Sangue Novo

The ModaLisboa’s Young Designers Competition is back for a new edition, with the aim of capturing, training and rewarding the future of Portuguese Fashion.

The most visible side of Sangue Novo is its fashion show, with the usual opening honors of Lisboa Fashion Week. Industry professionals hope to see, in the first phase of the competition, in October, ten collections of revolutionary creativity, designed and created by a generation capable of charting the path for the future of the industry.

This start of another edition follows the same process and structure as the previous ones: the selection of up to ten projects that will be presented in October 2024, mentoring and meetings with the panel of judges, verification of the achievement of the defined criteria — conceptual identity, innovation, sustainability. Sangue Novo is a safe place for experimentation, and error. It also facilitates the connection between authors and industry, with the textile partnerships established by Associação ModaLisboa with Calvelex/Fabrics4Fashion, RDD Textiles and Riopele.

The finalists of the competition, announced during Lisboa Fashion Week, will participate in mentoring sessions programmed by ModaLisboa with several industry professionals, whose objective is to add tools to the project to better work on the complex nuances of the contemporary fashion ecosystem. These sessions, in addition to meetings with the jury, aim to strengthen more environmentally, socially and financially sustainable business models, exploring innovative ways of thinking, producing, communicating and selling. In March 2025, the young Designers will return to the catwalk with new collections, and the winners of the awards for this edition of Sangue Novo will be announced.

MIGUEL FLOR

JURY PRESIDENT

Miguel Flor is the creative director and editor-in-chief of Prinçipal ModaPortugal magazine. Fashion designer by training, he develops projects in creative direction, consultancy, curatorship and exhibition design in the fashion area, as well as in the field of design and fine arts. Works as a photographer with an interdisciplinary profile who wanders between art, fashion and industrial photography. In 2020, Miguel Flor published his book “Boys Appetite” with Stolen Books, which compiles the first photographs of a series with the same name.

JOANA JORGE

Joana Jorge is ModaLisboa’s project manager, which gives her a global perspective on Portuguese Fashion, encouraging the recognition and dissemination of national Designer Fashion. Joana coordinates the Lisbon Fashion Week project and monitors parallel projects of the ModaLisboa Association between national and international partners. Joana has developed a very diversified path in the field of Fashion Design. After completing a master's degree at the Royal College of Art in London, she leaves for Italy to join Alberta Ferretti's design team. Her experience as a designer was later complemented with stints at Topshop, Betty Jackson, Ana Salazar, and the accessories brand Pelcor.

CONSTANÇA ENTRUDO

A graduate of Central Saint Martins, in London, Constança Entrudo worked at Balmain, Peter Pilotto and Marques’Almeida, before founding her research and design studio, in Lisbon. The Designer is now dedicated to textile experimentation through manual techniques and digital tools. With the main concern to remain true to her art, Constança Entrudo offers unique clothes, reinventing classics and unexpected details. Generating sustainable fabrics that defy the usual textile manufacturing processes, she creates with absolute freedom from pre-existing design structures, using trial and error methods to arrive at the brand’s exclusive fabric technologies.

RUNE PARK

Rune Park is the co-owner of SHEET-1, Lisbon’s newest luxury multi brand store. He has over 20 years of experience in the online and offline retail world, and is partner in the fashion consulting agency ANTOINE & PARK.
Park has worked with a broad international network of retailers and brands for the last decade, and his primary fashion focus is “The New Luxury”.

ANA TAVARES

Graduated in Chemical Engineering, Ana led the sustainability department of a dyeing, finishing & coating mill (Tintex Textiles) for 5 years, focused on product and service innovation, ensuring process certification and traceability. Until March 2021, she was responsible for Communication and Partnerships at Smartex, a start-up that develops technology based on artificial intelligence to detect defects in the production of circular knits from where she left to coordinate the Strategic Agenda for Sustainable, Bio and Circular Economy at CITEVE, the technological center for the textile and clothing industries in Portugal. Currently, Ana is the CEO of RDD, a Valerius Group company that develop and scale up technologies for the textile industry.

OLIVIA SPINELLI

Graduated in Fashion Design in University of Urbino, Olivia Spinelli began working for the young lines created by fashion brands in the 90’s: D&G for Dolce & Gabbana, VERSUS for Versace, G GIGLI and GF FERRE woman. In the field of kidswear she follows, with the Zannier group, the LEVI'S kids / junior collection, she designs I Pinco Pallino and Dirk Bikkembergs. Since 2008 she has undertaken a freelance career and is in charge of coordinating the Fashion Design area in IED Moda Milano for the three-year courses, second year teacher of womenswear and kidswear collection, tutor for workshops and thesis projects. In March 2020, she takes over the role of art director of the school.