Sunday Pick: Barcelona: streetwear with a political twist | Far Flung

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Barcelona is a city that can’t be separated from its art–you might picture Gaudí architecture, Picasso paintings, or flamenco and jazz spilling onto the streets and into the night. But there’s another art scene that’s breaking into the mainstream from the margins–led by the city’s street vendors, known as manteros. Listen to how this group of people, often immigrants without legal protections or rights to work in Spain, fought to form a union to gain the voice they needed, and ended up creating a global and people-centered fashion-label that highlights human rights in the process.

This episode originally aired July 28, 2022.

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0:00.0	Hey TED Talks Daily listeners. I'm Elise Hugh. Today we're bringing you another Sunday
0:11.3	pick, where we share an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked
0:15.9	by us for you. When I hear Barcelona, I immediately think of the vivid colors and the whimsical lines
0:22.5	and shapes of Gaudi's architecture, Picasso's paintings, and flamenco music and dance. But there's
0:28.2	another art scene in this famous Spanish city that's breaking into the mainstream from the margins.
0:34.1	In this episode of our podcast, Far Flung, host Salim Reschamuala introduces us to Barcelona's street vendors known as Monteros, who are bringing a political twist to the art of streetwear.
0:47.3	Listen to how this group of people, often immigrants without legal protections or rights to work in Spain, fought to form a union to gain the voice
0:54.8	they needed and ended up creating a global and people-centered fashion label that highlights
1:00.0	human rights in the process. To hear more unique ideas and stories from around the globe,
1:05.5	check out far-flung, available wherever you get your podcasts. Now on to the episode, right after a quick break.
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