One of the things I love about Spain is its sense of fashion. Anywhere you go in this country you will find yourself surrounded by fashionable people who are natural in their style. Spanish designers are famous throughout the world and more and more Spanish brands are launching out to other parts of the world like one of my favorites called Amichi.

a fairly new company its franchises are one of the biggest in Spain and abroad. With 121 stores all over the country: 35 of its own and 85 under franchise, this brand is growing strong. If you haven’t heard of it yet, I invite you to take a look at their trends.

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Valencia is slowly becoming the next big capital in Spain. It all started with the City of Arts and Sciences which is an amazing city within a city full of great museums and theaters, and now it might just as well become the next big fashion city in Spain. Many designers are opting to open stores in this great city due to its large number of tourist and fashionable Spaniards that want and need fashion close at hand.

Guess by Marciano has just figured this out and has opened a flagship store in the Aqua commercial center located on Menorca street. In this store we will be able to purchase prèt-â-porter collections for both men and women as well as all their famous lines of jeans and accessories such as purses, shoes, sunglasses..

So, now you have a lot more reasons to visit Valencia this year.

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Madrid is becoming one of the most fashionable cities´s in Europe with stores such as Missoni and BCBG opening stores in the center of the capital. Missoni, one of the leading fashion houses for men has opened its minimalist store in the barrio de Salamanca and holds the latest fashions of the season while the BCBG store is not yet open it´s due later this spring and will also be a home for all the latest trends.

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One of the most fun and modern designer of Spanish fashion has got to be Agatha Ruiz de la Prada. Her fashion style is crazy, wild, colorful and joyful. Color and more color is what she gives to all her pieces. Her design career took off in the early 80´s and has been going strong ever since. her signature trade mark is the the sun, moon and stars.

Her collections of women, men and children clothing are inspiring and give personality to all that wear them. She is a great representation of what the Spanish people truly are, fun and full of life.

Antonio Pernas one of Spain´s newest hot fashion designers made his mark in the Cibeles fashion show last week. His spring summer collection was a look back at the fabulous 60´s. With fun colorful styles that show off the leg in his mini skirt version of the sexy woman.

Antonio Pernas has several stores throughout Spain that have received not only praise for the collections they hold inside but also for the architecture surrounding the buildings. His fame is growing by the minute and the entire world is taking about this talented designer.

Spain is proud to be the home of this and many other designers that are slowing opening the eyes of the world to this beautiful and stylish country.

Spain will be doing some standardizing of clothing sizes to help in the epidemic of anorexia in this, and other countries. It is a fact that most teenage girls want to be super skinny like the top models that glide through the runways, but this is becoming a dangerous obsessing and something has to give.

Spain is thinking ahead and taking measures to fix this problem. By 2008 they plan to have standardized all dress sizes used by all manufacturers so that women could go in to any shop and know which size they need instead of having to try different sizes in hope that one will fit.

A country ahead of its time Spain is becoming a power house of influence in Europe and will surely be a contender to the rest of the world.

source | bbc news

The Cibeles Catwalk is one of the top promotional platforms for Spanish designers with a well known fashion show that brings together famous designers and lesser known novices to present their new collections. The week of February 12th through the 16th will be the week to watch because that is when all designers will present their Autumn-Winter 2007/2008 collections.

With designers such as Miriam Ocariz, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Victorio & Lucchino and many more the press awaits this upcoming years trends presented by and in a city that is setting the standard for fashion and style.

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