Pan con Chocolate is a Spanish children’s fashion brand that since its beginnings has been characterized by a personal and exclusive design, full of Spain’s color and collections of fabulous prints and details.

Pan con Chocolate‘s main leit motiv is occupy the market niche of customers who want something exclusive, functional, attractive and good value for money. They make two collections a year (Spring-Summer and Autumn-Winter) in which they show various lines (total look) exhibiting a comfortable, bold and flashy fashion that grows with the child from 3 months to 14 years, with more than 200 references per season.

Their collections are designed for a coordinated purchase that makes it possible to go together for special events as well as day-to-day fashion:

    • Baby Collection: Giving special importance to the comfort of fabrics and designs without losing Pan con Chocolate essence.

    • Children Collection: comfortable, cheerful, easy to wear and always linked to the latest trends in fashion.

Desings made 100% in Spain featuring the different families and two different styles that make up each collection:

    • Casual: Comfortable clothes for day to day life with the touch of freshness, color and design by Pan con Chocolate.

    • Chic: Here Pan con Chocolate integrates a collection of cleverly styled, exceptional-quality ensembles for babies and children.

Artesanía Tradicional Toledana SL is a company focused in the promotion and international awareness of Spain’s craftswork. They offer an integrated service promoting crafted pieces from new techniques and innovation processes to sales and distributors, cultural events or international trade fairs, with the aim of promoting the Master Craftsmen beyond Spain (and Toledo) itself.

Hand Made in Toledo seal has been established thanks to the support and involvement of illustrious Master Craftsmen in such distinguished disciplines such as Sword-Making and Damascene work. Hand Made in Toledo sets the highest quality and standards in terms of originality and authenticity of each of its products.

This seal guarantees final customers that the purchased product has been Hand Made in Toledo by Craftsmen with long and extensive artistic experience who are also recognized as Master Craftsmen by Spanish Ministry of Industry. Their final aim is to protect and distinguish hand crafted products from mass-produced replicas made in an industrial way.

Visit Spanish forging mastesrs at Artesanía Tradicional Toledana.

In 1997 the Von Knobloch family traveled to Ontario in search of red maple wood suppliers. The national tree of Canada was used by Mrs. Von Knobloch to design exclusive furniture for the Spanish high society. It was a marriage of artists, the mother was an interiors and furniture designer while the father was a famous sculptor. Their three children had inherited the artistic skills of their parents but it was undoubtedly Jimena, the little girl in the house, who seemed to have a special sensitivity to everything around her.

On the first day of vacation, family went to visit the Point Pelee National Park. The views were overwhelming, branches of maples dyed red the landscape turning it into an autumnal picture in mid June. Jimena was enthusiastic, since the little one was a lover of nature, admiring beauty in every flower and wildlife.

In a moment, Jimena stopped looking at the ground and her mother noticed that she was about to cry. Her mother approached and saw three butterflies motionless among the maple leaves and felt pity, but at the same time pride for the noble heart of his little girl. Then she told her that she should not be sad because those butterflies had fulfilled their mission: reach Canada and guide their descendants to their next destination.

It was the butterfly Apodemia, a specie that travels from Brazil to Canada and whose members only live some few weeks. The amazing thing about these animals is that mothers transmit to their young the necessary information to complete the trip, just as their mother did.

Over the years Jimena did not forget this story, but the young woman became more and more interested in the Apodemia and often talked about it to her parents and friends. In addition to her passion for nature, Jimena developed in her adolescence a special interest in fashion and jewelry. He began to visit his father frequently in the sculpture workshop and learned the technique of melting lost wax to create small molds for jewels.

Nowadays, Apodemia is a chain of stores which sells exclusive designer jewelry created by a team of designers led by Jimena Von Knobloch. Jewelry 24/7 delicate and inspired by nature. Spanish, but of international vocation, Apodemia is created around the members of their community, although their butterflies are the main focus of attention.

Apodemia is jewelry inspired by Nature.

Ecoalf, the first fashion brand in Spain to become B CorpTM, has been renowned for its compromise to the people and the planet. B Corps inspire all businesses to compete not only to be the best in the world but to be the best for the world. Ecoalf was born in 2009 and their idea was to create a fashion brand truly sustainable. By integrating breakthrough technology, they create clothing and accessories made entirely from recycled materials without actually looking like it. Ecoalf represents the fabrics for the future generations.

Innovation and technology come together with Ecoalf‘s launch of the new Ocean Waste Footwear collection. Following the Zero Waste philosophy, true to Ecoalf‘s ethos, this collection encourages the redesign of resource life cycles so that products are reused. Or the capsule collection by Sybilla, a fun and feminine capsule collection that incorporates the print, colors and cuts of the designer with the technical knowledge of Ecoalf in the development of fabrics from recycled materials.

Each woman’s name is drawn with brushstrokes of knowledge. Although etymology helps solve part of the enigma, it does not reveal all its secrets. The same thing happens to the woman who saw Ulises Mérida, who is giving clues with each item she chooses but remains mysterious.

Generation by generation, and on the basis of repeating them, those names are transformed into a mantra in eternal ascension, like Tower of Babel, with each new woman, mother or sister who is called. This is the inspiration for the #Babel Primavera-Verano 2019 collection by designer Ulises Mérida. With a chromatic range typical of the lavender horizon where the sky melts, represented by intense silver and blue grays, and the earth, staged in the mustard. The chosen fabrics symbolize a wealth that goes beyond the material, just like the woman who will wear the clothes. Games of textures and volumes. Armed and fluid silhouettes embodied in designs that are carried throughout the day and until dawn. All under one and the same thread, sealed by timelessness and elegance.

Tissues are taking body falling on the bust of tests, inspired by different languages, different opinions and a parallel world, as the song performed by Faltriqueira says “My dear Babel”. It is the first mantra of S. XXI, as defined by its creator.

The patterns are transformed, they grow, they evolve from the first collection until they reach the shape of this tower of Babel that evokes the woman who wants to keep her mystery.

www,ulisesmerida.com

It was not so long ago that the internet was considered the pinnacle of technology, a network that encompassed far-reaching corners of the globe and demarcated a new world from the old. Over time, technologies that fundamentally change the way people buy, operate and engage with each other have emerged, and we continue to make great strides towards a future enabled by technology and limited only by imagination. While blockchain is most frequently associated with its controversial cousin – the bitcoin cryptocurrency – the technology’s potential to shape the path for future generations should not be pushed aside. Blockchain has slowly crept into conversations in boardrooms, at policy meetings and around water coolers.

However, just as the  TCP/IP protocol was met with scepticism over its ability to transform services, so too is the blockchain nowadays. At that time, the idea that TCP/IP could enable the scale up of the Internet was inconceivable. Nowadays, blockchain looks forward to provide transparency and immutability of information and is considered one of the technologies that is expected to disrupt the supply chain and logistics industry.

Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Grid is a framework that provides a set of tools particularly suited to supply chain blockchains. At Buy from Spain we welcome contributors, both organizations and individuals, to help shape project direction, contribute ideas, provide use cases and work on specific examples. Our aim is to make resources and contacts available to the community so that the ecosystem can grow and expand its potential benefits to more Spanish manufacturers and international consumers. The world needs to stop worrying about blockchain, regulate it and let it fly.

Part of a fashion family for three generations, Hispanitas owners Luis and Carlos Chico de Guzman continue to expand Spain’s unique design influence here in the US through their brand of high quality women’s shoes and leather goods. While Hispanitas is available in the top fashion markets of the globe, all of their shoes are crafted in the Alicante region of Spain following traditional processes with the latest manufacturing technology. The secret to their success has always been in their exceptional detailing including the use of specially tanned leathers, the perfect seasonal colorations, and trend-right outsole features.

Hispanitas footwear combines the expertise of Spain’s top shoe designers, the Alicante region’s tradition of high quality shoe manufacturing, a trend right European aesthetic, exceptional material detail, comfort engineered into every pair and the heritage of a family owned and operated company. Hispanitas shoes make a woman feel as wonderful as she looks which is why their motto is ‘Joy Is A Choice.’