BISCUIT
HISTORY
Our story doesn't begin the day we opened our first store. It begins the day a little girl opens a sewing box.
1988. Madrid. A living room on a summer afternoon. Katia and her grandmother Carmen are choosing fabrics to make a pair of pants. Not just any pants: flared pants in silver lamé. Too modern for the time? That was the idea. Dreaming of wearing the style of clothing Jane Fonda wore in the film Barbarella, Katia realizes that her way of dressing matches her personality.
And she is not (nor does she want to be) like everyone else.
VERY YOUNG...
At 14, she enrolled in pattern-making classes and began to shape her future. But not in a straight line. Because, as she says, "life is change." She dabbled in the worlds of dance, makeup, styling, and even aviation. Threading one thing into another, she ended up in Bali and spent nine years there creating clothes with her own hands. She chose the fabrics, the colors, the prints, and her destiny. Because that's where it was.
She started a clothing brand with a friend and they went to trade shows all over the world, including Paris. Paris! Dream come true?
It was close, but further away: in Madrid.
ONE STEP FURTHER...
She arrives in the city with a thousand lessons learned and one very clear goal: to create her own unique, artisanal brand for an equally unique woman: Biscuit. A name that honors Copenhagen, Katia's hometown.
In 2005, she opened her first store in Divino Pastor, Malasaña. She achieved this step by step, using a cane: Paul Buquet, her husband. Katia continued designing while Paul managed the accounting, staff, and found the best locations.
She plants the seeds while he finds the most fertile ground for them to flourish.
Today, Biscuit has seven stores across Spain and is convinced that the last one won't be the last. Because Biscuit is here to be bigger. And to make us feel, every day, more like ourselves.
KATIA BANDOLOWSKI
“Since I was little, I've always felt different, and the clothes I created helped me express that uniqueness. They helped me feel more confident, empowered, and myself. While clothes clothe us, they can also speak to who we are when we undress.”
