La Petite Parade: El Showroom Sostenible de Barcelona
Flea Market Barcelona continues its collaboration with the Petite Parade this spring. Pop-up will take place on the street CORTGER 5in the Born neighborhood, an event that has become a mandatory stop for vintage fashion lovers.
In this event, you will find a careful selection of clothing from the 80s, 90s and 2000 (Y2K). These pieces not only evoke nostalgia, but also reflect a style that remains relevant and constantly reinvents.
In addition to the vintage offer, the event will also emphasize UPCyCled fashion, a rising trend that bets on sustainability and reuse of materials. Recycled garments that will be available combine creativity and ecological awareness, allowing attendees to acquire clothes with a reduced environmental impact and, at the same time, follow the last currents in retro and sustainable fashion.
This month we have taken advantage of the relationship between Flea Market Barcelona and the Petite Parade to do interviews at the four girls behind the showroon: Sea (I love it vintage), Cristina (Vintage mood), Marten (Head) and Laura (I Found Your Fancy Clothes).
How would you describe your brand in a phrase?
Laura: I Found Your Fancy Clothes, is a brand that seeks the exclusivity of design and creativity in its garments, that each garment is exceptional, different, for people who have fun dressing and looking for different garments, out of the conventional.
Marta: In Cabezlota you will find garments of the 90s and 2000 super selected, cared for and worked with care and dedication. I love the fashion and attempt that is reflected in what I do looking for garments that make you look special and different.
Cristina: Must Fashion Vintage and 2000s combining the most urban fashion, with a more functional and expressive this.
Sea: A mixture of vintage and upcycling.
How did the idea of gathering forces come and set up the Petite Parade?
Cristina: The Petite Parade Vintage Market initially emerged from the La Petite Parade store, which we had Laura and I, in the Gothic neighborhood, in which we did Markets quarterly in our same store as Pop Store mode together with other brands until we closed the store and then passed when doing in a place in the Born neighborhood. After Pandemia we decided to join forces with two other friends brands to create the new format of the Vintage Market Parade Parade.
Marta: For years he did it with Laura and Cristina and with other vintage brands. With the Covid we stop doing it, but a while later, we decided to return again next to sea and offer a new vintage concept in Barcelona. We have all friends for many years and everything flows between us, we complement each other very well.
What do you like to work in a showroom format compared to a market?
Laura: To start, I think you can better attend to the customer, you can try the clothes with peace of mind. We also have the opportunity to develop our own style, a distinctive visual identity, presenting our garments in a more exclusive way, giving them the value they deserve.
Marta: The showroom allows you to expose the garments much better, the product is more selected, more care and customer service is much closer, which I think improves the shopping experience.
Cristina: present our collections in a more beautiful and selected way, giving an exclusivity to our garments.
Being a smaller space than in some markets, you can generate more relationships with customers, and give more specialized attention, making it not only a store to use, but an experience.
Sea: It is all more personal, with more care, more care can be enjoyed more by the two parts although it maintains that touch of market, I think.
What do you like about the neighborhood?
Laura: What I like about the terminal is that it is a central, cultural and historical neighborhood. Just say that our place dates from 1800, were ancient stables. It is a charming neighborhood, with many people in passing, enjoying their gastronomy, their stores, and museums, what else do you want?
Marta: Well, for me, Born is the most beautiful area in the downtown area of Barcelona, its buildings, its streets, its terraces have a special charm.
Cristina: her underground style; Modern and casual, in the center of the city.
Mar: In Barcelona, it is my neighborhood, where I have been more time. I have lived many adventures among its mixture of old and modern.
Do you have any recommendation of restaurants, stores or cultural offer of Born?
Marta: One of my favorite sites for eating is Chinese cover, to take something in late or appetizer, Espai Mesclafis and for dinner, Joanet restaurant. To have a drink, the Marlowe Bar. The stores that I like the most are mustard and tracksuit.
Cristina: restaurants: the mosquito, the born pizza, too much, Callum and the Xampanyet. Stores: Maxo Gallery, Obach Hat, Documenta Bookstore, Central back, l ‘arca vintage.
Sea: Stores: Roua Friend and Fleek. Bar: Space Cowboy. Restaurants: Mosquito, Antic Teatre.
Laura: I, as a restaurant I would recommend the plate bar, super exquisite tapas! Store? The one I would recommend is the Petite Parade Vintage Market! You can not miss it, surely you will not go out empty!
What will vintage trends in autumn/winter 2025?
Marta: In my view, vintage clothes can be said that it does not follow a trend as such, as the clothing marks to use, precisely dress vintage gives you that freedom of dressing at will, out of canons or stereotypes determined by the trends of the fashion industry. Although what is clear is that the 2000s continue to hit hard.
Laura: The trends that are coming to us this autumn-winter 2025 is, as color, I would highlight the chocolate brown and the earth tones, such as stamped, that of snake, as fabrics, the printed with hair, which they already go, because it is very y2k. The short gabardines and the Boho blouses, that we do not get rid of yet and finally say the dresses and lingerie tops, which this summer we have sold with pleasure.
A fashion pop-up at Born
The Pop-up of the Petite Parade in the Flea Market Barcelona is a space dedicated to carefully selected pieces for men and women equally. Located in the beautiful neighborhood of El Born, in Barcelona, this event is more than a simple market: it is a celebration of fashion, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Come and discover vintage treasures in an environment that celebrates diversity and innovation in fashion.
