A new sustainable women's footwear store very close to the La Nau Cultural Center, a much older women's clothing boutique that combines aesthetics and quality next to La Lonja and a ceramics workshop in Russafa that makes a contemporary reinterpretation of classical culture with a lot of style. Three very different neighborhood stores where you can find the perfect gift this Christmas.
Black Ona
— La Nau, 7
On a pedestrian street between La Nau and Parterre, Laura opened a little over a month ago this concept store dedicated to women's footwear that deploys specialized brands with three characteristics in common: quality, sustainability and design. The three converge in Urbanima, a vegan Valencian company that uses waste materials in its products, For example, on their soles, made with a 20% Albufera rice bran. Caboclo footwear is made by Brazilian artisans who reinvent classic shoes using tires as soles and vegetable-tanned leather. (no chrome). Just like Ray Moss, that tans and dyes its skins without using heavy metals in the process, the Batana, brand that uses braided and hand-dyed leathers and fabrics to achieve a more natural look, artisan and pleasant. The Momocs, produced in Elda, They are made with materials that try to reduce CO2 and water consumption in manufacturing as much as possible to minimize their environmental impact.. You will find them all in Ona Negra, a small museum of carefully chosen shoes.
Madame Bugalú
— Dances, 3
Does 16 years since this madame, twinned with Bugalú, opened the blinds (ten years older) what has focused on clothing and accessories for women following the same path, that of aesthetics and quality subject to a price that does not skyrocket. Steering the ship is Angela, She is the one who searches and searches at fairs in London and Paris for the exclusive garments that a madam with a soul in the old town of Valencia offers you.. always daring, when he likes something he buys it, even if I'm not sure it will sell easily. The priority is quality and that she likes it, not the brand or where it comes from. You will find jewelry from Greece, Colombia, Spain, France and Denmark, pockets, fulares, it will be necessary, mobile phone bags from Holland, and clothing brands that only she has in Valencia, like Mos Mosh from Denmark or Lez a Lez from Brazil. His right eye is the Valencian Siyu, what, away from fashion, make clothes with geometric patterns, comfortable, clean cut and made with natural materials. Madame Bugalú is an explosion of color with a lot of personality, far from the most commercial network, that this winter has opted for quality basics.
Canoa Lab
— Puerto Rico, 40
Canoa Lab is a workshop in which we work with ancestral materials, almost archaeological: ceramics and metal. A ceramic workshop where creations inspired by classic Mediterranean Iberian pieces are made, egyptians, Greeks and Romans, but with a contemporary design that makes them unique. Golden brass sometimes accompanies candlesticks and vessels coated with enamels of its own formulation that give the piece a rocky and rough texture., sometimes with a softer counterpoint. The artisans are Pedro and Raquel, who decided to leave the world of audiovisual and installation to start working with material objects. And since they were new to this, they started from the beginning, winking at the classical Greco-Roman tradition and touching it with the polish that has so much popularity in Asian culture. A fusion that gives spectacular results. In Canoa lab there is no ctrl+z, Everything is cooked over low heat in the oven because ceramics are a time-consuming material., delicacy and patience, hence they need five weeks to deliver the ordered piece. Come see what they have on display, Let yourself be captivated by its authentic pieces of contemporary art that smell of history and order yours.
