Mental by Shunnoz & Tekasala | Modalisboa #34 Check Point — Day 4

clos­ing this 34th edi­tion of modal­is­boa as the inter­na­tional guest was men­tal … this angolan label designed by shun­noz & tekasala brought exoti­cism, colour, rhythm, fun and energy to the por­tuguese cat­walk with mod­els strolling down the run­way on the uptempo beats of kuduro, lead­ing the audi­ence to a stand­ing ovation …

enti­tled “tecido-​​adaptação” (fabric-​​adaptation), the col­lec­tion is all about the con­struc­tion of ideas, the stim­u­la­tion of new mul­ti­cul­tural thinkers and the search for pos­i­tive val­ues … the fun­da­men­tal is to allow the cre­ation of an atmos­phere where the new, as long as pos­i­tive, has room in the soci­ety … it invites us to par­tic­i­pate in an indi­vid­ual renewal …
the tai­lor­ing looks with unique iden­tity and con­cept are pro­duced from high qual­ity super 100, super 150 and super 180 fab­rics (some­times burnt) … the colours (rosé, sand, lead grey, fuch­sia, red, pur­ple, blue, green, yel­low) are like a rain­bow full of har­mony … the motives (striped stamp­ings, checks, maxi dots, flow­ers) mix and match sug­gest­ing a dual­ity of the human life … the gar­ments are very often ‘divided’ in two, bicoloured, each half rep­re­sent­ing itself : cold & warm, life & death, god & devil, man & woman; even the shoes are mis­matched thus accen­tu­at­ing this idea of division …

when did thom browne visit africa ;-) ?

pic­tures cour­tesy of modal­is­boa /​ pho­tog­ra­phy rui vasco