History
Do what you love, love what you do…
Biscuit was born in the heart of a little girl called Katia Bandolowski, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The daughter of a Danish father and a Spanish mother, at the age of four the family decided to come and live in Madrid.
As a teenager Katia dreamed of designers such as Thierry Mugler and Alaia. By day her grandmother Carmen taught her to sew and to cut, so that she could dress the way she dreamed of dressing.
Before long she was designing her own costumes for her work as a dancer, and shortly afterwards Nacho Cano asked her to design the wardrobe for his tour.
There was nothing for it but to travel the world in search of that small workshop where Biscuit could come to life.
10,671 km from Madrid, in the city of Buenos Aires, a young Argentinian called Paul Buquet fell in love with this traveller and joined her in the search for that small workshop.
15,171 km from Buenos Aires lies the family workshop of Jonny (Kadek in Indonesian) on the island of Bali. In that workshop, where every seamstress is a person and every garment her work of art, they spent seven years making small collections signed with one name in common: Biscuit.
In 2005 BISCUIT opened its first shop in the Malasaña neighbourhood, creating a space not only to offer clothing under the Biscuit name, but also one where young designers could share their dreams and where people could buy their creations.
As in every story, the years go by.
Today that little girl is a fine independent designer, Biscuit is a well-known clothing label, and that young man from Buenos Aires is the one who finds the balance between dreams and business.
Katia and Paul married. They have two sons (Mael & Liam) and live on the small island of Ibiza... they say that is the secret behind her designs...
Biscuit keeps growing little by little... you will find it in Madrid, Barcelona and Ibiza, and word has it that it is now in Mallorca too...
But twice a year the three of them meet on neutral ground and bring their dreams to life, creating the collections of this independent clothing label in a workshop in Portugal run by Fernanda and in a well-run workshop in China led by Jonny (Kadek). Every seamstress is still a person, and every garment her work of art.
Biscuit loves you!
