CULTURAL CAPITAL
An industry under the influence
The organic relationship between the spheres of fashion and culture - and fashion as culture - has accelerated and deepened in today's system of digital transformation. But mapping this relationship has also become more complex: what is fashion's cultural capital? How far does its influence reach? How important are its various artistic manifestations to the new generation of professionals? And consumers? Three speakers who have built their careers on the increasingly blurred boundaries between fashion and culture reflect on where we are now. And where we’re going.

HOST: RUI MARIA PÊGO
35 years old. 16 of them spent between the Radio, Theater and Television. Graduated in History from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Master in Fine Arts in Professional Acting from Bristol Old Vic Theater School (UK), he is the author of "Filho da Mãe", a satirical series that premiered on Canal Q in 2015. He has already hosted shows on the three main Portuguese TV channels and invented many others on several radio stations (Radar, Sudoeste, Mega Hits), and is currently on Rádio Comercial, where he conducts the interview program/podcast "Debaixo da Língua", and "TNT- Todos no Top". He closed 2023 in a production for BBC Radio Three about the poet Fernando Pessoa, "All I Was When I Wasn't Anyone", after being one of four Portuguese artists in "École des Maîtres" by French-Argentine director Marcial di Fonzo Bo, and one of the actors chosen for edition number 8 of "Passaporte Lisboa", an initiative by the Portuguese Cinema Academy. Passionate about fashion, he was considered Person of the Year for ILGA Portugal in 2017 and, in 2018, on the cover of GQ Portugal magazine. After "Water Party", a dystopian theater show created by Mimi Collins in London, you will see him next with the premieres of the RTP series "Erro 404", the film "Prisma" by Sónia Balacó and Zé Bernardino, and also the fourth season from "Im-pertinente", the podcast from Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, where Rui Maria Pêgo is paired with neuroscientist Luísa Lopes to unravel the mysteries of the brain. The first time Rui went to ModaLisboa he was fifteen years old, and since then he has never stopped coming back.

ANTONIO LETTIERI | CABANAMAD
Antonio Lettieri (1978) lives and works between Lisbon and Milan. He began his journey at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied Scenography. After an experience in Dublin and London, working for fashion brands such as Moschino, Issey Miyake, among others, he returned to Italy and started collaborating with the Studio Magister Agency in Events and Public Relations, taking responsibility for the Fashion and Art segment. He was in charge of the Convivio – a charity event in Milan, in collaboration with Vogue Italy, where major fashion brands like Versace, Valentino, Armani, and Ferré were founders of the event. He moved to Lisbon in 2017, where he started his independent project – CABANAmad – a gallery where he explores his relationship with art and design.

MIRA WANDERLUST | 33 MAGAZINE
Mira Postolache (nickname Wanderlust) is MA Mentor and Lecturer at Moodart Verona, in Visual and Cultural identity in Fashion Styling and Creative Direction. She is also research and scouting director for MOODART Gallery and COIN Store.
Her nickname ‘Wanderlust’ derives from the desire to travel and explore infinite ways of creating art, as well to speak and write about those who are making it. Focused on telling stories about the future generation of creatives, she is the founder of 33 Magazine, a digital space where students from various fashion schools worldwide can publish their schools thesis, projects and editorials.
At the same time, she is a contributor of RED EYE World (the first magazine based in the Metaverse), COEVAL Magazine, Vanity Teen and more.

UMBERTO SANNINO | IED MILANO
Umberto Sannino, new Head of Fashion School at IED Milano, boasts a career that spans teaching and freelance consultancy, embracing international contexts and with an interdisciplinary approach that is marked by a focus on sustainability and awareness, the value of inclusion and the comparison of cultures. His experience extends to managing and coordinating custom made collections, with specific skills in trend forecasting and styling. In terms of teaching, since 2023 he has coordinated the Master of Arts at IED Firenze in Textile Design. Material Consciousness & Circularity too. His career includes partnerships with brands such as Bottega Veneta, Ermenegildo Zegna, Plan C, Costume National, Hugo Boss, Redemption, Taschen, Ballantyne and Moda Operandi.