Not very freaky (en BcnWeek)

(published in BCNWeek Magazine, Barcelona, June 2006)

FASHION FREAK 2 /// SALA APOLO /// JUNE 8

Last Thursday night there were plenty of gente guapa at Apolo. All of them went to the club attracted by the promise of a free entrance to a fashion parade with original — or in some way different — clothing design. What they encountered was a group of dancers instead of models — which was a good thing, because it gave spontaneity to the performances and people didn’t get bored of the huge amount of designs on display: customized t-shirts, repeted trousers, and dresses or skirts made without detail. The excuse: the twenty designers participating were young people, not experienced, and this was an outlet for their creations. The problem is that in most of the cases, the creations were not very creative. Where did the freaks go? Not to Apolo, for sure. I spent an hour looking for a clue that would give me the idea of why an event like this is named Freak, but I couldn’t find one.

But not everything was bad. I enjoyed a good DJ (visuals were crap though), nice ambience, the possibility of being made up or combed by a professional agency or even being told my future by a funny fortune teller. Almost everybody I talked to, however, got the same fortune.

The moral? In Barcelona, kick a stone and you’ll find hundreds of frivolous events like this.