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The Cutting Edge
Prét-à-porter giant Mango is one of Barcelona's main success stories. Emerging as one of
the hippest local names on the world fashion catwalks is the youthful Custo Dalmau (aka
Custo Barcelona), with a rapidly growing chain of stores in Spain and abroad. Other local
names or Barcelona-based designers include Antonio Miró, Joaquim Verdú, David Valls,
Josep Font, Armand Basi, Purificación García, Konrad Muhr, Sita Murt and TCN. All the
big names of Spanish couture, from Adolfo Domínguez to Zara, are also present and there's
barely an international brand that doesn't have outlets in Barcelona.
Twice a year the exclusive urban fashion salon Bread & Butter attracts hundreds of fash-
ion producers and buyers from around the world to Barcelona. Founded in Berlin, the salon
transferred to Barcelona in 2006 and is going from strength to strength.
To Market, to Market
One of the greatest sound, smell and colour sensations in Europe is Barcelona's most
central produce market, the Mercat de la Boqueria ( Click here ) . It spills over with all
the rich and varied colour of plentiful fruit and vegetable stands, seemingly limitless
varieties of sea critters, sausages, cheeses, meat and sweets. It is also sprinkled with half
a dozen or so unassuming places to eat well, at lunchtime stalls. According to some
chronicles, there has been a market on this spot since 1217. These days it's no easy task
getting past the gawping tourists to get to the slippery slab of sole you're after.
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