Fashion Meets Art at BARCELONA BRIDAL WEEK

Barcelona Fashion Week this year featured designs from one of our favorite collaborations: YolanCris. Friends since childhood, Yolanda and Cristina design collections that playfully mesh tradition with flirty hemlines and sheer panels. This year's collection was no exception: by presenting modern, transluscent sheaths alongside retro tea-length gowns and pairing high necklines with high hemlines, YolanCris showed off their astounding range and demonstrated a sense of class throughout the show. The power duo tells Brides contributor Catherine Smith that they design for women who are "independent and confident, with a free spirit." Accordingly, leafing through their current catalog leaves the impression that Yolanda and Cristina are designing for women like themselves. In 2015, the pair revealed four separate collections that drew from different cultures, textiles, and eras in fashion. In 2016, they demonstrated no less ambition, weaving together stylistic cues from similar sources of inspiration into a single cohesive collection, then adding a couture collection with a decidedly traditional and grand appeal. Altogether, YolanCris may be one of the most playful and versatile names in bridal design to date.