An expert in textile value chain, Giusy has superior technical knowledge within the raw material market sector, as well as precise marketing and communication skills. In 2007, she created C.L.A.S.S. (Creativity Lifestyle and Sustainable Synergy), aiming to change the perception of “sustainable” fashion and create an international forum for textiles, fashion, lifestyle and home design. Her company C.L.A.S.S., has become a global resource for responsible material innovation, education, marketing and communication. Giusy and her team...
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Ana Duarte (Lisbon, 1991) graduated in Fashion Design at FA-ULisboa and finished, with distinction, her MA in Menswear Design and Technology at London College of Fashion, in January 2015. She presented the first DUARTE collection at Sangue Novo at Lisboa Fashion Week in March 2015. In October 2016, she presented, for the second time, at Sangue Novo and received an Honourable Mention Award, starting to present continuously at Lisboa Fashion Week in the LAB platform....
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Patrícia Barnabé studied Media Studies at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon and specialized in Fashion, lifestyle, arts and travel. She spent some time on the radio but fell in love with writing. Patrícia began to contribute to different magazines and newspapers in the late 1990s, such as Máxima, Jornal de Letras, Agenda Cultural, the extinct magazines V and Viver com Saúde, among others. She was part of...
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Orsola de Castro is an internationally recognized opinion leader in sustainable fashion. Her career started as a designer with the pioneering upcycling label From Somewhere, which she launched during 1997 to 2014. In 2006, she co-founded the British Fashion Council initiative Estethica at London Fashion Week, which she curated until 2014. In 2013, with Carry Somers, she founded Fashion Revolution, a global campaign with participation in over 90 countries around the world. Orsola is a...
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Director of the United Nations Population Fund Country Office in Geneva since April 2017, Mónica Ferro has dedicated the last 20 years to promoting equality, development and human rights. Mónica has several years of political career and as a tv commentator for international politics and columnist for several newspapers and magazines. She is also a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters on the...
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Javier graduated in Business Administration from the European Business School and continued with post-graduate work in International Marketing Strategies at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 1995, he founded Fun & Basics, specializing in contemporary fashion handbags and accessories. He embarked on a mission to create an entirely new concept that would combine his design sensibility and understanding of the fashion consumer with the latest in recycled materials. In 2013 he launched ECOALF, a company which...
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Isa Toledo is an artist born in São Paulo, Brazil, living and working in Lisbon. Isa's video work has been mainly shared online, and her first solo show of text work was exhibited at Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, in 2020. In 2015 she co-founded ButchCamp with graphic designer Rosen Eveleigh, a research project centered on contemporary camp aesthetics....
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Damara graduated (MA) in Fashion Media Practice and Criticism at the London College of Fashion University of Arts, in 2019. She won the Kering Award 2019 prize, followed by a three months internship with Gucci’s Social Media Team in Milan, Italy. She also exhibited BA project “Plethora, AR Garments" at the Somerset House as part of the Digital Edged 2019. Recently, Damara collaborated with VR designer SUTU on a first-of-its-kind immersive Fashion Show, "Fabric of...
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Tiago Manaia studied at Conservatoire National Supérieur D'Art Dramatique, and worked as an actor with Christophe Honoré. Back in Lisbon, he under Luis Miguel Cintra, in Teatro da Cornucópia. In 2008 he started to write texts about music, society, art and fashion for a fanzine published by Lux Frágil. After that, he collaborated with Público, Revista L+Arte, Obscena e Vogue Portugal. During the last few years, his articles have been published by Máxima, where he...
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Responsible for the Digital Trimalhas Communication and Strategy Department. Dedicated to brand communication, especially textiles....
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