Introduction

Hello,

My name is Bruna, I was born and raised in Portugal and I'm a 17 year old student from De Montfort University. I'm currently taking the foundation year in Arts and design. 

I have taken a Fashion Design course in secondary so I am a fashion lover since a few years ago. For my college experience, I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and choose a more specific course but still in the fashion area. So, after the foundation year I will do fashion communication and styling.

I'm creating this blog to share with you some inspirations, fashion icons, etc.

Olga Noronha Collection
(montage in Photoshop)
Olga Noronha's website

This is a portuguese fashion designer collection called "FLOURISH". I've had the opportunity to attend this catwalk in one of the editions of Lisbon Fashion Week in Portugal and I wanted to share it with you because this wasn't a normal fashion show, it was more than that. A show joining dance with fashion as you can see on the video. The models walk the catwalk slowly, while a dancer projects a magnetic powder onto the pieces, creating a flower effect and transforming them into totally different pieces.

"Of being, to not fitting your own skin.

The invisible Ego is unveiled by the dance that poetically turns ashes into flowers.

Flowers as sexual representation that reveal the state of soul and identity." Olga Noronha

Olga Noronha

Olga Noronha is a portuguese fashion designer that works between London, Portugal and Italy.

At the age of 11, she took her first steps in contemporary jewellery, attending Engenho & Arte school, and after completing secondary education at Soares dos Reis school, went to London.
At the age of 17, at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Noronha started by a Foundation Course in Art & Design, being her (“Dirty Tissues” ®) project considered the best of the 21 years of the course and thus acquired by the University of London for its private collection along with Hussein Chalayan and McQueen’s.

Graduated in Jewellery Design by the same college in 2011, Noronha was then titled Researcher at CITAD (Centre for Investigation in Territory, Architecture and Design – Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT). This same year Noronha was invited to teach at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and to lecture at Whintrop University (USA) and ESAD (Pt).

In 2012, completed a Masters degree In Design Research (MRes) at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and was awarded the Doctoral Merit Scholarship – Design Star Consortium – Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Olga Noronha (PhD) is linked to several national and international academic institutions as well as to the Museo Del Gioiello Vicenza (It), recently taking over partial curatorship of the museum.

Ola Noronha