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MODALISBOA CORE: 9-12 MARCH 2023
Your daily fashion backstage coverage of the 60th edition of ModaLisboa
This edition of ModaLisboa is all about its CORE: The people that make ModaLisboa ModaLisboa, many of them for over 30 years.
But honoring the [60th edition] will always have to imply the amplification of our action — even when that [amplification] means looking inward, and giving voice to what we are. So we stripped away all the other layers, edited it down to the core, and built an event on the plurality of our essence. — ModaLisboa
MODALISBOA CORE. At the core, the construction.
ModaLisboa CORE, the 60th edition of ModaLisboa, is returning to Lisboa Social Mitra, intertwining Art and Technology, Culture and Innovation, and Sustainability and Economy. Offering a moment of refuge amongst all the noise from our day-to-day, the biannual celebration of fashion is once again set in a breathtaking location close to the river Tejo, at Rua do Açúcar 64.
We decided not to conceptualize the word we chose for the 60th edition, and let the core do it. The Fast Talks, and the entire Lisbon Fashion Week, will be the construction of this theme, carried out by the Designers themselves. Their words, visions, voices, manifestos. The result will be a text published after MODALISBOA CORE, written by as many hands as those that make up our calendar. We don’t know if it will be harmonious, if it will gravitate towards solutions or if it will provide context for the future. We know, however, that it will be ours. And that, being ours, is from Portuguese Fashion. — ModaLisboa
Apart from established Portuguese designers like Luis Buchinho, Dino Alves, Nuno Baltazar and others, the schedule offers a platform for emerging designers, workstations and labs by established artists, presentations, exhibitions and talks—everything fashion-related, including an exclusive pop-up store to purchase the ultimate fashion gifts.
To kick it all off, ModaLisboa is presenting new talent alongside the established in the SANGUE NOVO contest. For another debut, the IED Graduates Fashion Show will be staged on Saturday 11 March. Under the theme “Future Starts Slow”, seven young designers (Nicolò Artibani, Lorenzo Attanasio, Alessandro Bonini, Gaia Ceglie, Luca De Prà, Giovanni Marchetti and Maria Eleonora Pignata), all trained by the European Design Institute, will present their sustainable fashion capsule collections.
ZOOT will cover all fashion happening backstage and you can track your Daily ModaLisboa Backstage here at our website and on our instagram @zootmagazine.
Stay tuned at zootmagazine.com and @zootmagazine for interviews with designers and exclusive peeks behind the scenes of the Portuguese fashion scene by our editorial team Fernanda Russomano and Guido Avelino and our social media team Laura Farrajota and Jonathan Coelho. Get an in-depth glimpse into the works of the make-up team backstage, which is led by ZOOT beauty editor Antonia Rosa, and see how the beauty looks are created in real time. Don’t miss the artistic beauty and backstage fashion reportages by ZOOT contributing photographers Sergio Santos and Diogo Dos Santos.
Check out the schedule for the three days below!
MODALISBOA CORE
Lisboa Social Mitra
Rua do Açúcar 64, Lisbon
Livestreaming at modalisboa.pt
SANGUE NOVO
Five finalists, three awards, one fashion show: SANGUE NOVO reaches its second and final phase of the contest and will announce the winners of this edition. The five collections, created with materials donated by the textile partners of Associação ModaLisboa—Calvelex/Fabrics4Fashion, Riopele and Tintex Textiles—reveal a maturation of conceptual thinking and the consequent exploration of the identity of each young designer and their artistic positions.
FAST TALKS – FREE ENTRY
On March 9, at 4:30 pm, the Fast Talks event will open Lisboa Fashion Week again. In direct response to the CORE theme, the event will be moderated by Joana Barrios and will cover fashion and its challenges and visions as well as its present and future. This edition FAST TALKS will focus on structural themes of the fashion system, and will reflect the Portuguese and international industry today. Featured speakers include:
- Olivia Spinelli, fashion design coordinator and artistic director of IED Moda Milano, on future sustainability and education.
- Anastasia Bilous, fashion editor at Elle Ukraine, on her experience in digital brands designed for the metaverse.
- João Wengorovius Meneses, Secretary-General of BSCD Portugal, on the Beat by Be@t project (a ModaLisboa partner), a program to train new fashion talents and textile companies for sustainability and circularity.
- João Esteves, Diverge, brand promoter of the Imagine project, which supports at-risk young people in becoming designers and entrepreneurs. Sponsored by Casa do Impacto, a social entrepreneurship platform of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, hosting João Esteves, from Diverge, the brand promoter of the Imagine project.
And of course, no Moda Lisboa CORE event would be complete without the designers. Ana Duarte (Duarte), Constança Entrudo, Joana Duarte (Béhen), João Magalhães, Luís Carvalho, Marta Gonçalves (HIBU), Nuno Baltazar, Nuno Gama and Valentim Quaresma will all discuss their perspectives on current fashion practices in their social, political and environmental contexts, as well as strategies for the future.
