Being back on the ground for ModaLisboa was an absolute high, and a huge thank you goes out to APICCAPS Portugal for bringing us to Lisbon to experience the city’s electric creative momentum firsthand. Among the myriad presentations this season, one showcase stopped us entirely in our tracks: AD HOC, the collaborative tour de force between Portuguese designer Constança Entrudo and French textile artist Marie Hazard, which instantly cemented itself as one of my absolute favourite collections of the week.
Staged inside the newly reopened halls of MUDE – Museu do Design, AD HOC completely dissolves the traditional, rigid hierarchies separating fine art from wearable design. First conceived in New York for the inaugural show of Abby Caulkins’ Studio2M gallery, housed in the legendary former SoHo loft of sculptor Jackie Winsor—the project draws its title and rebellious spirit from the 1970s Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists, who famously organized against institutional erasure at the Whitney Biennial.
Hazard and Entrudo’s synergy traces back a decade to their days studying textile design together at Central Saint Martins. Rather than a superficial crossover where an artist simply prints onto a garment, AD HOC belongs entirely to neither and completely to both. It is a shared exploration of weaving as an evolving, living dialect:
Marie Hazard’s Handwoven Installations: Crafted in her Paris studio, Hazard’s tactile compositions fuse painting, photography, crochet, and delicate beading into narrative tapestries.
Constança Entrudo’s Signature (Un)Woven Technique: Developed in her Lisbon atelier, Entrudo’s trademark method fuses recycled yarns through the calculated application of heat, peeling back the strict structural limits of traditional loomed garments.
The dialogue extends straight into production geographies, connecting Hazard’s Paris studio, Entrudo’s Lisbon workshop, and Northern Portugal’s renowned manufacturing hubs, where specialized denim, knitwear, and sculptural footwear were developed alongside local craftspeople.
Rooted around the human silhouette as the ultimate equalizing canvas, AD HOC didn’t just showcase clothes, it presented an uncompromising, physical study of time, labor, and collective memory. Bold, conceptual, and effortlessly modern, it was contemporary Portuguese fashion operating at its highest artistic frequency.
Constança Entrudo @constancaentrudo & Marie Hazard @marie__hazard
Presentation Venue: MUDE – Museu do Design, Lisbon
ModaLisboa @lisboafashionweek
Special Thanks: APICCAPS Portugal @portuguese_shoes
for bringing KALTBLUT to Lisbon
Photos by Alexandre Azevedo / ModaLisboa powered by CANON
