Jonathan Andic, from the failed rise to the management of Mango to his role as a shareholder

Jonathan Andic, from the failed rise to the management of Mango to his role as a shareholder

Jonathan Andic grew up within Mango long before occupying an office at the top of the group. He was the eldest son of Isak Andic, the founder who built one of the largest European fashion empires from Catalonia, but those who dealt with him in those years remember a discreet executive, more comfortable in creative and product teams than on the corporate front line. He studied Audiovisual Communication in the United States and later completed his training with an MBA at IESE, before formally joining the family business in 2005.

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A pride for Barcelona

The majestic image of the Sagrada Família featured on our cover today is a tribute to Antoni Gaudí, on the centenary of his death, and to the city of Barcelona itself for having this fabulous architectural jewel. There are only a few days left until June 10, when,

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The question of Germany

The question of Germany

The United States once thought of turning Germany into an agricultural and livestock country, without an industrial pulse, with the aim of preventing its rearmament forever. Eighty years later, the United States is pushing Germany towards rearmament. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a sponsor in the 1940s of a pastoral Germany, would be horrified today.

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The foundations of Bad Bunny's Little House

The foundations of Bad Bunny’s Little House

Everything comes from Benito’s mind. It’s a unique case that we might never see again. He calls me and I say he’s crazy, how is he going to do this. But the impossible is what we want to do,” says Puerto Rican music promoter Alejandro Pabón to a captivated audience at the CCCB Auditorium. Pabón, with his ‘r’s turned into sonorous ‘l’s, explains how Bad Bunny’s 30 residency concerts in Puerto Rico were born, which the team, he confesses, “we code-named the Super Bowl, without knowing he would sing in it later.” Thirty performances that have shaken up industry models but especially his country, where, he lists, they have even brought dominoes back into fashion and made the government understand that music can be one of its great export products. Now they are creating open studios for young people.

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What is inside the apples of the Eixample? Photographer Bea Schulze reveals it

What is inside the apples of the Eixample? Photographer Bea Schulze reveals it

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Ildefons Cerdà. The engineer and urban planner laid the foundations of modern Barcelona after the demolition of the walls, a process that lasted for years, from 1854 to 1873. In the General Theory of Urbanization of 1867, Cerdà promoted a humanistic and egalitarian urbanism that was meant to provide the “public happiness” of its inhabitants, regardless of their origin or social class. In addition to avoiding differences between neighborhoods, conditions of hygiene, healthiness, and green areas occupied a prominent place.

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