The 5 best shows at 080 Barcelona Fashion SS26 Among more than twenty protagonists, here are those who left their mark
Anyone who thinks fashion goes into hibernation after Paris Fashion Week is mistaken. And not only that, because by believing everything stops after the Big 4, you miss one of the most important events in the landscape of decentralised fashion weeks. Year after year, or rather, season after season, 080 Barcelona Fashion consolidates its role as a cultural incubator within the fashion system, establishing itself as a space for experimentation and reflection, not only for the local scene but also for the international one.
Among the dozens of brands present, some stood out for visual coherence, creative direction and the ability to translate their identity into a cohesive narrative. Collections that, in addition to demonstrating meticulous care for materials, were able to present their own worlds to an increasingly international audience. Here are the 5 best shows of 080 Barcelona Fashion.
Dominnico
Dominnico continues to define its aesthetic as a balance between nostalgia and the future. For SS26, Domingo Rodríguez Lázaro builds a dialogue between the 18th century and the post-internet era with structured corsets and rococo volumes that blend with taffeta and regenerated denim, creating opulent yet light silhouettes designed for a gender-free body and beyond rules. The collection plays with references to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, but renders them in a cyber-romantic key through pastel tones and metallic details. It is an exercise in style that shows how material research and upcycling can coexist with a pop and conscious vision of luxury.
Custo Barcelona
Custo Barcelona, a historic brand of the city, reaffirms its exuberant and visionary identity with Instaglam, a collection that embraces the power of image and personal authenticity. The silhouettes are dynamic, the structures geometric, the bright colours like a saturated feed, with a palette of fuchsia, turquoise and black becoming tools to rewrite the concept of glamour. Dresses, the absolute protagonists, alternate guipure workmanship and transparent lace with material patchworks that seem to compose a mosaic in motion. Every look is a declaration of individual freedom, where fashion does not adapt to the body but amplifies it.
Outsiders Division
With Kindergarden Riot, Outsiders Division brings the energy of childhood back to the runway, turning it into a stylistic language. Staying true to its motto «Adults who have not grown up», the brand builds a collection that merges a preppy aesthetic with a punk attitude, mixing school uniforms, primary colours and playful details in a balance of apparent disorder. There is something deeply emotional in the way the label addresses the theme of growing up, in a collection where each garment tells the tension between innocence and rebellion, between memory and transformation.
Habey Club
Habey Club interprets sustainability with poetic sensitivity, turning the sartorial gesture into introspection. The B A S T A collection explores the idea of personal rebirth, building fluid silhouettes and layered constructions that play with transparencies, volumes and textural contrasts. Cotton, denim, leather and knitwear intertwine in a natural palette ranging from brown to grass green, evoking a balance between matter and spirit. The result is a vision of essential elegance with a surreal touch, where every detail seems to belong to a personal ritual of awakening and self-awareness.
Carlota Barrera
The research of Carlota Barrera on masculinity continues with a collection that dismantles the barriers between public and private. Her sartorial language opens up to transparency, lightness and vulnerability, translating lingerie into a masculine code made of balance and intimacy. The garments reveal their internal structures, letting seams and lines show through as part of the design. It is a fashion that does not want to conceal but to narrate, exploring sensuality as a space of freedom. The collection asserts a new masculinity, subversive and suspended between strength and fragility, built with a strong attention to tailoring while maintaining the delicacy of emotion.