Wilde for Vintage Sunglasses

Raval is a great area to shop for affordable vintage in Barcelona. Any number of tree-lined, café-filled streets feature stores that offer the more adventurous shopper a break from the super-fashionable but mass-produced offerings of the larger brands on the city’s main drags.
One such example of fabulous and funky retro items is Wilde Vintage, where [...]

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A Lifelong Fan

As I sat in the stands at Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium last week, gazing out at the huge crowd (it seats almost 99,000 and is a truly impressive venue when full of fervent Barça supporters), a strange but constant flickering caught my eye. It took me a moment to realise that it was the fluttering [...]

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Summer Sales, Spanish-style

No matter that summer only officially started last weekend, the Spanish summer sales are fast approaching. The upside of this is that once you have snaffled up your bargains you have the entire summer to enjoy your purchases. This year I am limiting my wish-list to 5 items, and have introduced a new element of [...]

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Casa Batllo Barcelona

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The One & Only

It wouldn’t be a new season without a newly revived trend to cause much rolling of collective eyes and the swearing of eternal abstinence from said fashion suicide. After all, fashion has always been about provoking conversation and heated debate in men and women alike, without which we would all happily don our boot cut [...]

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