PHOTOGRAPHY Courtesy of 080 Barcelona Fashion. Header image from Reparto SS26
As 080 Barcelona Fashion cleared the SS26 banquet, one thing’s certain, the designers served some of their strongest collections to date. BRICKS has attended the past six seasons of the Barcelona-based showcase, but this one hit different. The designers showing at 080 know their power, and now they’re owning their rightful place on the global fashion map. As we wave goodbye to longtime showspace venue Sant Pau for the final time (next season 080 will have a new home), we reflect on our favourite collections.
Reparto brought big hair but bigger feelings
This season, Reparto took inspiration from productive anxiety, moral conflict and burnout disguised as ambition – a relatable holy trinity for anyone who currently works in the creative industry. Titled “Rated: R”, the collection didn’t rely on shock value or gimmicks, but took a more honest approach – sitting somewhere between moral panic and poetry – packaged into wearable silk dresses and reworked denim pieces. There was a nostalgic tone to the collection too, with t-shirts that read “Scared and Confused”, beehive hair and thick black eye liner worthy of Amy Winehouse’s seal of approval.
DOMINNICO takes Marie Antoinette to the gay bar
DOMINNICO are consistently a standout on the 080 Barcelona Fashion show schedule for blending futuristic and retro aesthetics with pop culture references like motocross, BDSM and rodeos.This season was no exception, as the brand took us back to the 18th century, but not how you’d expect. Its history class with a makeover and upcycling is the new royalty decree. For SS26, the brand reimagines Rococo excess through a 2020s lens with with “ROCOCUNT”, serving corseted waists, inflated silhouettes, and fabrics that flirt between past and present – think: brocade and taffeta getting cozy with glittered denim while everyone eats cake with a gay George Washington. The collection is a sugar rush of pastels mixed with punchy frills and pleats, a clear nod to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and dopamine-fueled doomscrolling.
Acromatyx proves eight is a magic number
For Acromatyx, SS26 is a cycle; the resilience it takes to turn ideas into reality, to create, destroy, and create again. Titled “8” – which the label describes as a self-sufficient loop that is regenerative and endlessly evolving – each piece in the collection felt alive. Some pieces saw metal infused within cotton fabrics designed to shift, layer, and morph with whoever wears it. Drawing inspiration from architecture, geometry, and the brutal grace of Peruvian sculptor Aldo Chaparro, “8” plays with tension; weight and lightness, structure and collapse. Fabrics come with conscience: wools, cottons, and repurposed materials sourced from responsible makers. Clothing should exist in a continuous loop, where every stage, from design and production to use, reuse, and recycling, holds equal importance.
Habey Club said heartbreak, but make it fashion
“Enough” – that’s what “BASTA” means, and Habey Club isn’t here to play nice. Inspired by Ana Rujas’ multidisciplinary play and book La Otra Bestia, a raw mix of poems, reflections and essays on love, identity, solitude, rage and creation, Habey Club SS26 feels like an awakening. It’s heartbreak and self-love rolled into one; the wild, mystical middle ground that makes us human, and a love letter to Rujas’ deeply revealing work.
Garments swell and shrink in unexpected places, distorting silhouettes until they become something entirely new, part-creature, part-couture. Across the collection, upcycling experts reimagine leather belts as shoulder straps, loose robes tied up into bubble skirt dresses, and loose weave jumpers draped around shoulders as scultural capes. Cotton, denim, and knitwear take centre stage, as did some seriously excellent leather bags. With a neutral palette from earthy browns and fresh grass greens to electric cobalt knits and pops of ruby red, “BASTA” feels like looking inward – and finding a storm that’s just as beautiful as it is overwhelming.
Outsiders Division was for the kids who probably would have burned their school down
Last but definitely not least, Outsiders Division was the brand no one stopped talking about outside the gates of 080 Barcelona Fashion this season. SS26, titled “Kindergarten Riot”, isn’t just about clothes, it’s about time. In a world that rushes us to grow up, hide tenderness, and mask vulnerability, Outsiders Division invites the opposite: to play, experiment, and reclaim freedom, no matter your age. “Growing up is inevitable, but giving up imagination is optional,” says designer David Méndez Alonso.
From knitted shoes to oversized patchwork knits and cheeky, willy-shaped accessories straight out of your mischievous schoolmate’s doodle pad. This collection is made for the class clowns, the rule-breakers, the ones sketching profanities in the margins of their exam papers; Outsiders Division is for the adults who never fit in (and probably would’ve set the school ablaze with a Bunsen burner just to get everyone out of their science lessons).
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