ART AND FASHION BLOG BY ARENA MARTÍNEZ

After the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid and the Barcelona fashion week, New York arrives full of contrasts for this year. Palomo Spain     The Spanish designer has been inspired by the Russian ballets exiled in Spain during the First World War. Tom Ford   This...

We are in front of the 69th edition of Madrid Fashion Week (Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid) where the most prestigious firms present their collections for the next Autumn-Winter season (Autumn / Winter) MBFWMadrid has had an off program and six days that will host...

People who like to think outside the box, and feel art from the streets to museums, from murals to the skin, from morning to night. Welcome Readers! My name is Arena, founder of the brand Arena Martínez. My purpose with the Brand and this blog is to elevate art to a...

That Italian artist who makes clothes’ – Coco Chanel on Elsa Schiaparelli In contrast to the most famous dressmaker of the day, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli started with art, and somewhere along the way chose clothes to be her canvas. Her pieces are exhibited...

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art” – Oscar Wilde On the ground floor of the Victoria and Albert museum, in London’s Kensington, adjacent to a long gallery filled with classical sculptures, busts and sketching students, is the Toshiba Gallery,...

Is fashion an art form? For Arena Martinez, the answer is emphatically yes. But people find the question difficult, and it’s worth doing some drilling into why.  People experience art in galleries, behind ropes and glass screens, a specified distance between viewer...

The first collaboration I’d like to look at is a personal favourite of mine, and probably one of the first collections that made a significant impression on me; Prada. In the last decade, Miuccia Prada has collaborated with visual artists at least twice – and they are...

You don’t need to have been to the Frieze of Biennale to know that where art goes, style follows. Arena Martinez is founded on the idea that you can be the canvas – you can bring art into your own life and the lives of those around you through the clothes you wear....

The Spanish artist and original Arena Martinez collaborator on his return to exhibiting and the ‘double art’ of dressing. ‘Describe your art in one word.’ ‘Myself.’  Individuality is vital to Papartus, the artist with whom we created our first collection of Arena...

“I decided to start from zero, from nothing, to do things that have not been done before, things with a strong image” – Rei Kawakubo Rei Kawakubo is an iconoclast, someone who breaks images, and remakes them. Commes des Garçons, the label that she built, as she puts...

Even if you haven’t yet heard of Alejandro Gómez Palomo, you’ll recognise his work from what was arguably the biggest Instagram moment of 2017. In Beyoncé’s introduction of her twins, Rumi and Sir, to the world, she wears a purple floral robe and a long blue veil,...

"The future is not what is going to happen, but what we are going to do” The most important contemporary art fair in Spain, and one of the most outstanding of the international circuit, returns to the capital. Between the 21st and the 25th of February, Arco is back in...

14 November, 2018 On Tuesday 13th of November, we attended a private event at The Art of living Frigicoll in Villanueva street number 36 near the Wellington Hotel in Madrid, wonderfull space, we recommend you visit it if you have the opportunity. During the event,...

Last thursday we launched the our new collection “Mnémosyne”. For this, we have chosen a very special artist which is known by its exhibits and symbolism of her pieces focused in the tarot cards. She is an inspiring woman who shares the values of our firm: Marina...

Located in la Calle Libertad of Chueca, in the city of Madrid is the Arena Martinez office. Walking in through the door one would believe to be in an art gallery where no wall is left bare of art. Instead of housing furniture, sculptures are the centerpiece of the...

ARCO is the contemporary international art fair of Madrid organized by IFEMA. It is considered to be one of the most important contemporary art events internationally which is celebrated each year in the Spain's capital. Its aim is to reunite historical avant-garde to...

The annual Middle Eastern fashion event is back! This year, the Dubai fashion week took place from April the 14th until April the 16th in the Armani Hotel of Dubai with a « see now, buy now » model. The history of this event began when the Dubai fashion week was first...

The year 2018 has known its ups and downs but it has been greatly marked by memorable trends. Long blazers, fanny packs and especially colorful prints have been seen everywhere from runways to the streets. Even when times have been discouraging at least we have been...

In a few weeks we will launch our next Spring / Summer 2018 collection.  For this we have chosen an artist that we admire and that also shares the values of our firm, Arena Martinez: Juan Sotomayor. The line of work that he have been developing for a few years can be...