Lucire
Lucire: fashion magazine homeLucire Fashion FeaturesLucire Living and Beauty Lucire Volante: travel, accommodation guide Lucire fashion news, bulletins and events Fashion shopping guide and directory
Lucire Community: interact with us, read letters to the editorLucire Updates' service: sign up Lucire Feedback
Next page | Las mer Return to home page Previous page
Joma García i Gisbert

FashionLucire fall-winter 2004

Previous page continued

 

Maria Gambina
The sportswear influence on Maria Gambina—one of the three higher-profile Portuguese imports at the show—was fairly strong, with an Olympic-inspired collection. The emphasis is more on sport than the Olympics, with patches mimicking medals reading ‘Old Winners’. The circular theme denoted not only medals, but records, too, while the stripes conveyed a sense of old record shops.
   T-shirts and V-neck jerseys featured in this collection, along with several bomber jackets and windbreakers. Elastics, ribbons and felts were used liberally along with some high-tech fabrics. Colours, meanwhile, were typically sporty: blues, reds and yellows complemented black and white.
   This was a competent, well edited collection from Gambina, which will secure some staple sales come autumn. Her striking red concertina skirts may have been for show, but they certainly added pizazz to the latter part of her collection. Deconstruction? Think reconstruction.

TOP LEFT AND LEFT: Maria Gambina. BELOW AND BELOW LEFT: Miguel Vieira.

Miguel Vieira
Portuguese designer Miguel Vieira celebrated twentieth-century fashion icons from the worlds of cinema, music, theatre and the arts in general. However, he didn’t make this so obvious that we were looking at replicas of Catherine Deneuve or Audrey Hepburn. Instead, the icons served as starting-points in a collection that was in fact about ‘the art of dressing well’. This was, put simply, an elegant collection in black and white, for both men and women. The dresses weren’t about the red carpet: they were about making the wearer feel special, which they accomplished no end.
   Vieira continues to be based in S. João da Madeira, Portugal, his birth town.

CONTINUED Next page

Miguel Vieira celebrated twentieth-century fashion icons from the worlds of cinema, music, theatre and the arts

 

Official internet partner: Stockholm FashionDays

Contents  Fashion features index  Autumn–winter 2004 index  
Subscribe to Lucire Updates: email updates@lucire.com, subject line subscribe
 

Next page
Lucire: fashion magazine homeLucire Fashion FeaturesLucire Living and Beauty Lucire Volante: travel, accommodation guide Lucire fashion news, bulletins and events Fashion shopping guide and directory
Lucire Community: interact with us, read letters to the editorLucire Updates' service: sign up Lucire Feedback