Vintage and second-hand
Barcelona's vintage concentrates in the Raval and El Born: curated second-hand shops, from seventies coats to jeans already three lives deep.
The vintage zones
The Raval packs the most second-hand per square meter, with El Born doing the fashionier, pricier version. In both you pay for the find, not the label: try before falling in love.
Markets and kilo sales
Traveling vintage markets and pay-by-weight sales pop up quarterly in sheds and squares: dates on their channels, real bargains and a patience game.
The local label
The city has designers working second-hand as raw material, rebuilding one-off pieces: the expensive end of vintage that is sometimes the trip's best buy.