From an early age, Ana Rita de Sousa showed interest in expressing herself through textiles materials. Graduated in Fashion Design by Modatex Porto, in 2019, and with a previous specialization in Plastic Arts applied to Performance and Shows by Soares dos Reis School, she completed her training with an internship at the atelier of designer Luís Buchinho. In 2021, she won the first prize of the Sangue Novo, ModaLisboa’s Young Designers Competition, which allowed her to attend the Master's in Collection Design at Polimoda, in Florence.

João Januário (Santarém, 1995) has a degree in Technical Fashion Design from Escola de Moda de Lisboa, and established his first contacts in the industry under Reality Studio and Litoral ateliers. He worked at Alexandra Moura's studio and Marques' Almeida as a Garment Technologist. Today he works in multiple projects connected to the fashion industry and as well on his collaborative project Fora de Jogo.

Maria Clara Pontes Leça is a young fashion designer, graduated in Fashion Design from Faculdade de Arquitetura of Universidade de Lisboa. On her last year of college, she studied in Naples, Italy; and soon after concluding her bachelor, she moved to London to participate in a knitting machine short-course at Central Saint Martins. She has worked as intern for the Designer Constança Entrudo and for some brands, such as Lion of Porches and Decenio. Since then, she has invested in small personal projects and some experiences in the textile area. In March 2022, she won the ModaLisboa x Tintex award at the Sangue Novo, ModaLisboa’s Young Designers Competition.

Georgina Abreu is a twenty-two-year-old visual artist from Madeira Island, Portugal. After studying visual arts in secondary school in Funchal, she then completed a Bachelor degree in Fashion Photography at Falmouth University (Cornwall, UK) in the year of 2020. Born and raised on the island, the connection with the natural landscapes and local traditions are evident in Georgina's work, which is often poetic, nostalgic and metaphorical, transporting the audience to the artist's inner world, sharing her experiences.

Joana Mairos (Coimbra, 1997) fell in love with street photography, but now she is fascinated by portraiture. In 2018, she finished her degree in Tourism at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, but Photography has always spoken louder. So high that, still in the midst of the pandemic, she moved, in 2021, to the city of Porto to study Photography at the IPCI (Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem) and follow her dream: to be a fashion photographer. Joana likes to define her work as a constant search for contradicting norms. She uses black and white to escape the distractions of color, and capture the emotional essence of what she sees.

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Leonor Bettencourt Loureiro (Porto, 1993) is a freelance Director who has been doing fashion films, cinema, advertising, television, music videos and ballet/contemporary dance films.
The Director lived and worked between Lisbon and Porto, and it was in Arroios that she founded a cultural project focused on the community, Corrente.
Leonor belongs to a new generation of multitasking creatives and entrepreneurs. She looks for inspiration in the world and conducts her projects following a do-it-yourself ethic, no matter how big the project is.

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Since an early age, Márcia began to take photographs, clearing her critical and objective gaze for the landscape that surrounded her. With a remarkable commitment, she revealed her artistic vein to teachers, colleagues and friends. Later she attended the António Arroio Highschool in Lisbon, where she studied Product Design and saw the exhibition of several of her works, as well as the best grade in Drawing. With a Law degree from the University of Lisbon, she came back to arts to fulfill her most wanted career, photography and cinematography, therefore she took one year course on Camara/Lighting at World Academy.

Tiago Pestana has always considered the power of capturing an emotion to be incredible. An emotion and not a moment. Moments everyone captures, emotions few perceive them. From an early age he gained a taste for creating. He graduated in Marketing, studied Fashion Design and found his balance in the balance that carries photography and fashion.