Barcelona has returned to the fashion world’s spotlight as the 35th edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion unveiled at the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. From April 1st to 4th 2025, the UNESCO World Heritage Site became the pulsating heart of fashion innovation. With 24 designers and brands redefining style across four days of catwalks, the event showcased a compelling mix of Catalan fashion industry’s creative force and growing international momentum.
This season, 080 Barcelona Fashion reaffirmed its dual commitment: to elevate local craftsmanship and to propel emerging voices into the global limelight. Nine debuting brands joined the runway alongside established fashion houses, creating a vibrant mosaic of styles spanning from conceptual minimalism to kinetic theatricality.
A Tapestry of Talents: From Poetic Minimalism to Daring Reinvention
The fashion week unveiled with a meditation on space and silence as the first show, SIMORRA’s “The Space Between”, invoked the Japanese concept of Ma (間). Ma is the interval that gives shape to form. Through diaphanous chiffon, layered transparencies and sculptural guipure, SIMORRA offering this edition a serene and philosophical start. Later of the day, LOLA CASADEMUNT BY MAITE delivered cinematic drama in “Misty Coast”. Inspired by Normandy’s winter costal seascape, the bougainvillea visual and pink color woven into sleek winter garments. The day closed with THE LABEL EDITION, helmed by fashion and luxury marketing experts Véronique Von Siebenthal and Laura Johansson, presenting the latest collection “Rogue”. The collection is a dynamic dialogue between rock defiance and architectural precision, in a palette that transitioned seamlessly from shadow to light, showcasing a true rock-tinged take on timeless elegance moment.
Day two’s highlight is COMPTE SPAIN’s “Objet Trouvé”, a collection rooted in storytelling through texture, sequins, tweed, feathers and a color story that danced between restraint and indulgence. In contrast, 404 STUDIO embraced a chaotic cyberpunk energy drawn from 90s hacker culture and post-punk rebellion, offering oversized silhouettes and metallic sheens in a nod to underground nostalgia. The day’s closing show, ERNESTO NARANJO’s “14” delivered a deeply emotive reinterpretation of the legendary Ziegfeld Girls, transferring it to a refined and conceptual aesthetics. Billowing volumes, textured monochromes and architectural cuts reimagined glamour through a minimalist, almost meditative lens.
On the third day, 080 Barcelona intensified its commitment to emerging talent. AAA STUDIO opened with “BURdeNOUT”, a Gen Z manifesto on exhaustion, expressed through adaptable, oversized silhouettes. DOBLAS made a striking reentry with “RE-DEBUT”, a thoughtful interplay of classic tailoring and theatrical fluidity. JUAN VIDAL’s “Me quiere, no me quiere” dissected vulnerability through daisy motifs and delicate contrasts in silk satin and gabardine. Previously collaborated with Desigual, MARÍA ESCOTÉ brought pop power and upcycled glamour in a collection that was both playful and ethically conscious. The day climaxed while DOMINNICO presented “Lucky Fall 2025” in a kaleidoscope of Klein blue, recycled denim, talismans, and animal prints, infusing Western futurism with nightclub nostalgia. As a brand focusing on building a community, the show attracted a decent amount of global attention on the internet by the presence of famous veteran adult film actress Mia Khalifa opening and closing the show, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK runner-up Tayce and Spanish DJ Virgen Maria gracing the runway.
The four-day fashion marathon comes to an end with ANEL YAOS opened the last day with “María”, a poetic tribute to his sister through a study of white in all its tonal variations. With a touch of red in its design, the collection sculpted shadow, texture and volume into raw emotion. MAISON MOONSIEUR, led by Marc Moon, blended masculine tailoring with speakeasy glamour in “La Rue des Garçonnes”, a tribute to the rebellious women of the 1920s. A fluid interplay of opacity and transparency in his design shaped this ode to androgyny and empowerment. MANÉMANÉ followed with “Unfollow the rules”, a raw and defiant remix of its own codes where asymmetry, collage-like textures, and imperfections celebrated creative freedom above all.
To make fashion more approachable to the public, 080 Barcelona Fashion set up an open area featuring DJ sets, bars, live screenings of the runway, and immersive brand experiences, which can be accessed by all simply through an online registration. The venue is undoubtedly animated by the open area, democratizing access to fashion and inviting the public into the creative process.
More Than a Runway: An Economic Engine and Creative Ecosystem
More than seasonal fashion week, 080 Barcelona Fashion remains an economic engine and cultural incubator, supporting over 80,000 jobs across 13,500 companies in Catalonia, generated a textile industry worth €14.5 billion annually. This year’s edition expanded its global reach with the introduction of “080 Barcelona Fashion Connect”, a digital showroom linking local brands with international buyers through May. Supported by the Catalan fashion cluster MODACC, this initiative turns the event into a hybrid space where physical presence meets digital scalability.
With the support from Generalitat de Catalunya and the Consorci de Comerç, Artesania i Moda (CCAM), 080 Barcelona Fashion continues to invest in the transformation of Catalonia’s fashion landscape — both through its economic impact and its cultural resonance. Participating designers, no matter emerging visionaries or established names, were committed to ethical production, fluid identities and radical self-expression, building a friendly, welcoming and sustainable community to local fashion talents.
In a time when global fashion capitals are rethinking their role in a fast-changing global environment, Barcelona has made a powerful case for creativity grounded in purpose. With “Matamorfosi (Metamorphosis)” as its mantra and main visual concept of this editorial, 080 Barcelona Fashion blend of poetic experimentation and structural reform, standing as a lighthouse in not only of style, but of the resilient spirit of Catalan creativity, ready to resonate far beyond its borders. It’s a convergence of aesthetic exploration, cultural narrative and economic ambition, which positioned fashion not just as product, but as platform, propelling Barcelona to becoming an increasingly vital player on the global style circuit.
