During the second day of the 32nd edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, emblematic fashion brand Custo Barcelona presents his new collection for current FW23-24 season which, under the name “Welcome to the Other Side”, is a manifesto of creativity, an authentic journey towards uniqueness, and a reminder that fashion is a medium for visual expression. Custo Barcelona presents a variety of designs that capture the fashion brand’s essence with a palette of bright and bold colors, daring prints and exquisite textures. Each garment is a style statement and an expression of individuality that showcases Custo Barcelona's unique vision and prowess in fashion. Furthermore, he wished to evidence that his creations are inspired by a feminine, confident woman, who takes risks with ground breaking and transgressive designs in a most pure avant-garde style. The staring garments of this new proposal are: oversized coats, because of the use of extremely soft fabrics and their metallic shine. These puffers are combined with large pants and miniskirts along with experimental tops, seeking to awaken emotions in confident and empowered women. Other most notable garments in the collection are dresses with openings, asymmetries and architectural designs, which represent an exhibition of creativity and art. These designs incorporate innovation and sophistication through bold colors and daring cuts.

In her third fashion show held within the official Parisian calendar, Juana Martín, designer from Cordova, presented the collection “Fauves”, based on the Fauvist artistic movement with touches of surrealism, reflecting one of Spain’s most important historical moments. In "Fauves" the designer moves away from colour and, true to herself, presents a collection of monochrome looks, in white, beige and black. Abstract volumes, pleats, theatricality in the garments and many allegorical elements endowed with great symbolism such as faces, eyes and other elements are present in metallic and embroidered glass applications, which come out of the garments, creating a "three-dimensional" effect. A proposal created for an elegant, emphatic, innovative, contemporary and discreet woman. The designer narrates history through garments that reflect destruction and sadness always leading us, through the looks evolution, towards a path of greater hope and freedom. "Each dress has a name and a story, the bull represents the survival of the Spanish population, the eyes, the surveillance to which society was subjected," Juana Martín points out.

LOLA CASADEMUNT BY MAITE’s fashion proposals for next season fall winter 2023-2024, are a fashion statement that highlight modern and eclectic styles as rulers in urban environments. Volumes are rich in textures and fabrics. A total black colour palette is the base, with fluorine details to provide contrast and liven a street collection where accessories, once again, claim their relevance to complete supreme looks. Outdoors garments such as cloth coats, long or cropped parkas, puffer jackets and short knitted capes in tune with cut-out dresses. Maxi, fluid dresses with attached scarves, jumpsuits, tube skirts, miniskirts, cropped tops, blouses and palazzo pants. Volumes in textures; pleats and micro pleats, raised details, jacquards, sequins, rhinestones, all in rich fabrics; satin, technical fabrics, brocades and tweed. Regarding colour, as the basis of the pieces, total black contrasts and combines with neon pink and yellow giving a full understanding of this urban and eclectic collection. A proposal where animal print, the fashion brand’s hallmark, also has its prominence and together with other characteristics, such as personalized prints, colour and care of every detail, make up the inimitable DNA of LOLA CASADEMUNT.

Fashion brand Dominnico presented the Dildom Fall 23 collection at the 31st edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion. The Catalan creator’s new proposals arise from the need to continue creating thoughts of unity and inclusive communities beyond fashion itself. This collection, which includes a menswear line co-designed by Domingo Rodríguez Lázaro and Aleix Moyano, emits the fashion brand’s own Y2K spirit with the lens on an urban focus, including cargo elements, UPCyCling Texan garments, hip skirts and adaptable pieces that change volume according to the bellow’s placement. The collection’s main colour is neon orange, flowing with other diluted tones such as mint green, sky blue or baby pink together with powerful colours such as chewing-gum pink to compose a collection with a futuristic spirited palette that involves fashion to talk about individual rights.

Returning to New York City, Palomo Spain presents his FW23 collection at New York Fashion Week after an aesthetic research into a particular childhood phase where the designer contextualizes the first layers of our personality’s creation, as well as our first interactions with clothes which often takes place while furtively exploring our mother's closet. Palomo, the boy, is unknowingly experimenting with conventional gender barriers by playing with towels, silk scarves, quilts, blankets, and other household items, to build an elevated self-image that flirts with that which is queer. Drama and aesthetic bombast characterizes the fashion designer's work, and is present in voluminous pieces in the form of coats reminiscent of cocoons created from the quilt from a very young creator’s home and which coexist with simpler pieces that correspond to the fashion house’s street style exercise. Bright colours take us to a “gay” Alice in Wonderland, a delicate work with topsy-turvy draping in long dresses, styled by Alicia Padrón, and combined with fine mesh shirts, blouses made with vortexes of fabrics in floral prints, knit scarves with rustic reminiscences and faux-fur miniskirts that elongate the model's figure, bringing a new (even more) fashionista mood to the designer's proposal. In accessories, Palomo recovers the fashion house’s most representative shapes by applying new chromatic hues, as in the case of the “Castellana” briefcase bag, and launches a selection for our wish-list comprised of heeled shoes in loafer, booty and boot versions, which contrast with other models by company Puma, Palomo’s most recent collaborator.

The fashion designer from Seville, Ernesto Naranjo, presents "011", his new FW23 collection that transforms and distorts reality as a wink to society. The “011” woman does not lie; she only expresses a new way of seeing the fashion brand’s DNA. Quartered technical fabrics, honest structures and a movement that does not stop swaying, it only approaches a warmer, more physical, more sexual place. Wavy shapes that are framed within straight silhouettes, and are reminiscent of past collections, following the designer's essence: to offer his client timeless garments that exhale novelty.

Moisés Nieto presents his new Winter 2023-24 collection at the former residence of the Marqués de Cubas. For the designer, understanding fashion collections as continuity means understanding that each one of them is connected to the previous and subsequent ones. The 18 looks presented are characterized by the preponderance of dresses, being, together with outerwear, an unequivocal sign of the brand's identity. The patterns’ simplicity is concealed behind an elegant and distinguished appearance, which delicately adapts to the female silhouette displaying the firm’s uniqueness. The versatility of the colour black allows it to be combined with other tones in this collection, while its permanence in the trend makes it a long-lasting and useful choice. The combination of wrinkled textures and flowing fabrics, in contrast with wool or heavy crepes and sequins, is a risky wager by Moisés Nieto for the forthcoming winter season. In this context, Moisés enjoyed the privilege of the collaboration of three exceptional women: Laura Ponte, Lulú Figueroa Domecq and Ingrid García-Jonsson.

Carlota Barrera presents the FW23 “Upheaval” collection with a Fashion Film in her two cities of reference, London and Madrid. The new collection, created near the sea, represents the nostalgic reminiscence of the fashion brand's roots on the Spanish coast and the relationship between man and nature. Carlota pays homage to the fishermen who spend nights at sea and to the “redeiras”; the women who build the fishing nets on the Spanish coasts. The fashion brand uses a dark color palette and textures that evoke the roughness of fishing nets and crafts, resulting in garments that reinterpret tradition in a contemporary context, and that reflect the brand's evolution towards a more mature and sophisticated aesthetic, inspired by the constant evolution of gender identities. Functional water-resistant layers, a relaxed reimagining of curvy shirts, sailor stripes, rope and metal details typical of 1930s labour-wear, as well as the introduction of reimagined work jackets, appear throughout the collection. Once again, craftsmanship is celebrated with the use of natural coastal elements reworked by hand into contemporary pieces and tops and accessories from hand-braided rope.

Mans fashion brand presents the new Fall-Winter 2023 collection, which is based on the beauty and the versatility of basic fashion that provides freedom of combination and allows for diversity and expression of one's own identity. For the season, Jaime Álvarez commits to modern garments that can be worn both day and night, without complicating the visual dialogue between colour, texture and shape that is articulated through fitted looks and layered details. Given that minimalism and discarding abstractions are the collection’s focus, chest pockets are eliminated and zippers are hidden. Earth tones mingle with blue hues, just like a luscious sunset radiance, with brightly mohair knits in contrast colors are elegant yet cozy. Metallic effects given by shiny fabrics reflect the beautiful simplicity of light bouncing between the city’s skyscrapers. Oversized wool coats complete the looks, a comforting hug during the colder season.

Odette Álvarez presents her collection 'Titalee' at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid inspired by the silent flight of a butterfly, her hypnotic beauty and the colour combination of her wings. The fashion designer presents her iconic jewel coats that are construed with large volumes on the sleeves and flow down, to the floor. Long shirt dresses with ruffles on the sleeves and mega-short print dresses decorated with crystal details, Perfecto style jackets and beaded jumpsuits. Leggings, with a bow finished with butterfly-shaped pearls are the collection’s leitmotiv. As for the materials, fabrics decorated with lurex and brocade stand out together with cloth in vibrant tones, taffeta with geometric and abstract flower prints, shiny and matt quilts and velvet with microcrystals and pearls. Farm-raised marmot, lamb and fox furs are represented in some of the collection’s coat pieces. The colour palette flows between ivory and black as the main tones, with fuchsia, electric blue and multicolour prints completing the fashion proposal.

Maya Hansenpresents her 'UPCYCLED' collection at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid based on, circular economy and up cycling as a response to climate challenge, the protection of the planet's biodiversity and the health of its inhabitants. The collection arises with the intent of converting, with the language of the corset as a hallmark, manufacturing remains and surplus stock into unique garments combining social awareness together with innovation. The designer recycles and reconverts sports items from the brand Skechers. Football, basketball, running or athletics are the inspiration for a collection where colours as well as the concept suggest dynamism and strength. Technical and knit fabrics are chosen to combine both structured and loose and relaxed garments creating contemporary silhouettes.

Lola Casademunt by Maite presents her 'MATCHING' collection at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid. A colourful, carefree and psychedelic fashion proposal. The perfect match for the entire collection is colour: red, rust, fuchsia, purple and saturated blue. As for shapes, the fashion designer is inspired by the seventies: oversized coats, asymmetrical structures, uneven lengths, and total looks in one colour in contrast with maxi and mini accessories. Following the fashion brand’s DNA, animal print is the main print motif showcased in different shapes and textures.

García Madrid presents '(Re)nacimiento' at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid, a collection that combines contemporary tailoring with flashes of childhood. The fashion designer proposes cashmere, mohair, silk and cotton fabrics in fall tones, earth, green, purple, softened warm colours and overlays in different hues of one colour. Organic and uncomplicated combinations in which new creations coexist with the signature brand’s archive garments. A collection that is an ode to Madrid where one is re born upon arrival, wherever one comes from.

Custo Barcelona presents the collection 'Welcome to the Other Side' at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid. Creativity and innovation are "the other side" of a functional collection that is also aesthetic and comfortable. The fashion designer proposes oversized metallic jackets, dresses with openings and asymmetries, oversized trousers and miniskirts combined with experimental tops and ankle boots or high boots. A winter proposal with metallic and shiny tones, and very soft fabrics that places colour as the collection’s starring protagonist.

Hannibal Laguna celebrates 35 years in fashion with his Hannibalismo 35 collection showcased at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. The fashion brand presented the first collection during the 1980s, since then their iconic bodices have become a benchmark in Spanish fashion. With this collection, the signature brand revives the House’s different heritage codes from a current perspective, fusing legendary silhouettes with embroideries and details that reinterpret the Spanish fashion legacy and haute couture’s craftsmanship excellence. Hannibalismo 35 is a tribute to more than three decades of love for couture and Author Fashion Made in Spain, handcrafted by a team of expert hands, led by Isabel Angulo, co-founder and director of the firm who, together with its Creative Director, have imbued each look with the sophisticated style of a Fashion House that has always sought to turn their creations into unique pieces acknowledged as authentic jewels.

Isabel Sanchis presents her new fall-winter 2023-2024 collection at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid. The fashion designer from Valencia proposes a seductive, strong and powerful collection that aims to generate a creative dialogue between the garment and the viewer. The fabrics and shapes showcase the union between traditional craftsmanship and the most avant-garde techniques, creating deconstructed garments with impressive shoulder pads in jackets, dresses and tailoring made with soleil pleats, flowing drapes on skirts, and sculpted pieces that show details suspended in the air. In the range of colours proposed by Sanchís, black, elegant and seductive, predominates, although there are also strokes of green, orange and brown.

Roberto Torretta presents at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid his fall/winter 2023/2024 collection which is mainly focussed in enriching the silhouettes with haute couture details. A fashion proposal for next fall/winter in which refined details and studied overlaps are outlined in three-piece looks that alternate between midi dresses, draped with asymmetric cuts and unique sleeves, and shorter ones, with rounded necklines and open darts. Tailoring by design, rooted in the fashion brand, results in jackets, trousers and coats with sharp yet discontinued lines, clean cuts and elaborated waistbands. Torretta proposes fabrics with a sandy or satin appearance, blended with mohair, leather and technical twills. The colour chart chosen by the designer is inspired by the work of contemporary painter Egon Schiele, the greatest representative of Austrian expressionism, and is dominated by neutral tones in different temperatures of beige, sugar pink and lavender, contrasting with anthracite grey, intense yellow, burgundy, dark cerulean blue and black.

Teresa Helbig presents at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid her collection dedicated to Anne Boleyn. The fashion designer vindicates the courage and cunning of the historic Queen of England, a generator of change, a tireless fighter and an example of sorority. The perfect representation of what a Helbig woman is today. The symbol of the collection resides in the union of opposites, pastel tones, ochre, cream and apple green fused with jet black, silver and gold. Delicate fabrics such as tulle and silk chiffon together with regal fabrics such as leather or velvet come to life through techniques that affirm the most laborious crafts such as traditional embroidery or quilted leather. The shoes, leather and sequined Mary Janes, sandals with glitter ribbons and leather ballerinas, were designed by the Helbig team in collaboration with Flordeasoka.

OTRURA Fashion House presents its XIII Movement "Re-Cras", belonging to the year "Caligrama" 2023/2024, at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid opening a period of reflection regarding the world of words through literature, poetry, narrative, script and the transmission of knowledge by way of reading and writing. In this fashion show, as OTRURA usually does, reference is made to a social context with the importance of the "Purpose" being reflected upon. From giving yourself the opportunity to Re-Build-it, to the risk of losing it throughout our lives and, therefore, losing ourselves. The need for a "Re-Fugio" (Haven), to be able to heal, love and err. That is why the house has titled this collection or Movement: Re-Cras / Re-Mañana. The collection is made up of hybrid elements: cottons, garments that are made from other different ones, patterns that configure new silhouettes and different textured blends such as denim and alpaca or cold wool and mohair. Works of corsetry reconstructed, decontextualized in gender and use, twisted garments, as if fighting within themselves and around the bodies, which in turn shelter and wrap them.

Duarte presents his new collection "Ti'ne afto" within the frame of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid embarking on a journey to Greece in the 1960s with the question “What is it?”, a translation of the title of the mythical Greek ballad which gives its name to the collection. The designer proposes a wide range of recycled fabrics, and finishes ranging from sequins to lace, combining together satin, dots and twills. The chromatic range, where bright red, green and blue tones predominate, combines perfectly between black and neutral colours. The collection’s main print recreates, in a contemporary and reinvented manner, the forms of distinctive classical Greece male sculptures. Personality, contrast and structure mark the collection’s silhouettes concentrating the volume of shapes in the lower part. One of the most representative details is long, straight sleeves that contrast with a narrowed waist. This play with form draws its influence from Greek national dress adapted to a contemporary aesthetic. Additionally, Duarte has opted for handbag brand Degabriel to complete his looks. As for the chunky and minimal jewels that accompany the collection they are from the Crusset brand.

Pedro del Hierro presents at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid a new collection, 'Opera Prima' in an unexpected staging that reinterprets the opera. Creative directors Nacho Aguayo and Alex Miralles rise the collection to the beat of an unedited work directed by award-winning composer Lucas Vidal. A collection marked by the fashion brand’s evolution and made up by silhouettes that coexist between men and women generating a dialogue through colours, textures and shapes. The chromatic proposal ranges from green to garnet through brown, red and gold, among others, with accents of acid colors. Shiny fabrics, sequins, wool, silk, velvet and transparencies predominate in Pedro del Hierro's women's collection, while tailoring takes centre stage with men, along with coats and shirts, with silhouettes rich in volumes, textures and colour. Likewise, in the same fashion show, a part of the TFP by Tamara Falcó collection was presented for the first time at MBFWM.

Paloma Suárez presents her collection '23', full of numerology and symbolism, in the official calendar of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid for the first time. 23 is the magic, or lucky number of the designer from the Canary Islands as it is a number that gives her good vibes, reminds her of good times and has been present in the most important moments of her life. True to Slow Fashion philosophy, Suárez continues committed to the fashion brand’s characteristic colours and textures such as vinyl, tulle and feathers, while incorporating new fabrics and materials such as virgin wool, cashmere or vegan leather. The fashion designer presents patterns with refined lines and a chromatic palette of new colours ruptured with black, while resorting to Spain’s crafts to unite tradition, technique and avant-garde.

Andrés Sardá presents the collection 'Avalanche Sardá' at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, inspired by winter sports and high mountain landscapes. The fashion brand presents looks to sky all day long. For the morning, Sardá proposes all kinds of lingerie-inspired garments based on silver French embroidery combined with satin, embroideries with animal print motifs, golden tulle and Swarovski crystal. To glide down the snow-covered slopes, lace garments appear on the catwalk in contrast with more sporty pieces, predominantly red and white. To spend the afternoon in a mountain setting, the Catalan firm presents their own version of down jackets and sartorial suits. And finally, for the evening, Sardá suggests synthetic leather garments in vibrant colours that contrast with sets of underwear made in Lycra and lace. Metallic dresses and a white satin suit with Swarovski crystal close the brand’s most wintery presentation.

Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada presents her new fall-winter 2023/2024 collection at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. Her iconic perfumes, and particularly her flasks, inspire her to create a tribute fashion show full of colour and optimism. According to the designer, there is no greater legitimacy for a fashion creator than launching their own perfume, there is a before and after in the life -and in the ego- of every fashion designer. Agatha Ruiz de la Prada launched her first perfume in 1992 and since then she has enjoyed great success with her many signature scents. The fashion show’s five protagonist perfumes: Flor, Gotas de Color, Beso, Love and Look, materialize in flowers, swollen lips and multi-coloured raindrops that emerge among puffy dresses, kaftans, capes with large taffeta bows and strapless dresses. Transparent organza, sequins in multiple versions, Lycra, velvet and stuffed animals play with the senses ―more visual than olfactory― of an 'agathized' public.

Pilar Dalbat presents her 'Buxaira' collection in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid’s off schedule in which she commits to slow fashion concepts 100% Made in Spain with unique pieces created with fabrics from the last artisan loom in the province of Granada. The crafts of the Alpujarra and La Taha materialize in fabrics made from textile waste through a traditional and historically circular process that Dalbat and her team bring to the new collection. Coats, over-shirts, waistcoats and capes are built with new patterns and fabrics are hand-embroidered with methacrylate, glass beads and fringes combining them with wool tops, neoprene sweatshirts and large scarves. The recycled fabrics result in double-sided, canvas, crepe, washed satin, natural silk, vegan sheepskin and corduroy in a range of colours, from chocolate brown to eggshell, emerald green and pink shrimp. All this combined with intentional tributes to the traditional stripes of the Alpujarra fabrics together with digital prints that evoke the landscape of Granada, the fashion designer's hometown.

Eduardo Navarrete returns to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid’s off schedule with his N-61 collection. Drawing inspiration from his hometown, Torrevieja, the designer takes as references the folklore and 1970’s style souvenirs from the Costa Blanca, the blue stone benches located in the Paseo Marítimo and the pink salt flats of the Lagunas de la Mata Natural Park. The collection, to which the S-61 Delfín Torrevieja submarine gives its name, is made up of blue tones that recreate the Mediterranean, contrasting hues in fuchsia, green and fluorine yellow, present in a fashion proposal made up of silk, cotton and raffia. Digital printing, the firm’s hallmark, is reflected on different garments in the swimwear collection made up of bikinis, swimsuits, kimonos, capes in XL version, shorts, oversize T-shirts and original beachwear items that appear reinvented in the runway.

La firma presenta la segunda colección de Alfonso Pérez como director creativo de la mítica casa en el calendario off de la Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. Una colección inspirada en los perfumes de la marca, en concreto en su fragancia Femme, la cual se define como un aroma fresco, transparente y amaderado con fuerte personalidad. The fashion brand presents Alfonso Pérez’s second collection as creative director of the legacy house in the off schedule of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. A fashion collection inspired by the brand's perfumes, specifically the Femme fragrance, which is defined as a fresh, transparent and woody aroma with a strong personality. The designer plays at being an alchemist to conceive a new aesthetic for a sophisticated and modern urban woman who strides towards new aesthetic codes. Ángel Schlesser suggests very structured garments created upon high-quality fabrics: cashmere, wool, silk and organza, with a selection of colours that evoke and remind us of fragrance vessels. Flowers, citrus fruits or wood are reflected in this collection, which seeks to imbue the street with a vital essence.