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1920S GLAMOUR

The eagle-eyed among you will have spied multiplying clusters of sequins and jewels glinting from the rails lately.

Apr 15, 2012 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Fashion

COWORKING SPACES

“This isn’t for me,” we vow, Huck Finn-style, with regards to so-called conventional, monotonous 9-to-5 life.

Apr 2, 2012 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Cover (1 Comments)

Ocho Cuervos

A career in graphic design led VIII to the decision to strike out into the great sketchy unknown and assume a full-time guise of mystery.

Feb 15, 2012 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Books

NOT JUST A LABEL

Digital design showroom extraordinaire NOT JUST A LABEL has been steadily, devotedly pushing some hefty fashion boundaries.

Feb 1, 2012 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Fashion

Pardon

The fragrantly-powdered and rose-tinted past is so often the palette for perfumes today, and so it is with Nasomatto’s new concoction for men.

Feb 1, 2012 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Beauty

Autumn Trends

For anyone feeling it was time you let some proverbial hair down, it was a relaxed and girly affair to emerge from the autumn/winter fashion weeks this year.

Nov 1, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Beauty

oh!BCN

“Trend forecasting,” once the territory of IT wizards and unseen fashion insiders has undoubtedly crept its way smack bang into the limelight.

Oct 31, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Food

Anaÿs La Riva

The compact cornucopia that is fashion designer Anaÿs La Riva’s atelier bursts at the knitted seams with bedecked metal rails and boxes containing knitting needles the size of swords...

Oct 31, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Fashion (2 Comments)

Gourmet Sea Salt

If your idea of fancy stretched as far as Maldon Sea Salt, then welcome to the crystalline heights of finishing salt.

Oct 6, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Food

Autumn Trends

There has been no escaping some pretty heady, patchouli-scented 70s nostalgia this year and it looks set to linger into the colder months too.

Oct 6, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Fashion (1 Comments)

Ideas Not Airships

Like a comic strip for grown ups and the conceptually inclined, this new book from Hangar Design Group narrates the 30 year story of the multidisciplinary creative agency.

Oct 4, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Books

Evelyn León © Maryjane Claverol

The Turban

The turban, whose English name derives from the tulip flower, may just be the longest-running, most reinvented form of head-wear.

Sep 5, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Fashion

Sara Corujo Garcia

Lost&Found

This September the second-hand flea market descends once again upon Barceloneta’s Plaça del Mar.

Sep 4, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Cover

Secretos de Alcoba

The term "old school glamour" is instantly evocative of the sharp elegance of 1930s movie stars.

Jun 29, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Fashion

Cheesecake 4 the Soul

If your knowledge of cheesecake stretches about as far as "baked or refrigerated?" Angelica Tcherassi is here to enlighten you.

May 31, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Food (3 Comments)

Luis Dourado

Luis Dourado’s work is like a waking dream or déjà vu – like an old family photo or a still from a film whose name you can’t quite remember.

May 31, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Art

Presenting Poble Sec

Poble Sec is less like Raval’s “little sister neighborhood” and more like a fun eccentric uncle who returned to town to shake things up a bit.

May 3, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Cover (4 Comments)

Finisterrae

Think “road movie” and then take a sharp turn to the strange.

Apr 3, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Film (1 Comments)

Josh Parker

Last October Josh Parker packed up his guitar case, left the rolling hills of rural Northern England town Hebden Bridge and joined the Barcelona circus.

Mar 2, 2011 by Poppy Beale-Collins in Music (3 Comments)