Filed under: Mark Wrafter by Mark Wrafter at 7:01 pm on Saturday, September 29, 2007

I like the Skunkfunk brand, with a few independent stores dotted around the back-streets and cooler areas of Barcelona, away from the tourist-infested main thoroughfares, they’re a break from the norm (norm: Zara, Mango, Massimo Dutti, Zara again, Oysho etc)

Kicking-off in the Basque country (Northern Spain/Southern France) they’ve opened up in a plethora of locations as far away as Tokyo and San Francisco.

Skunkfunk Does Green

But boy do they LOVE green! And not a dark green, which I’d wear… but a lime green green - a green that’d be a little hard to get away with, unless you’re living in a place where the sun shines morning to night. I can’t see it being a success on Dame Street in Dublin on a pissy-wet October evening.

Still, I like their style, it’s brave and it’s young, and it’s keeping-it-small while resisting to be everywhere-at-once, which will be the downfall of fellow-Spanish start-up Desigual, who were once niche… but they got greedy.

3 Comments »

Comment by martapiotrowska

September 29, 2007 @ 11:26 pm

that’s quite a odd shade of green, I mean it’s alright for spring but I would have never thought about it as a fall/winter colour.

Comment by martapiotrowska

September 30, 2007 @ 10:17 am

Now that I actually clicked on the link - THIS IS spring/summer collection. In this case, the green is more than appropriate.

And I feel a bit stupid saying that because those clothes in the photo obviously look like something you would wear in July rather than January. At least in this part of the world.

Comment by Trinity

October 1, 2007 @ 11:11 am

eek! now that green wouldn’t be my ‘cuppa cha’ at all! :) I could maybe do it in purple though or even a bottle green.

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