BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG: Sangue Novo

Filipe Augusto

Sangue Novo (New Blood) is a platform for young Portuguese designers who get the opportunity to show their work within a collective fashion show. Nine Portuguese designers where selected to show their collections. At the end of the show several awards where presented.
Winner of the FASHIONCLASH / Sangue Novo ModaLisboa LUZ edition is Filipe Augusto.
His prize is participation at Fashion My Religion! The 10th edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival (June 15 -17).

Filipe Augusto, born in Peso da Régua, is currently based in Porto. He graduated from Modatex Porto, in October 2016.
7 skirts is the starting point of this collection. Seven: from the seven Nazaré skirts, the traditional Portuguese costume that represents the seven virtues, the seven days of the week, the seven colors of the rainbow, among other related uses of the number. Elements as skirts and aprons, sometimes emulated in a deconstructed way into more masculine pieces, are distributed throughout seven models, each of them will tell a different story for a different skirt. Crochet is a hidden reference in the skirts and represents the fishing net’s nylon.

Federico Cina, winner of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2017 Talent Award has been selected to take part at Sangue Novo show. He showed his Polimoda graduation collection VACUUM.

Winner of the ModaLisboa Award is David Pereira. The Feeting Room Award went to Rita Afonso who impressed The Hanged Man, a collection that is both creative and has commercial potential.
Rita Afonso was previously successful with her collection she presented at SangueNovo in March, she took part at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2017.

http://modalisboa.pt/sanguenovo