The MADRID ES MODA window shop contest has arrived
What is a festival without its awards?, we ask ourselves in MADRID ES MODA. That’s why we set to work out and organize the 1st MADRID ES MODA Window shop Contest. An initiative that we premiere during the 4th edition of the urban fashion festival, from February 13th to 21st, with the aim of ‘dressing […]
Tres jóvenes diseñadores para el fin de la serie ‘Velvet’
Los grandes almacenes para las grandes emociones (televisivas) llegan a su fin. Un adiós del que la Asociación Creadores de Moda de España, a través de MADRID ES MODA, ha sido también protagonista gracias al Concurso de Diseño Velvet. Los tres ganadores han visto hechos realidad sus modelos, que formarán parte de una de las […]
Three young designers for the finale of the TV series ‘Velvet’
The big department stores for the big (TV) emotions reaches the finale. A goodbye in which the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España, through MADRID ES MODA, has also been a protagonist thanks to the Velvet Design Competition. The three winners have seen their models become a reality and will be part of one […]
Flying I go, flying I come
.. fashion is always that: future, prediction, divination of the elusive tendencies that will come and go, fleeting as the wind … Precisely because fashions change, fashion as a phenomenon exists and remains.” I have had the privilege of reading, before arriving at the bookstores at the end of the year, the book The Eighth […]
Madrid es Moda closing party
MADRID ES MODA, the urban action of the Asociación Creadores de Moda de España (ACME) for Fashion Week, said goodbye to the IIIrd edition with a closing party organized once again with magazine Hola! Fashion and Hotel Iberostar Las Letras Gran Via. An event attended by designers, models, actresses and professionals from the fashion world, […]
A solidarity T-Shirt
The image of a confident woman, feisty and fearless. So is for the designer Juana Martín MADRID ES MODA, and so she has captured it in a T-shirt “so that everyone can be a participant in the importance vested on fashion and so that fashion may be breathed throughout the city.” The designer from Cordoba […]
Tu biblioteca ‘fashion’
La moda se crea, se viste… y también se lee. Las librerías participantes en MADRID ES MODA nos proponen su título básico para empezar a construir la biblioteca fashion ideal, y otros cuatro libros de fondo de armario con los que disfrutar de este universo creativo. Atención, que hay sorpresas. Librería Atticus-Finch, calle de la […]
Your fashion library
Fashion is created, dressed … and read. Participating bookstores in MADRID ES MODA propose their basic title to start building the ideal fashion library, and four other books as a basic wardrobe with which to enjoy this creative universe. Attention, there are surprises. Bookshop Atticus-Finch, calle de la Palma, 78 Top: The Empire of Fashion: […]
The “Maytakeover” begins
Another edition more, Mayte de la Iglesia, model, influencer, blogger and avowed fan of ACME, takes the reins of the Social Networks of the Association (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. What in the sector is called a “takeover” and we call “Maytakeover”. The objective? Live the days of the fashion shows as […]
Diseños canarios al sol
Gran Canaria Moda Cálida ha elegido la sede de la Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España para presentar lo mejor del diseño hecho en Gran Canaria en Diseños al sol, exposición dentro del programa de actividades MADRID ES MODA. Bañadores y lencería se exponen en este marco inigualable para la moda, que sirve como […]
Canarias sun designs
Gran Canaria Moda Cálida has chosen the headquarters of the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España to present the best of design made in Gran Canaria in “Sun Designs”, an exhibit within the program of activities MADRID ES MODA. Swimsuits and lingerie presented in this unique setting for fashion, acting as support in the […]
Piedra, papel y tijera
Arquitectura y moda tienen en planos y patrones sus líneas de cruce; en la piedra, el papel y la tijera, sus iconos. Una relación a la que MADRID ES MODA se acerca en la muestra Arquicosturas, en el Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. DEVOTA&LOMBA, MIGUEL MARINERO, JORGE VÁZQUEZ, MAYA HANSEN y ULISES MÉRIDA dialogan en los escaparates con las creaciones de seis […]
Rock, paper and scissors
Architecture and fashion have in blueprints and patterns their crossing lines; in rock, paper and scissors, their icons. A relationship that MADRID ES MODA approaches in the exhibit Arquicosturas, in the Official College of Architects of Madrid. DEVOTA & LOMBA, MIGUEL MARINERO, JORGE VAZQUEZ, MAYA HANSEN and ULISES MERIDA dialogue in window shops with the […]
Galerías Velvet busca diseñador
Es la serie que ha hecho de la moda su razón de ser y de los años 50 y 60 su contexto histórico y estético. Velvet ha presentado en el Festival de Televisión de Vitoria-Gasteiz su cuarta y última temporada. Un final en el que sabremos que será del amor entre Ana Ribera (Paula Echevarría) y […]
Galerías Velvet is seeking a designer
It is the TV series that has made fashion its raison d’être and the 50s and 60s its historical and aesthetic context. Velvet presented, at the Television Festival of Vitoria-Gasteiz, its fourth and final season. A finale in which we will know the outcome of the love story between Ana Ribera (Paula Echevarría) and Alberto […]
Madriz es Moda, a beer
With a genuine soul, but modern and cosmopolitan. So is the beer Chueca by Madriz Hop Republic that this fall wears a special look thanks to the collaboration with MADRID ES MODA. The new label dresses its representative cat in a floral pattern it vindicates Spanish fashion and seeks to boost its presence in capital´s […]
Una cerveza Madriz es Moda
De alma castiza, pero vanguardista y cosmopolita. Así es la cerveza Chueca de Madriz Hop Republic, que este otoño luce un look especial gracias a la colaboración con MADRID ES MODA. La nueva etiqueta, que viste al representativo gato con un estampado de flores, revindica la moda española y busca potenciar su presencia en cada uno de […]
Haute Couture nails
Manicures inspired by the collections of Dolores Cortés, Anton Heunis, Miguel Marinero and Leyre Valiente. This is the original proposal offered by the beauty salon Mi Calle de NY in this IIIrd edition of Madrid es Moda. Hand Manicure Couture is an initiative that focuses on the fusion between fashion and beauty, showcasing designer’s creativity through […]
Nace Madridesmoda.com
Si como afirma Miuccia Prada, “la moda es el lenguaje instantáneo”, internet es su medio de expresión por excelencia. Por eso, desde que ACME inició esta aventura maravillosa que es MADRID ES MODA, ha querido hacer de la web una experiencia creativa en sí misma. Con ese objetivo, en esta tercera edición, del 12 al 20 de septiembre, hemos […]
Madrid es Moda dresses up by Juana Martín
Juana Martín has been commissioned to design the new graphic image of MADRID ES MODA / MADRID IS FASHION for the IIIrd edition, to be held from 12th to 20th of September. “It’s been a challenge. Inspiration has come from many fronts: my designs, my roots, my dreams … The most important thing has been […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
La Modista’: cine de estreno con mucho glamour
“Es una historia valiente, divertida, cómica, misteriosa y, en algunas ocasiones, extraña, con una intensa relación madre-hija en el centro de todo”.
A sculptural Marinero at the Museum of Decorative Arts
“It is fashion, but it is closer to sculpture,” admitted designer Miguel Marinero regarding his exhibition Del Arte, del Artista y del Territorio, at the National Museum of Decorative Arts until April 24th. It is a collection consisting of 29 garments made by Marinero parting from the intervention of sculptor Agustín Ibarrola in the breakwater […]
Apotheosis of Gotor in Madrid es Moda
“Manifestation of enthusiasm at some point in a celebration or collective act”. That’s ‘apotheosis’ in its second acceptation in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). But tending to the classic taste that drives the Bilbao designer Manuel de Gotor, maybe we should stop at the third acceptation: “concession of godly dignity to heroes.” […]
How to be “The Fifth Instagramer”
David Delfin @davidelfin_co, Mayte de la Iglesia @maytedlaiglesia, Juan Vidal @mrjuanvidal and Maria Leon @marialeonstyle were elected official instagramers of MADRID ES MODA. With the hash tag #madridesmoda, said designers and fashionistas will be exceptional witness of MADRID ES MODA, an urban intervention organized by the Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España (ACME) accompanying, […]