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Viviana De la Barca is a cultural initiative that offers diverse creative experiences. In 2026, we have incorporated pop-ups at markets, fashion window displays, and architectural developments.
Viviana De la Barca is a cultural initiative that offers diverse creative experiences. In 2026, we have incorporated pop-ups at markets, fashion window displays, and architectural developments.
Coming this spring
Our collaborative sports inspired window display will feature original art as a transformative force for change and community building.
A display launching on June 1st.
Further details will be provided soon.
Spring is officially here, and we’re so excited to share some fresh news with you! |
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This breezy spring news is all about celebrating the season’s rebirth and the amazing opportunities it brings. It’s a nod to how thoughtful lifestyle choices can transform our lives, from travels in the beautiful mountains in Mexico, to the historic streets of Cambridge, England in Europe or The artistic markets in the Netherlands. There’s a real sense of renewal in the air.
Our Lifestyle Journalist kitchen brings you two beloved Mexican recipes: RAJAS CON CREMA made with roasted poblano peppers, white onion, thinly sliced golden roasted garlic, and minced, then sprinkled with fresh corn kernels. Then there’s HORCHATA DE COCO with vanilla. This drink originated in Egypt and was once made with barley, known as “hordeata.”
Are you visiting the Netherlands this spring? Join The Lifestyle Journalist in Eindhoven for our first community centre event and art market! We’ll be hosting these events in April, May, and June. For more details check out our social media or visit www.vmcdelabarca.com.
Are you visiting the Netherlands this spring? Join The Lifestyle Journalist in Eindhoven for our first community centre event and art market! We’ll be hosting these events in April, May, and June. For more details check out our social media or visit www.vmcdelabarca.com.
Culture, people, style and places where the traditional meets the modern. Viviana takes a great deal of inspiration from her life abroad and travels – in Mexico, to North Africa or Norway, for instance.
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Viviana is a former educator with a masters degree in screenwriting, but her storytelling doesn’t stop with her audiovisual productions on culture, art and design. She has developed her own visual language by combining her bilingual writing and a playful drawing style in her pastel and watercolour sketches. This versatility is what clients love about her. Viviana’s style is feminine in tone and content.
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Based in the Netherlands, Viviana’s new sketches and lifestyle stories are in The Artist.
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London’s Marie Antoinette Style
This autumn we set off to London’s Marie Antoinette Style exhibition, the most fashionable European queen in history who recycled her wardrobe each year, sharing it between her staff.
The Victoria and Albert Museum launched its Marie Antoinette Style exhibition in a show that celebrates her sense of style, and interrogates some of the myths associated with the most controversial queen in history.
London’s Marie Antoinette Style refers to the distinctive fashion and design influence of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, known for her extravagant taste and impact on European aesthetics.
These are images from the exhibition at the V&A Museum exploring her legacy and showcasing personal items, contemporary couture, and the lasting appeal of her style over 250 years.
The Victoria and Albert Museum launched its Marie Antoinette Style exhibition in a show that celebrates her sense of style, and interrogates some of the myths associated with the most controversial queen in history.
London’s Marie Antoinette Style refers to the distinctive fashion and design influence of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, known for her extravagant taste and impact on European aesthetics.
These are images from the exhibition at the V&A Museum exploring her legacy and showcasing personal items, contemporary couture, and the lasting appeal of her style over 250 years.
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Getting Dirty With Fashion
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At London’s Barbican Centre exhibition, Dirty Looks
— on fashion’s relationship with the earth and the dirt it produces.
On the autumn of 2025, the Barbican Art Gallery is staging an ingenious exhibition - Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion - showcasing a bonanza of ripped, torn, stained, and burnt designs from a panoply of greats, including Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen.
From romantic gowns that embrace their own ruination to garments that elevate stains into decorative motifs. An exhibition that questions ideals of beauty and glamour.
The show showcases a large installation of Hussein Chalayan’s poetic designs, which he famously buried in iron filings to observe decay and continued this practice throughout his career.
Decay has its own poetry, and the Romantic Ruins section explores that sentiment in the shape of torn and tattered gowns from John Galliano's Fallen Angels collection, Alexander McQueen's slashed tartans from Highland Rape.
— on fashion’s relationship with the earth and the dirt it produces.
On the autumn of 2025, the Barbican Art Gallery is staging an ingenious exhibition - Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion - showcasing a bonanza of ripped, torn, stained, and burnt designs from a panoply of greats, including Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen.
From romantic gowns that embrace their own ruination to garments that elevate stains into decorative motifs. An exhibition that questions ideals of beauty and glamour.
The show showcases a large installation of Hussein Chalayan’s poetic designs, which he famously buried in iron filings to observe decay and continued this practice throughout his career.
Decay has its own poetry, and the Romantic Ruins section explores that sentiment in the shape of torn and tattered gowns from John Galliano's Fallen Angels collection, Alexander McQueen's slashed tartans from Highland Rape.
Our Dutch Design Week 2025 Highlights
We met Babs Groote Schaarsberg from Raalte in the Netherlands this year at Dutch Design Week (DDW) 2025 in the city of Eindhoven, who graduated last academic year from the Utrecht School of the Arts, majoring in Fashion Design. Babs exhibited her graduation work She was inspired by the market Bottermarkt.
My work involves creating a collection of wearable paper sculptures. These sculptures explore the possibilities of fashion, blending sculptural and wearable elements, sometimes functioning as installations. Material is a central focus, and I frequently use textiles alongside unexpected materials like paper.
The collection Een Ode Aan (An Ode To) is inspired by the market Bottermarkt in Raalte, where traditional Salland costumes are still worn. These garments, worn with pride and care, are a visible symbol of local heritage.
“My work involves creating a collection of wearable paper sculptures. These sculptures explore the possibilities of fashion, blending sculptural and wearable elements, sometimes functioning as installations. Material is a central focus, and I frequently use textiles alongside unexpected materials like paper.”
The sculptures in this collection are not replicas, but a tribute in form and material, created out of wonder at the details, rituals and craftsmanship behind the clothing and the market. The title stimulates the imagination and invites personal interpretation by both the maker and the viewer.
“My work involves creating a collection of wearable paper sculptures. These sculptures explore the possibilities of fashion, blending sculptural and wearable elements, sometimes functioning as installations. Material is a central focus, and I frequently use textiles alongside unexpected materials like paper.”
The sculptures in this collection are not replicas, but a tribute in form and material, created out of wonder at the details, rituals and craftsmanship behind the clothing and the market. The title stimulates the imagination and invites personal interpretation by both the maker and the viewer.
TAMAR ALON | ‘Modular Hospitality’ reflects the ethos of hosting. It begins as a single bench, but when fully open becomes nine chairs. The bench is composed of three modular units. Each unit can transform to three chairs, using a simple sliding mechanism. |
LÉONIE SANCHEZ | In/Mano, a collection of everyday garments that explore the dress glove and its historical disappearance, providing contemporary reinterpretations of this formal piece of clothing. |
MAK STUDIO | Multifunctional furniture pieces. |
Our highlights of Dutch Design Week so far in Eindhoven, the Netherlands where we hear about the future of sustainable design and visit Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show.
In audio visuals: Christophe Boulmer ‘You Rest, You Rust’ reframing the Norwegian cabin fireplace as a site for exploring ritual, decay, and cultural identity. An enlarged model of the fireplace from the designer’s family cabin is fitted with a MIDI controller that, in response to touch, triggers and distorts the sound of crackling wood. It is clad in veneers made from sandpaper, laminated after high-speed erosion.
With our wool Sennes purse crafted with 100% wool from Portugal and RERERE the world's first design label of renewed office furniture in the Netherlands.
In audio visuals: Christophe Boulmer ‘You Rest, You Rust’ reframing the Norwegian cabin fireplace as a site for exploring ritual, decay, and cultural identity. An enlarged model of the fireplace from the designer’s family cabin is fitted with a MIDI controller that, in response to touch, triggers and distorts the sound of crackling wood. It is clad in veneers made from sandpaper, laminated after high-speed erosion.
With our wool Sennes purse crafted with 100% wool from Portugal and RERERE the world's first design label of renewed office furniture in the Netherlands.
Christophe Boulmer |
Sennes |
RERERE |
Amsterdam Fashion Week 2025
Today at Amsterdam Fashion Week, with our critic’s shoes as part of the audience for the talk with THORA VALDIMAR and JEANETTE MADSEN, founders and creative directors of ROTATE Birger Christensen.
What did we like the most?
This event is taking place at THE HUB on Sept. 3 and 4, where several AFW Talks led by well-known designers, editors, and industry leaders meet and where visitors find inspiration and join workshops led by creative professionals. The HUB offers a cool space to learn, exchange ideas, and network with others in the fashion world. Our score: 9.
Do we think this event achieved its goals?
Sure! We would’ve liked to know further about ROTATE’s main manufacturer location and how they are tackling overproduction or what they do with the items people return and previous years’ collections.
Why did we decide to attend this event?
Because their style is bold and speaks to our feminist identity without undermining femininity.
What did we like the most?
This event is taking place at THE HUB on Sept. 3 and 4, where several AFW Talks led by well-known designers, editors, and industry leaders meet and where visitors find inspiration and join workshops led by creative professionals. The HUB offers a cool space to learn, exchange ideas, and network with others in the fashion world. Our score: 9.
Do we think this event achieved its goals?
Sure! We would’ve liked to know further about ROTATE’s main manufacturer location and how they are tackling overproduction or what they do with the items people return and previous years’ collections.
Why did we decide to attend this event?
Because their style is bold and speaks to our feminist identity without undermining femininity.
Curating Craft
Viviana’s mother embroidery. An art form using needles, ribbons and threads to enhance a hand towel. Handmade in 2005 in Mexico.
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Documentation as storytelling.
Viviana’s great-niece's elementary school graduation dress. Handmade by Luisa in 2025 in Mexico.
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CPK Bankitos
Special design born in the spring of 2025
WE AT MODEFABRIEK
WE AT MODEFABRIEK 2025
In 2025, we, at Viviana M. C. De La Barca mark five years in the movement and collective advocacy of textile reuse and recycling.
To celebrate this milestone and continue raising awareness, on 6 & 7 July we visit ModeFabriek 2025 — Amsterdam’s fashion trade event happening every year in the Netherlands. For this year’s edition, fashion labels mash up in an impressive dynamic new location spreading out across multiple buildings in the town of Zaandam.
Our Besties
We LOVE seeing more conscious and pre-loved vintage resellers with stunning garments from mid-priced brands to high-end designers, vintage treasures, and collector's items.
We were thrilled with MODEFABRIEK X RESHARE space:
a niche giving surplus stock a second life and a spot to reshare textile reuse.
The RESPONSIBLE ROUTE is another highlight:
a guide along brands that take responsibility and commit to reducing negative impact.
Watch our clip featuring young talent in the SPOTLIGHT
featuring Alegra Collective, Where’Els and Freja Studio.
To celebrate this milestone and continue raising awareness, on 6 & 7 July we visit ModeFabriek 2025 — Amsterdam’s fashion trade event happening every year in the Netherlands. For this year’s edition, fashion labels mash up in an impressive dynamic new location spreading out across multiple buildings in the town of Zaandam.
Our Besties
We LOVE seeing more conscious and pre-loved vintage resellers with stunning garments from mid-priced brands to high-end designers, vintage treasures, and collector's items.
We were thrilled with MODEFABRIEK X RESHARE space:
a niche giving surplus stock a second life and a spot to reshare textile reuse.
The RESPONSIBLE ROUTE is another highlight:
a guide along brands that take responsibility and commit to reducing negative impact.
Watch our clip featuring young talent in the SPOTLIGHT
featuring Alegra Collective, Where’Els and Freja Studio.
Homage to
Mexican Urban Art & Design
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