The next stop on creative director Ian Griffiths’s Grand Tour? The tram-teeming hilltop streets of Lisbon.
Laura Hawkins was on the ground in the vibrant Portuguese capital to take in the show, a celebration of one of the country’s most renowned feminist intellectuals and social activists, Natália Correia, who also had a soft spot for sexy dressing.The show was staged at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Lisbon has become an attractive capital city for creatives, who in recent years have sought alternative and vibrant living solutions in the wake of Brexit and Covid-19. Numerous burgeoning fashion designers have relocated to the city, attracted, in part, to its proximity to top quality clothing manufacturing. Lisbon’s most famous expat is of course Madonna, who lived in the Portuguese capital from 2017 to 2020.
“Correia really fought for women’s rights but she was sexy at the same time,” Griffiths explained of the collection, which was inspired by his muse’s sensual, body-positive wardrobe. It abounded with pencil skirts, cropped pussybow blouses and clingy dresses and featured the Italian label’s signature coats in amorphous shapes which belted at the waist and were “tapered towards the bottom and are more voluminous at the top.
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