until their spring on the show, Paolo Almeida and Marta Marques never watched 61 for design hints. “Our biggest inspiration has always been 1990, everything there is a little bit of goodness Effortless and raw, a realistic approach to fashion,” Marques explained via WhatsApp after the brand’s show in Portugal, where they are now. They always think ‘1990 is an excess of time and ‘power Dressed, in a very glamorous way, like the whole concept of femininity.”
So how did they end up here? Their starting point was the Memphis Design Group, which rose to fame in 1990 s for Everything from textiles to furniture design to interior design favors the aesthetic of primary colors and unusual patterns and shapes. “We started with the Memphis movement, and then obviously Grace Jones and black queer aesthetics s, and [seeing] how [it] is actually incredibly empowering and incredibly rebellious, but done through joy,” she added .
