Sustainable materials and daring designs, fashion enters kitchens

By : ujikiu / On : 06/02/2023

Sitted or wide jackets that adapt to different bodies, unite and unisex models that are worth for men and women, adjustable aprons, striking colors or cake, cowboys or leather, organic cotton or recycled plastic thread, pants or t -shirts that do not seem likeof work, zippers and impossible buttons, rupturist designs ... the personality of each restaurant mandates.And there are signatures that execute these avant -garde desires of professionals for several years, introducing fashion patterns in kitchens and rooms.Small but high production textile companies that can boast in their labels of the Made in Spain brand, such as Café Des Garçons, located in Badalona (Barcelona), and Qooqer, in Teruel.Both make custom designs under request and their clothes already have international expansion.

“If your restaurant has not left a catalog, why your uniforms yes?You are unique, ”they say from Garçons to his clientele.And qoquer also applies the motto of originality, "we design a uniformity that makes you different".

“If your restaurant has not left a catalog, why your uniforms yes?You are unique, ”they say from Garçons to his clientele.And qoquer also applies the motto of originality, "we design a uniformity that makes you different".

And if there is someone who differs radically is Dabiz Muñoz.Diverxo's chef surprised in 2014 with white force chaquetillas, which were embroidered on the neck Lokura.It was for Streetxo staff, his most cane proposal then.There began his collaboration with Joan Camacho, Garçons de Café designer.His relationship continues, with the red and black uniforms of the newly open Goxo Barcelona and those preparing for his new Madrid -centered Madrid adventure, Ravioxo."Garcons has a different look.And I like that.We start from the basis that its quality is good, but also does original things, it does not look like anything, you want to risk and open your way, ”says the cook.“The crazy cook force shirts marked a before and after.It was a bomb, the costume rules changed, ”he recalls.And the design has evolved with the use.“Before we had to fasten the jackets around each other, now no longer.It is improved madness.It is ergonomic and breathable.No matter how much design the clothes have to be comfortable.It is the first thing I demand, ”says Muñoz, whose staff in the Triestrellado Diverx.

In the case of Ángel León's crew in Aponiente, Garçons's clothes follow the sea chef wave.In the room, boat captains with a jacket (breathable and elastic);In kitchen, sailors with white shirt and apron.Blue and fish cross the clothing."We work side by chefs.They tell us what they want to convey and we interpret it, ”says Joan Camacho, who created the culinary clothing company in 2008 after seven years in the fashion world."We are focused exclusively on gastronomy and we are artisans, we design and produce everything in Catalonia, using environmental respectful materials".

Materiales sostenibles y diseños atrevidos, la moda entra en las cocinas

Garçons de Café has been wearing restoration brigades for more than ten years.In their client portfolio are, in addition to León and Muñoz, chefs such as Maca de Castro, Mario Sandoval, Diego Guerrero, Artur Martínez, Susi Díaz ... In their creations there are audacity: Casacas, Levites, Chilabas (for Parisino Akrame and his coffeeShirvan de Doha), biker or rocker jackets, costumes that remind those of series characters such as the paper house or the squid game, or chocolate jackets for Jordi Roca at Casa Cocoa and in the tone of cream for Rocamboles.

Qooqer has also conquered a remarkable clientele: Jesús Sánchez, the twins Torres, Rodrigo de la Calle, Santi Taura, Fismuler, Honest Greens.More than 75.000 aproules has produced since it was born in 2018 as an e-commerce fashion brand for hospitality.

“We are in a town in Teruel, in emptied Spain, and one of our objectives is to recover part of the textile industrial fabric in our environment and that is in decline since the eighties.We start with proximity workshops, in fair working conditions, which currently continue to produce much of our catalog.We have been adding workshops in Toledo, Valencia, Sevilla and Portugal, but 95% is done in Spain, ”says Susana López, manager of a company that founded Juan Simón Paricio, creator of the collections, creator of the collections.

Until the crazy shirt of Streetxo broke the exceptions in the usual white or black panorama in the hospitality were the flowers of Alberto Chicote's flower and strokes, designed by Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, which came to exhibit the museum of the suit ofMadrid.Designers such as Juan Duyos have made incursions into the design of aprons or jackets (his are the ones that lucasted with repsol soles) and, from the pandemic, the masks also enter the lot.In fact, the manufacture of protective masks has been a table of salvation for textile companies.

The hospitality costume was the subject of a catwalk in San Sebastián Gastronomika.Precisely the gastronomic congresses, where Joan Camacho's firm has extensive experience of dressing speakers, are a good showcase for the sector to know the chances of dressing in an original way, breaking the classic patterns.

In the recent return of the Gastronomic Forum of Barcelona, focused on sustainable practices, Garcons and Celler de Can Roca have agreed to show the recycling garments they use.Chaquetillas, aprons and masks are now manufactured with spinning from plastics used in the restaurant and fish in the oceans (networks, bottles, bags ...).Its source is the Santander and the Catalan Catalan Cantabrian company Seaqual.They generate special fabrics that suppose a second life of plastic waste, fibers that meet the requirements of work clothes: breathable, comfortable and resistant to dirt and splashes.

The three brothers of the Celler de Can Roca (Joan, Jordi and Josep) follow the recycla rock plan, in which the glass, vacuum kitchen bags, or the porexpan of the cold boxes end up turned into glasses, trays,Bags or stools (by the work of designer Andreu Carulla).And all the uniforms that look are now made with that marine garbage thread.Now they are embarked on recycling clothes with BBVA and Textile Santander, which provide them aprons, jackets and tablecloths.

“The kitchen uniform dressed it many hours and it is a priority that we feel comfortable with him.And a good fashion design makes us feel elegant.But now we must bear in mind that we are in an important waste crisis and no industry is exempt from responsibility, also the textile.That is why we have started an initiative to elaborate, from plastic recovered in Celler and in the oceans, elegant and comfortable uniforms, both for the living room and in kitchen, ”says Jordi and Joan Roca."We have been working at Celler de Can Roca for many years with an environmental awareness," adds Joan."Our commitment to sustainability is not a posture".