“ What is fashion culture in Portugal? How has Portugal dressed in the last 50 years? How have the concepts of national identity, heritage and identity been lived, taking into account the different political, economic and cultural contexts the country has gone through?
Barbara Coutinho’s curatorial proposal aims to reveal the multiple ways in which tangible and intangible heritage, techniques and knowledge, as well as concepts of place, territory, national identity, belonging and memory are reflected in the work of near 40 designers and as they affect the contemporary world.
The exhibitions seeks to debate the influence of cultural traditions and national collective identity in the fashion universe, allowing an analysis of the relationship between popular and erudite culture, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, urbanity and rural world, tradition and vision of the future of new generations.”
- Barbara Coutinho, 2022
Location: Casa do Design, Matosinhos
Promoter: CM Matosinhos + CM Lisboa + esad—idea + MUDE
Curator: Barbara Coutinho
Producer: esad–idea
Project assitant: Constança Cardoso
Graphic Design: Inês Nepomuceno, Susana Martins ( esad—idea )
Photography: Bruno Mesquita ( esad—idea )
https://casa-design.pt/pt