Shops take fashion to the streets with professional catwalks

• The Sant Andreu, Sant Martí, Cor Eixample and Sant Antoni shopping hubs are working with the Barcelona Comerç Foundation to organise catwalks with professional models from this coming Saturday to 9 November: “BCN Fashion: The fashion you seek is coming to a street near you”

Barcelona’s shops are taking fashion to the streets with catwalks showcasing clothing and accessories from the Autumn-Winter season. Four of the city’s shopping hubs – Sant Andreu, Sant Martí, Cor Eixample and Sant Antoni – are organising their “BCN Fashion on the Street” catwalks in the core of each neighbourhood over the coming Friday and Saturday evenings. The first to officially open is the Sant Andreu shopping hub, this Saturday, 20 October.

The organisers, shopping hubs and Barcelona Comerç Foundation will host professional models showcasing the clothing you can buy in the shops at each hub. The catwalk slogan is: “BCN Fashion: The fashion you seek is coming to a street near you” This activity is held every year with Spring-Summer editions and will now be taking place over the coming days for this season.

Catwalk calendar

• Sant Andreu: 20 October at 8.30 pm

     Place: Rambla Fabra i Puig.

• Sant Martí: 26 October at 9 pm

     Place: C/ Cantabria, between Guipúscoa and Huelva.

• Sant Antoni: 9 November, at 8.30 pm Catwalk. BCN Fashion. The fashion you seek is coming to a street near you.

     Place: Plaça Tamarit, next to Sant Antoni market.

• Cor Eixample: 10 November at 8 pm

     Place: C/ Provença, between Pau Claris and Passeig de Gràcia, with La Pedrera as the setting.

Fashion attraction

When it comes to Barcelona, fashion, like food, attracts great interest from the public, offering a good opportunity for local businesses to showcase their products through the professionals taking part in the catwalk. Each shopping hub has also come up with a theme for their catwalks. Cor Eixample, for example, is dedicating them to films and the glamour of Hollywood. Its catwalks will feature famous sequences from cinema history.

New this year is the launch of an initiative on the social media site Instagram, where a competition will be held for the best catwalk photograph. The prize: €400 in shopping vouchers (€100 for each shopping hub). The prize will go to the best photo of the four catwalks staged.

The hashtag for publishing photos on Instagram is #bcnmodalcarrer18 . Competition entrants will also need to follow the Barcelona Comerç Foundation’s Instagram channel - @eixos_bcn - and the page of the hub where the catwalk photo was taken: @eixsantandreu, @santmartieix, @coreixample and @santantonicomerc.

The best photo that meets the following criteria will be chosen as the winner: makes a clear reference to the reason for the competition and is original, aesthetic, artistic and a very good photo.

For more information, see: Instagram Competition terms and conditions