A review of 5 important Colombian fashion designers who are building upon and redefining Colombian identity.
By Diana Gómez
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Fashion with Colombian Identity
Adidas Originals Launch Party
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 divas and this event was [...]
Sleek Colombian Fashion by Argemiro Sierra
Hailing from Medellin, after years spent designing clothes for private companies, Argemiro Sierra took the leap and created his own self-titled line. store
A Runway In The Washing Machine
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 of the factory labyrinth. [...]
Colombiamoda 2011 – Jack’s Pics
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 are some of our [...]
Moda Para El Mundo Fashion Fair 2011
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 Colombia and Venezuela. The clothing has [...]
The Fashion World of Laura Salazar
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 off all the cool stuff [...]
United Colors of Benetton Comes To Medellin
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 between BOG and MED can [...]
Medellin Trendy: Reduse, Resue, Reconstruct
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 lost their cool and reconstruct [...]
Model Shoot with Tatiana Motlak
We are about to launch the new issue and The Arepa has gone through a few changes as we move into issue #7. We’ve ditched the “Señorita Paisa” page and turned the focus toward high fashion photography showing off the talent of Medellin designers. This is the behind the scenes video of the photo shoot made right here in Medellin, [...]
