FASHION Magazine

  • Mango celebrates the second edition of El Botón

    by Sarah Nicole Prickett
    From left: Leigh Lezark, a look from Mango's Fall 2009 collection and singer Solange Knowles

    From left: Leigh Lezark, a look from Mango's Fall 2009 collection and singer Solange Knowles

    Knowing not a word of Spanish, I assumed the gilded words “El Hangar” on the Mango gala invite meant the whole glittering shindig would go down in a Barcelona airport hangar.

    Not quite: the location of the Oscar party (that would be the jury chairman and too-charming host of this year’s El Botón-Mango Fashion Awards, Oscar de la Renta, not the little gold man) was in Mango’s BCN headquarters. To fete the second incarnation of the awards, the warehouse was transformed into an amber-lit hive of fast-fashion festivity, all champers and ciggies and swift kisses on both cheeks. The international jet set was in full force, so in that respect it was a sort of hangar, after all (and never mind all the overbronzed hangers-on).

    Posted in Barcelona, Celebrity, Jean Pierre Braganza, Jin Youn Lee, Josh Goot, Leigh Lezark, Mango, Mango Fashion Awards, Oscar de la Renta, Parties