Fashion as seen by Outumuro

Hotel Granvia is one of the favourite sets of the photographer

Under the heading “Outumuro. Looks” Disseny Hub Barcelona has put on display more than 200 images by fashion photographer, Manuel Outumuro. The retrospective exhibition, which can be seen until 25 April, covers twenty years of the photographer’s career

Outumuro Looks. Fashion photography

 All the top Spanish models have posed before Outumuro’s lense, such as Laura Ponte, Judit Mascó and Martina Klein, whose first photo was taken by him. “We are practically family” he said.

International models have also posed for Outumuro, including many famous figures, such as Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, Alaska, Diane Kruger and Luz Casal, among many others.

Manuel Outumuro fuses the spirit of classicism with a search for elegance, an elegance which portrays femininity in its truest form. The photographer is drawn towards women’s fashion and the only job he ever rejected was taking photos of jeans. His images are timeless, though the photographer tells us that he works without looking for a particular style. “I take photos as I feel them” he says.

Outumuro’s influences are vast, from Harper’s Bazaar magazines of the forties and fifties to the world of cinema and literature.

Hotel Granvia commemorates this year its 75th anniversary. Stablished on 1935 in the former Palace of Serra-Chopitea family (built in 1870), this hotel has been part of Barcelona’s history and has seen all the majors events of the last century in the city. Its unbeatable location next to Passeig de Gràcia and Plaza Catalunya ensures the best of Barcelona to all its guests.

What: Outumuro. Looks
Photographic exhibition
Where: Disseny Hub Barcelona
Montcada, 12 - Ciutat Vella
When: until April 25th, 2010

Barcelona in the movies

Today, Barcelona is at center-stage in the movie market, for both world-renown actors as well as prestigious directors of international prestige. Proof of that is the great many films that have used the city of Barcelona for a set.

Barcelona in the movies

 Núñez i Navarro Hotels offers you an interesting report, featuring the most succesful movies shot in Barcelona. If you still need a reason to visit our city, you will fall in love after watching those movies with the Catalan capital.

Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Calista Flockhard or Penélope Cruz are part of the long list of actors and actresses who have been in Barcelona and can recommend you a visit. The recent Woody Allen’s film Vicky Cristina Barcelona  features also Scarlett Johanson and Javier Bardem.

Many other directors have shown the best of the city on their movies, making Barcelona universally available through the screen. From the old Gothic Quarter with its medieval palaces to the modernist buildings by Gaudí and Puig i Cadafalch, from the city coast line to the impressive views you have at Tibidadbo hill, Barcelona has a lot to offer you, and you can discover it on the cinema!

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