080 Barcelona Fashion to Set Sail for Port Vell in April 2026, Leaving Sant Pau Behind

080 Barcelona Fashion changes its coordinates. The platform promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya will hold its next edition from April 14th to 17th, 2026 in Port Vell and Marina Vela, in the port area of Barcelona, with the aim of opening a stage more connected to the city and with greater international projection.

The move means saying goodbye to the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, one of the most recognizable venues of the event in recent years. The organization presents the leap to the waterfront as a way to reinforce the image of Barcelona as a creative showcase and, at the same time, as a gateway to the outside world. The move is in line with the Fashion Plan 2025-2030 promoted by the city council, as well as with the Ccam’s competitiveness plans.

The prelude to this change was the October edition, held from 14th to 17th, which served as a final farewell to the modernist site and marked an institutional milestone. For the first time, Barcelona City Council collaborated with the event with a contribution of €150,000.

080 Barcelona Fashion celebrated the October edition as the end of the cycle in Sant Pau

080 Barcelona Fashion had extended more than expected its link with Sant Pau. The change of location was planned for the last edition, but was finally postponed to spring. “We are trying to align the stars and we can go to a space that will say a lot about Catalan fashion,“ said Moisés Rodríguez, director of the Consorci de Comerç, Artesania i Moda (Ccam), without revealing the destination.

At first, it was proposed that the municipal participation would reach 10% of the event’s budget, although in the last edition it was set at €150,000. Rodriguez acknowledged that the margin to articulate a broader collaboration was limited by lack of time and pointed to an increase from 2026. Along the same lines, the head of the event, Marta Coca, framed the agreement as a long-term work to grow not only in parades, but also in activities.

The edition brought together 24 designers and brands and programmed 24 fashion shows, in addition to the fourth edition of 080 Reborn. The lineup included Acceptance Letter, Acromatyx, Aleixandri Studio, Benavente, Carlota Barrera, Custo Barcelona, Doblas, Dominnico, Eikō Ai, Escorpion, Gau, Guillermina Baeza, Habey Club, Inma Linares, Juan VG, Lemāchet, Lola Casademunt by Maite, Moisés Nieto, Nathalie Chandler, Outsiders Division’, Reparto, Santamarta, Simorra, Zoe Oms and 080 Reborn.

With the jump to Port Vell, the catwalk aims to gain urban visibility and expand perimeter, thanks to more budget, more actions shared with the City Council, more brands and a reinforcement of the international scope, according to the approach moved by the organization. The choice of the waterfront also works as a statement of intent, presenting Barcelona as a recognizable icon outside, and the sea as a backdrop for a platform that wants to project Catalan fashion “to the world” by the hand of the city.