Speak the Culture: Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture

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1. Identity: the
   building blocks of
   2. Literature
   and philosophy
   3. Art and
   architecture
   4. Performing
   arts
   5. Cinema
   and fashion
   6. Media and
   communications
   7. Food and drink 8. Living culture:
   the details of

5.2 Fashion

Spain dallied with looking good back in

the Golden Age but, in truth, climbed

aboard the fashion bandwagon rather

late: it never quite had the style pedigree

or venerable couture houses of France.

Yet today Spanish fashion thrives.

Designers have cut a lucrative new market

from cheap-but-chic mass production and

crowd-pleasing retailers like Zara and

Mango have become global stars.