa Via Roma as the most outstanding fashion designer of Madrid’s Fashion Week in 2012. That same year she was invited to form part, along with five other designers selected all from the Mercedes-Benz Fashion […]
María Escoté and Isabel Nuñez join ACME
The Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España welcomes two new members. Designers Maria Escoté and Isabel Nuñez join ACME, with their arrival already amounting 56 associates. Maria Escoté is a regular signature in the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid schedule. After participating for three seasons in the EGO platform of the madrileño fashion week, the […]
Hannibal Laguna presents his bridal collection
Designer Hannibal Laguna chooses his favourite flowers for brides and transforms them into dresses creating thus a wonderful imaginary garden full of romance and femininity, and he presents his bridal fashion collection Legend of Flowers on the runway Couture España. “The beauty of flowers has always moved me, their whimsical shapes, colours and […]
Spain, guest country at Bogota Fashion Week
The Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España collaborates with Bogota Fashion Week, through the Commercial Office of Spain in Colombia, for two Spanish brands to participate in the II edition of the Colombian fashion week, to be held from 16th to 21st May. The Basque designer Fernando Lemoniez will present in Bogota Fashion Week […]
The meaning of numbers
The title of this blog does not mean that I have suddenly turned Pythagorean and want to decipher the hidden meanings of numbers, no. What I want to talk about is about the importance, the interest that the work of our designers arises within and beyond our borders. In the last edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion […]
ACME creates the Observatorio de la Moda Española
The Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España (ACME) launches a fashion observatory – Observatorio de la Moda Española (OME), in digital format with the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of the Spanish Government. ACME creates this digital platform with the aim of boosting the development of the Spanish fashion industry […]
Maria Barros directs a fashion show by students from UFV
University Francisco de Vitoria (UFV) organizes the event EMERGE Fashion Show in which more than 30 students from the Degree in Design will showcase their creations. The fashion show, which will feature styling by UFV professor Sol Delgado, will be directed by ACME designer Maria Barros. In this edition two collections will be displayed: firstly, […]
Iberdrola by Ion Fiz
Ion Fiz presents the “Capsule” collection designed for Iberdrola’s support staff on occasion of the Week of the Shareholder. The Iberdrola Tower hosts the fashion show presentation of the collection created by Ion Fiz, who has relied upon the company’s commitment towards sustainability for creating the designs. “Capsule” is designed with sustainable criteria, from the […]
Over 400 people attend the inauguration of Made in Spain
The exhibition Made in Spain: La Mode au delà des Frontières, opens its third edition. An event that once again gathered at the residence of Ambassador of Spain in Paris numerous personalities from the world of fashion and culture. The opening, yesterday afternoon, was chaired by Don Ramon de Miguel, Ambassador of Spain in France, […]
III Edition of the exhibit “Made in Spain: La mode au delà des frontiers”
Following the success of the second edition, the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España organized again the activity “Made in Spain: la mode au delà des frontières” in the residence of the Ambassador of Spain in France. Paris, world capital of fashion, hosts again a selection of the most representative pieces of the spring […]
The first of many
In this life it is not good to exaggerate, but I don’t think I do at all when I say that the first closing party of Madrid es Moda was a success. A success because it gathered over 300 people, because the designers attended punctually and diligently the engagement at Iberostar Hotel de las Letras […]
The great closing party of Madrid es Moda
What better way to close Madrid’s Fashion Week than with a big party? This was our intention in Madrid es Moda, an urban program driven by the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España (ACME) from 15th to 23rd of February during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. And our wish is fulfilled in this second edition, […]
Devota & Lomba, Jorge Vázquez and Miguel Marinero close the 63rd edition of MBFWM
The final day of fashion shows of the 63rd edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid has included three fashion shows by brands from the Asociación Creadores de Moda de España. Devota & Lomba showed on the runway his collection “Tangram”. Clean lines and geometric shapes are key to a proposal where the Basque designer tells […]
Anton Heunis: an exhibition against cancer
Investigation against breast cancer and fashion. These are the reasons for the exhibition organized by jewellery designer Anton Heunis for Madrid es Moda at the Urso Hotel & Spa. A solidarity venture carried out in collaboration with other members of the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España: Juanjo Oliva, Ion Fiz, Maya Hansen, Jorge […]
Tradition and modernity shake hands in the equator of the 63rd edition of MBFWM
Ulises Mérida proposes a return to his roots, transporting us to his native Castilla la Mancha in a tribute to his land through memory. Mourning and tradition are present in each and every one of the creations by the Manchego designer. Hand crafted fabrics such as cloth and thick wool blend with fabrics of technological […]
Microtheatre customized by Leyre Valiente
How much drama is there in a fashion show? And how much fashion is there in a stage production? Madrid es Moda and Microteatro por dinero have joined forces to answer both questions. How? Through designer Leyre Valiente, who has dressed for this second edition the pieces “This time its not love’s fault” and “Kokoro’s […]
Contrasts and sets of textures on the second day of MBFWM
Moises Nieto opened the second day of fashion shows in MBFWM. The designer from Gijón presented a feisty and protesting woman, inspired by Spain in the 40s and in the aftermath of the Civil War. Nieto gives voice to femininity in the shape of mini dresses and flounces outlining the silhouette. Fraying tartan stands out […]
The 63rd edition of Madrid fashion week begins
Davidelfín was in charge of opening a new edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. The designer from Málaga upheld national pride, displaying a collection on the runway where the scarf is the central axis becoming a part of the garments, surrounding them or even constructing them completely. Scarves become coats, skirts and dresses combine with […]
Couture as a way of life
– A dress makes no difference. – Watch and learn, Gertrude, watch and learn … This dialogue belongs to The Dressmaker a romantic drama starring Kate Winslet opening in Spain on 18th of March. It tells the story of an Australian designer who, after spending many years in Europe working in haute couture, returns to […]
Window shops that dress up the city
Window shops do not only serve as commercial and mundane exhibitors of products for sale. They are also windows through which the city dresses up, backgrounds on which to showcase beauty, surprise, games or art. Precisely over this conception of the window shop, Madrid es Moda builds a part of its proposal, in order to […]
La moda donde nunca la habrías imaginado
El mantra de Madrid es Moda es convertir la ciudad en pasarela. Muchos espacios en principio ajenos a ella se lo han tomado al pie de la letra: hoteles (Iberostar Hotel de las Letras Gran Vía, Gran Meliá Fénix, Only You Hotel&Lounge Madrid), un salón de belleza (Mi calle de Nueva York), un anticuario (Florin […]
Hotel Gran Meliá Fenix joins Madrid es Moda
To introduce contemporary fashion to a classically intended ambiance. That was the challenge of the exhibit that Hotel Gran Melia Fenix organized, for the second consecutive year, for Madrid es Moda, from 15th to 23rd of February. “We rely on the classicism of the surroundings, the hotel decor, for choosing the looks, and we use […]
Kilometres of agathized pizza portions
“Fashion is culture; gastronomy, as well … Why not bring them together? “. Agatha Ruiz de la Prada saw this crystal clear when she tasted the new creation by Jesus Marquina, chef of Kilometres of Pizza and four-time world champion in this specialty: a pizza-shaped heart full of flavour in honour of Fashion Week and […]
DESIGUAL presents the FW16 Collection during Fashion Week
A Desigual experience. That’s what the brand promises before the presentation on Thursday 18th of February of the Fall / Winter 2016 collection. Inspired by the great urban metropolises and their cultural collage, the new designs play with the mixture of textures and silhouettes as a metaphor of cultural diversity in the cities. Desigual […]