This season's Lisbon Fashion Week was a memorable event for portuguese and international fashion, where brands and designers showed their Spring/Summer 2012 collections.
Transfusion was ModaLisboa // Lisbon Fashion Week's leitmotif. It means fusion and transference, vision and trans-nationality. Fashion suppose to be an ideology and a way of expression – to be fully experienced during these four days. To stay out means to have the eyes closed, to ignore the senses, to live backward. Main idea of this seanson's Fashion Week in Lisbon was that the world has changed and we are a part of this change. We're mutually influenced, we're all creators, we're all givers and idea's receivers, we're fashion and we're all transfusion.
Dawid Tomaszewski takes his main inspiration from paintings of the 17th century. The designer is confronted by mortality, loneliness, veiling, anonymity, death and a meritless break up from the beginning. Dawid Tomaszewski sees death as a positive part of life and reflects this in his collection „Vanitas Flowers” with the use of brightly coloured and accented garments. The transfluent flower designs are an allegory chiffon dresses and classical men suits to symbiosis. Life is structured by episodes and every end is a beginning. For Dawid Tomaszewski transcience is a beginning, which still shines glamorous in bright lights.
A particular highlight of this collection is the cooperation with the traditional house of Peter Kaiser, for whom he created a shoe collection for a second time, as well as the collaboration with the modiste Zussa.
Was really looking forward to Dawid's show, not only because he's Polish and deep deep inside I'm a patriotic person, but also because I've seen his previous collections and really loved them.
The collection was very feminine and light, that's why I was super surprised, when designer told me the main theme was death. I mean how can you expect beautiful, light and pinky fabrics treat about the death? Turned up, Dawid showed the same collection in Berlin few weeks ago, where it was an installation, models were standing on the cubes, wearing tulle ont their faces, what made them look like they're dead.
I heard from many people, that it was one of the best collections on the Fashion Week. It was very different from the portuguese designers, very sophisticated and feminine, absolutely ready to wear.
