The 080 Barcelona Fashion Week consolidates its commitment to circular fashion
During four days, the platform gathered 26 fashion shows and parallel proposals around sustainability
Circularity, emerging talent and craftsmanship have been the keys around which the latest edition of the 080 Barcelona Fashion Week has revolved. For four days, Marina Vela-Port Vell hosted 26 fashion shows and an extensive program of activities to showcase the creations of established and emerging brands, as well as international proposals, which have highlighted the strength of a sector with a great economic, industrial and commercial impact in Catalonia.
According to official data, fashion generates a turnover of more than 17.5 billion euros in our country, brings together 953 companies and employs 73,660 people. The platform has served as an "international projection of Catalan fashion, reinforcing its role as a showcase for talent, an engine of competitiveness and a meeting point for its entire ecosystem", as pointed out by the Minister of Business and Labour, Miquel Sàmper, at its inauguration.
Circular fashion, sustainability and diversity marked an edition that combined established firms, such as Custo Barcelona, Guillermina Baeza and Escorpion, with emerging brands and new talents, such as 404 Studio, Dominnico and Outsiders Division. The circular fashion project 080 REBORN opened the fashion shows with a true statement of intent, while David Catalán was in charge of closing the event. The lineup also included Surkana, Inma Linares, SKFK, Acceptance Letter, Alexandri Studio, Antonio Acuario, Benavente, Bibenca, Boltad, Compte Spain, Crypta, Gau, L’Amar, Louis Gabriel Nouchi, Nathalie Chandler, O’Barret, Pat Equilux and Sohuman.
Praise for craftsmanship
080 REBORN celebrated its fifth edition with NÒMADE, a collection creatively directed by Fermín & Gilles to claim the potential of reused garments and upcycling. Parallel to the fashion shows, the Open Area allowed for live tracking of the entire program in a free space open to the public with a broad program of activities.
The 080Spot_SpainGallery, dedicated to the promotion of designer fashion and emerging brands, combined exhibitions, pop-ups, workshops, and debate sessions. Participants included the firms Alexandri Studio, Auvrey, Bibencia, Bico, Callnax, Erax, Gau, Gonter, House of Hedra, Jane Bardot, Karla Aguilar, Maarouf103, Maison Moonsieur, Maria Ruiz Brand, Rafaela Knitwear, Ruinas, Svvva, Toda Frágil, Ulanka, and Victoria Hidalgo.
The programming included different talks on the impact of social media, content creation, and the application of artificial intelligence in fashion, as well as workshops linked to garment customization, experimental fabrics, art applied to fashion, and contemporary jewelry.
080 Barcelona Fashion, in alliance with Artesania Catalunya, also presented a new edition of 080_BeyondCrafts, a space for reflection on the creative processes of contemporary craftsmanship and its relationship with fashion and culture.
From the traditional espadrille to digital manufacturing, the exhibition "Ceci n’est pas une sabata" reviewed almost a century of history of artisanal footwear and showed how current creators reinvent this craft with new materials and techniques, without renouncing the legacy of tradition, with a selection of artisanal brands such as Aftersoniccc, Aldanondoyfdez, Ball Pagès, Castañer, Evarist Bertran, La Manual Alpargatera, Mates, Norman Vilalta, and Roig Vilaró.
New premiere
One of the novelties of this edition was the premiere of PLEC · Barcelona Fashion Culture, a new platform created within the framework of the 2025-2030 Strategic Fashion Plan of the Barcelona City Council to reinforce the cultural dimension of fashion and connect it with the citizenry and different creative disciplines.
PLEC featured two initiatives in its debut. PLEC · Barcelona Fashion Culture · Vol. 1 brought together on October 21 and 22 at the Tinglados del Port Vell a program that combined fashion, image, publishing, music, art, and performance to claim Barcelona as a space for creation and contemporary culture. Curated by Francesca Tur, the event paid special attention to the publishing tradition linked to fashion and new forms of creative expression. On the other hand, PLEC · 080 on screen, brought the fashion shows live to different public spaces in Barcelona through a mobile itinerant screen.
One of the great protagonists of the proposal was “ARCHIVE ACTIVATION 3.137”, an installation curated by Luis Venegas, which opened its extensive archive to the public to explore the relationship between Barcelona and fashion through publications and editorial culture. The initiative was completed with conversations, podcasts, musical performances, and performative actions that connected different disciplines and generations of Barcelona's contemporary culture.
The annual Texfor conference, which is also part of the official agenda of the 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, featured different sessions of specialized knowledge and experiences of AI application in industrial environments and the vision of professionals and companies in the textile sector.
The 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, which has the impetus of the Department of Business and Labor, through the Consortium of Commerce, Crafts and Fashion of Catalonia (CCAM), with the support of the Barcelona City Council and the collaboration of the Barcelona Provincial Council, has also had the support of 7 sponsors and 10 collaborators this year.
Once again, the 080 Barcelona Fashion has served as a space for reflection and projection to promote values such as sustainability, circularity, diversity, and the connection between fashion, craftsmanship, and contemporary culture.
