The Best Fashion Designers From Spain
Now we will talk about a different topic than usual.We won’t be talking about travelling or museums, today will be about my real passion and love – we will talk about fashion and fashion designers who work and were born in Spain.
A special style and more modern vision of beauty always show in the spanish labels. All of us of course best know Spain for its high-street stores like: Zara,Mango, Pull & Bear. But there’s much more to be known of the fashion scene that Spain opens for us.
Cristobal Balenciaga
Coco Chanel called him “the only true couturier,” “Balenciaga alone is able to cut fabric, simulate it and sew a dress from it with her own hands. We are nothing more than draftsmen. Christian Dior considered him “our common teacher.”
His mother was a seamstress, and as a child, while his mother sat at work, Balenciaga often spent time with her. At the age of twelve, he began working as an apprentice with a tailor. When Balenciaga was a teenager, the Marquise de Casa Torres – the most prominent aristocrat in the city – became his client and patroness. She sent him to Madrid, where the future fashion designer was officially trained in the art of sewing. Balenciaga is one of the few designers in the history of fashion who could personally participate in the process of designing, cutting fabrics, and sewing new models of dresses, which symbolized the height of his work.
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Manolo Blahnik
One of the most famous shoe designers in the world.
The famous designer of women’s shoes set the world upside down and became famous after the movie “Sex in the City.” His shoes are an object of so much desire , that attracts the excited looks of men, rivals and colleges. This high-end shoe designer has been producing his world-famous footwear since the 1970s and counts the likes of Bianca Jagger, Beyoncé and Madonna among his fans (the latter once described his shoes as ‘better than sex’). He is famous for reviving the stiletto heel, which features heavily in his designs (he despises wedges). Now in his 70s, Blahnik still designs each model by himself and has over 25,000 shoes on display in his home in Bath. A true fashion legend that know all around the world.
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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada (Agatha Ruiz de la Prada) – the best-selling designer in Spain, boldly combining vibrant colors and original shapes. Over more than 20 years of creativity, Agatha managed to paint all the objects of design thought in bright colors: clothes, including children’s, shoes, furniture, room space. The work of the Spanish fashion designer is full of frenzy of color, a game with details, even humor.
Agatha is the founder of Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, one of the largest women’s and children’s clothing companies in the past few decades. The company originated in the 1980s, when an unknown Spanish woman, Agatha Ruiz, began to produce “fashionable clothes”. She was the first to sew things that young people could freely wear in clubs and at concerts. Agatha de la Prada and Sentmenat stepped into the fashion world in 1981, creating and presenting her first women’s collection in Madrid. Having achieved real success, she opened her studio in the Spanish capital and began to participate in fashion shows in Madrid and Barcelona.
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Paco Rabanne
Francisco “Paco” Rabaneda Cuervo, better known as Paco Rabanne – Spanish couturier. He fled from Spain to France with his mother when a civil war broke out in Spain. Paco Rabanne was born on February 18, 1934. He began his career in the fashion industry, creating jewelry for such eminent designers as Givenchy, Dior and Balenciaga. Couturier founded his own fashion house in 1966. To create clothes in his strange and pompous style, he used such unconventional materials as metal, paper, plastic and glass. In 1968, Raban began collaborating with Puig, and as a result, Paco Rabanne began to sell.
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Mariano fortuny
Mariano Fortuni and Madrazo was the son of the painter Mariano Fortuni and Marsal, as well as the Spanish fashion designer, who opened his haute couture house in 1906 and continued his career until 1946. Fortuny was born on May 11, 1871 into an artistic family in Granada. His father died when Fortune was three years old. Then his mother, the daughter of another famous artist, Raimundo de Madrazo and Garrett, moved with his family to Paris. His parents had a great passion for materials and, in addition, owned their own collection of fabrics bought in various stores in Europe, where they visited. His father, as a hobby, even assembled metal structures and armor of past times. It was this exposition of fabrics that led him to grow and begin to model his own fabrics and dresses.
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When you come to Spain you should take a look and see these legendary spanish designer brands and their designs. Because fashion it’s not about clothes, first of all it’s about art and culture, inspiration, and beauty. We hope that in your next trip you take time to experience this aspect of Spain as well, because it is an often overlooked aspect of travel that offers the same rewarding experience of seeing something new. “MADE IN SPAIN” truly represents this beautiful country.
