Prêt-à-couture.
Autumn / winter 26/27 collection
At Los Gatos time stops. There is so much detail that you could spend days asking about every piece of the decoration. Everything is personal and warm, far from those grey, white or natural-pine places you find in any city in the world. Who stole our colour? Lola, the owner, is not from Madrid, but she is Madrid too: it is her second home, and her bar makes Madrid as well.
By Lola, owner of Los Gatos.
There are few places in the world where, as you walk in, you are greeted with a “come in, ladies and gentlemen, there’s room inside, step right in”. It is something very much of Madrid’s tabernas. I have known it since I first came here as a little girl, at four years old, and it still happens in the traditional places. At Los Gatos I try to make it happen too, and I instil it in my waiters.
By Juan, owner of Los Gatos.
A good caña (a small draught beer) means clean equipment, feeling the foam run down between your fingers without being afraid of wasting it, a well-wetted glass, and a lot of care.
By Henry, a waiter at Los Gatos for as long as anyone can remember.
At Los Gatos we make a Gilda (the classic pintxo of olive, anchovy and pickled pepper) with care and good produce: our classic one and the invented ones, but always ours, always with traditional ingredients.
The gaze that inspires us
Valls, 1922 — Barcelona, 1998
Català-Roca came to Madrid without belonging to it, and that gave him something local photographers often lose: the ability to be surprised by the everyday. His photographs of the 1950s and 60s capture a Madrid that does not pose, that does not know it is being watched.
He shot from the waist, without the viewfinder pressed to his eye. The gesture was almost casual, and that is why his subjects stayed themselves. Nobody looks at the camera because nobody knows there is a camera. And Madrid’s light, the horizontal light of first thing in the morning, the long shadows on the asphalt, he used exactly as it was.
Mr. Lee-Williams was not born in Madrid either. After many years between the island and the capital, the brand looks at the city with that mix of distance and affection that only time gives. It is the same position from which we made this collection.
We are not trying to recreate his era. We are after his principles: spontaneity, the city in the present, real light.
See the exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía
A humble tribute to his way of seeing.
Five places, at their hour. Press to listen.
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