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Shopping in Madrid: Chido Güey
Chido Güey's the Shop for the DF look here in Madrid
Have you been painfully aware lately that your wardrobe lacks the edgy pop-cultural flair of DF (Mexico City)? OK, perhaps not, but this revelation will hit with full force once you set foot inside Chido Güey.
Hidden on a typical stretch of inner-city Madrid streets among fruterias, pollerias and locutorias, this little shop...
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Shopping in Madrid: Chido Guey - Get your Funk on!
Chido Guey offers Mexican urban chic here in Madrid. For more info, check out our review.
Shopping in Madrid - BLESS Offers Fashion Salvation
Shopping in Madrid - BLESS Offers Fashion Salvation
by Cynthia Blair Kane
Is opening your closet an act of daily damnation? Do you ask, “Has a clothing curse been placed upon me?” Do you see people on Fuencarral wearing your outfits and desperately pray for something...
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The Adler Hotel
The Adler Hotel is the located within walking distance from such stores as Prada, Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera and more. If you are on a shopping safari, this is "big game" territory. See review for details.
London Fashion in Madrid: Trendy Tube - Be a Step Ahead
London Fashion in Madrid: Trendy Tube - Be a Step Ahead
by Heather Hart
Hey girls - love designer clothes but can’t handle the designer price tags? Looking for something truly unique? Make your way over to Trendy Tube, Triball’s highly...
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Trendy Tube is the Way to Avoid Noxious Shopping in Madrid
Trendy Tube is your connection to affordable London Fashion here in Madrid. The owner is bilingual making shopping in English even easier. The Triball zone, in which the shop is located, is known for it's seediness, but that's part of it's charm.
Shopping Madrid: Kling Downtown - The Spanish SoHo
Shopping Madrid: Kling Downtown - The Spanish SoHo
by Heather Hart
With summer rapidly approaching, it may be time to invest in some new breezy wear for those long lazy...
photo of the day
The Alternatives to the Madrid Mainstream
The newly reclaimed Triball zone in Madrid, just behind Grand Via, offers alternative perspectives on fashion. Curretnly, the new stores in this area number just under 15, but more are being added daily and there is an immediate potential for fifty plus shops. Swing by and say you were there first.
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Shopping Day
Has the recent weather left you a bit blue? If it's a bit cold for terrazas or a walk in the park, don't forget your shopping options.
Shopping in Madrid: Triball - The Next Shopping District?
Shopping in Madrid: Triball - The Next Shopping District?
What exactly is the “Triball” project? Is it related to the modern primitive movement? Does it require indigenous tattoos? Ritual scarification? No, no, and no. “Triball” has no relation to “tribal” at all; in fact, the project is 100 per cent shopping-focused...
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Preparing for the Shopping Masses
Merchants busily prepare as the Triball area converts itself from near-ghetto to alternative shopping area. See story for details.
Madrid Guide to Shopping
Shopping in Madrid
Shopping in Madrid? Check out our comprehensive guide to stores and shopping in Madrid, Spain. We cover fashion clothing, boutiques, specialty stores, and much more to make shopping in Madrid easy and fun.
shopping in Madrid - 80s Fashion
These Boots Were Made for Rockin' - The Best 80s store in Madrid
Remember when "retro" clothing meant styles from the 50s, 60s, and 70s? Well, prepare to feel old my fellow Generations Xers–the 80s...
shopping - rebajas
Rebajas: The Epic Battle
Neither the morning darkness nor the rain could hold me back. Early the day after the celebration of the Three Kings, just like every woman in the country: I woke up early, renounced my stilettos, and rushed off to war - the first day of rebajas (the sale season). The battlefield: the mall. The ammunition: Cash and cards. The goal: to procure all things bright and beautiful. If you think that rebajas are but...
review of December
While You were Out...
Welcome back! Madrid’s international population dipped a bit during December as everyone flew here or there to do this or that. We truly hope your livers and your bank accounts survived the season. Ours did - more or less. Come on, what’s a bit of sclerosis and debt, it’s the f%&king holidays! Anyway, the elves at MAP were busy the whole while happily writing away. Here is a quick update. Spanish current events were...
Holiday - creative gifts
Last-Minute Creative Gifts!
So are you suffering from a bad case of “buyers block” – you simply can’t think of a thing to buy for the people on your list. With the Christmas deadline hurling toward you, you’re getting nervous, no? Don’t worry Madrid is full of innovative gift solutions at great prices – we’ll get your creative consumer juices flowing. Ikonhaus, for example, is ideal for the fashion-ista in your...
shopping - alternative holiday market
Alternative Holiday Market in Lavapiés!
Does the prospect of throwing yourself into the crushing crowds of Sol render you nearly agoraphobic? Are you plagued by some vague consumer guilt over factory-made (sweatshop?) merchandise? So ditch...
culture - kind of
The Shittiest Christmas Market in the World - Literally!
Every MAP reader who has been living in Madrid for more than a year and has therefore lived to see the traditional Christmas market in Plaza Mayor will agree that it is, by far, the most bizarre...
politics - Shopping and its consequences
Buy Nothing Day - The Ultimate Slacker Holiday
Ever lived smack dab in the center of Madrid during the Christmas season? If so, you, no doubt, have fought with all your self-control not to freak out and scream at the crowds who descend like a plague on the Sol area and manage to make it impossible to simply cross the plaza and get into...
art - Mad is Mad
The Art of Irony - Mad is Mad's Autumn Show
“Irony” was the unofficial theme of the evening at the Mad is Mad's Autumn Collective Show. Upon entering one was greeted by a series of Disney drawings gone pornographic: elaborate recreations of these world-famous characters – their heads all replaced with giant phalluses (by Jorge Gonzalez). This set the tone and, interestingly enough...
shopping - the holidays
Thanks Giving - Shopping for All that Food!
Beware: Thanks Giving is closer than you think. This coveted holiday, which unites the ubiquitous love of food and sloth, requires a misleading amount of planning and preparation before the laziness can commence. Getting an early start is key to having a stress-free holiday. Once lists have been devised and a road map is slowly coming together, scout out...
Our Suggestions
Let the (MAP) Force Guide You!
The following will read like a crash course in Madrid culture. No matter what your concerns, questions or proclivities, we think you’ll be able to find something to suit your lifestyle in our medley of suggestions. As you read through the items, if you don't find what you need, check the search box at the right. If you still can't find what you are looking for, go ahead and drop us a line and we’ll try to help you out.
Alterna-fashion
Kick Starting a New Genre of Activity in the Bedroom…
Silma is a name you can easily box with names like Lola, Carmela, Angelina, Linda, Evita… get the drift? Anyway, it’s merely a combination of Silvia and Emma, the owners of ‘Silma La Dulce’, a women’s designer store in Madrid.
Shopping - Alternative Clothing
Trash: Retro - Punk - Funk Clothing Store
Trash is everything but what the title describes the clothing to be. It’s for every girl whose heart and feet love to Rock Out!...
local design
peSeta - Young Madrid Clothing Designers
If you’re like me you never fathomed a successful fusion of the creative and the traditional - I’ve just been proven wrong. There is only one peseta store located in Madrid which offers one-of-a-kind items handcrafted with “love, love, love.” Peseta products are also sold in stores around the world including Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and for the rest of us -- online at peseta.org.
From our former site
Show Room - 30 Young, Spanish Designers Strut Their Stuff
Showroom Travesìa de San Mateo, 8 Metro: Alonzo Martinez, Tribunal From Wed, May 23 to Sun May 27 Wed to Fri noon to 22:00 Sat and Sun 11 to 22:00 (Free entry) In Search Of An Alternative? Even though the second-hand store thing hasn’t hit Madrid,...
From our former site
The American Store - Products from the US
Hankerin' For Home? The American Store is a small shop that supplies, as you might imagine, kitsch, necessities and even perhaps even a category called “kitsch-necessities”. OK, I know your friends don’t “need” Barbie-doll candles on their birthday cakes or Betty Crocker brownies, but then again “need” is a very relative concept - especially when living abroad...
From our former site
Patas Arriba - Alternative Clothing Store
Oh yes! That’s right ladies we’ve found it! Patas Arriba. An amazing local clothing shop where you can disco...
From our former site
Ikonhaus - custom t-shirts and clothing
In this day and age, waiting for some multinational corporation to print the t-shirt you want, on the color you want, in the style you want is like waiting to win the clothing lottery. Basta! Take...
From our former site
Retro Clothing - Pepita is Dead
Clothes to Die for! If Jackie O weren’t so gosh darn dead, trust me, this is exactly were she’d be shopping. Being a classy dame she'd appreciate that all the clothes are new – many with the orig...
From our former site
Erotic Cafe - Los Placeres de Lola
A refreshing combination - café and erotic boutique - Los Placeres de Lola was started by a group of feminists a...
From our former site
Mad is Mad - Exhibition featuring Javier Lozano
Mad is Mad Calle Pelayo, 48 Mon to Fri: 17:00 – 21:30 Sat: 11 – 14:30 & 17:00 - 21:30; Sun: Closed T. 91 391 43 11 Metro: Chueca www.madismad.com Punk Pop Portraits "Mad is Mad" represents the kids you grew up with who made neat magazine...