Madrid Fashion Week: Rabaneda Spring:Summer 2013

It was only last season that (Mercedes Benz) Madrid Fashion Week was included in the international fashion week schedule and it looks like the Spanish capital is already feeling the benefits. For me, it's really interesting to watch, though from afar, the industry developing.
Just as in London, I like finding out about the new young talents showing in Madrid. I never want to miss anything or anyone who might be the big name of tomorrow. That's one of the reasons why I really enjoyed Rabaneda's SS13 collection.
The designer seemed to be looking for a cleansing of some sort through his clothes. The first part of the show consisted of geometric prints and plays on cut-outs that referenced Rabaneda's southern roots – his influence of mudéjar architecture with a modern twist. These structured pieces were contrasted with layered ultra light silks.
The second part of the line consisted almost exclusively of black and whites – here is the cleansing. The focus was, instead, in the shapes and the construction, which was almost referencing kimonos.

Check out Rabaneda's previous collections here.

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Davidelfin FW12: The first must-have of the season
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(Mercedes Benz) Madrid Fashion Week closed its latest edition last Sunday after its first year on the new schedule, which aims at including it into the fashion calendar. For the past few years it's clashed with London Fashion Week, which drove interest away.
I will have a highlights post later this week but I wanted to first share my favourite collection. Davidelfin has been my favourite Spanish designer for quite a few years. You might remember one of his best collections, spring/summer 2010.
What I like the most about Delfín's collections is the fact that his clothes look almost like a second skin, even on the runway. There is always a sort of ease to the way you wear his brand. Most of his pieces, always have a very interesting construction and a sort of forward-thinking feel.
My favourite part of the FW12 collection, entitled WILL, were the midnight blue leopard outfits. There is something super luxurious in the use of the material, which contrasts with the super simple cuts. I also love how the very dark hue makes the golden zips, studs and buttons really stand out. The jacket and the body-con dress are definitely a FW12 must.

PS. Don't miss this video of Alaska, Mario and Bimba (who you will only know if you're Spanish) performing at the end of the show. I love it!

Inside out

We're back! Sorry for the few days absence but Giulia and I felt like taking a little break after the very intense fashion month coverage. From now on we'll be reporting on the rest of the shows we loved as well as on anything relevant for FW10. Today's post comes from the hand of two very close people to me —my sister Paloma (left) and my favourite Spanish fashionista Paula (right). They were kind enough to attend the SS11 Ana Locking show during Madrid Fashion Week as Giulia and I couldn't make it because it coincided with LFW. Big thanks to my sis for taking the pictures and to Pau for writing the review of the collection.

Red light panels, loud electronic music, and then, there was light. Ana Locking opened in Madrid Cibeles fashion week, to a show filled with psychedelic designs, transparencies, asymmetrical shapes, and magical lace. INSIDES was the name given to the collection, and it was that exactly which inspired the prints and the colours, pictures of the insides of the human body viewed through a microscopic lens, introducing abstract compositions that reminded of innocent and beautiful sites of terrestrial nature.
The weight appropriate models, as Cibeles fashion week rules establish, marched down the runway with dresses in various warm colours, and lace dresses and skirts that belong in the closet of Goddess Dello Russo. Above all, the show was rather provocative, the lace and transparencies were truly a pleasure for the eye, as were the dresses and trousers that flowed as if drawing the shapes of the wind. There was a certain juxtaposition, in pairing up the trousers, and the lace skirts and dresses, with clean cut blazers displaying a bare back, and held together with leather belts, which broke the sobriety of such a classic garment. Locking portrays a woman comfortable in her own skin (or insides in this case), with low back and necklines, provocative and sexy, yet subtle and elegant enough, to wear anywhere, from a yacht party in Corcega, to dinner at sunset in Ibiza. Ana Locking dressed the outside with the insides, combined lace and leather, used asymmetrical lines and clean cuts, and merged science and fashion, to a final triumphant result, giving us all yet another reason to keep Madrid Cibeles Fashion Week on our radar.

Check out Ana Locking's website here. You can also follow my sister and Paula on twitter to see what they get up to.
I'm off.

[Pictures: Ana Locking, soVIPzone]