Friday 9th June evening. At the Veles e Vents building in Valencia, iconic construction made by architect David Chipperfield. We gathered for the annual Pasarela Barreira event, which brings together every late Spring some of the most promising young fashion designers and fashion students in Valencia. With the hashtag #botanicalsense to cover the event, we joined the show which was full of conscious slow fashion aiming for sustainable materials and recycling as a start point.

I think it's very nice that this kind of events take place in Valencia. First, this fashion shows are a marvelous platform for young talents and designers to gather up, show the result of their hard work during the year, meet their future customers and inspire others to take the difficult but fulfilling path of becoming part of a discipline which is both technical and artistic (hey, I may not be working in fashion, but I deal with my particular clothing sewing patterns as building floor plans EVERY-SINGLE-DAY. I can assure you both disciplines' fundamentals are pretty similar). Also, having sustainable, slow and green fashion as a whole concept is just enough to create awareness and spread the word about the great impact this new ways of designing will have in a near future.

So, we absolutely enjoyed an evening next to Valencia's harbor filled with live music and a dynamic catwalk which reminded me the assembled by Louis Vuitton for their Cruise 2017 collection, having a promenade architecturale as background and leitmotiv of the whole #botanicalsense event. The fashion show hosted the proposals of the young design students at the categories of both women's and men's collections, maternity, millinery design, accessory design and even a child's collection (they were so, so cute!). I think all of them achieved a great level of originality, creativity and had a super professional approach. I can't even think about the nerves of the backstage minutes before the start!

Congratulations to the students who graduated with their first collections at such an iconic building which is the Veles e Vents and the Barreira school staff. It was such a blast sharing those creative synergies and seeing so many different points of view regarding fashion and design in just a couple hours!