Everything Cool in Portugal
Following in the heels (Gucci heels) of Prada and Louis Vuitton, hot designer brand Gucci now has a shop on Lisbon’s street of luxury products, Avenida da Liberdade. Gucci groupies should go ga-ga over 200 square meters of space devoted to products from one of the world’s...
Our friends at Wrong Weather in Porto are always on the cutting edge of fashion and art. In fact, the architecturally-stunning fashion-forward menswear shop features its own art gallery. The next exhibition scheduled for the space at is a show-stopper. A/F1 is a video art...
UPDATE (4 Nov. 2011): Nuno Baltazar is Portugal's Best Designer for 2011. Winners in 15 categories were announced at the 2011 Portugal Fashion Awards last night at the Tivoli Theater in Lisbon. (See complete list of nominations with winners designated in blue below.) Textile...
Dino Alves does romance, chic, folk & sexy for Spring/Summer 2012. But for Alves, these four little words are but the tip of the iceberg. What he really means is four new fashion trends: New Romantic (calculating forms, austere, geometric, and minimal); New Chic (less...
PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT! This is the theme for Ricardo Dourado’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Dourado is inspired by this phrase, borrowed from works by installation artist Jenny Holzer. Both creators strive to present urban cultural as dangerous, but with an...
For Spring/Summer 2012, Aleksandar Protic offers a lean silhouette, with shoulders having a key role in the collection. On jackets, squared-off points are positioned where shoulder pads typically rest. On dresses, straps sling around the nexk exposing the sensuality of the bare...
