Madrid Cibeles Fashion Week Dates

Welcome to the painfully confusing world of international fashion weeks! Now we've got a queazy feeling just thinking about it. Wait, is that spelled "queasy?" Does it matter? Okay, moving on.

New York used to be first, but now apparently it's Berlin, followed by Madrid (previously CIbeles Madrid Fashion Week, now Mercedes-Benz Madrid Fashion Week). This is almost as exhausting as whirring around the 10,000 fashion week-related sites we seem to own since we realized we needed a job, and now we hate ourselves and our life.

Wait, did we say too much? Ah, so what. You can handle it.

Let's see. Madrid, Madrid. Cosmopolitan, arts-obsessed, beautiful, mysterious yet modern, airy yet antique, place. Totally underrated, mainly because they really dropped the ball on the "keychain-able" monument they're missing. No Eiffel Tower, no Big Ben = no respect. Uncool. They should erect a 900-ft. high bocqueron on the Gran Via. (Seriously, bocquerones are tasty. We think they're sardines, or maybe anchovies, or something that just tastes worse in English.)

Anyway, Spain is seriously great. People are loud and fun and angry and then happy again, all in the time it took you to read that sentence. And we'll say it one more time: Madrid is amazing and totally underrated, except to those who have been there. Once you've walked in the sunshine of the Paseo de Recoletos, seen the fountain of Cibeles, the rows of tulips outside the Museo del Prado or the masterpieces reproduced in chalk (no less) in the Parque del Retiro, you'll know you're coming back. And don't get us started on tapas.

Finally, they used to have popsicles shaped like sharks called "Friguron," punning off the Spanish word for "shark" ("tiburon"), and man those were good.

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