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Josh Soskin, Grace Jackson  and Beatriz García interview people on the street of Barcelona to find out about their particular dress style. What they discover is how individual, chic and eclectic the Spanish have become.

Boris Curatolo grew up in Madrid and started to study painting and drawing in his home city, before moving to New York, where he now lives. In his words, "my sculptures begin with an investigation of the physical properties of materials and the different ways they can be shaped, joined, combined or assembled."

With influences that go from Chillida to Kenneth Snelson, Boris Curatolo has worked in stainless steel and now in wood, creating curved sculptures with suggestive names. Inheriting a prodigious set of shop tools from his father has allowed him to have, at hand, all the material he might need to help him bring forth his creations.

Berber Ormeling first came to Spain as an exchange student. She fell in love with the country, its people, and her boyfriend. Then she returned to work and now manages one of the five Babylon language schools. The key to their success: small, personalized classes, enthusiastic teachers, the ideal setting.

Kip Tobin is a writer and student of Spanish. He has spent the last four years in Madrid "slinginglish", which "is the term that I have come up with for teaching English in Spain. Because Spaniards are very reluctant to learn it, you spend much of the time just throwing as much English at them as you can and seeing what sticks." He also lives in a neighborhood that he affectionately refers to as Pink Rivers. Kip has learned quite a bit of Spanish, as well as where to go for the best food.