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Backstage at RICARDO ANDREZ SS24 at ModaLisboa à la carte

More is more: maximalising silhouettes and colours

Ricardo Andrez presented his SS24 collection, based on aesthetic references from the early 2000s. In this anthology, through a contemporary approach, Andrez worked on maximalist and hyperbolic ideas, inspired by diet culture and the dichotomy between sophistication and sensationalism.

Photography Frederico Santos

Beauty Antonia Rosa and team using Clarins

Hair Ricardo Pedro Lab

Styling Hugo Barros

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Words Letícia Lima

Ricardo Andrez’s creative journey revolves around a simple but profound mantra: “Fashion is an exploration of the body”. With a strong focus on menswear, Ricardo Andrez created his own label in 2006, where he has since embarked on an ongoing mission to redefine sportswear and streetwear.

At ModaLisboa à la carte, Ricardo Andrez embarked on an intriguing journey called “I DON’T EAT BREAKFAST”, embracing a contemporary perspective, maximalist and hyperbolic, focusing on a critical view of beauty concepts of the 2000s. His inspiration? The problematic diet culture that still surrounds us and the intriguing interaction between sophistication and sensationalism.

If you look at the end of the 90s, it was very much about technology, the turn of the millennium, and suddenly at the beginning of the 2000s we have an excess of pink, girly, diet culture, celebrities being cancelled because of their measurements and weight… That’s the universe I developed.

— Ricardo Andrez on Fashion Network.

Ricardo presented a vibrant colour palette full of neon pinks, oranges, yellows as well as washed out blues. The fabrics are stripped-down acid-washed jeans partly with metallic finishes, and heavy twill fabrics, contrasting with more delicate lace details. Ricardo maximalised many looks, he created very feminine silhouettes full of frills, extra lenght and some more stripped-down, overlaped pieces and lots of asymmetrical body-tight cuts.

The prints of this collection are stripes, full of colours and variations, some made with different fabrics manually sewn together like a patchwork, others printed with a faded effect, that almost looked like marble.