What is urban fashion? Also known as street wear or street fashion? It is that aesthetic of clothing that came from the United States in the eighties, from the urban tribes of that time, from the fashion of breakdance. It consists of wearing jeans combined with a tracksuit jacket, a baseball cap, a sweatshirt with the logo of baseball or basketball teams, Puma sneakers, and clothing brands like Lois. Greatly influenced by cinema, by films like Porky's and Teen Wolf –the jacket worn by Michael J. Fox is pure street wear–, by Boy George, by George Michael. The Wrangler jeans that Freddy Mercury wore at Queen's legendary performance at the Live Aid concert in 1985 at Wembley Stadium. Or the yellow Champion t-shirt that he himself made very fashionable. Or when he wore Puma sneakers and Adidas signed him. Who wore Lois and put the brand at the top? Well, Abba, Rod Stewart, John Lennon, and Johan Cruyff.

Ignasi Pietx (Barcelona, 1965) is the general director of the design and printing company Artyplan and current president of Comertia, the Catalan employers' association for retail trade. Just at the midpoint of his term at the head of the entity, the executive reviews the main demands of the Catalan family business in the retail sector, in two years marked by a good economic performance at the macro level, but at the same time a global instability that has diminished consumer confidence.This June marks two years since his appointment as president of Comertia. In all this time, has trade in Catalonia improved or worsened?

Catalan local commerce stands up to large digital sales platforms like Amazon, Shein, or Glovo, accusing them of "unfair competition" and being one of the reasons for the stagnation of its growth. "These new players operate with different rules of the game [...] and concentrate enormous economies of scale that directly impact the competitiveness of our local commerce: some kind of control is needed," Pimec Comerç president, Mònica Gregori, demanded this Monday in a media briefing from Barcelona.

At 147 Gran de Sant Andreu Street in Barcelona, the same business has been operating since 1897. I don't know if there are many commercial establishments left in the city that can display this fact and flaunt it as an exercise in survival and civic and social service. Yes, the Puig family has owned Cansaladeria Puig since 1957, but before that, more than half a century before that, they owned Emili Bové's sausage shop.

–"Audenis, the pianist says the piano is out of tune and that he can't perform the concert like this."