Havana for trendsetters: the innovative fashion, art and architecture travel guide

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Upcycling Havana

Fashion, Art & Architecture

Havanna – the vibrant capital of Cuba – delights the visitor with its brightly coloured façades, American vintage cars and Caribbean flair. Along with the city’s tourist hotspots, this guidebook leads you to the latest workshops of sustainable fashion designers and selected "upcycled" architectural highlights as well as trendy bars and shops which enable you to experience Havana in a completely new way as it undergoes its current transformation into a modern city.

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Re- and upcycling have been familiar concepts in Havana for decades. Now a young generation of designers has redeveloped the tradition born of necessity and produces artistic and affordable clothing and unique items. In view of the increasing shortage of resources and the littering of our planet, the metropolis provides inspiring examples for a sustainable fashion movement as well as for a gentle refurbishment and conversion of historical buildings. With addresses of selected galleries, museums, fashion labels, bars and trendy shops.

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In addition to Havana's tourist hotspots, the volume invites you to take a look at the hottest fashion designs and architectural highlights, bars and stores where the current transformation of the lively city into a modern metropolis can be felt at first hand. // Über die touristischen Hotspots Havannas hinaus lädt der Band zu einem Blick in die angesagtesten Modedesigns und zu architektonischen Highlights, Bars und Läden ein, in denen der aktuelle Wandel der quirligen Stadt zur modernen Metropole hautnah spürbar ist.

Zeitgeister. Kulturmagazin des Goethe-Institut

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Ed. Boris Perez Vasquez, Michael M. Thoss

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Contributions by J. Barbe, R. Gutiérrez, S. Puente, M. Thoss, B. Perez Vasquez / A. Valdivia Mesa

80 pages, 70 colour illustrations
14 x 20.5 cm, 5 1/2 x 8 in., hardcover

ISBN: 978-3-7774-4267-9