In Portugal the Lisbon Fashion Week has reached its 44th Edition, with proposals from young creatives and established talents who have shown a very different inventive from what we could seen in the weeks devoted to the fashion of the great main centers of the business. Curiosity was what mainly distinguished the creations motivating designers to new interpretations of contemporary-wear. Olga Noronha for example brought on the catwalk a philosophical approach to clothes, seeing them like a second skin, made of a complex crossing of veins, arteries and muscles, while Felipe Faisca has reflected on terminal illnesses of children with whom he made a workshop: the result is a collection of cotton, leather, silk and linen embellished with patterns designed by children themselves. Ricardo Preto’s proposal was more practical, an affirmation of strong and bold femininity, like painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s who inspired geometric shapes and structural shapes designed by Aleksandar Protic, a young Serbian designers who chose Portugal as his adoptive home. Home that inspired Nuno Gama: the collection of one of the most influential Portuguese designers has obvious references to Os Lusiadas, a classical epic poem which about the Portuguese discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In Portugal the Lisbon Fashion Week has reached its 44th Edition.
