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This coming weekend Gran Canaria sees the 5th Moda Calida, International Catwalk Show, presented in the south of the island, at Lopesan’s state of the art exhibition centre Expomeloneras. This year, for the first time, the event will be extended over two days, 22nd and 23rd of June, to reflect its growth into now one of the premier swimwear shows in Europe and the international
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attention it now receives. In just five short years, the Gran Canaria fashion industry, and in particular swimwear, have gone from being nowhere on a global level, to now being one of the primary benchmarks to the beachwear and lingerie trends and which styles are expected to be popular over the year ahead. When it comes to beach and bedroom, it seems London, Paris and Milan look to what
Gran Canaria does best , for their inspiration. Buyers on from the top of the fashion industry fly in to attend the main catwalk shows and the many events that accompany them, projecting the high quality of local designers’ collections out on to a world stage and in doing so promoting the image of Gran Canaria well beyond what has been seen before. President of the Gran Canaria
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Cabildo, José Miguel Bravo de Laguna, said "the importance of the International Runway Show has benefits not just for the fashion industry, but we have managed also to give a boost to tourism and a boost culturally, combining local industry with tourism". José Miguel Bravo de Laguna stressed the importance of "return" on any investment made by the island into the Moda Calida event, "as the
direct financial outlay to get the same advertising impact on a national and international level would be greater than the investment necessary to run this event" he said. He explained that in these times "we must be very careful handling public funds as it is very important that any event of this nature also has a social return and recovers the public funds invested in it." Edward Timon
Without doubt one of the hottest Canarian designers of the moment is Gabriel Crossier, who will be presenting his latest collection and receiving much deserved attention for his fun, bright allusions to Englishness and royalty [pictured above at last year’s show]. He uses shiny buttons, buckles and emblems as inspiration to give a young and fresh yet eccentrically aristocratic twist to his beachwear using preppy checks, stripes, tweed & uniform to herald this Olympic Jubilee year of Great Britishness.
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