PROJECT: ECLOSÃO

A project of detachable pieces, designed as an essential urban travel kit. Created from dead stock and using plush fabric, they transform surplus into functional and sustainable proposals. The pieces can be produced in various colours or prints, combining with each other and reinforcing the versatility, circularity, and innovation of the project.

Adriana Oliveira is a self-taught fashion designer whose creative identity lies in urban style. From an early age, she transformed old or used clothes into unique pieces, exploring embroidery, crochet and details. Today, she combines her work at a funeral home with her passion for giving new life to fabrics, exploring reuse and reinventing design in a creative and sustainable way.

Founded in 1982, Cordeiro e Campos is a leader in the knitwear industry with premium finishes and crafts for international luxury fashion brands. It stands out for its combination of artisanal know-how and cutting-edge technology that ensures maximum traceability, efficiency, and quality control. Certified with the highest sustainability score, it rigorously selects raw materials and reuses surplus materials.

PROJECT: DUBBLETEX

An application (app) that connects factories, designers, and consumers for the reuse of textile surplus. It began as a platform that connects the industry to fashion design education and creates opportunities for practical learning. The app promotes creative reuse, encourages the ability to see potential in materials, and creates channels for the circulation of surplus materials that foster a circular economy in a continuous, collaborative and creative way.

Francisca Santos, a fashion designer who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Lisbon, from an early age she showed a special fondness for textile design and knitwear, which allows her to express herself more authentically. Sustainability is present in her work through the reuse of materials and multidisciplinary crossovers, she sees each project as something that can be reinvented over time and in different formats.

Founded in 1984 as a family project, ACC Têxteis has become a business legacy and, since then, has built its history based on the talent of its employees and its connection to the local textile cluster. The company's identity is marked by empathy, trust and continuous improvement, values that shape decisions and ensure that it remains relevant and sustainable in the present and in the future.

PROJECT: LINAE

Inspired by nature and the alchemical process of transforming waste into raw material, Linae is a 100% recycled yarn created from Allcost's natural fibre waste. The innovation lies in the incorporation of chitosan, which reinforces and improves the structure of the yarn, extending the life cycle of the material. At the end of its life, the yarn returns to nature, becoming fully circular and ready to begin a new cycle.

Nicole Feliciano grew up in Sintra, surrounded by nature, which became the basis for her inspiration and creative language. She is a fashion designer and biodesigner, and her practice combines art, science, and material experimentation, exploring fashion as a territory of transformation. With an irreverent and dramatic vision, she seeks to reveal new languages for matter and create creative dialogues that unite the past, present, and future.

Allcost is a company specialized in textiles for the hotel industry that develops bed, bath, beach and table linen, overseeing the entire production process, from design to manufacture. With a focus on quality, innovation and sustainability, it invests in excellent raw materials, continuous modernisation and staff training, establishing solid and lasting partnerships.

PROJECT: TIE THE KNOT

Faced with stock management challenges, this project launches two capsule collections. One is upcycled from defective items and production surpluses, while the other is made from unused raw materials and accessories, such as buttons, fasteners and ribbons, and is intended for sale under its own brand. This is a way of adding value to materials that would otherwise be discarded, transforming them into exclusive and sustainable products that stimulate creativity and new approaches to production, generate technical, economic and image gains, reduce costs and can leverage future collaborations. 

Luís Carvalho studied Fashion and Textile Design at the Polytechnic of Castelo Branco. He worked as a designer at Salsa Jeans until he created his own brand in 2013 and presented his first collection at ModaLisboa, where he still shows. He opened his own studio and store and began dressing national and international public figures. He received several awards, including the Maison Mode Mediterranée and a Golden Globe, and was featured at Paris Fashion Week in the Showcase MODAPORTUGAL.

Founded in 1982, Cordeiro e Campos is a leader in the knitwear industry with premium finishes and crafts for international luxury fashion brands. It stands out for its combination of artisanal know-how and cutting-edge technology that ensures maximum traceability, efficiency, and quality control. Certified with the highest sustainability score, it rigorously selects raw materials and reuses surplus materials.

Born in Portugal in 1962, António Braz Costa graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minho in 1989 and completed his studies in Advanced Public Management at the National Institute of Administration in 2008.

He currently holds several prominent positions, namely:
General Manager at CITEVE – Technological Centre for Textile and Clothing Industries in Portugal, since January 2000.
CEO at CeNTI – Centre of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, since April 2012.
President at Textranet - European Network of Textile Research Organizations, since 2010.
Vice President at Textile ETP, European Technological Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing, since 2013.

An environmental engineer by training, her professional experience has made her an environmentally aware manager. She has a degree from the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, an MBA from the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and experience in managing companies linked to the water, logistics, energy and waste sectors. At the same time, she wants to contribute to a better future by promoting equality and inclusion in companies and demystifying new ESG issues. She is co-founder of Women in ESG Portugal.