With Custo Barcelona, each season his collections get better like wine. The brand has always taken the more is a better approach when styling runway looks. Much like past designs, Custo Barcelona spring collection was an explosion of bright colors and bold prints. The designer’s innate use of color is exceptional. The spring collection consisted of uncommon geometric prints. It also had a youthful appeal with cute little printed spaghetti strap dresses, flowy printed maxi dresses, and skirts. The mixing of textures and colors at times proved to be a little too busy. Custo described his spring collection as “Slow” referencing “a culinary movement that rejects the standardization of taste.”
His designs for men were all about casual and dressy casual looks with open-knit sweaters, printed bomber jackets, board shorts, and structured printed blazers with matching pants. Celebrities like Pharrell would definitely appreciate the menswear designs. As for the women, it was all about mixed prints, textures, and sheer pieces. There were lots of mixing and matching of separates like a geometric printed deep-v dress over a plaid button-down shirt. Although the prints were loud and busy at times, somehow they worked. You could tell there was a lot of hand stitching in many of the pieces and the embroidery on some of the dresses and jackets was exquisite.