Jose Castro is collaborating with the jewellery company Dadaburma to create the 2009/10 winter collection Redrum. Using pearls which are his star product, necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings are created that will then be on sale from retail outlets in Corte Inglés.
Jose Castro is the first external designer to ever work with Inditex. Under the name of ‘Bershka by Jose Castro’ they have collaborated to create a line of eco-friendly shopping bags.
The studio has designed a limited edition series of brightly coloured bags for the youth brand, joining Bershka in their concern for sustainability and raising awareness of the on-going waste caused by plastic shopping bags.
n 2001 Jose Castro was hired by Twenty as creative director of Miró Jeans, the second line of Catalan designer Antonio Miró.
He is in charge of developing the collections for women and men along with their accessories line as both creative director and the brand’s public image. He will be presenting them on the Circuit de Barcelona platform until 2004.
His experience and expertise with tanned hides was the reason that international Galician designer Jose Castro was the professional chosen by Acexpiel/Spanish Tanners Association to develop, over six seasons, a number leather trends specifically designed for this age old industry and geared towards the international fashion market.
Jose Castro was the Spanish representative at the 2010 edition of la Maison de la Création’s “Cité Euroméditerraném tenne de la Mode”, an event that promotes the development of the companies of emerging creators.
The project, which lasted six months, consisted of six sessions in which the designers had to create both individual and collective collections with guidance from a distinguished group of fashion professionals, including the chairman of Chanel’s advisory board Françoise Montenay. The purpose was to help introduce the designers to this competitive market.
La Redoute, the French company leader in catalogue and online sales, presented in their winter 2008/09 collection, a collaboration between artists from different countries. The event took place in the Pompidou museum in Paris. The Spanish representative, Jose Castro, designed a look that took inspiration from his collection ‘The Crow’.
It was the first time that this designers’ clothes reached a larger audience and at a much more competitive price.
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.
