Published
October 10, 2025
Couturière Fátima Lopes, a local of Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira, has simply introduced her new co-ed runway show in Lisbon, scheduled for the night of October 17 at the Pestana Palace. The designer grew to become recognized worldwide not just for her audacity but in addition for opening her first worldwide boutique in Paris in 1996 and, in 1999, for displaying at Paris Fashion Week- changing into the primary Portuguese designer to take action.
Fátima Lopes’ debut in Paris, with a winter assortment titled ‘Welcome to the New Millennium’, marked step one in an extended worldwide profession, later cemented together with her show at ModaLisboa in 2000, throughout which she herself wore a gold and diamond bikini valued at a million euros, sponsored by the Belgian multinational Ezziddeen Diamonds.
However, one of many best moments of Fátima Lopes’ profession was additionally in Paris, the place she offered the enduring bikini, crafted from gold and set with diamonds, which entered the Guinness World Records.
The designer’s upcoming show, to be held at 9 pm at the Pestana Palace in Lisbon, known as ‘The New Era of Sophistication and Contemporary Sensuality’, “an ode to fashion as an art form- where sophistication and elegance converse with sensuality and innovation in a gesture of pure creation,” the eponymous model mentioned in an announcement, describing the Nineteenth-century palace, restored and refurbished by the Funchal-based resort group not removed from the Jerónimos Monastery, as “a setting where historical luxury meets the aesthetic modernity characteristic of the designer”.
According to the label: “The Pestana Palace will be transformed into a stage of elegance and modernity, where the monumentality of the space converses with the sophistication of the shapes and volumes conceived by Fátima Lopes,” it added.
“The collection combines art, sensuality and modernity in a harmonious fusion of structure and fluidity,” introduced the model, including that “the women’s pieces emphasise very slim waists, pronounced shoulders and hips, necklines and slits, layering and draping, in a wide variety of cocktail dresses and evening dresses, as well as overcoats, ‘tailleurs,’ capes and knitwear”.
The males’s line likewise displays “modernity and sophistication”, on this case “through blazers and jackets with draped collars, overcoats with built-in scarves, asymmetric shirts” which might be offered with “the illusion of a side tie, trousers with multiple pleats, oversized jackets with double sleeves in a patchwork of materials, capes and knitwear”, added the label.
Shades of burgundy, black, gray, blue, beige and crimson dominate, together with materials corresponding to silk, pure wool, alpaca, suede and lace- accentuating the luxurious character of the creations for which Fátima Lopes has grow to be recognized.