#ModaLisboa – AWAKE! May I introduce you to the designers of Sangue Novo FW 20/21: Cêlá, Filipe Cerejo, Flávia Brito, Francisco Pereira and Inês Manuel Baptista!? Sangue Novo is the young designers competition at our favorite fashion fest in Portugal.
Of all the visions that we have of the world, the first is the most immaculate. It´s pure. It’s intense. It’s clean. The need that we have to restart several times throughout our lives is precisely here: in the letting go of luggage and letting go of addictions.
We know that is in the beginning that freedom is and that freedom is where Fashion is. We also know that is in the beginning that the eyes are more open, that they absorb the colors and touches and the forms with thirst to grow. SANGUE NOVO is the beginning.
Filipe Cerejo FW 20/21 – EVE OF DESTRUCTION
Filipe Cerejo is a Portuguese fashion designer who currently lives in London, where he studies Fashion Design at Middlesex University. www.instagram.com/filipecerejodesign
EVE OF DESTRUCTION is inspired by the times of great cultural and global instability that precede the apocalypse caused by the evolution of artificial intelligence. The collection is a futuristic odyssey that transports us to a graphic, surreal and disorienting overload. The fact that we live surrounded by machines, the simplification of the human mind and the creation of something superhuman that guides and elevates are mirrored in the volume of the pieces, in the dark tones broken by the metallic ones and in the contrast of textures.
SPONSOR: Troficolor
Flávia Brito FW 20/21 – MEMORIES OF SPACE
Graduated in Fashion Design in Brazil, Flávia Brito worked as a stylist assistant with the designers Guto Carvalho Neto and Helena Pontes. She has been studying technical and concept jewelry and participated in exhibitions in Brazil and Pantalla Abierta/Chile.
She chose fashion as a career because she “found magnificent the way people are able to express themselves through putting “stuff” on their bodies. It is a kind of social language and she thinks it is also a mechanism of great historical value”.
In MEMORIES OF SPACE, dressing memory is spiritual and material. Memory inhabits the space between body and world, it is built and deconstructed infinitely in the search for a new meaning. This collection, which wanders in these abstract spaces, materializes, in antithesis, in a concrete awareness. www.instagram.com/fb_flaviabrito
Francisco Pereira FW 20/21 – TORN VISION
Francisco Pereira was born in 1997, in Leiria. Driven by the art world, he finished his studies in Visual Arts, in 2015. His love for fashion took him to the Instituto Politécnico of Castelo Branco, ESART, where he completed his degree in Fashion and Textile Design, in 2019. In the same year he was one of the finalists of the Portuguese Fashion News contest, where he won the second place.
TORN VISION is inspired by the collage work of Emon Toufanian, who wanted to awaken in the public all kinds of sensations with his surreal, melancholic and abrasive style. This collection intends to mark this intuitive and ritualistic reasoning through colors, textures, deconstruction and overlapping of pieces, which gain value and a relevant position in the construction of the collection, and, allied to prints, take us back to the artist’s work. www.instagram.com/_francisco_pereira_design_
Inês Manuel Baptista FW 20/21 – 3451
3451, or ‘3 Seconds To a 45 Watt Lamp at a Distance of 1 Meter’, is a personal interpretation of the effect of solarization on Man Ray’s photographic work. Solarization originated in an accident, by exposing an image for too long, and Man Ray was the first to use it for an artistic purpose. Thus, this collection tries to recreate the sensation of disincarnation of images, reinforcing their mystery and transporting the viewer to a parallel world, a space that allows him to reflect and search for new meanings in the delicate acceptance of the real, incorporating the paradox between fantasy and reality.
SPONSORS YKK, Botões de Paris
From an early age linked to the artistic production, Inês Manuel Baptista graduated in Art History from the University of Coimbra. Her creative language expands beyond fashion. She was a dancer and teacher of classical ballet, having been part of her career the design of dance costumes.
Emphasizing the need to enrich her career in the world of art, she found in fashion a new way of expression, bringing her narratives to life through her creations. In 2018 she joined the Master in Fashion Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon.
www.instagram.com/inesmanuelbaptista
Cêlá by Naomi Marcela FW 20/21 – CORAL
Naomi Marcela, born in the Algarve, graduated in Fashion Design from ArtEZ – University of Arts, in Arnhem, Netherlands, in 2018. After finishing her course, she returns to Portugal and to her hometown, and launches her own brand: Cêlá.
She imagines herself ideally working in collaboration with other artists to create something innovative and beautiful. After a period of digesting and contemplating ideas, participating in Sangue Novo competition with the collection “Cocoon” is an important step towards the implementation of her own brand.
CORAL begins with blues, grays and highlights of orange, which slowly turn into bright yellow and silk white. This is the picture of the long-term effects of coral bleaching. The collection, which is created with deadstock fabrics, knits developed in atelier with deadstock yarn and eco silk printing, is inspired and dedicated to corals, to pay homage to the beauty of the ocean and raise awareness to the fragility of the underwater ecosystem, which unfortunately is in danger due to the climate crisis. www.instagram.com/celaofficial
