make them kiss the canvas

Sorry! Nope, it is not a boxing game. It's fashion again!? Yep! Mango Fashion Awards, a contest between young designers from the most prestigious design schools in the world, competing for 300,000 euros and the chance to break the ice in the real fashion world.

I was taking a walk through the city and suddenly my eyes fell on some fashion booths. Very unexpected! The 10 finalists of Mango Fashion Awards displayed their collections on the most luxurious avenue of Barcelona, Paseo de Gracia. People's reaction to the display had a convergent point, namely taking pictures of themselves with the fashion aquariums. Young, old, tourists or Catalans, they all stopped to see what's going on with these clothes out in the street.

Korean-born Jin Youn Lee won the contest and got the largest sum offered to date in a competition of this kind. I admired his collection: all black, with android look&art deco influences (big shoulders, sharp cuts).



I say congrats to the winner, to the creator of the project and to the brilliant mind that had the idea of an exhibition staged on one of the most famous fashion streets in Europe. High design, high innovation!