What’s Medellin without a little glamour? Last night, Thursday December 1st, the Jack Mag team attended the Adidas All Originals launch party. The event took place at Attic, a So-Ho style lounge in the recently opened Rio Sur complex. And who doesn’t love launch parties? They bring out a mix of TV personalities and fashion [...]

Hailing from Medellin, after years spent designing clothes for private companies, Argemiro Sierra took the leap and created his own self-titled line.

Medellin’s La Primavera is a super-hip shopping district, a place one goes to find independent fashion designers and one-of-a-kind clothing. That is, unless you’re a guy. Among this plentitude of women’s boutiques and shoe stores, Poison has recently opened an all-male shopping oasis.

Started by three brothers who were fed up with local options, they’ve stocked [...]

By Garret Farmer

On the outskirts of Medellin in the city of Itagui there lies a large garment sector which was the location of the Levi’s fall/winter fashion show. Larger than life washing machines, fans and filters which looked like spare parts from rocket jets, and an endless array of tubes and steam vents lined the aisles [...]

Photography courtesy of Santiago Riascos and Lina SP
This year’s Colombiamoda was a three-day fashion blitz which garnered over U.S. $95 million in sales and trade agreements and over 9,400 visitors. Each year the fashion-business fair gets larger and this year delegations from Swatch, Prada, Vogue, and Aeropostale were in attendance, to name a few. Below [...]

The fashion fair Colombiamoda gains a lot of attention, it has been around for over 25 years and attracts designers and brands from around the world. Moda Para El Mundo now in its 8th year, is held at the same time and is Medellin’s “other” fashion fair made up of smaller local brands mostly from [...]

Here at The Arepa we have just three words that guide everything we do. The multitude of stories, reviews, events, and day-to-day contacts we navigate boil down to just three ideas, so strong we put them on the cover of the magazine – Culture, Music, Fashion. For us fashion is the reference point for showing [...]

A friend of mine recently returned from a trip to Bogota and I asked him how it went, “Six months here in Medellin surrounded by mountains, man, I forgot what fashion was.” Being from the capital city of Colombia sometimes Rolos, the people from Bogota, have an edge on all things trendy. The fashion rivalry [...]

Last week a young group of Medellin’s entrepreneurial new school of fashion designers put on a show at Poblado’s hip clothing collective Casa Mango Morado. The event was entitled Reconstruccion and it included more that 20 fashion designers, live music, and a whole lot of cocktails. The idea was to take old clothes that have [...]

Backstage: Senza
The first of Colombiamoda’s three day fashiongasm started today and while millions of dollars of textile transactions took place, hot models strut their stuff to walls of wide-eyed onlookers. In case Colombiamoda is news to you it is the biggest fashion show in the country and it takes place every July, definitively putting Colombian [...]