SANGUE NOVO at ModaLisboa Spotlights Four Emerging Designers as Ones to Watch
During ModaLisboa, the SANGUE NOVO platform highlighted ten emerging designers, selecting four as Ones to Watch. Élio Ramos unveiled LOSER, a menswear line that delves into vulnerability, utilizing delicate tailoring and tattoo-inspired designs made from deadstock materials through ethical Portuguese production. Marta Amorim's X1: EXPERIENCE 1, influenced by Bruno Munari’s ideas, reimagines garments as modular tools for urban ecosystems, incorporating plant-growing capsules. João Pecuro’s THE LAST TIME I HELD A BALLOON evokes childhood memories with balloon motifs and a dynamic visual narrative. Ronaldo Pina (Ronni) presented D E V I R, which focuses on self-reconstruction and political resistance through fragmented fabric armor. The platform underscores runway debuts as vital for creative development.
Key facts
- SANGUE NOVO at ModaLisboa presented ten emerging designers this season.
- Four designers were highlighted as Ones to Watch: Élio Ramos, Marta Amorim, João Pecuro, and Ronni.
- Élio Ramos’s collection LOSER deconstructs traditional menswear codes of invulnerability and stoic control.
- Marta Amorim is a Modatex Porto graduate with a background in law and marketing.
- Amorim’s X1: EXPERIENCE 1 is inspired by Bruno Munari’s functionalist philosophy and features wearable plant-growing capsules.
- João Pecuro is an ESART graduate; his collection THE LAST TIME I HELD A BALLOON explores childhood nostalgia and the passage of time.
- Ronni is the moniker of Lisbon-born, Cape Verdean designer Ronaldo Pina.
- Ronni’s D E V I R draws on African dandyism, hip-hop rebellion, Black subcultures, and ancestral royalty to confront historical trauma, slavery, and systemic oppression.
Entities
Artists
- Élio Ramos
- Marta Amorim
- João Pecuro
- Ronaldo Pina
- Ronni
- Bruno Munari
Institutions
- ModaLisboa
- SANGUE NOVO
- Modatex Porto
- ESART
- APICCAPS Portugal
- CANON
Locations
- Lisbon
- Portugal
- Cape Verde