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Organisers claim the 47th Madrid Fashion Week will be the best everPasarela Cibeles, Madrid's most important fashion event, opened on Monday with no further setbacks following the rejection of three British models for not making the minimum weight demanded by regional health authorities.
Designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada was chosen to open the 47th Madrid Fashion Week with a collection that did not stray from her trademark style of multicoloured garments, flowery prints and cut-out hearts reminiscent of a naïf painting. For the first time, however, the Madrid designer has combined traditional materials like wool and cotton with others such as plastic.
Jesús del Pozo, another heavyweight of the Spanish fashion scene, presented a completely different collection based on austere lines and the chivalric virtues of femininity as depicted in epic medieval literature, with a spectacular mise-en-scène where models wearing capes and bonnets stepped to the sound of horses' hooves and ringing church bells.
The mood changed again with Duyos, whose collection "Theorems" had women dressed in geometric figures and natural colours with a preference for browns, greens and off-whites. His accessories were especially striking, including the woolen eye-and-ear caps shaped like squares, rectangles and circles.
Next up was the Basque designer Fernando Lemoniez, who at the opening of Cibeles referred to the government's recent initiative to change clothing sizes to better fit women's bodies as an issue relating "not to a problem of anorexia, but to a problem of obesity."
The best of the best
Other designers due to present their wares on Monday were Angel Schlesser, Victorio & Lucchino and Elio Bernhayer, all major names in Spanish fashion. Some other relevant names on the roster were David Delfín, Miriam Ocariz, Ailanto, Amaya Arzuaga and Ana Locking. This last designer's proposals will be analysed with particular interest as her collection represents her first solo effort since she and her partner split up, putting an end to the successful brand Locking Shocking.
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