The 38th edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion has been held this week at the Port Vell with a lineup of fashion shows that has combined established and emerging proposals, and a parallel program that has brought part of the activity to different points of the Catalan capital. We compile what caught our attention the most from what is much more than a showcase of glamour.

It is most common for guests to feel a little uncomfortable when they have to be photographed. They always ask something: Like this? Are you sure? Or should I position myself differently? Judit Mascó, on the other hand, does not need instructions. She herself explains that her profession is to play at seducing the camera. But, conversely, she downplays the photo she has on WhatsApp. She says her daughters are horrified that she doesn't change it, because it is already old, but she doesn't think about it. She accompanies the image with a phrase, a Buddhist principle: let the river flow.

Without invitation or queues. Fashion enthusiasts will be able to follow some of the 080 Barcelona Fashion shows from the street, which opens today, with what will be one of the novelties of an edition that aims to claim fashion beyond the catwalk. Thus, within the framework of PLEC, an initiative of the Barcelona City Council, the fashion shows can be enjoyed from various points in Barcelona through a large screen that will be installed each day in a different area of the city. Today it will be the turn of Plaça de Can Fabra in Sant Andreu, Wednesday at Plaça de les Glòries, Thursday at Plaça del Mar in Barceloneta, and Friday in front of the Born Market. "The goal is to bring fashion closer to the citizens," highlights Nàdia Quevedo, commissioner of Economic Promotion, Commerce, Catering, and Fashion Plan of the Barcelona city council. On October 21 and 22, the Port Vell sheds will host a program with talks, musical performances, and artistic proposals such as an installation dedicated to the editorial archive of creative director Luis Venegas.

Our history can be explained through kings, wars, revolutions, and great inventions. But it can also be explained through the stones, sediments, volcanoes, and minerals that have conditioned human life throughout the centuries. Without all the resources that the Earth offers, many of the great civilizations would not have been possible. And without the geological processes that transform it, our history would have been very different. This is the perspective proposed by the geologist and popularizer Esther Lapaz, who invites us to retrace the past of humanity through geology in her new book Con los pies en la Tierra (Ediciones B, 2026).

When Conchi found out that incandescent light bulbs, the classic ones, were going to disappear, she had an anxiety attack. Luckily, Dolors, her partner of many years, gave her a paper bag so she could breathe slowly and emerge from her distress. That same afternoon they went to Monsó i Benet, on Muntaner Street, their go-to hardware store, and inquired about the dramatic situation. Indeed, they had stopped being manufactured. Faced with that devastating news, they began to buy every incandescent bulb they could find to stock up for life.

On October 5th, in the middle of the midterm election campaign, Donald Trump delivered a speech in Nebraska. Nothing new: patriotic grandiloquence and discursive posturing about the greatness of America. Once the speech ended, Y.M.C.A., by the Village People, played—that song which in the seventies became an icon of gay culture and which today Trump has adopted as his campaign soundtrack. The president then gave himself over to his now-characteristic robotic dance, until a movement revealed an unexpected detail: the suit's label, with the name Jos. A. Bank. An American brand that, at first glance, seemed consistent with one of Trump's most recurring proclamations: consuming products manufactured in the United States. But is the case of Trump and his protectionist measures in fashion exceptional?

When Pablo was in the pit of depression, when all light and perspective had faded, one day he managed to find a way out through paintings. Suddenly, art, which he knew so well as a specialized journalist, served to help him escape from that darkness that had him trapped. He observed different paintings that told him things, he looked into the eyes of characters who understood him, who perhaps had felt the same and who told him not to worry, that everything would be alright.

Have you ever needed to eat chocolate after a very intense day? Or have you felt comforted by eating that dish your mother used to make that you hadn't tasted in such a long time? The relationship between food and emotions is deep and has historical roots because, in reality, food "fulfills many other functions beyond nourishing us," explains Juana Fernández, psychologist, dietitian-nutritionist, and co-author of the book Emotional Cooking (Temas de Hoy, 2026). "Food can accompany us, it can provide us with pleasure, be part of a celebration, connect us with other people, or help us momentarily to calm down," she explains. One only needs to remember Proust's madeleine and the torrent of sensations triggered by the bite of a simple madeleine for the protagonist of In Search of Lost Time.

When we still thought that the phenomenon of low cost and Airbnb would not change the world for the worse, the family formed by Judith, Robert, and the two little ones, Marc and Mateo, headed towards Cassà de la Selva to catch, first thing in the morning, a flight bound for London. Since the flight was delayed and they had time to kill, they decided to stop by Santa Coloma de Farners.

What can wolves teach us about bonds, intuition, life, and death? When still a psychology student, Patricia Pasquín first stepped into the high-altitude desert of New Mexico, in the United States, she was not aware of everything she was about to discover. She had only arrived there to make one of her childhood dreams come true: to work with wild animals.

Where the Pyrenees plunge into the Mediterranean Sea, some rocks resist submergence. The water reaches great depths close to the coast, and yet, some islets protrude, like perennial icebergs. Two of these islets are found at the tip of Cap de Creus, near the lighthouse: s'Encalladora and the Massa d'Or (or Maça d'Oros).

Naomi Campbell, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman, Lily Collins, Michelle Williams, Kim Kardashian, Amber Heard, Lucy Liu, Elton John and Ricky Martin are just some of the celebrities who have turned to surrogacy to have a family. Recently, singer Lady Gaga and television creator Lena Dunham have also joined this practice, which is illegal in Spain, both supposedly aligned with feminist ideas, but who, when it came to starting a family, chose a path condemned by a large part of the women's rights movement. Although they are not the first to opt for surrogacy, they are two of the celebrities who have been most harshly criticized for doing so. Many of their followers have understood the use of another woman's body to gestate, a process that is usually accompanied by a financial transaction, as a sign of vital contradiction.

For a decade, the ideal young woman wore neutral tones, emptied her closets, and turned order, self-control, and productivity into an aesthetic. It was 2014 and Sophia Amoruso was unaware that a hashtag, #girlboss, would change everything. A hand extended to thehustle-culture, the culture of busyness, accompanied by a minimalist trend in dressing and decorating everything, drew an apparently self-sufficient femininity: a young woman who worked, was entrepreneurial, took care of her body, maintained an impeccable appearance and home and routines to the minute, always hand in hand with a specialty coffee (or a matcha latte, nowadays). Now, the pendulum seems to have swung back, after years of hustle-culture have caused an almost predictable burnout. Ribbons, pastel colors, and extravagant prints are arriving, a whole ode to kitsch, accompanied by a feeling of nostalgia and a need to recover play, to be little girls again. From the girlbossto the girl dinner (the least elaborate girl's dinner) or girl math (the mental gymnastics to justify an expense); from minimalism to maximalism; from the young woman who could do it all to the young woman who wants to play again. The whimsy-maxxing is one of the most recent expressions to define this phenomenon.

You have had an impossible week at work: one meeting after another, emails at all hours, a project that has become complicated, and a boss who asks for more than you can handle. Friday arrives and, instead of stopping, you tell yourself that you can still hold on a little longer. You work through the weekend, give up the gym, eat in front of the computer, and keep postponing rest until the situation improves. You might think you are being strong. But, according to neurologist Mónica Kurtis, you are doing exactly the opposite of what being resilient means.

At Consell de Cent with Enric Granados, the observer has a very creamy pistachio ice cream, right at the opposite corner of a brunch spot full of girls who laugh and laugh and don't seem to be from here. A burly man, with bushy eyebrows and a grumpy face, walks an English bulldog that walks with exactly the same hip sway. Next to him, a sophisticated girl with a designer coat and the poise of a sphinx leads a stylized greyhound that looks like it came straight from a Milan runway. We even have the local version of Kim Kardashian: a girl with infinite nails and a tight dress holding a Pomeranian so perfectly groomed it's painful, as if it just came out of a beauty salon. The Weimaraner, agile and muscular, goes back and forth at full speed while the gym guy runs his daily kilometers. An elegant lady, who takes great care of herself and is always well dressed, makes a perfect pair with the wire-haired dachshund with "whiskers" and eyebrows that give it a very dignified and serious air, ideal for accompanying the lady to have a snack and run errands.

This autumn, decoration trends move away from perfection and claim warmth, material, and personality. Visible grain wood, braided fibers, artisanal-looking ceramics, and colored glass gain prominence in spaces where objects no longer just fulfill a function, but tell a story and claim all the attention.

You open your phone and there is a news story that outrages you. Before you even finish reading the headline, you already feel like sharing it. You react, you write, you continue scrolling. And it is not an isolated incident. The problem, according to neuroscience communicator Núria Martín Muyo, is that we are increasingly living in this immediate response mode.

Dressed in Prada and with a new haircut, Zendaya has reaffirmed herself as one of the queens of fashion at any awards gala. The performer, who aspired to take home the award for best dramatic actress for Euphoria, was one of the most photographed on the red carpet thanks to a beaded dress with a V-neckline and a carefree pixie cut that is already shaping up to be one of the viral hairstyles of the year. The proposal was classic, but at the same time had a sexy touch.

You have just argued with your partner and are convinced that you are right. Instead of explaining it to a friend, you open an artificial intelligence application and describe everything that happened to it. The answer does not wait: it understands how you feel, validates your discomfort, and explains to you why your reaction is so understandable. It might even suggest a message for you to send to them explaining how you feel. When you close the device, it is easy to leave with the feeling that someone has truly listened to you and that, moreover, you were the one who was completely right.

Imagine going back a hundred years, to the Barcelona of 1926. Cinema was still silent and a fashion show could be, literally, an extraordinary spectacle. In Paris, the great houses had begun to use those presentations to showcase the new collections of the designers of the era, but in Catalonia, no one was doing it. Located at the Pla de la Boqueria, Santa Eulalia saw the opportunity and decided to import the formula. “We were pioneers thanks to the vision of my grandfather,” recalls Luis Sans, fourth generation at the helm of the house, founded in 1843. In that adventure, Pere Formosa also played a key role, having started as an apprentice and ending up becoming a master of the house and the driving force behind that event