In 2009 Jose Castro collaborates with the confectionery brand Chupa Chups, founded by Enric Bernat in 1958 and presently a renown leader in the candy market

The project brief requests to establish a new brand code to be used on the licensed products, the “Choose your Flavour” concept, with which the company still continues to work nowadays. It is inspired by a vintage aesthetic and the Berlin artist Peter Mac, icon of the 60ies and 70ies.

The collection includes Tshirts for boys and girls of all ages and a fun tin shaped packaging, continuing with the same concept of choosing your own flavor, thus stressing the collectible character of the products.

La colección abarcaba camisetas estampadas de niña y niño y divertidos expositores en forma de lata que mantenían el mismo concepto de elegir tu propio sabor, estimulando el coleccionismo de los productos.

The Jose Castro Studio has created a new 11/12 winter collection for Barada. The Ubrique based firm is characterised by their exquisite use of leather and is synonymous with elegance and quality.
This is a collection that places emphasis on the firm’s logo. It creates its own identity using a golden logo along with high reliefs and die cuts to add visibility to the brand, displaying its denomination of origin for the very first time.

Jose Castro is one of the Spanish artists chosen by Editorial Planeta to design a range of exclusive fans to be sold in collectible instalments.

For the first time the designer of A Cañiza Jose Castro has created an exclusive collection for El Corte Ingles, available from the women’s floor (international botique) in the Vigo and A Coruña stores.

The designs are based on the concepts of exquisiteness and difference which are used to give shape to a range of both stylish and wearable clothes which are predominantely black, ecru, red and grey. The collection consists of a range of high quality leather goods which have undergone washing and spraying processes which differentiate them from any other product on the market. Each piece has its own special charisma and is also dual purpose ‘night and day’.

The collection plays with volume and mixes blouses, trousers and skirts with stronger and more crafted pieces to offer the clients the complete Jose Castro look. Special emphasis has been placed on the Little Black Dress adapting it so that it can be worn for any kind of celebration as well as for daily use.

The collaboration between these two firms has made it possible, for the first time, to aquire the famous Sarah Jessica Parker jeans, also in the black satin version.

Serpelsa Furs has spent over two decades working in tanning and finishing leather and other skins; their expertise is in working with rabbit furs and their techniques have made them pioneers of the international market.

The Jose Castro Studio has been hired to bring creativity and new finishes to the company’s own collection and have proposed the use of shaving, pattern and degrading processes to bring design innovation.

The Studio has also designed and coordinated the creation of prototypes for their own brand: the ‘Serpelsa by Jose Castro’ line from the Redrum collection, which was presented in MFW Cibeles in 2008.

The Jose Castro studio is a freelance collaborator with Kukuxumusu, a company whose name means ‘the flea’s kiss’ in Basque. They define themselves as the ‘drawing and ideas factory’ and their designs for t-shirts and other items use animals to demonstrate various ridiculous human habits.

The studio has been working with them since 2007 on an alternative line of products orientated towards ‘the fashionable’, creating men’s and women’s clothes that add a touch of extra design to the iconic Kukuxumusu images.

Siempresviernes is a Galician firm created in 2004 dedicated to women’s collections. Their philosophy is described by its slogan ‘Life is too short to dress sad’.

Under the name Siempresviernes by Jose Castro, the designer presents his ‘Do the Mix’ collection, clearly inspired by the eighties but not dictated by it. The fusion and intermingling of colour, volume and music offers a revision of one of last decades’ most ‘trash’ periods. A selection of accessories completes the risky look that dominated the era.

The studio has been collaborating with the fashion firm Surkana since 2010 as a freelance creative coordinator. They are a brand dedicated to blending, who fuse symbols, colours and experience to fully reflect today’s vital and positive woman.

In recent years Jose Castro has participated in developing the brand in conjunction with his personal vision of globalisation and multicultural identity.

The Jose Castro Studio has been collaborating with the historic fabric store Gratacós since 2007. This company has dedicated itself to the production of high quality fabrics since the 1940s and has Barcelona’s Paseo de Gracia as its window display.

It served as a sponsor for the Dead Bird and Redrum collections which were presented in Paris and was a supplier for the piece that Jose Castro presented as Spain’s representative during the Maison de la Création conference.

Jose Castro, alongside other artists from Barcelona, develops new ways to display the designs on mannequins in the company’s catalogues, using without seams, each season’s new fabrics. He has also participated in specific store based events; such as the Jose Castro wedding dress exhibition during Barcelona Bridal Week and the creation of the ‘Sombrero loco’ character (the mad hatter) for the sixth edition of la Passejada Amb Barret.

The designer also created an exclusive bag as a gift item, based on a double concept that unites the handmade with the technical. It is a reversible bag, with one side showing various sewing utensils such as scissors and thimbles while the other resembles a word puzzle made out of different qualities and types of fabric.

The kitchenware company Iris, in collaboration with the JC Studio, has created a range of bags for transporting food; useful designs that have today’s practical, urban man or woman in mind who are looking for that touch of design in their everyday life. They merge ‘fashion’ with the ‘Take Away’ philosophy to create an elegant range of products with the logos of both the company and the designer.