BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG: Highlights from ModaLisboa

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ModaLisboa | Insight
FW 2019

ModaLisboa Insight took place from 7 - 10 March 2019, presenting an extensive four-day program with fashion shows by both established as emerging designers from Portugal.

On Thursday evening several young presented their collection on the Workstation platform. Among them was António Castro with a collection inspired by Japanese flâneuses and flâneurs and Filipe Augusto, previous winner of Sangue Novo and also recipient of the FASHIONCLASH Festival Talent Award 2018.

ModaLisboa Insight edition presented the final phase of the SANGUE NOVO contest, on the 8th of March, where the six finalists, Archie Dickens, Carolina Raquel, Federico Protto, Opiar (Artur Dias), Rita Carvalho and The Co.Re (Inês Coelho and Rachel Regent) presented their new fall winter 2019/2020 collections.

After the assessment of the works developed by the designers, the jury composed by Miguel Flor (president of the jury and creative director of Principal magazine), Alfredo Oróbio (founding designer of the Awaytomars brand), Cláudia Barros (fashion director of Vogue Portugal magazine), Danilo Venturi (Polimoda director) and Diane Pernet (founder and director of the first fashion festival in the world, ASVOFF) voted the winners of the ModaLisboa Awards for Best National Designer and Best International Designer.

Carolina Raquel

Carolina Raquel, the winner of the ModaLisboa award for Best National Designer received a 5000 euros scholarship and will have the opportunity to attend a Master in Fashion Design at Polimoda in Florence, a scholarship worth € 26,000. Carolina Raquel was already named winner of the FASHIONCLASH Festival Award during the ModaLisboa Multiplex edition in October 2018. She will present her collection during the 11th edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival in November in Maastricht.

Federico Protto, the best international designer is invited to present a new collection on the Workstation platform at the next edition of ModaLisboa in October 2019. The Feeting Room concept store prize went to Archie Dickens.

Among strong designers on the schedule was Nycole by Tânia Nicole. Another former FASHIONCLASH Festival and Sangue Novo winner on the schedule was Nycole by Tânia Nicole who impressed with her consistent menswear collection.

Furthermore the fashion days in Lisbon there where several strong proposals, in particular convincing where the designers staged on the LAB platform designers; Gonçalo Peixoto, Constança Entrudo and João Magalhães.

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Photography: Ugo Camera

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