The 65th edition of Lisbon Fashion Week will take place from October 1st to 5th and will once again have Pátio da Galé, in Terreiro do Paço, as its “epicenter,” expanding to other locations in the city centre, the organizers announced at a press conference in Lisbon.
In addition to this edition taking place over five days instead of the usual four, ModaLisboa will debut a new project: Fashion House. According to the president of the ModaLisboa Association, speaking to Lusa, the Fashion House will be open for four days at the Gomes Freire Palace, located at 98 Rua Gomes Freire.
The space will have free admission and will be “open to all,” with the exception of presentations, “due to limited attendance,” of the collections by Roselyn Silva, Ana Margarida Feijão, and Gandaia.
The Fashion House will house a ModaLisboa pop-up store, presentations, exhibitions, performances, happenings, and conversations, the latter “on issues focused on fashion: sustainability, technology, etc.”
The space will be open independently of the runway shows, accessible by invitation only, taking place at the other locations: Pátio da Galé and MUDE – Design Museum.
The Pátio da Galé will host a new edition of the Sangue Novo competition, aimed at seniors in Fashion Design from national and international schools, and young designers just starting out. The competition will feature the presentations of Alves/Gonçalves, 2B, Luís Onofre, Gonçalo Peixoto, Kolovrat, Carlos Gil, Duarte Hajime, Valentim Quaresma, Dino Alves, and Luís Carvalho.
The collections of WorkStation designers ARNDES, Bárbara Anastásio, Mestre Studio, Çal Pfungst, Francisca Nabinho, and Gabriel Silva Barros will also be presented at the Pátio da Galé.
The shows of the top three are supported by a hair salon and hair product brand, which, in addition to providing logistical support, awarded ARNDES, Bárbara Anastásio, and Mestre Studio grants worth 2,600 euros.
MUDE will host Fast Talks, a debate space open to the public, with prior registration required, the final presentation of the sustainability project ‘beat by be@t’, and presentations of collections by Olga Noronha, Béhen, and Nuno Baltazar.
On the opening day of the Fashion House, October 2nd, another new event will take place this year: ModaLisboa na Avenida, with free admission and in partnership with the Associação da Avenida da Liberdade.
On that day, “there will be a flurry of events in several commercial spaces on Avenida da Liberdade, which is subject to a specific program to be released in due course,” said Eduarda Abbondanza.
Although the 65th edition will take place from October 1st to 5th, on September 30th there will be a kick-off at the Italian Embassy, ”with an evening dedicated to new names from the IED network – Istituto Europeo di Design (Istituto Europeo di Design), an international school with which ModaLisboa has had a partnership in the Sangue Novo competition for several years.
ModaLisboa is co-organized by the ModaLisboa Association and the Lisbon City Council.
