elio ramos

DESIGNER

Elio

SANGUE NOVO
SUPPORTED BY SEASIDE

ELIO is the creative project of Élio Ramos, a Designer from the Algarve currently based in Lisbon. A graduate in Fashion Design from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, Élio Ramos has developed a critical and powerful design language that intersects body, memory, and identity. Through deconstruction and material exploration, he approaches fashion as a discourse, na attitude, and a tool of transformation, always rooted in values of sustainability, inclusion, and an irreverent irony that has become the signature of his work.

Between skin and metal, LUBE emerges from the oily floors of workshops, where masculinity dresses in uniform and silence. But what if that body were exposed? What if the gaze turned? The collection stems from this unease. In a space where the sight of naked women in calendars has been normalized, LUBE responds by revealing the male body, vulnerable, tense, desirable.

The material is raw, recycled, with inner tubes, metal, and cuts that disarm. The corset constricts, the clothes weighs, and discomfort becomes language. Here, absence reveals more than presence. LUBE does not soften the man, but tears apart the idea that he must remain hidden. It is between the mechanical and the intimate that the body relearns how to be seen. Without asking permission. Without disguise.