The President of Associação ModaLisboa and founder of Lisboa Fashion Week has an extensive career that encompasses numerous projects and diverse fields of specialization. She combines the direction of the ModaLisboa project with Fashion Design teaching, creative brand direction and design consultancy. She’s a member of several international boards, elevating and promoting Portuguese fashion in the international context over more than 25 years.

Hugo van der Ding was born in Amsterdam in the late 70’s or 80’s, but lives in Lisbon. Or the other way around. He’s the author, among many others, of the A Criada Malcriada. Meanwhile, he also became a cartoonist, cronist, writer, theater author, actor, radio and television presenter, and a few more things of the same genre.