18.3.12

VALENTIM QUARESMA / VIRUS / LISBON FASHION WEEK AW2012

Valentim Quaresma may be one of the sweetest people I have ever met in my entire life. After his jewellery collection I was already so in love with him, that didn;t even think that you can love someone even more. Funny, funny story. During the last party, I met that girl in the toilet and we started to talk straight away and somehow we ended up discussing Valentim's collection. Turned up, she was his best friend and proposed to introduce me to the designer. Seriously? I thought that party can't get any better.
Valentim, apart from great imagination and extreme creativity skill is also a big personality and simply super sweet guy. 
Right before his show I was wondering, how he gonna present jewellery designs on the catwalk, but he didn't disappoint at all. Started with the girl playing cello and followed with the models wearing only leather trousers and Quaresma's jewellery walking through the catwalk and taking place on the prepared black boards. That made a huge impression, especially combined with very dramatic music.
Jewellery itself,  inspired by the "virus as the spreading of ideas and shapes" was also combined with the variety of  materials. One of Valentim's goals was also to experiment with technology and create different ways of approach the same theme.
Valentim becomes definietely one of my favourite jewellery designers from now on. 
Check his website HERE





photos via ModaLisboa