Uzza, a Moroccan skin care brand, joined Ibiza-based Can Pep Rey in their new Barcelona home, for one in a series of picnics currently being hosted by the contemporary clothing brand in the spirit of togetherness.
Salima Issaoui blended her background in bioengineering with her interest in botany, to sow a seed named Uzza (after Arab goddess Al-Uzza, the personification of Venus) in a rose-filled garden in Marrakech in 2018. A vision for a natural and organic brand that would ask its customers what they liked about their skin, and source its main ingredients from Moroccan women’s cooperatives; ‘Open Sesame’ is a gel-to-milk formula facial cleanser and ‘Sandstorm’, an Argan oil facial cream with cucumber, are a couple of the products that since came to fruition.
German-born Paul Conradi and Lea Russ are the breeze blowing Can Pep Rey to the top of the relaxed, wardrobe essentials pile since 2014. Musicians, photographers, and artists have always been welcomed to their old finca in Ibiza – also called Can Pep Rey, where the brand found its name- before Paul and Lea spent a very different three months there, in isolation during lockdown. This latest collection is dedicated to those loved ones to be met once again for food, wine and conversation, shared on a blanket (or a sweater) on the ground, where there is space for everybody.
