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080 Barcelona Fashion closes 38th edition with 18,500 attendees and 26 shows
Four days of shows at the Port Vell ended on Friday, 23 October, alongside a new city-run PLEC festival and a preview of spring-summer 2027 trends. Organisers and press gave different crowd figures for the runway, the Open Area and PLEC.
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In brief
El País reported 18,500 attendees across the shows, Open Area and PLEC, while El Periódico counted more than 15,500 at the shows alone, about 500 more than the previous edition.
Ouineta, Julieta, Mala Rodríguez, Sita Abellán, Metrika and Loles León were seen at shows by 404 Studio, Nathalie Chandler, Dominnico and Louis Gabriel Nouchi.
The city council's new PLEC festival drew more than 3,000 people over two afternoons, while the Open Area reached more than 6,000 visitors against 3,600 in April, according to El Periódico.
- Day 1080 Reborn opened the week with its NÒMADE collection
- Day 3Louis Gabriel Nouchi closed the day with the Volver show
- 23 OctDavid Catalán's show closed the 38th edition
Attendance and format
The 38th edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion closed on Friday, 23 October, after four days of shows at the Port Vell in Barcelona. The programme featured 26 shows by Spanish brands plus a French guest designer, Louis Gabriel Nouchi. Attendance figures differ by source. El País reported 18,500 attendees across the shows, the Open Area and the new PLEC festival, while El Periódico put the shows alone at more than 15,500, about 500 more than at the previous edition. Marta Coca, head of fashion and project manager of the event, gave a different breakdown: around 14,000 people at the shows, 4,000 visitors to the Open Area and some 3,000 at PLEC. Coca described the edition this way:
“It has been the edition with the most emerging names on the calendar and with more varied aesthetics among them.”
The week's main beats are charted below.
Designers and the front row
The first day opened with 080 Reborn, whose NÒMADE collection was the fifth edition of a project backed by the organiser, the Agència de Residus de Catalunya and Girbau LAB, creatively directed by Fermín & Gilles. Louis Gabriel Nouchi presented in Barcelona for the first time, and his Volver show on the third day reworked archive pieces with references to Pedro Almodóvar's films, with actress Loles León among his guests. In the front row at 404 Studio sat the Catalan artist Ouineta and singer Julieta, while singer Mala Rodríguez attended Nathalie Chandler's show. Dominnico drew DJ and model Sita Abellán, singer Metrika and writer Kitty Lever. L'Amar, the label of Zaragoza-born designer Nacho Lamar, showed Desertores, his tenth men's collection, which draws on people who protected Spanish art during the Civil War and refers to wartime propaganda posters and Picasso's Guernica. Paco Benavente, a 35-year-old Valencian designer who won an emerging design prize at Valencia Fashion Week in 2015, returned to the catwalk with Nomeolvides, his third collection at 080, after stepping away to teach. In an interview with El País, he said:
“I think a brand is consolidated when you have reached the identity you want to define and represent you.”
Trends for spring-summer 2027
La Razón, which used the shows to preview the season, reported that metallic finishes will replace satin, in livelier shades rather than only gold and silver. Custo Barcelona showed reflective and iridescent fabrics in plain colours and in ethnic or floral prints, which the outlet said can be worn by day as well as at night. Fringes returned to the runway, with Spanish brand Escorpion showing them on dresses and bags. The report also says long skirts are giving way to mini cuts, and that romantic floral motifs are back. It links the fringes to the Paris and Milan fashion weeks, where they were also seen.
PLEC and what comes next
The city council's new festival, PLEC · Barcelona Cultura de Moda, drew more than 3,000 people over two afternoons with music, art, independent publications and performances in the Tinglados del Port Vell. A large mobile screen carried the shows to public squares in four neighbourhoods.
The Open Area also grew, with El Periódico reporting more than 6,000 visitors against 3,600 in April, while Coca's figure for the Open Area was 4,000. Seventeen international media outlets covered the edition, and more than 50 content creators posted about it on social networks.
- April (previous edition)
- 3600 visitors
- October edition (more than 6,000)
- 6000 visitors
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For next season, Coca said it would be interesting to bring in urban labels such as Nude Project, which she said would probably not fit the traditional runway format, with a performance after the shows presenting their collections.
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Sources and context
- LaVanguardiaMarta Coca on the final balance of 080: It would be interesting to incorporate brands like Nude ProjectMarta Coca, sobre el balance final de la 080: "Sería interesante incorporar a firmas como Nude Project · original in Spanish
- La RazónFrom Custo Barcelona to Dominnico: everything we will wear in spring-summer 2027De Custo Barcelona a Dominnico: todo lo que llevaremos en primavera-verano de 2027 · original in Spanish
- EL PAÍSPaco Benavente, designer: People in Spain understand unisex fashion. It is another thing whether they respect itPaco Benavente, diseñador: "La gente en España entiende la moda unisex. Otra cosa es que la respete · original in Spanish
- EL PAÍSFrom reinvented corsetry to the resistance basic: 080 Barcelona Fashion claims the emotional value of clothingDe la corsetería reinventada al básico de resistencia: 080 Barcelona Fashion reivindica el valor emocional de la ropa · original in Spanish
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Spanish filmmaker whose films inspired Nouchi's Volver show
- Mala Rodríguez
- Singer and composer who attended Nathalie Chandler's show
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